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Sept. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh man, there's a lot happening.
This is you hear that reverb, test one, there we go.
Now I've lost the music from New York.
All right.
Okay, I will not hear.
Okay, we got a mixed minus.
Never mind, folks.
Inside baseball stuff, everything's cool.
The only thing is screwed up is for me.
Anyway, great to have you here.
I hope you had a great weekend, three days long.
A lot of stuff has happened since we were last here.
And a lot of it happening on the foreign policy stage.
And we'll get straight into it.
The uh because I'm I'm going to take a different tack than I think you're hearing everywhere in the media.
I had a most fascinating week, and I had three different people send me people that don't know each other, but people who have all spent time in the Middle East sent me essentially the same message that contained I don't know, not a warning.
It just uh people did not believe the conventional wisdom of anything being reported about the Syrian story.
Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-2822882, the email address Ilrushbow at EIB net.com.
Let me folks bear with me here just a second.
Is everything okay going out?
All right.
So here's the deal.
Last week, Obama reverses himself and says that he's not gonna go into Syria.
Remember, they're using nerve gas.
John Kerry goes out there, 1,500 people, 2400 people dead, a lot of kids, nerve guess, Saren Gas, got the proof.
And look, I'm I'm gonna get into all the hypocrisy.
Yes, Kerry dining with with uh Basher back in 2009 and talking about what a great guy Basher was, Hillary.
I mean, that the look at the bottom line is this administration is as incompetent as Jimmy Carter.
There's only one difference.
If if if this if there were anybody else running this administration right now, this would be reported as incompetent and as buffoonish and as frightening as Jimmy Carter's.
This is Jimmy Carter's second term here.
This is absolutely frightening what's happening here.
Obama with this inadvertent trying to make himself look a tough guy, red line comment this past summer.
Well, the the Syrians crossed the red lines.
Obama's obligated.
And late in the week last week, he said, you know what, I'm gonna go get congressional authority.
After maintaining he didn't need it, maintaining he didn't want it, maintaining he's gonna be a tough guy, gonna act alone, he's gonna save the people of Syria.
He's gonna make sure this basher guy gets what's coming to him.
Then all of a sudden, switches gears.
We're told after a walk Friday night on the White House grounds.
Yes.
He decided he's gonna use congressional authority.
He's gonna go to Congress.
Now, when this announcement was made, because this had been discussed.
I mean, the the idea of congressional authority for use of force authorization, been discussed.
There had been, you know, test votes taken by virtue of interview.
And at the time, there was no way Congress was going to authorized it.
It didn't stand a prayer, which Obama knew.
Which the point was to blame Republicans.
It was the limbaugh theorem in play.
Limbaugh Obama forgot about it, essentially.
The plan was change direction, reverse field, announce that he's gonna go to Congress to get a use of force authorization, and then when the Republicans don't give it to him, blame them for dead Syrians.
That was the plan.
It still may be the plan.
Blame the Republicans.
the Limbaugh theorem, and a new strain of it.
But it's clear that that was one of, you know, I get into arguments with people about this who still do not understand that no matter what the issue, No matter what day of the week, the either number one or number two objective in the world of Barack Obama is the elimination of any opposition.
You cannot take the 2014 midterm elections out of this equation.
You cannot remove from this equation just how desperate the Democrats are to win the House in 2014.
Anything that can be done to blame the Republicans.
When you have a slavish media on your side, you've huffed and you've puffed and you announced the red line and you draw the red line and you talk about how horrible it is that anybody would use nerve gas on their own people except Saddam.
When Saddam does it, it isn't a big deal.
John Kerry goes out there at Friday, cites intelligence sources telling him what happened.
Well, we can't believe intelligence sources.
These guys told us back in 2002, 2003, Kerry, Obama, Hillary, they all told us intel lies.
Chaney made it up.
So now we're being asked to believe the very institutions these people have destroyed.
They did their best to destroy the CIA's reputation and MI6 in the U.K. and any other group that did Intel any other nation around the world.
Anyway, though they change a direction.
I don't think cowardly.
It was politics.
Blame the Republicans for it.
Roll the dice that they won't grant you the use of force authorization.
Okay, what happens if they do?
If they do, then you're home free.
You can't lose either way here.
Politically, if you're Barack, politically, it's not about the people of Syria.
It's about Barack Obama.
Everything's always about Barack Obama.
I got another montage that I have coming up for you in due course here.
Washington media spent the Labor Day weekend wringing their hands and a little bit upset.
