Posted on 09/30/2015 2:59:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, Syria. Let me see if I can make sense of this for you. 'Cause what's happening in Syria, based on what we learned yesterday about Putin -- and what he said to the UN about us abandoning our role, our moral leadership there -- as best I have been able to assemble this, here is what's happening. Over the past few weeks we have learned that Russia is sending military planes and soldiers to Syria. We didn't like it. When asked about it by the United States, Russia said, "Mind your own business; it's none of your business. What are you gonna do about it?"
They, of course, knew we were gonna do nothing about it. Then at the UN Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was gonna take the lead in fighting ISIS because we had given up, essentially. The Western world had decided it wasn't worth it, it wasn't worth the risk, that we had abandoned our moral leadership. Putin at the UN says, "Do you realize what you've done?" So he decided to swoop in and single-handedly take the lead in fighting ISIS, which Obama still will not refer to as a terrorist or Islamic extremist group.
Now, that was supposed to explain Russia's military presence in Syria, that Putin was taking three-day in fighting ISIS. That is a key point in understanding what's going on here. Our secretary of state (who once served in Vietnam) John Kerry -- Jean-Francois Kerry -- and Obama said they were open to the idea of Russia -- and, by proxy, Iran -- joining the fight against ISIS. Now, in Putin's mind, we haven't joined anything; we are abandoning it. This is also key to understand. In Putin's mind, what he said yesterday at the UN, we have essentially checked out of the hotel.
And they've checked in, and they are single-handedly fighting ISIS. So Kerry, in a face-saving move, goes out and says, "We are open, of course," as though we're still the world's lone superpower, which we aren't because Kerry and Obama don't even want to be. Kerry goes out and says with his "superpower secretary of state" attitude that we're perfectly fine. We're open to the idea of Russia and Iran joining the fight against ISIS, when in truth we have abandoned it. Last night there were reports that Russia had warned us to get all of our planes out of Syrian airspace because they were going to mount an attack.
Now, I don't know how it is in this administration, but any previous administration, if a Soviet leader had called and warned us to get out of Syrian airspace, we would have had some choice words for the Soviet leader, and we would have told him, "You don't dare launch your aircraft or else." But we're not dealing with administrations like we've had in the past. Putin (essentially Russia) warns us to get all of our planes out of Syrian airspace. We scoffed at the warning. This morning there were reports that Russia had indeed conducted its first bombing mission.
I couldn’t believe my ears hearing Rush saying how horrible the Russians were, bombing our “allies” the moderate rebels.
He really jumped the shark on that one
There are no such things as “moderate” moslems.
Like it or not but Mary is the mother of God. Live with it. And for you information we Catholics do not pray to her. We ask her to be our referee
“Putin Bombs Our Allies in Syria”
They may be Obama’s allies, but they certainly aren’t America’s allies. If Limbaugh is calling them ‘Our Allies’ he must be referring to Obama an himself, because he certainly isn’t including Christians in his ‘our’. So if he wants to pick who he’s buddying up with, he’s certainly free to do so, but he won’t get a free pass from me.
He was facetious. See post #29 by Rummychick and my post#60
She is not here. If you ask her, you are praying to her. Like it or not.
Mary was the mother of Jesus’ humanity, not his deity. She was blessed to be given that role in the same way we are blessed with other things. Israel was blessed to be the nation chosen to bring us the Messiah but we do not pray to or worship them.
“He did say he was training them.WH later had to say his misspoke. Not sure how he misspoke. Was he suppose to say he was NOT training them and forgot the Not. It wouldn’t have made sense.”
It was TOTUS’s fault.
They learned in Chechnya to kill everything that moves.
I couldn’t believe my ears hearing Rush saying how horrible the Russians were, bombing our “allies” the moderate rebels.
He really jumped the shark on that one
There are no such things as “moderate” moslems.
There’s no such thing as an honest Putinist Russian. They lie and ally with Death to America Iran. The friend of my enemy is my enemy.
They learned in Chechnya to kill everything that moves.
Yep. Over 100,000 Russian citizen civilians murdered by Putin in Chechnya. He’ll do the same in Syria. Heck, if he’ll do that to Russian citizens imagine what he’ll do to Syrians.
You’re clueless beyond anything imaginable and I am through arguing with you.
I didn’t bring it up. I think you are the misinformed one.
Our allies are ISIS. They are who we have been arming and building up for over three years
ISIS was created by Obam. ISIS was armed under orders from Obama. ISIS was trained under orders from Obama.
Agree wholeheartedly
I don’t have allies in Syria and only two in the Senate.
I’m not so sure about that. Below are the pertinent parts of the transcript from Rush’s site. After hearing him today and reading this, I still don’t think he was being facetious. Furthermore #29 doesn’t address this at all. Maybe you meant #27.
“Except Putin threw a change-up curveball and didn’t attack ISIS. No, no, no. This is where it gets really, really interesting. They didn’t bomb any ISIS targets. Instead, Putin and Russia bombed “moderate” rebels that are our allies. (laughing) I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh. Russia targeted “moderate” rebels that are supposed to be our allies fighting ISIS, and all this time we welcomed them in, under the premise that they’re gonna join us in hitting ISIS targets.”
“Putin comes in, but he doesn’t hit ISIS targets. He hits our allies, the so-called moderate rebels. There are now unconfirmed reports that Russia hit a CIA-vetted moderate Syrian rebel group that was receiving US anti-tank missiles. So instead of Russia targeting ISIS, which they led everybody to believe they were gonna do and which we welcomed them to do, they hit a moderate rebel group that the CIA had vetted and told Obama they’re us, they’re our allies, they’re good people, we can partner up with ‘em. That’s who Russia hit.”
“So the Russians hit these moderate rebels because they, the moderate rebels, want to bring down Assad even more than they want to defeat ISIS. And Putin does not want to get rid of Assad. And nor does Iran want to get rid of Assad. So while we thought Russia was coming in to bomb ISIS, and we’re creating the illusion or operating under the illusion that we are doing the same thing, they hit our allies.”
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“RUSH: Well, that’s exactly what they’re doing, Secretary. They’re attacking targets where our allies are operating, not ISIL. So if Russia’s recent actions, we’re prepared to welcome them. Our people are clueless here, sadly, is what it seems like and don’t know how to react to this. So the best they can do is to go out and act like Russia is following through on what it said it was gonna do. This whole statement from Kerry sounds like it’s predicated on his belief that they’re hitting ISIS. First half of this statement, he thinks they’re hitting ISIS.”
<><> know-nothing Josh Earnest,
<><> Susan "The Video" Rice, O's ntl security (gag) advisor),
<><> Tommy "The Dude" Vietor, O's campaign driver who (no joke)
had ntl security clearance, and actually sat in on Crisis Room meetings,
<><> Marie Harf, the State Dept's glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
IN JEOPARDY: Obama's get-rich-quick-plan to prime the
pump for big buck Mideast donations to his two foundations.
"Bummer. How'm I gonna get-rich-quick
like the Clintons did if Putin won't cooperate?"
"Hahahaha. The uranium deal? US ntl security?
Hahahaha. You gotta be kidding, Vlad."
Exactly Good hunting Putin.
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