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March 31, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, America's anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
	Mark Stein, honored to be here.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	I'm a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	It's a great program.
	Guys like me get to study here, and in return, the entire U.S. military gets to intern for the Arab League.
	So it all works out.
	Rush is, Rush is not here.
	He always said, he always said when this kinetic audio action began that he would as soon as possible be turning operational control over to the international community.
	So today's the day.
	Don't worry about it.
	You won't notice a thing.
	Big developments, big developments in the Libyan kinetic scope limited action or whatever they're calling it today.
	Jay Carney says that whatever you do, don't call it a war.
	He said, did we invade Libya?
	No, no.
	They're just in the sky above Libya, dropping stuff on Libya.
	That's not a war.
	That's not a war.
	You know that.
	You know, it's as absurd as calling Hiroshima or Nagasaki wars.
	You know, we're just up in the sky dropping stuff.
	So it's not a war, says Jay Carney.
	But anyway, there's big developments in the Libyan kinetic scope limited action today.
	The Libyan foreign minister, Musa Cousa, has defected to the United Kingdom.
	I didn't even know you could still do that, actually, but apparently you can.
	The Libyan foreign minister, Musa Coosa, has defected to the United Kingdom.
	I love the, you know, say what you like about these Arab dictatorships, but I do like the names of their foreign ministers.
	I think Musa Coosa is a lovely name.
	Maybe my favorite foreign minister's name since Abdullah Abdullah was foreign minister of Afghanistan.
	Moussa HR has just made his first multiculturally insensitive crack of the day.
	He says it sounds like an entree, Moussa Cousa.
	That's right.
	When I'm at the Grand Hyatt in Benghazi, I always order the Moussakusa.
	I like that.
	We usually share it.
	If I'm there discussing it with the latest al-Qaeda freedom fighter that I've decided to give American taxpayer monies to, I like to sit across the table and we'll discuss the general thing over a nice bowl of Musakusa.
	It's lovely.
	It's lovely.
	Put the Musakusa on your falafel.
	Anyway, Moussa Kusa.
	Musa Kusa has now defected to the United Kingdom and is singing and is singing.
	It's a very musical name, Moussa Coosa.
	So he's singing like a canary to British intelligence.
	And this, don't worry, don't worry, this thing that's not a war is no longer anything to do with the United States.
	Operational control of the no-fly zone today has been taken over by General Bouchard of NATO, a Canadian general.
	Because as you know, for the last two weeks, America's commander-in-chief has been telling the American people, oh, don't worry, you know, we're not running this show.
	We're just along for the ride.
	We don't go to the meetings.
	It's on a need-to-know basis, and we don't need to know.
	And today is the day that the new supreme Allied commander of Kinetic Scope Limited Action, General Bouchard, the Canadian general, took operational command.
	Actually, I didn't even know they still had Canadian generals.
	That's great.
	I didn't even know you could still defect to the United Kingdom.
	There's all kinds of things coming out with this new war.
	It's like the old days.
	Defecting to the United Kingdom, Canadian generals.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	So, this General Bouchard, a Canadian general, and I said a couple of days ago that I would personally would have preferred a Mexican general because, as Obama made clear, this is one of those jobs that Americans won't do.
	So, I think it would have been appropriate to have a Mexican general in command.
	But we couldn't get a Mexican general, so the Canadian is the next best thing we could get.
	So, the Canadian general has now taken over this thing, and Musakusa, Musakusa, has defected.
	That's, by the way, that's the secret word of the day.
	If you're the 400th caller to say Musakusa, then you will win the new Prius.
	So, the Musakusa has defected the United Kingdom, and the Canadian general has taken control over things.
	And Obama says, We're getting to know the freedom fighters, the ones we've been backing.
	We were just backing them randomly.
	We were just flying because it's not a war.
	So, we were just flying over Libya, dropping large amounts of money on Libyan freedom fighters.
	And as they've been cashing the checks, we've been finding out a bit more about them.
	And you don't want to worry about all this talk that they're actually al-Qaeda guys, that before they were liberating Benghazi, they were off fighting in Iraq against U.S. forces.
