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Sept. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I would not reject the possibility here that Bashur Assad's being framed.
And by the way, I've got no brief for the guy.
He's not a friend of mine, and I'm not particularly interested in this guy maintaining power or what have you.
But I'll tell you, it is clear to me what our foreign policy is in the Middle East.
We are just like Jimmy Carter.
We got rid of the Shah.
He was a dictator, but he was a stabilizing dictator.
And by the way, let me, some of you might, well, God, what do you mean we're supporting dictators and all that?
The world's a dangerous place.
But don't forget this.
The left thinks the world is a dangerous place if the U.S. is a lone superpower.
Don't forget Madeline Albright, former Secretary of State for Clinton.
She was out there talking about it's great when the Soviet Union was a superpower because it kept us in check.
The idea that we're the good guys is not something that these people believe.
Leftists, American leftists, they think we're the problem in the world.
So they do not trust the United States as a lone superpower.
They like a competing superpower.
Keep us in check.
And we, on the other hand, in order for stability to maintain our interests, like one of our interests in the Middle East, obviously, free flow of oil at market prices.
All right?
That's our interest, not the people of the Middle East.
It's not our responsibility.
Iraq, Bush policy tried to change that, but our number one interest in the Middle East is oil, free flow, market prices.
So if stable dictators are the best way to maintain the free flow of oil at market prices, that's what we'll do until the left gets in charge.
Then they start talking about they don't like dictators, which is crock.
They love them.
But they do not think that a policy of free flow of oil at market prices is valid.
To them, that's immoral and unjust.
Our foreign policy ought to be based on human rights and civil rights and all that nefarious stuff.
So they want to come along.
They want to get rid of the stabilizing dictators.
I'm using this term loosely.
And instead, ostensibly put people in power that are there the result of a democratic process.
I give you Egypt as an example.
Tahriri Square.
They hated Mubarak, despised Mubarak because civil rights violations, human rights violations.
Mubarak was good for us.
They hated him.
They loved the Muslim Brotherhood moving.
Ostensibly, they were elected, although they weren't.
So, what is happening in the Middle East is that just like Jimmy Carter before him and just like other leftist ding bat presidents before him, Obama is changing the definition of U.S. vital national interest and got nothing to do with oil, human rights, and civil rights.
And I don't mean to impugn those, but they don't really believe in that either.
Those are just catchphrases designed to emotionally appeal to people to make them support it.
The American foreign policy of Barack Obama or Lyndon Johnson or hell of the British is rooted in the belief that the United States is the problem.
And that another problem is us seeking to secure, say, the free flow of oil at market prices.
They don't like oil.
They don't like oil companies.
That's, to them, unjust and immoral.
So get rid of any dictator that facilitates that.
And instead, let the people choose their leaders, which never happens.
They just change dictators under the guise of a more human rights-friendly dictator, although they won't even admit that their guys are dictators.
But the Muslim Brotherhood is.
What's happening now is that Obama is replacing stabilizing dictators.
And that term may rub people wrong.
That's why I'm spending some time here trying to define it.
U.S. vital national interest in the Middle East is the free flow of oil at market price.
Now, it need not be if we, oh, they hate that.
On the left, they hate that.
Oh, yeah.
Democrats listening to me right now, I'm telling you, are foaming at the mouth.
They're throwing things at the radio.
They're calling the radio station.
They can't stand it.
Free flow of oil at market price.
They hate that.
That's the exact wrong reason for us to be anywhere in the world because they hate oil.
Oil is global warming.
Oil is profit.
Oil is dirt.
Oil is pollution.
Oil is yuck.
So they hate that.
But it clearly makes total sense.
Now, we need not have that vital interest policy if we would simply develop our own oil, Keystone Pipeline, fracking, and we could change our vital national interest definition in that region.
And Bush did try to.
Bush, man of God, George W. Bush really thought that if Iraq would become an American-like democracy, not American-like in terms of founding constitutions, but just direct elections with law-abiding leaders, democratic process.
His belief was that people all over the world are the same.
They want freedom, self-determination, don't want to live under dictatorships.
And he thought he could make a rock work, democracy project, it was called, make a rock work, show the rest of the Middle East what's possible.
It would cause all the nations, peoples of the Middle East, demanding the same thing.
Now, didn't get enough time to play that out.
And there were a lot of American foreign policy experts who thought it was impossible anyway because Middle Eastern people just not comfortable with self-determination because of Islam.
It's just not, the two don't go together.
Anyway, those are arguments that continue to take place and be made.
Point is here.
I keep, I know it sounds like I'm diverting from my point, but I'm really not.
My point here is that we've got a president from the left who thinks that the United States is the problem in the world.
And he thinks that if we're the problem, any of the relationships that we had with foreign leaders prior to Obama are also unjust, immoral, and dubious.
