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March 31, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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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 anchor man 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 uh in return, the entire US military gets to intern for the Arab League.
So it all works out.
Rush is uh Rush is not here.
He uh 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.
Uh don't worry about it, you won't uh you won't notice a thing.
Big developments, big development in the uh in the Libyan uh kinetic scope limited action or whatever whatever they're calling it today, uh Jay Carney says that whatever you do, don't call it a war.
He said, uh 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.
Uh so it's not a war, says Jay Carney.
But anyway, there's big developments in the Libyan kinetic scope limited uh action today.
The Libyan foreign minister, Musakousa has defected 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, Musacusa, has defected to the United Kingdom.
I love the you know, so we like about these Arab dictatorships.
But I do like the names of their foreign ministers.
I think Musakousa is uh is a lovely I may be my favorite foreign minister's name since uh Abdullah Abdullah was foreign minister of Afghanistan.
Musaco HR has just made his first uh multiculturally insensitive crack of the day.
He says it sounds like an entree, Musakusa.
Uh that's not that's right.
When I when I'm at the Grand Hyatt in Benghazi, I always order the Musakoosa.
I like to uh I like I like that.
We usually share it.
If I'm there uh discussing it with like the uh the uh the latest Al Qaeda freedom fighter that I've decided to give American taxpayer monies to, I like to sit across the table and uh we'll we'll uh we'll discuss the general thing over a nice bowl of musakusa.
It's lovely, it's lovely.
Put the musacusa on your fala.
Anyway, Musakusa Moussacusa uh is uh is has now defected to the United Kingdom and is singing.
And is singing.
It's a very musical name, Musakusa.
So he's he's singing like a canary to uh to British intelligence.
And uh 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 uh General Bouchard of uh of NATO, a Canadian a Canadian uh general.
Uh because uh as as you know, for the last two weeks, America's commander-in-chief has been telling uh the American people, oh don't worry, you know, we're not running this show, uh we're just along for the ride, we don't go to the meetings, uh it's on a need-to-know basis, and we don't need to know.
And today is the day that uh the uh new Supreme Allied commander of uh Kinetic Scope Limited Action, uh, General Bouchard, uh the Canadian general took operational uh command.
Um 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 uh new war that it's like 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.
Um and uh I s I said a couple of days ago that I would at personally would have preferred a Mexican general because as uh Obama made clear, this is one of those jobs that Americans won't do.
So I think it would have been uh appropriate to have a Mexican general in uh in command.
But we couldn't get the uh we couldn't get a Mexican general, so the Canadian uh is uh is the next best thing we could get.
So the Canadian general has now taken over this thing, and uh and Musacusa Musacusa has defected.
That's by the way, that's the secret word of the day.
If you're the four hundredth caller to say Musacusa, then uh you will win the new Prius.
Uh so uh the uh Musacusa has defected the United Kingdom and uh and uh the Canadian general has taken uh control over things.
And Obama says, we're getting to know the freedom fighters.
The ones we've uh 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 L uh flying over Libya, uh 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, you know, they're uh they're actually al Qaeda guys, that before they were liberating Benghazi, they were off fighting in Iraq uh against US forces.
Pay no attention to any of that stuff.
Uh 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 credential freedom fighters.
It's not like you know, w one of the one of the problems when you're when you're trying to find out which liberation movement to back in uh in the uh in in the Middle East and other difficult parts of the world is that uh frankly some of these uh th some of these fellows are like high school dropouts, and you don't know you you don't know whether 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 uh take Assad in Syria, for example.
He's an ophthalmologist.
So he's he's a professional person, too, isn't it?
He was an um he was an ophthalmologist in London uh before he became uh the big time dictator in Damascus.
Because that's a natural career progression.
You go from the uh National Health Service death panel to the Bath Party death panel.
It's a it's a difference of degree, that's all.
Uh and uh and and uh Assad will we'll check in with Syrian developments a little later too, because Assad apparently has uh has a few problems going on at the mo at the moment.
That just shows, by the way, the uh the worthlessness of these credentials, because uh you would think that uh 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 all s they're as gr they're almost as credentialed as me, these Libyan freedom fighters.
Like you know, Obama is a man who he's we went to Occidental, he went to Columbia, he went to Harvard.
Uh so when he backs uh revolutionary movements, he expects them to be as equally credentialed as him.
When when he goes into Benghazi to decide which uh which team to support, he wants uh he wants to be there and see if he can find another fellow Harvard man or a Columbia man among the Al Qaeda jihadists uh rampaging around uh uh around the neighborhood.
Um he says, he says Oh, yes, uh he concedes, quote, that there that 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 uh Libya half-heartedly backing the uh kinetic limited scope uh action.