	Pay no attention to any of that stuff.
	President Obama said about these Libyan freedom fighters, I think it's important to note that the people we've met with have been fully vetted, so we have a clear sense of who they are.
	And so far, they're saying the right things.
	And most of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible.
	That's great.
	They're lawyers and doctors.
	That's great.
	That's terrific.
	It's professional people.
	You know, they're credentialed freedom fighters.
	It's not like, you know, one of the problems when you're trying to find out which liberation movement to back in the Middle East and other difficult parts of the world is that, frankly, some of these fellows are like high school dropouts, and you don't know where they've got the proper qualifications.
	But these are lawyers and doctors that we're backing.
	And lawyers, doctors, part-time jihadists.
	But don't worry, they've got plenty of paperwork hanging on the office wall.
	Take Assad in Syria, for example.
	He's an ophthalmologist.
	So he's a professional person too, isn't it?
	He was an ophthalmologist in London before he became the big-time dictator in Damascus, because that's a natural career progression.
	You go from the National Health Service death panel to the Bath Party death panel.
	It's a difference of degree, that's all.
	And Assad will check in with Syrian developments a little later, too, because Assad apparently has a few problems going on at the moment.
	That just shows, by the way, the worthlessness of these credentials, because you would think that if your dictator is an ophthalmologist, at least he'd be able to see the writing on the wall.
	But in this case, the ophthalmologist didn't see it coming.
	That's great, isn't it?
	He's a professional person.
	And so Obama says, this, by the way, is very revealing of the way Obama looks at things.
	Don't worry about a thing.
	They're almost as credentialed as me, these Libyan freedom fighters.
	You know, Obama is a man who went to Occidental, he went to Columbia, he went to Harvard.
	So when he backs revolutionary movements, he expects them to be as equally credentialed as him.
	When he goes into Benghazi to decide which team to support, he wants to be there and see if he can find another fellow Harvard man or a Columbia man among the al-Qaeda jihadists rampaging around the neighborhood.
	He says, he says, oh, yes, he concedes, quote, that among all the people who oppose Gaddafi, there might be elements that are unfriendly to the United States and our interests.
	And that's why I think it's important for us not to jump in with both feet, unquote.
	So he has jumped in with one foot.
	And so we're hopping around Libya, half-heartedly backing the kinetic limited scope action.
	So we will keep up to date now that it is in the hands of Canadian General Bouchard and NATO, we will keep up to date on some of the exciting developments going in the Libyan non-war.
	But Jay Carney says, do not call Libya a war.
	Do not call Libya a war.
	By the way, it's not just Obama who likes all these credentialed fellas in the Middle East.
	Hillary Clinton, of course, said that Assad is a reformer.
	So there seems to be no indication yet of us declaring non-war on Syria because Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, regards Bashir Assad as a reformer.
	And he is a reformer in the sense that he doesn't kill as many people as his dad did.
	And so that's what counts for reform in Syria.
	So we'll check in with that.
	And we will also follow today the latest developments on the possibility of the government shutdown, the budget, the attempt to raise the debt ceiling, and whether the Republican Party is demonstrating in Washington quite as much spine as we would like, given the seriousness of the times.
	There are legitimate differences of opinion about this.
	Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard took issue with my impatience with Speaker Boehner about the progress we're making on rolling back the huge spending behemoth that is crushing the life out of this great republic.
	And it is the most critical issue facing the United States today.
	You look at a lot of people, in fact, that's really the connection between Libya and the spending thing.
	People say, well, look, the French and British were the ones who wanted to get rid of Gaddafi.
	They're in the neighborhood.
	Why didn't they get rid of him?
	Well, they feel they'd like to do it with the benefit of American AWACS and some of the more sophisticated technology that they don't have quite as much of.
	Cruise missile costs a million dollars a pop to lob through Gaddafi's tent.
	So they don't want to be firing them at quite the rate the United States military is willing to fire them at.
	And there's a lesson there for the United States, too, that when you have domestic spending on the level that it is in France and the United Kingdom and other European countries, you inevitably cannot afford to loose as many million-dollar a pop cruise missiles at foreign dictators who happen to cross you.
