Limbaugh Swats Down Media's Gotcha Question to GOP Candidates on Iraq

Limbaugh Swats Down Media's Gotcha Question to GOP Candidates on Iraq

...Rush Limbaugh is suggesting a better way for GOP candidates to respond -- reject the premise.
"The premise"? That the Iraq war was a monumental foreign policy blunder for which Republicans are solely responsible and should bow their heads in perpetual shame, despite ridding the world of the worst tyrant since Pol Pot.

Limbaugh went after it with a vengeance on his radio show Monday and it made for bracing audio --

Knowing what we know now, should somebody ask Hillary if Bill Clinton should have just gone ahead and killed bin Laden when he had the chance several times? Knowing what we know now, should Bill Clinton have pulled out of Somalia? Blackhawk down, because that's what convinced bin Laden that we were a paper tiger. Bin Laden said so to an ABC reporter, John Miller. He said, yeah, when I saw you guys cut and run from Somalia, I knew you could be had. So knowing what we know now, should Bill Clinton have pulled out of Somalia when he did?

But I've got an entirely different perspective on this -- why even accept the premise in this knowing what you know now? The premise in the knowing what you know now question is that Iraq was a mistake, that Iraq was a total boondoggle. .... Knowing what we know now, should Bill Clinton have used a condom with Monica when she had on the blue dress?

Following a commercial break, Limbaugh elaborated on his premise --

I know this will not happen but I would love to see it -- I wish one of these Republicans would not accept the premise in this knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion of Iraq, or should Bush have, or was it a mistake, or what have you. Because the premise is that it was a mistake.The premise is that it was a debacle. The premise is that it was the worst damn thing that ever happened in America, was the Iraq war.  And that premise need not be accepted.

I would love it if Rubio or Jeb or anybody says -- well you know what, Chris (alluding to Fox News's Chris Wallace), you know what George (Stephanopoulos, purported ABC newsman/Clinton cheerleader), you know what, pick your native liberal reporter, knowing that the Democrats would rip this country apart because of the Iraq war, knowing that the Democrats would actively seek the defeat of the U.S. military, and knowing that the Democrat party would do everything they could to sabotage the war effort, I might have rethought it.

Knowing what I know now that the Democrat party was going to take the occasion of the Iraq war to rip this country apart, that they would use it to elect an unqualified president who would then cut and run, Barack Obama, I might not have, George. I might not have, Chris...

Read it all and wonder why it seems no one connected with the republicans ever listens to Rush.