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Limbaugh falsely claimed Biden "wanted to split Iraq into three different countries by ethnic lines"
On the August 28 broadcast of hisnationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that Sen. JoeBiden "wanted to split Iraqinto three different countries by ethnic lines." Limbaugh went on to say,"That would have created a civil war. He did not want to win." Infact, as Media Matters for Americahas noted, Biden introduced a"five-point plan" to "[m]aintain a unified Iraq by decentralizing it andgiving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis breathing room in their own regions."The plan also states that "[t]he Iraqi constitution already provides forfederalism" and that "[t]he central government would be responsiblefor common interests, like border security and the distribution of oil revenues."
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Posted by Craig
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 2:50:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by leatherhelmet in reply to Craig
Posted Saturday August 30, 2008 2:36:53 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Craig in reply to leatherhelmet
Do you even read the articles? Who said anything about splitting Iraq other than the Water Carrier?
And as for McCain being right about the surge, why don't you get back to me when Iraq is stable AND the troops are back home.
Posted Saturday August 30, 2008 3:08:38 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 2:51:13 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by DAWUSS
So according to Limbaugh, the United States is divided into 50 decentralized territories.
This would fall into his line of thinking when it comes to weakening the federal US government and returning the power to the states to govern themselves self-sufficiently.
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 2:52:51 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by IRONY 101
He did not want to win.
Insulting and untruthful...
Quotes like that are exactly why Barack Obama and Joe Biden need to take it to McCain big time...because McCain, the so-called honorable former POW, is suggesting the same thing.
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 2:55:06 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by nerzog
Notice how they have successfully shifted the argument onto whether or not the "Surge" worked, and not whether we should have invaded to begin with? Pretty clever message management.... it's what they do best.
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 3:13:15 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by magnolialover in reply to nerzog
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 5:30:42 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by archae
You mean Limbaugh lied?
Tell me something about the Pillhead I didn't know about.
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 3:34:25 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by neon desert in reply to archae
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 3:46:08 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by nerzog in reply to neon desert
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 3:53:37 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to nerzog
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 4:05:56 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by princeofwheels
Posted Friday August 29, 2008 4:20:08 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by arjayem
We are not afraid...
Rush and some illiterate sittin' in a tree
Rush says "reader wont you rectify me
I've been gobbling up Viagra and munching Oxycontin
You're the one whose gonna help me get what I'm wantin'"
Can you feel it Rush, you know its true...
Read between the lines
were through with the likes of you
Its you're your worst fear here, of influence abating
despite a phat new contract, another decade of hating
But your past your peak, audience soon a slippin'
Stridency betraying a mind that's a flippin'
Were on to you Rushie boy, fathers and mothers
and all who ask; "what happens to others?"
From what dark space doth your soul reside?
With blood on your Mic, intolerance inside...
From KFBK to an adman's whore
You used to be funny, but not any more....
Posted Saturday August 30, 2008 12:47:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by HotWings
Biden said he wanted to split Iraq into three parts. That's a fact. Of course since that makes Biden look bad, Media Matters wants to cover for him by trying to make it look like Biden didn't actually say that. Shame on you Media Matters for being dishonest once again.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 5:35:50 AM EDT / Flag this comment