The elitists spending their last weekend of the summer in the Hamptons were worried Obama looked like an idiot here.
Remember, this guy has been a theoretician, sipping cocktails and trading theories in faculty lounges all across elitist institutions of higher learning.
These people have had the best ideas.
These people have been smarter than anybody else.
They thought Obama's the smartest, greatest guys ever.
Never mind the fact that he essentially went from state senator to president of the United States, zero foreign policy experience, except for saying Saddam was not worth anything.
That was the extent of it.
Now all of a sudden, even for Reed Zakari, if I'm carrying a GPS, does his CNN show from the dashboard of his car, Farid Zakari or GP, I still don't anyway.
Even Farid's nervous.
Farid's embarrassed.
We got the soundbites.
All these leftist, elitist, foreign policy, so-called experts, nervous as hell.
Because Obama looked like an idiot.
Looked like he was backing down, huffing and puffing and backing down and going to Congress.
These guys hate Congress.
The Republicans run Congress.
Why are you going to defer to Congress?
It's all about setting up blame.
It's all about blaming if they don't grant the use of force authorization.
And by the way, McCain and Boehner are on board for it.
Boehner just came out of the White House, well, whatever the president wants.
Kimberly Strassel.
Give me the pull quote.
No, I still haven't got to the primary point.
I'm setting it up.
Sit tight, folks.
Don't go anywhere.
You can't afford to miss this.
Pull quote from Kimberly Strassel, Wall Street Journal, the challenge for Republicans.
I hope you're sitting down here.
It's the Wall Street Journal, not the New York Times.
The challenge for Republicans is to do just that, to remember, no matter how painful, that this is not a vote about the president or his machinations.
The only question before Republicans is this.
Will they send a message to the world's despots that America will not tolerate the use of weapons of mass destruction?
If they will not send that message, they risk complicity in this president's failed foreign policy.
So the urge here from the Wall Street journalists, look, you Republicans, let Obama snooker you.
Let him snake you.
Let him make you look like a fool.
You gotta be bigger than that.
The country's reputation is at stake.
We cannot allow this guy, Basher Al-Assad, to nerve gas his own people with impunity.
Otherwise, we don't stand for anything.
You may think that you are screwing Obama by not granting him the use of force authorization, but all you'd be doing is sabotaging your own country.
So once again, a piece of advice to the Republicans bite the bullet, bend over, be bigger, and give the president what he wants for the sake of America.
And Boehner and McCain are eager to do just that.
Now, all of the indications, you know, head count polls and this kind of thing.
Right now, the use of force authorization would not pass.
No, I still haven't gotten the main.
It's all leading up there.
Just sit tight.
You have here ostensibly Basher Al-Assad nerve gassing his own people.
Sarangas.
Lurch told us, John Kerry.
Told us this uh Friday.
Obama's got the red line drawn out there.
They crossed the red line.
Obama's manhood's on the line.
Oh my God, he's got a huff and puff.
He's been huffing and puffing.
And all of a sudden, you know what?
The hell with it.
I'm gonna wait a while.
I'm gonna wait on Congress.
Wait a minute, people are dying, I thought.
He's nerve gassing people.
Nerve gassing his own people, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction.
And we're gonna wait for Congress to get back.
We're gonna wait a few days rather than because all we're gonna do, we're gonna have a what, a three-minute to five-hour strike, whatever it takes to show that.
You know, the assets are already in place, you're gonna launch them three minutes to five hours.
That's the length of time we're talking about here.
Get in, get it, and get out.
Why wait?
Well uh I thought this is time was of the essence here.
I mean, he's nerve gassing his own people.
Anyway, here's the point, folks.
Four different people now.
And the third one just this morning.
What if Basher didn't do it?
What if Basher is being framed?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Al Qaeda setting off their own chemical weapons on their own people.
The rebels nerve gassing their own people to create exactly what is happening, us mobilizing to get rid of Basher because they can't some for some reason.
So they use chemical weapons on their people.
It gets blamed on Basher.
We go in and take Basher out or do something, and end up on the same side as the rebels, in this case Al-Qaeda.
What if Basher is being framed?
What if Basher didn't do it?
Sit tight, we'll be back, because I've got a story by a man whose credibility is intact and beyond repute.
His name is Yosef Bandansky, an Israeli American political scientist.
Served as director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for the House from 1988 to 2004.
He's director of research, the International Strategic Studies Association.
There's been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University's NITSE School of Advanced International Studies.
In the 80s, he served as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense of the Department of State, senior editor for the Defense in Foreign Affairs Group of Publications, and a contributor to the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia.