So we will keep up to date now that now that it is in the hands of uh Canadian General Bouchard and NATO, we will we will keep up to date on some of the exciting developments going in the Libyan nom non war.
But Jay Carney says, do not call Libya a war.
Do not call Libya a war.
Uh by the way, the it's not just Obama who likes all these uh credentialed uh fellows in the in the Middle East.
Uh Hil Hillary Clinton, of course, said that Assad is a reformer.
Uh so uh th there seems to be no indication yet of us declaring non war on Syria, because uh Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, regards Bashir Assad as a reformer.
And he is a reformer in the sense that uh he doesn't kill as many people as his dad did, and so that's what counts for reform in uh in Syria.
So we'll we'll check in with that, and we will also follow today the latest developments uh on the uh on on uh on the possibility of the government shutdown, the budget, uh the attempt to raise the debt ceiling, uh, and whether the Republican Party is uh i is is uh 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.
Uh Fred Barnes in the in the uh of the Weekly Standard took issue with uh mm my impatience uh with uh Speaker Baehner uh uh uh about uh the 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 uh facing uh uh uh the United States today.
You you you look at the a lot of people, in fact that's that's really the connection between Libya and the spending thing.
People say, well, look, the the the French and British one wanted 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 uh American AWACs and uh some of the more sophisticated technology that they don't have quite as much of.
Uh cruise missile costs a million dollars a pop to lob through uh Gaddafi's tent.
Uh so uh 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.
Uh that when you have domestic spending on the level that it is in France and the United Kingdom and other European com uh countries, you you uh inevitably cannot afford to loose as many million dollar pop cruise missiles at foreign dictators who happened to cross you.
Uh and the United States will be in that situation very, very soon.
So if you think uh my friend Rich Larry in National Review says you shouldn't look at Libya as a green eye shade issue, and that's true.
But it eventually becomes a green eye shade issue because even trivial little nothing uh dictators, you can't afford to knock off because you're your uh military is too overstretched because of the the mass of domestic uh spending you do.
So those two things are very precisely related.
So we're gonna talk about the latest developments on Obama, uh the non-warmonger of North Africa, uh, and we will follow some of the uh some of the progress or lack of progress being made toward a government shutdown, uh getting a proper budget passed, uh raising the debt ceiling or not raising the debt ceiling, and the big big question mark hanging over uh American finances.
Mark Stein, Inforush, 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for us.
Please, please, please.
I was making a joke about Musicusa.
We d we don't have a Prius to give away.
It's uh there's no point calling for it.
It's a Chevy Vault.
And uh you have to uh you have to collect it uh from uh Detroit.
And it's been parked overnight, so the wheels are probably gone.
So uh don't uh don't don't call with the uh don't call with the uh Mousa Musakusa.
And oh by the way, we're not serving Musacusa today, and we don't do takeout.
So please uh don't uh don't be ordering up the music.
Musa Cusa, the Libyan foreign minister who has defected to the United Kingdom.
Uh uh I don't know uh I don't know why to be honest.
I hope he's in good health, because that Lockerbie guy, when they uh when they released him uh back to the care of Colonel Gaddafi, he had three months to live.
Uh that was two years ago.
His uh his tabadol cancer mysteriously cleared up the minute he got out of the uh Scottish National Health Service.
So I certainly hope that Musicusa has retained his Libyan health care coverage after uh defecting to the United Kingdom.
Um Mark St Mark sliding for Rush.
We're we're uh we're talking about some of the developments on uh latest developments on Libya.
It's fascinating to be this this uh now this uh secret order.
Uh President Obama issued a secret finding that is on in all the newspapers uh that authorizes the CIA to carry out a clandestine effort that's also in all the newspapers, uh to provide arms and uh other support to Libyan opposition groups.
Uh so all the so uh President Obama's uh top secret secret finding is in the newspapers, so we all know about that.
The clan the CIA clandestine effort is in all the newspapers, So we all know about that.
The only thing we don't know is uh who the hell it is we're giving arms and money to.
It's it's basically uh the Nancy Pelosi form of liberation movement.
Uh we we uh we have to uh arm the uh Libyan jihadists to find out who they are.
And it's working out great.
Uh because uh as the President has established, some of them are doctors, some of them are lawyers, there may be even be a few ophthalmologists in there, uh just like uh Basher Assad in Syria.
Uh I I don't want to t dwell on ophthalmologists mainly because uh the the uh big bunch of consonants stick in my uh jaw every time I tried to say the words.
It's basically like the Kyrgyzstan of professions ophthalmology.