	And the United States will be in that situation very, very soon.
	So if you think my friend Rich Larry at National Review says you shouldn't look at Libya as a green eyeshade issue, and that's true.
	But it eventually becomes a green eyeshade issue because even trivial little nothing dictators you can't afford to knock off because your military is too overstretched because of the massive domestic spending you do.
	So those two things are very precisely related.
	So we're going to talk about the latest developments on Obama, the non-warmonger of North Africa.
	And we will follow some of the progress or lack of progress being made toward a government shutdown, getting a proper budget passed, raising the debt ceiling or not raising the debt ceiling, and the big, big question mark hanging over American finances.
	Mark Stein, InfraRush 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein, in Infra Rush.
	Please, please, please.
	I'm making a joke about Musakusa.
	We don't have a Prius to give away.
	There's no point calling for it.
	It's a Chevy Vault.
	And you have to collect it from Detroit.
	And it's been parked overnight, so the wheels are probably gone.
	So don't call with the Musakusa.
	And by the way, we're not serving Musakusa today, and we don't do takeout.
	So please don't be ordering up the Musakusa.
	Moussakusa, the Libyan foreign minister who has defected to the United Kingdom.
	I don't know why, to be honest.
	I hope he's in good health, because that Lockerbie guy, when they released him back to the care of Colonel Gaddafi, he had three months to live.
	That was two years ago.
	His turbid cancer mysteriously cleared up the minute he got out of the Scottish National Health Service.
	So I certainly hope that Musa Coosa has retained his Libyan healthcare coverage after defecting to the United Kingdom.
	Mark sliding from Rush, we're talking about some of the developments on the latest developments on Libya.
	It's fascinating to me now this secret order.
	President Obama issued a secret finding that is on in all the newspapers that authorizes the CIA to carry out a clandestine effort that's also in all the newspapers to provide arms and other support to Libyan opposition groups.
	So President Obama's top secret secret finding is in the newspapers, so we all know about that.
	The CIA clandestine effort is in all the newspapers, so we all know about that.
	The only thing we don't know is who the hell it is we're giving arms and money to.
	It's basically the Nancy Pelosi form of liberation movement.
	We have to arm the Libyan jihadists to find out who they are.
	And it's working out great because as the president has established, some of them are doctors, some of them are lawyers.
	There may even be a few ophthalmologists in there, just like Bashir Assad in Syria.
	I don't want to dwell on ophthalmologists mainly because the big bunch of consonants stick in my jaw every time I try to say the words.
	It's basically like the Kyrgyzstan of professions ophthalmology.
	But what's fascinating is the reaction in Libya to this.
	Apparently, Gaddafi watched Obama's speech in Tripoli, and Gaddafi had been kind of depressed because, you know, he hasn't got Musakusa to kick around anymore.
	He's been at a kind of low.
	Things haven't been going too well.
	Beyonce and Mariah Carey are now not doing his million-dollar apop private parties.
	It's been a bad couple of weeks for him.
	Then he watched Obama on TV giving the speech about Libya, and he cheered up immensely.
	NBC reports that the regime is now feeling a lot better.
	They're feeling that they dodged a bullet.
	If NATO's taking over, they like that.
	Libya's got much better relations with NATO than with the United States.
	And they love the idea that the U.S. position, as stated by Obama, is that they're not looking for regime change.
	As soon as he heard that, I'm sure Gaddafi was quite excited.
	He thinks he can negotiate his way out of this as he has over the past 41 years in other situations.
	So Gaddafi was like in the slough of despond.
	He was miserable.
	I think he'd had a terrible couple of weeks.
	And then he sees Obama on TV and he perks up immediately.
	So a wartime speech.
	By the way, I think if you go back and read the history books, that's the kind of effect that Churchill's wartime speeches had on Hitler.
	Hitler would be kind of depressed, and then he'd hear Churchill on the BBC pledging victory and fighting on the beaches and all the rest of it.
	And Hitler would be laughing and saying, bring it on, baby.
	And that's Gaddafi after Gaddafi after watching Obama on TV.