He is on the advisory council of the Intelligence Summit.
And he has a piece today in defense and foreign affairs mounting evidence that the White House knew and possibly helped plan a Syrian chemical weapon attack by the opposition.
And this is the fourth third act.
This is the third such the first scholarly piece on it that I've seen.
So I want to throw this out to you after the break here as just a possibility.
Because I've heard from a couple people who have lived in the Middle East, who some of them claim to know Bash, they just wouldn't do it.
He just wouldn't gas his own people.
Nothing in it for him.
What's in it for him to do this other than get what's happening now?
What's in it for him?
Who benefits here?
By nerve gas being used, and how do you make the case that Basher benefits?
Anyway.
That's just speculation.
That's not part of the scholarship in the piece.
Sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back.
Do not go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaud, and a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
My friends, do you remember?
The Syrian rebels overran and controlled a government base that had chemical weapons last summer.
Even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into their hands.
This was last summer.
I doubt that you remembered this.
I doubt that anybody remember.
Even people who keep up with the news every day.
I doubt that anybody remembers that.
So I want to remind you.
Syrian rebels, the same rebels that we're talking about today, overran and controlled a government base, a Basher Assad base, admittedly, that had chemical weapons last summer, and even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into the hands of the opposition last summer.
Now, meanwhile, John Kerry and the regime and the media have used as their main argument the rebels have never had access to these chemical weapons.
I mean, the idea that Basher didn't do this, and I'm not the first one to float it, nor are the people who sent me their thoughts on it, nor is Yosef Badansky the first.
It's been talked about in Washington.
Hasn't been a lot of news reported about it, but people have, you know, in dissecting events in Syria, people have posed the possibility in a in a in a rhetorical way.
And when they have John Kerry and the Obama administration and the media have all used as their main argument that the rebels have never had access to the chemical weapons that the Syrian regime holds.
And that's why I want to remind you of the news story last summer that Syrian rebels overran and controlled a government base that had chemical weapons last summer, and Panetta admitted that those weapons may have fallen into the hands of the rebels.
And Kerry and the regime say that that didn't happen.
That the U.S. government has kept track, which, folks, is simply not true.
And furthermore, didn't a lot of the same people who say that Congress now must back Obama to maintain U.S. credibility.
Oh yes.
Congress must back the president.
Must for the purposes of the credibility of the United States of America.
Didn't a lot of the same people try to stop funding our troops while they were on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Didn't some of these same people now demanding a united front Actually engage in behavior that hampered the U.S. military effort, particularly in Iraq.
John Kerry, two times.
Vietnam and Iraq agrees that U.S. soldiers are reprobates, rapists, terrorists.
And now all of a sudden they're angels.
Here's a, you know, it's foreign policy magazine, a flashback, Leon Panetta.
We've lost track of some Syrian chemical weapons.
September 28, 2022.
So this is after Benghazi, folks.
That's what Benghazi was all about in many ways.
It was not last summer, it was last September.
Foreign policy magazine.
Panetta said we have lost track of some Syrian chemical weapons.
This is after Benghazi.
So take a break here.
I'll give you some thinking on this notion that Basher is being framed, that he didn't do it.
Sit tight.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, lying, deceit, hypocrisy...
Yes, all of that.
And even the good times.
AP just last week.
AP sources say intelligence on weapons, no slam dunk.
The intelligence linking, Syrian President Basher Assad, to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least a hundred people is no slam dunk.
Questions remain about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.
That was August 29th.
That's four days ago.
Folks.
I don't know how many of you have seen those stories.
You in this audience, you've pretty informed.
I imagine some of you have noted them and come across them.
But I'm going to tell you the conventional wisdom on television throughout the drive-by media is that Basher conducted the chemical weapons.
The rebels don't have any.
Basher did it.
Basher crossed the red line.
The Syrian regime's a bunch of reprobation.
Obama said if you cross the red line, you're going to pay a price.
They crossed the red line, and now Obama's going to make them pay a price.
Now he wants Congress to join him in it.
Conventional wisdom is...
Thank you.
That it's Basher.
It's a fait accompli, but I'm telling you, since last September.
For anybody keeping track, wanting to remain open-minded about this, it's an open question whether the rebels got their hands on some chemical weapons.
And then, while in the process of getting the heck kicked out of them, which Basher was doing, they launched chemical weapons on their own people, framing Basher, and then, Tell you how this all started for me.
On Saturday, I woke up, and it's almost habit now.
I fire up the computer just to get my fix.