Uh but um what's fascinating is the reaction in Libya to this.
Apparently uh Gaddafi watched Obama's speech in Tripoli, and Gaddafi had been like kind of depressed because you know, he hasn't got Musakusa to kick around anymore.
He's been uh he's been at a kind of low.
Uh things haven't been going too uh too well.
Beyonce and Mariah Carey are now not doing his uh million dollar of pop 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 uh that uh 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 US position is 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 forty-one years in other situations.
So uh so Godaf Gaddafi was like in the slough of despond.
He was miserable.
Uh things that he I think he'd had a terrible couple of weeks, and then he sees Obama on TV and he perks up immediately.
Uh so uh a wartime speech.
That's the by the way, I think if you go back and read the history books, that's the kind of effect that Churchill's uh wartime speeches had on Hitler.
Hitler would be kind of depressed, and then he'd hear Churchill on the BBC uh pledging victory and fighting on the beaches and all the rest of it, and Hitler would be uh laughing and saying, Ha, it's uh bring it on, baby.
And that's Gaddafi after g that's Gaddafi after watching Obama on TV.
What is at issue, what is at stake for the United States uh in this war?
This war is like Kosovo.
This is liberal warmongering.
War to to uh 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 uh who the good guys in Kosovo uh were.
Nobody rem uh the answer, by the way, is neither of the above.
Nobody remembers uh what the hell the point of it was, uh 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 uh Bill Clinton and Tony Blair stood up on TV and they said uh we're going into this thing because it's not in our national interest, we've got nothing at stake here, uh we don't know what the hell's going on.
Uh that's the kind of warmongering that uh the that that that the the multinational uh left is all in favor of.
The fact that there's absolutely no reason to get into it justifies you're getting into it.
And now here we have again a uh Obama's war like Bill Clinton's.
Uh nobody knows why we're there, nobody knows what we're doing there.
Gaddafi was the one cooperative dictator, he's the one who uh forswore nuclear weapons.
Uh he's the one uh who decided that uh after what he saw in Iraq that he wanted to get on the good side of uh the Americans, and so we're knocking him off.
And if you're if you're saying like the blood-soaked thug next door in uh in Sudan uh and uh and you're and you're looking at this, you're thinking to yourself, which model is best?
W 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 Ahmadinajad?
It's not a difficult it's not a difficult question to answer.
Uh what we're doing here is actually incentivizing uh the rationale by which uh uh 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.
Uh there is the most important thing when you go to war is to have war aims.
Uh 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 and and I'm not talking about, you know, uh 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 for ch for going in there and never coming back for war without end, whatever you call it.
Mark Stein in for us, lots more straight ahead.
Great to be with you.
America's undocumented Anchorman sitting in for America's Anchorman, Rush returns on Monday.
Uh from the Herald Son of Australia, face of Jesus Christ appears in three cheese pizza.
Uh the face and picture here, and it does look like Jesus.
Uh uh, the face of Jesus in a three cheese pizza made at Posh Pizza in New For New Farm, Brisbane, Australia.
There's uh some dispute about it.
Some people are saying it looks more like the actor Viggo Mortenson, but the general consensus seems to be that it in fact Jesus, and of course the fact that it's a three cheese pizza uh representing the uh the Trinity.
Uh posh uh posh pizza's Mary Phelan said her pizza oven was blessed with the presence of uh Jesus Christ.
Uh she can say uh she says, I can uh definitely say this isn't a fake, because the three cheese pizza always comes out different.
Uh so that in this case uh it came out with uh 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 Nadim told the Daily Record, it's like a special blessing has been sent to us.
Mariam, 30 of Glen Roth's Fife, discovered the Arabic writing inside the spud as she peeled a batch of potatoes to make samosas.
Actually, samosa, if you if you uh if you uh if you're making samosa, uh just drizzle it in a little mousakuse.
It makes all the difference.
It's a absolutely delicious.
Um Yeah, no, you you want you 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, uh Mary M. Nadine said she uh she this particular pa 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.
Uh uh her storekeeper husband, Nadim Aslam, agreed that the writing looked like Allah.
Uh she said, I showed it to our neighbors and they too were surprised.
And then she took the potato to her local mosque, and um uh the imam wanted to dry it and put it on show, but she wasn't she she she thought that might ruin it.
Uh so instead she's uh she's frozen, frozen it.
And this is the biggest thing in uh 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.
Uh housewife Shabana Hussein 27 was making a meal for her family when she cut the tomato in half and found Bismillah, uh, 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 uh 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 uh near Brisbane, Australia, and uh and Allah has appeared on a potato in Glenroth's Fife in uh in Glenroth's Fife in Scotland.