	What is at issue?
	What is at stake for the United States in this war?
	This war is like Kosovo.
	This is liberal warmongering.
	To the modern liberal progressive, you never go to war in your national interest because it's vulgar.
	It's simply vulgar for nations to have a national interest.
	An advanced Western nation should only go in for multilateral, compassionate, humanitarian warmongering, like we did in Kosovo.
	Nobody remembers who the good guys in Kosovo were.
	The answer, by the way, is neither of the above.
	Nobody remembers what the hell the point of it was.
	Nobody remembers why we went in there.
	And that, oddly enough, the fact that there was no rationale for it was the rationale.
	Because when Bill Clinton and Tony Blair stood up on TV and they said, we're going into this thing because it's not in our national interest.
	We've got nothing at stake here.
	We don't know what the hell's going on.
	That's the kind of warmongering that the multinational left is all in favor of.
	The fact that there's absolutely no reason to get into it justifies your getting into it.
	And now here we have, again, a Obama's war like Bill Clinton's.
	Nobody knows why we're there.
	Nobody knows what we're doing there.
	Gaddafi was the one cooperative dictator.
	He's the one who forswore nuclear weapons.
	He's the one who decided that after what he saw in Iraq that he wanted to get on the good side of the Americans.
	And so we're knocking him off.
	And if you're, say, like the blood-soaked thug next door in Sudan and you're looking at this, you're thinking to yourself, which model is best?
	Does it make more sense to be cooperative like Colonel Gaddafi?
	Or does it make more sense to be like, say, Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
	It's not a difficult question to answer.
	What we're doing here is actually incentivizing the rationale by which these third world basket cases should get themselves a quick and easy and affordable nuclear program like North Korea's.
	You don't even have to be good at it.
	You don't have to have a lot of it.
	But once you do that, you can be left alone.
	Colonel Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program and he's not being left alone.
	There is the most important thing when you go to war is to have war aims.
	And the United States has been going to war without war aims for far too long.
	And that's why we have these inconclusive wars that never end, that never end.
	And I'm not talking about, you know, Bush or Clinton or anything like that.
	I'm talking about all the way back to Korea.
	War without war aims, war without victory, war without a picture of what the landscape looks like when the dust settles is just a recipe for going in there and never coming back.
	For war without end, whatever you call it.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
	Great to be with you.
	America's undocumented anchorman sitting in for America's anchorman.
	Rush returns on Monday from the Herald Son of Australia.
	Face of Jesus Christ appears in Three Cheese Pizza.
	The face and the picture here, and it does look like Jesus, the face of Jesus in a three cheese pizza made at Posh Pizza in New Farm, Brisbane, Australia.
	There's some dispute about it.
	Some people are saying it looks more like the actor Viggo Mortensen.
	But the general consensus seems to be that it in fact Jesus.
	And of course, the fact that it's a three cheese pizza representing the Trinity.
	Posh Pizza's Mary Phelan said her pizza oven was blessed with the presence of Jesus Christ.
	She says, I can definitely say this isn't a fake because the three cheese pizza always comes out different.
	So that in this case, it came out with, and I wouldn't normally attach much significance to this, except if it weren't for the fact that on the very same day, a Scots Muslim mum has found the word Allah inside a potato she was peeling.
	Mariam Nadeem told the Daily Record, it's like a special blessing has been sent to us.
	Maryam 30 of Glenroth's Fife discovered the Arabic writing inside the spud as she peeled a batch of potatoes to make samosas.
	Actually, samosa, if you're making samosa, just drizzle it in a little moussakusa.
	It makes all the difference.
	It's absolutely delicious.
	Yeah, no, you want your, it's fine.
	Yeah, if you've got the face of Allah on your potato and the face of Gaddafi in your mousakusa, you'll be all set.
	You'll have the perfect.
	They'll be talking about your dinner party for years to come.
	Anyway, Maryam Nadeen said this particular potato seemed a little bit moldy, so she cut a chunk off to see if the rest was okay.
	And then she noticed the brown writing in Arabic against the yellow of the potato.
	I couldn't believe it when it spelled out Allah.