News and stuff to start the day and emails.
I got a note from a friend of mine.
And it is the first of two turned down.
These two guys don't know each other.
And keep in mind that I well, not keep in mind, the things that this friend of mine is telling me, things about him I didn't know, but I believe to be true.
Anyway, I says that he spent a lot of time in the Middle East.
His business, by the way, would have required that, or certainly would have necessitated it.
He just never talked about it.
Anyway, I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but basically says he's he's traveled around a lot over there and just doesn't believe it Basher would do this.
There's nothing in it for him that he's not this kind of guy.
I mean this guy was almost a personal reference for Basher Assad, which really had me scratching my head.
I said, come on, everybody wants to do my job.
Everybody wants to influence what I say.
And I set it aside, and I've I uh I filed it away, thought it interesting, but you know, anybody can write me anything and say anything.
I've got to be very careful.
I just can't accept what somebody sends me in an email And run with it.
So I ran the theory by a couple of people whose opinion on these things I've respected over the years.
And they both that's a little crazy.
Okay, so I set it aside.
Then another one came in Saturday afternoon.
And I set it aside.
So powerful is the idea.
The media gets into this conventional wisdom mode and it starts pounding things, and it doesn't take long for everybody to start believing the story.
And the story is that Basher used Sarengas chemical weapons on his own people, even though it's John Kerry out there making the case.
And then late last night, early this morning, I run across this piece by Yosef Badansky.
And I look him up, find out who he is, just shared his resume with you.
And his story, his article here is that there is evidence, mounting evidence, that the rebels in Syria did indeed frame Assad for the chemical attack.
But not only that, that Obama, the regime, may have been complicit in it.
Mounting evidence that the White House knew and possibly helped plan the Syrian chemical weapon attack by the opposition.
So this is a double whammy.
So then wait a minute now.
I had just rejected these two emails from friends of mine, thinking, quite frankly, that it was quackery.
I said, wait a minute, now I've got to start thinking this seriously.
One of the learned people that in this field that I ran the theory by, who initially rejected it, is now rethinking the whole thing based on the Bdansky piece.
And I don't want to over-dramatize this.
I'm just with with this administration, one thing I've learned with the Democrat Party, the American leftists, their objectives are not always as stated, and they do lie.
And they will lie to further their cause.
And we know that as far as these people are concerned, everything is about Obama.
It's not about the people of Syria.
It's not about anything but Obama and the elimination of opposition and winning the House in 2014, because everything with these people is political.
There's a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East, mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors and supporters, which makes a very strong case based on solid circumstantial evidence that the August 21st,
2013 chemical strike in the Damascus suburbs was indeed a premeditated provocation by the Syrian opposition.
The extent of U.S. foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the horror of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light.
This guy is not a kook, folks.
He's not a nut.
He's not an internet looney tune.
The guy writing this, Yosef Badonsky.
In fact, in reading further about this guy, Yosef Badonsky argued that the deception playing out right now in Syria is a deception similar to one used in Sarajevo in 1995 to provoke airstrikes against the Serbs for the benefit of the Bosnian Muslims.
Now, if this is right, and I say If in capital letters, if this is right, this is the setup of all time.
And it looks like you read this thing prints out to four pages.
And I'm sure Coco and the boys have found it and getting ready to put a link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
Defense and foreign affairs.
If they don't have it, I'll send them the link.
At any rate.
It looks like there was U.S. Intel involvement dating a week before the alleged chemical weapons attack in meetings that were anticipating a war-changing event.
So we could be looking here at a frame job.
Pretty big setup.
The extent of U.S. foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the horror of the regime in a different and disturbing light.
What it means is Obama's describing what happened in Syria as a horror.
And it's something we as a freedom-loving, decent, good-hearted people cannot tolerate.
It's a horror.
Well, what Mr. Bdansky is saying is that available data puts the horror in a different and disturbing light, meaning it's not Basher doing the horrible things.
It's the rebels nerve gassing themselves, framing Basher, setting him up so as to engineer a response that takes Basher out so that the Al Qaeda guys win, and then we end up on the side of Al Qaeda.
You've heard that being speculated about.
On August 13th and 14th, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advanced preparations for a major and irregular military surge.
Initial meetings between senior opposition, military commanders, and representatives of Qatari, Turkish, and U.S. intelligence took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Hatay province, used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA, and their foreign sponsors.
Very senior opposition commanders who had arrived from Istanbul briefed the regional commanders of an imminent escalation in the fighting due to a war-changing event or development, which would in turn lead to a U.S.-led bombing of Syria.