So Mubarak had to go.
Assad has to go.
And so they're getting rid of these dictators, which did stabilize things.
It kept the oil flowing, is basically because they profited from it.
Didn't treat their people well, but that wasn't our concern.
We can't be the police force of the world.
But Obama's got a different view.
He's replacing these dictators with militant Islamists, radical Muslim dictators.
And this is what Assad sees.
Assad may be a Muslim, but he's not in the al-Qaeda camp.
You know, Al-Qaeda is fighting him.
So Al-Qaeda is on the ground.
They constitute the rebels in Syria.
And it's on the table now that they might have gassed themselves, their own people, to frame Bashur, make it look like he's doing it for the express purpose of having us come in and take out their opposition, their enemy, Basher, which it looks like we're getting ready to do for them.
And you've heard some people question why in the world we want to be on the same side as Al-Qaeda in this.
Because Obama looks at guys like Basher and Mubarak and the Shah of Iran as absolute reprobates.
And they're reprobates because they were U.S. allies under previous administrations.
If we're bad, they're bad.
If we're the problem in the world, any relationship we had is a problem in the world.
And believe me, you know, these liberals, they think they're God's gift to everything.
They've got all the answers.
All they do is make everything they touch worse.
I don't care if it's domestic, if it's foreign policy, if it's economic, everything they touch goes to excrement.
And it doesn't take long.
Everything they touch, there's never been one example in the world of leftists making anything better as they promised.
They make it better for themselves, obviously.
Leadership.
So you tell me: is it in our interests for the Middle East, other than Israel, to have as leaders, we've already got it in Turkey.
We've got a militant radical Islamist running Turkey.
It makes sense we want one.
Do we want Hamas and Hezbollah running countries outside of Gaza?
That's where we're headed.
And because Obama thinks guys like Mubarak and Assad are reprobates, because they had previous relationships with previous American presidents, and America is the problem in the world.
And so we've got to ditch all that.
And so if you want to get rid of Basher, what better way than to make it look like he's nerve-gassing his own people?
Now, this Badansky guy that I quoted in the first hour, this is not by any means the first time that he's written about this.
He wrote extensively about how this very thing was used in Sarajevo that got us into that war on the side of the Bosnian Muslims.
And he talks about its deception.
And it's worked.
So this idea that we would be, well, let's leave ourselves out of this for just a second.
That's something the low information people will never accept, even if it's true.
You could show them proof, and they wouldn't believe it.
Let's just leave it at Al-Qaeda is using a nerve gas on their own people as a setup, as a frame for Basher to get us to take Basher out for them.
It's working.
I mean, the conventional wisdom in Washington, we got to side with Obama.
We've got to go in there.
We've got to take Basher out.
We just have to do it.
Meanwhile, there are some who will discount this theory or this possibility.
This is crazy rush.
This is absolute lunacy.
No way.
This is the kind of kook conspiracy stuff you find on the internet.
Well, no, are we not preparing here in our own country for al-Qaeda to possibly use chemical and biological weapons on us?
We are, aren't we?
The Obama administration, Homeland Security Department, they conduct exercises involving local and state officials getting ready for this event.
Why?
Because we think it's possible.
Well, if it's possible Al-Qaeda would use chemical weapons here, why not there?
So I don't know.
I'm troubled by the fact that we're so eager to sign on board with an ongoing policy here that is replacing.
Yeah, I know.
Part of me, I love saying that vital American interests are the free flow of oil at market prices.
Because that's like showing Dracula the cross when you say that to a bunch of liberals, particularly if they're environmentalist wackos.
They hate, they hate the free flow of oil at market prices as a foreign policy.
They despise it.
They call it blood for oil.
Blood for ego, that's their thing.
That's cool.
Blood for oil, no way.
You look at Kerry and Hillary and Biden and Chuck Hagel and Obama.
These guys used to tout Basher.
They used to sing Basher's praises, and it wasn't that long ago that they did.
Basher was a great reformer.
Basher was the future hope, stabilizing influence in the Middle East.
So this is wide open.
And I tell you, again, Obama with his red line and then huffing and puffing all last week.
I'm going to go and I'm going to do what's necessary.
Human lives are at stake.
Human lives are on the line.
Gasing his own people.
We can't allow that.
Oops.
I'm going to take a walk in the White House 45 minutes and I'm going to decide, you know what?
It doesn't matter.
I don't have to do it right now.
I'm going to wait for the Republicans to give me that congressional use of force authorization.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
Even though I don't need it, I'm going to wait for the Republicans to do it so we can appear to be putting forth a united front.
Do you think he cares about a united front?
What he wants, He can't lose either way.
If the Republicans don't give him, don't vote for the use of force.
He can then not do anything about Syria and blame the Republicans for being heartless, mean-spirited, willing to let people get nerve-cast.