	Her storekeeper husband, Nadeem Aslam, agreed that the writing looked like Allah.
	She said, I showed it to our neighbors and they too were surprised.
	And then she took the potato to her local mosque.
	And the Imam wanted to dry it and put it on show, but she wasn't, she thought that might ruin it.
	So instead, she's frozen it.
	And this is the biggest thing in since hundreds of Muslims flocked to a small terraced house in West Yorkshire in 1999 to see a tomato with a message from Allah inside.
	Housewife Shabana Hussain, 27, was making a meal for her family when she cut the tomato in half and found bismillah, which means Allah, written in Arabic, and on the other half of the vegetable it said, La ilala ilala, or there is no god but Allah.
	And Shabana said, as one would when one finds this in a slice of tomato and it's got this.
	I was shocked.
	I was shocked.
	So Jesus has appeared on a three cheese pizza in near Brisbane, Australia.
	And Allah has appeared on a potato in Glenroth's Fife in Glenroth's Fife in Scotland.
	And actually, it's good this, because Burger King made a swirly chocolate.
	Do you remember Burger King?
	I don't know whether they still do them, but they were doing swirly chocolate desserts.
	And they had like a chocolate swirl on the lid of the dessert.
	And a British Muslim said that the chocolate swirl, what was meant to be the chocolate swirl, in fact, looked like Allah in Arabic.
	And Burger King, instead of hailing this as a miracle, Burger King, being such craven wimps, yanked their chocolate swirl dessert from the menu.
	You can't get it now.
	They say, have it your way.
	And if you say, okay, I'll have it with the chocolate swirl dessert.
	They say, oh, no, no, no.
	Oh, no, no.
	Go away, jihadis.
	But the fact that all they had to do was say, oh, Allah has blessed us.
	The chocolate swirl has come out in the shape of Allah written in Arabic.
	Yeah, we're going to, it's a miracle.
	We're going to add another buck fifty to the cost of it.
	And say, yes, would you, oh, look, Allah has written, would you like fries with that in Arabic on the top of the, on the on the special sauce, lettuce and cheese.
	It's a miracle.
	But we are.
	So I think in this time of great turbulence in the Muslim world, that it is encouraging that we are seeing, as I said, it starts with Arabic, Allah being spelled out on the word on the potato.
	You make the potato into a nice samosa.
	Then you get, Martha Seward will be doing this next week.
	You get a simple piping thing and you to etch out, spell out the word Gaddafi in Musakusa.
	Now, that's difficult, of course, because you can spell Gaddafi 57 different ways.
	So it's actually hard to pour your Musakusa onto the Samosas and it not to spell Gaddafi because you can do it with the Q, you can do it with the G, you can do it with the K, you can do it with the KH.
	But yeah, he is.
	He's the Heinz World leaders.
	And also, by the way, if you're playing Scrabble, generally, whatever collection of letters you have, it spells Gaddafi.
	That's very useful.
	It's played havoc, by the way, with the top secret codes.
	Because when the CIA's been sending top-secret coded messages back from Libya to Langley, Virginia, everything they say spells Gaddafi.
	So it makes it impossible.
	No matter what code you pick, the word Gaddafi spells Gaddafi by the time you've translated it out of the code.
	Let's go to John in Malibu.
	John, you're first up on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us today.
	Thank you, Mark.
	The wittiest writer in the English language.
	That's great, but I'm moving on to Arabic.
	It's a growing market.
	Are you in the fancy part of Malibu next to Barbara Streisand and all that kind of?
	Oh, right.
	Okay, that's good.
	I was thinking, wow, we're really reaching across the aisle if we've got Barbara's neighbors tuned into us.
	That's the part where you write Allahu, Akbar, and Bacon.
	Great.
	Okay, Allahu Akbar on your bacon and cheese McMuffin.
	Great to have you with us, John.
	What's on your mind?
	You touched on what I thought was the most inadvertently revealing part of Obama's speech in that he said that the protesters that we were protecting were doctors and lawyers.
	And the first thing that occurred to me was William F. Buckley's famous quip about he'd rather be governed by the first 400 people in the Boston phone book than by the faculty at Harvard.