The opposition forces, the rebels in Syria, had to quickly prepare their forces for exploiting the U.S.-led bombing in order to march on Damascus and topple the Basher government.
The Qatari and Turkish intelligence officials assured the Syrian regional commanders that they would be provided with plenty of weapons for the coming offensive.
What this guy is saying is that representatives of the Syrian rebels met with simpatico groups in Turkey and planned a joint move against Basher after a U.S.-led attack on him, which would follow what these people were determining or calling a war-changing development.
That would be the nerve-gassing of their own people.
Now, again, it remains a big if, but if...
Look at look at the world right now.
Look at this country.
If indeed this is a frame job, look at how well it's being run.
I mean, everybody thinks that Basher did it.
And everybody thinks Obama's got to do something, and everybody thinks Congress has got to join Obama in doing so.
And everybody thinks the United States has got to do so.
We gotta go in there.
We've got to save a Syrian people.
This Basher guy is an absolute reprobate.
He's no different to Saddam, he's nerve gassing his own people.
And it it it qu it quickly, that that whole narrative, that whole template quickly came to life.
It has all the energy in the world behind it.
Now, just so you know, the the two emails I got from my friends who get anecdotal, I'm not attaching any weight in this to what they have said.
It just to me it's coincidental.
On Saturday, I get these two notes from friends of mine who've done business in the Middle East in Syria.
Just do not think this they know Osad, they can't not believe that he would do this.
He's not that kind of guy, number one, they say, number two, there's nothing in it for him.
And nothing in it for him.
He was already cleaning their clocks with conventional opposition tactics to a rebel civil war force.
He was already cleaning their clocks.
So badly the U.S. had to get involved to even it up because Basher was winning so good.
What in the world did he need to do this for?
And there's he doesn't rush.
Now both both my friends distrust Obama as uh tremendously.
So I must put that in there.
So it was out of clear blue.
I run into Yosef Badansky in his piece, which four pages of what he says, growing volume and new evidence, numerous sources in the Middle East, not only did the Syrian rebels use the nerve gas on their own people and frame Basher, but that we knew and possibly helped plan it.
Now that's gonna make why why would we why do we want to get rid of Basher?
I mean, Carrie Hillary.
Obama have all called him a great reformer.
What could this possibly be about?
I've taken a break.
I just noticed the clock.
Okay, I just sent the link for the Yosef Badenski piece at Defense and Foreign Affairs up to Coco at uh the website, rushlimbaugh.com.
I don't know if Coco got it on his own or not, but regardless, he has the links now, and it will not be long before you will be able to go to the link and read the whole thing yourself, which I'd urge you to do.
I'm not gonna read four pages here.
Uh it's really detailed.
It's it'd be tough to follow over uh over four pages.
But it's convincing.
I just uh I want to make one thing very clear here.
I am simply being honest with you, I get two emails on Saturday from two different friends, ostensibly, well, I mean these you talk about over the transom.
I mean, talk about out of the blue, that they don't believe, because they've worked in the region and lived there, done business there, don't believe Basher's capable of doing it.
There's no upside for it.
Um, in fact that probably Basher's paranoid.
Because one what is Obama doing in the Middle East.
Obama has the the agenda that the regime's agenda appears to be eliminating dictators in favor of Muslim radicals.
Got rid of Mubarak, he was a dictator.
Might have been a horrible guy, but he was stable.
Gaddafi may have been a horrible guy, but he was stable.
We're getting rid of all of these dictators, which of course sounds great, but they're being replaced with Muslim radicals, i.e.
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Al Qaeda is basically who's if they get rid of Basher in Syria, it'll be Al Qaeda.
Muslim radicals.
Sharia is on the march in the Middle East, is what's taking place here.
And the point is that Basher may be looking this, seeing this, and of course, wouldn't smile upon it.
He'd be considered one of these dictators that the U.S. is Targeting and uh and taking out.
But I just I'm not asserting any of this to be true.
I just I've I've found it now in a very credible place.
And you know me, I don't go with the flow, conventional wisdom, and I'm not a conspiracy kook either.
This makes perfect sense that Basha can be set up to me.
So I'm just putting this out as a possibility.
Because it's already out there.
I didn't put it there.
I'm just reminding you, sharing with you what's there.
Up to you.
You know the old we report, you decide thing here.
This has been done before, folks, as I mentioned.
It's been done before in Sarajevo in 1995.
But isn't aren't we preparing in our country for Al-Qaeda to possibly use chemical biological weapons on us?
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