And actually it's good this, because Burger King, 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.
Uh and some a British Muslim said that the chocolate swirl uh what was meant to be the chocolate swirl in fact looked like ala 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.
You can't 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, jihadist.
Uh but the the in fact instead they they 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.
It's yeah, we're gonna it's a miracle.
We're gonna add another buck fifty to the cost of it.
And it's a yes, would you oh look Allah has written would you like phrase with that in Arabic on the top of the on the on the special sauce lettuce and cheese.
It's a miracle.
Um but we uh so I think in this time of great turbulence in in the uh in the Muslim world that it is encouraging that we are seeing as I said it starts with Arabic b uh Allah being spelled out on the word on the potato you make the potato into a nice samosa then you get uh Martha Stewart will be doing this next week.
You get a simple piping thing and you uh uh to etch uh spell out the word Gaddafi in musakusa.
Now that's difficult of course because you can spell Gaddafi fifty seven different ways.
So it's actually hard to pour your musicosa onto the Somozas and it not to spell Gaddafi because you can do it with the Q, you can do it with the G you can do with the K, you can do with the K H. Uh but yeah he he he is he's the Heinze world leaders and also, by the way, if you're playing Scrabble, uh generally whatever collection of letters you have it spells Gaddafi.
Uh that's very useful.
It's played havoc by the way with the top secret codes because when the CIA's been uh sending top secret coded messages uh back from uh Libya to uh Langley, Virginia, everything they say spells Gaddafi.
So it's it it makes it impossible that the the the no matter what code you pick, the word Gaddafi spells Gaddafi by the time you treat 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 uh the wittiest writer in the English language.
That's great, but I'm moving on to Arabic.
It's a growing it's a growing market.
Are you in the f are you in the fancy part of Malibu next to Barbara Streisand and all that.
I'm in the chip part.
Oh right, okay that's that's good.
I was thinking wow uh we're really reaching across the aisle if we've got Barbara's neighbors uh tuned in to us the part where you write a lahu Akbar and bacon if you could have it okay Allahu Akbar on your on your uh bacon and cheese McMuffin.
Great uh great to have you with us, John what's what's on your mind?
Uh you touched on what I thought was the most inadvertently revealing part of um Obama's speech in that he said that the um the protesters that we were protecting were doctors and lawyers and the first thing that occurred to me was a um uh William F. Buckley's famous quip about he'd rather be governed by the first four hundred uh people in the Boston phone book than by the
faculty at Harvard.
That's right, that's right.
And the second thing was that um 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 Gwabarra.
That's right.
Credentialed men, credentialed men they're like they're professional men.
Obama feels uh comfortable uh with uh with with these kind and you know uh and I mentioned as well that Bashar Assad was an ophthalmologist.
Yes.
And uh and speaking of doctors, uh let's not forget by the way those uh b those uh British doctors uh I think they were originally from Pakistan and Iraq who drove that flaming Chevy blazer i through the concourse of uh Glasgow Airport a couple of years ago in an attempt to to blow up the airport.
They were they were doctors too.
That's uh I don't know whether I mean that's one of the uh interesting things when you get socialized health care is you tend to get these very incendiary medical professionals who are at uh suddenly attracted uh to the profession.
But you're right that that these uh that the the the that uh the fact that these guys are lawyers and doctors is uh that that in itself is no reason to give 'em tons of arms and money and all and uh and all the rest of it what do you think of this new uh basically the uh the Nancy Pelosi approach uh to uh to to to 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 we we have to pass a 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 um channel the spirit of Woodrow Wilson to uh so we can get involved in things that aren't worth getting involved in.
No, no, that you always have to be careful when it's one of these uh i this is that's uh not just Woodrow Wilson, John, but that's the uh James Baker line about the Balkans, we don't have a dog in this fight.
Uh 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 uh neither of the dogs in this fight uh are uh b 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 uh you want to sit back and figure out uh d which one is going to win and deal with the one who wins uh after that but the idea that uh this is where you know enough uh to even get mixed up in this thing uh I think is crazy.
John in Malibu, thanks for your call 1 eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two lots more straight ahead Markstein in Farush on the EIB network.
Yeah, who?
That's the way I feel when I when I see the word Allah spelled out in my Musa Kusa.
Oh, wow.
Mark sliding for rush on the EIB network.
Well, you know, this Musa Kusa 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 degree.
uh he got a uh bachelor's in sociology uh in nineteen seventy eight so if you uh if uh you uh were in the uh sociology department with uh Musa Cusa back in uh the nineteen seventies at Michigan State University, uh we'd uh we'd love to hear from you.
What what what kind of how 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...