	That's right, that's right.
	And the second thing was that one of history's recent history's most famous lawyers was Fidel Castro.
	That's true.
	And one of history's most famous physicians was Che Guebara.
	That's right.
	Credentialed men, credentialed men.
	They're like, they're professional men.
	Obama feels comfortable with these kinds of things.
	And you know, and I mentioned as well that Bashar Assad was an ophthalmologist.
	Yes.
	And speaking of doctors, let's not forget, by the way, those British doctors, I think they were originally from Pakistan and Iraq, who drove that flaming Chevy Blazer through the concourse of Glasgow airport a couple of years ago in an attempt to blow up the airport.
	They were doctors too.
	I don't know where, I mean, that's one of the interesting things when you get socialized healthcare is you tend to get these very incendiary medical professionals who are suddenly attracted to the profession.
	But you're right that the fact that these guys are lawyers and doctors is that in itself is no reason to give them tons of arms and money and all the rest of it.
	What do you think of this new, basically the Nancy Pelosi approach to liberation movements?
	You know, we have to arm them to find out who they are.
	That's basically the Obama approach here.
	Yes, we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
	We have to arm the people to find out who they are.
	And then we all have to channel the spirit of Woodrow Wilson so we can get involved in things that aren't worth getting involved in.
	No, no, you always have to be careful when it's one of these.
	That's not just Woodrow Wilson, John, but that's the James Baker line about the Balkans.
	We don't have a dog in this fight.
	And sometimes there are situations that go beyond that, where it's not that you don't have a dog in this fight, but that neither of the dogs in this fight are both of the dogs in the fight are actually dogs you want to steer well clear of.
	When two foaming rabid dogs are going at each other, you want to sit back and figure out which one is going to win and deal with the one who wins after that.
	But the idea that this is where you know enough to even get mixed up in this thing, I think is crazy.
	John in Malibu, thanks for your call.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farash on the EIB network.
	Yeah.
	That's the way I feel when I see the word Allah spelled out in my Musa Coosa.
	Oh, wow.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
	You know, this Musicusa guy, he's a longtime Libyan foreign minister.
	He was the head of the Libyan intelligence, which there doesn't seem to be a lot, especially in the head of state.
	He was the head of Libyan intelligence from 1994 to 2009.
	I had no idea, actually, until just now that, in fact, he's a graduate of Michigan State University in East Lansing.
	He got a bachelor's in sociology in 1978.
	So if you were in the sociology department with Musa Cousa back in the 1970s at Michigan State University, we'd love to hear from you.
	How did the late-night discussions go?
	Did he show any signs of being the kind of guy who'd be in charge of Libyan intelligence?
	I remember this guy many years ago in the 80s.
	He was Libya's ambassador to the United Kingdom, and he publicly announced that there were certain Libyan dissidents living in Britain and that he was in his capacity as ambassador to the United Kingdom.
	He was going to have them eliminated.
	And of course, you know, the trick with diplomacy, if you want to make a big-time career in diplomacy, is to actually put it more subtly than that, usually.
	You know, like when Hillary Clinton says that Bashir Assad is a reformer, I'm sure that means that, you know, she's planning on sending the unmanned drones in over the presidential palace to take him out.
	But she doesn't actually go on TV and say it.
	So the trick with diplomacy is to actually phrase it more artfully than that.
	But he just instead, he just said out loud that there were these two guys living in Britain and he decided in his capacity as Libyan ambassador to the Court of St. James that he was going to have them eliminated and he had to leave the country shortly thereafter.
	But he then became foreign minister.
	But if you were at the Michigan State University, and I'm sure, you know, I don't know whether he was active in the Alumni Association or anything, if he's got like a, you know, if the if the student, if he's got like a student hall or anything named for him over there in the new cafeteria has been named after Musa Cusa, then do give us a call and we'd love to get your college memories of Musa Kusa,
	Libyan foreign minister who's just defected today.
	There is a you know, there is a serious point to this war.
	It is not a joke.
	It actually embodies what is the problem with the United States in the so-called unipolar moment.