Clinton says that Bashir Assad is a reformer I'm sure that means that you know she's planning on uh 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 he just instead he just said out loud that there were these two guys living in Britain and he decided in his capacity as uh 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 it's he then became foreign.
But if you were at the Mi Michigan State University and uh I'm sure you know it's I don't know uh whether he was an ac active in the uh alumni association or anything if he's if he's got like a um you know if the uh if the stud if he's got a like a student hall or anything named for him uh over there in the new cafeteria has been named after Musacusa then uh do uh do uh give us a call and uh we'd love to get your uh your uh college memories of Musa Cusa,
Libyan foreign minister who's uh just defected today.
There there is a you know there is a serious point to this war.
It is not it is not a joke.
It is a it actually embodies uh what is what is uh the problem uh with the United States in the so called unipolar moment uh and that is that uh after the Second World War uh the United States as a non-imperial power decided that it was going to set up uh international institutions which functioned in effect as a kind of affirmative action program uh for other nations.
It it the the United States consciously chose to downplay its own voice and boop bump up everybody else's.
And that was m a kind of reasonable thing to do in the United Nations in 1945.
In the United Nations of 2011, when the biggest single voting block is the organization of the Islamic Conference, uh I think it I think it's I think it makes slightly less sense.
This the uh this idea of putting the US military, boasting about putting the US military at the disposal of foreign nations.
Obama, uh, when he was in his little trip to Latin America last week, he was actually bragging that other nations had volunteered uh the US military to advance their foreign policy goals.
He thinks that reflects well on us.
He he thinks that if uh the Arab League decide that Gaddafi's become an embarrassment and it's time for him to go, and the uh that's fine.
If the Arab League decide they want to get rid of Gaddafi, the Arab League, why don't they why don't they get the Saudis?
Why don't the Saudis send their planes over Benghazi?
Why don't the Saudis send their uh bombers to Tripoli to knock off uh Gaddafi?
Uh why don't if if if it's that important to the uh Arab League, why don't the Arab League get rid of it?
There's twenty-four members of the Arab League.
Why don't they knock off Gaddafi?
But no, the uh Arab League decided to volunteer the United States military for the job.
And it's uh it's fascinating to me that candidate Obama uh was was uh insisting that it was unconstitutional uh for the United States to go to war with uh the without the approval of the United States Congress.
Now he's boasting, he's boasting uh that it reflects beautifully on the United States, that it's going to war with the approval of the Arab League.
This is a uh uh this is a kind of dis uh this this is this is a form of decadence apart from anything else.
Uh Obama's uh attitude uh to the Libyan war springs from his view that that the United States uh ought to be ashamed of its presence on the world stage, that it that that it is an ill 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 uh and its manpower uh at the service of uh of organizations like the Arab League.
Uh the Arab League is uh basically whatever the Arab League is for, I'm against.
Amamusa, Amamusa, that's generally a good way to go.
Ama Musa, the Secretary General of the Arab League.
He's no relation to Musa Coosa, as far as I know.
These are these are the Cairo Musas, and not the Benghazi Kusas.
So just the if you're keeping your big Arab clans straight.
Ammusa, the Secretary General of the Arab League, uh, was the guy who was opposed to the Iraq war because it would it would uh i it would undermine stability in the region, i.e.
the stability of Mubarak, Gaddafi, Assad, and all the guys.
Amer Musa is now running for president of the new fr Facebook revolution, freedom loving Egypt.
This is a man who has worked for dictators his entire life.
He's put his uh put himself in the service of dictatorships all his entire grubby worthless life, uh and he's now running for president of Facebook Revolution, freedom loving Egypt.
And uh and and Amamusa So when Amamusa'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 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 uh and and and that what legitimizes this operation is that the Arab League approves of it.
We are we are, even by the standards of Chicago Community Organizers, we are in cloud cuckoo land here.
Mark Stein, in for us, Lutz More to come 1800-282-2882.
Barack Obama says, quote These gu says these guys in Libya uh, quote, most of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible.
Uh Don't forget, by the way, Mohammed Atta, he was a Hamburg University engineering student.
So he he was uh he was pretty uh credentialed too.
Was that guy, the Times Square bomber?
Faisal uh what was he called?
Faisal Shazad.
He he was uh he was also a uh a college student.
So that there's a uh there's a long record, by the way, of some of these uh uh credential professionals uh being some of the most uh being some of the most problematic people to that.
You don't know not all of them turn out to be the big time ophthalmologist that Bashir Assad it was in Syria, but uh the fact that they're lawyers and doctors is a reason to be even more uh alert.
Mark Stein Inforush, 1800 2882.
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