	And that is that after the Second World War, the United States, as a non-imperial power, decided that it was going to set up international institutions, which functioned in effect as a kind of affirmative action program for other nations.
	The United States consciously chose to downplay its own voice and bump up everybody else's.
	And that was kind of a reasonable thing to do in the United Nations in 1945.
	In the United Nations of 2011, when the biggest single voting bloc is the organization of the Islamic Conference, I think it makes slightly less sense.
	This idea of putting the U.S. military, boasting about putting the U.S. military at the disposal of foreign nations, Obama, when he was in his little trip to Latin America last week, he was actually bragging that other nations had volunteered the U.S. military to advance their foreign policy goals.
	He thinks that reflects well on us.
	He thinks that if the Arab League decide that Gaddafi's become an embarrassment and it's time for him to go, that's fine.
	If the Arab League decide they want to get rid of Gaddafi, the Arab League, why don't they get the Saudis?
	Why don't the Saudis send their planes over Benghazi?
	Why don't the Saudis send their bombers to Tripoli to knock off Gaddafi?
	If it's that important to the Arab League, why don't the Arab League get rid of it?
	There's 24 members of the Arab League.
	Why don't they knock off Gaddafi?
	But no, the Arab League decided to volunteer the United States military for the job.
	And it's fascinating to me that candidate Obama was insisting that it was unconstitutional for the United States to go to war without the approval of the United States Congress.
	Now he's boasting, he's boasting that it reflects beautifully on the United States that it's going to war with the approval of the Arab League.
	This is a kind of – this is a form of decadence apart from anything else.
	Obama's attitude to the Libyan war springs from his view that the United States ought to be ashamed of its presence on the world stage, that it is an illegitimate actor if it's acting in its own national interest, and the United States only has legitimacy on the world stage if it merges its interests, or in fact actually negates its interest,
	and puts its vast technological expertise and its money and its manpower at the service of organizations like the Arab League.
	The Arab League is basically whatever the Arab League is for, I'm against.
	Amir Moussa, Ama Mousa, that's generally a good way to go.
	Amir Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League.
	He's no relation to Musa Qusa, as far as I know.
	These are the Cairo Musas, not the Benghazi Qusas.
	So just if you're keeping your big Arab clan straight.
	Amir Mousa, the Secretary General of the Arab League, was the guy who was opposed to the Iraq war because it would undermine stability in the region, i.e. the stability of Mubarak, Gaddafi, Assad, and all the guys.
	Amir Moussa is now running for president of the new Facebook Revolution, Freedom-Loving Egypt.
	This is a man who has worked for dictators his entire life.
	He's put himself in the service of dictatorships all his entire grubby, worthless life.
	And he's now running for president of Facebook Revolution, Freedom-Loving Egypt.
	And Ama Moussa.
	So when Ama Moussa's Arab League says, hey, hey, America, we think you should come in.
	We've decided Gaddafi should go.
	And you are the guys to do it.
	You're the lucky guys that we've selected.
	Your number came up.
	We could have asked the Chad military, we could have asked the Rwandan military, but we decided to ask you to do it.
	How can it be?
	How can it be that the President of the United States of America, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces, gives interviews publicly bragging that foreign hostile foreign bodies are volunteering the U.S. military and that what legitimizes this operation is that the Arab League approves of it.
	We are, even by the standards of Chicago community organizers, we are in cloud cuckoo land here.
	Mark Stein, in for us, lots of more to come.
	1-800-282-2882 Barack Obama says, quote, these guys in Libya are, quote, most of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible.
	Don't forget, by the way, Mohamed Atta, he was a Hamburg University engineering student.
	So he was pretty credentialed too.
	What was that guy, the Times Square bomber?
	Faisal, what was he called?
	Faisal Shahzad.
	He was also a college student.
	So there's a long record, by the way, of some of these credentialed professionals being some of the most being some most problematic people to.
	Not all of them turn out to be the big-time ophthalmologist that Bashir Assad was in Syria.
	But the fact that they're lawyers and doctors is a reason to be even more alert.
	Mark Stein, Infra Rush, 1-800-2882.

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