He can say, you know what?
If the guy killing his own people in Saddam Hussein, the Republicans don't care.
And they'll come out with, yeah, if Basher had attempted to assassinate George H.W. Bush, then they'd do it.
No, no, no.
They'll bring all that stuff out of the past.
Well, Obama can't wait to blame the Republicans for letting the people of Syria be nerve-cast.
Can't wait.
Well, I mean, you talk about a great leader, a way to nullify whatever negatives there are on health care going into the 2014 midterms is what he cares about.
Now, if the Republicans grant him a use of force and he does it, then he's a great leader.
He put together his coalition.
He did all this wonderful thing.
He overcame the partisanship.
He's a great guy.
He can't lose here.
He's got the Limbaugh theorem as an option or Messiah.
Great unifier brings everybody together.
The Republicans who won't agree with him on anything were made to understand by Obama that this human rights issue could not.
So he can't lose here.
And I'm just telling you, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the rebels are doing this.
And like Bdansky says here, that the regime is aware of it.
Now, one quick thing, I've got to take a break, but Bdansky does not identify his sources in this story.
And I want to be very clear about this.
He does not identify them.
There are numerous sources, but he doesn't ID them.
And so we've got to be careful here.
It could be that his sources are Israeli intelligence, in which case he wouldn't ID.
But he doesn't ID the sources.
So keep that in mind.
Ladies and gentlemen, I need to make a distinction with something I just said.
When I said that Obama can't lose either way he goes, I should have qualified that.
Because what I meant was, as far as the way the media will report it, he can't lose.
But the fact of the matter is, he looks like a gross incompetent here.
Obama's being laughed at by our enemies around the world.
They're astonished.
I guarantee our enemies cannot believe how easy they've been.
They cannot believe this.
They're thrilled.
And I think most people in this country, outside the low information crowd, I think people are aghast.
I think people look at this and they see Obama as a total screw-up and out of his league and incompetent in this area.
But the media will never say that.
They're going to cover for him no matter what.
Now, look, folks, don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying that Assad's a good guy by any stretch.
He said dictator.
Don't misunderstand anything that I'm saying here.
And I want to go to the soundbites here, and we're going to get to your phone calls in this segment, I promise, if you're on hold.
I appreciate you doing that.
I appreciate your being there.
But this is embarrassingly incompetent.
When I say that he can't lose either way, I'm talking about the way the media will cover for him and report this.
But this is dangerous.
This level of incompetence and buffoonery.
Can I ask a simple question?
What are we talking about?
We're talking about launching some sort of military act as reprisal, right?
We've got a guy using chemical weapons.
Why in the hell are we talking about it?
Publicly, why are we talking about the details of it?
Why are we talking about when, where, how, what?
That alone proves that this is political.
As everything Obama and the Democrats do is political.
It's designed to advance their agenda.
If you're really serious about taking Assad out, if you're really serious about ending this horrible series of events happening, you just do it.
Do we not have teams of people capable of going in there under the cover of darkness and getting this done after the fact?
As we did with Saddam or Israel never talks about this stuff before they do it.
They just go do it.
But the fact that we're talking about it to this degree, you got Boehner up there, I support the president and this, and I got McCain out there, and we're going to support the president and this.
I mean, this is this guy, he's a rank amateur.
This is the enemy cannot believe that this guy's telegraphing everything he's going to do, that he's doing what he's doing and how he's doing.
I guarantee you.
At least this guy's president of the United States.
When he comes into office, it's 2009, he assumes office.
They're by virtue of that alone.
They're on alert.
They're worried.
We can do whatever we want anywhere, anytime.
We can project power, the likes of which the world doesn't know, doesn't see, has never seen.
They have to respect that.
This guy in charge of it can't believe it.
And I'm going to tell you something.
Most of the people in this country are watching this and they think they're watching buffoonery and they're embarrassed by it.
Red lines and all this.
I mean, this is grade school bully kind of stuff here.
Well, you cross that line.
I'm going to really get mad.
The guy crossed.
All right.
Now you've really made me mad.
If you keep doing that, I'm going to put another video producer in jail.
I'm going to really get tough with you.
Blah, blah, blah.
But we don't do anything.
But all of these Republicans signing on to this are just in this fecklessness and they're promoting this incompetence.
And I'm sure they're doing this for their own political calculations as well.
But we've got a presidential foreign policy here that is incoherent.
And the last thing the Republicans need to be doing is signing on to it.
Sorry, don't mean to be yelling and scaring 25-year-old girls.
And yes, they're girls if they're afraid of me.
They're not yet women.
But I'm telling you, I don't know why the Republicans want to sign on to this kind of incoherent, inconsistent, really risky and unpredictable.
We don't know what Susan Rice is going to decide tomorrow she wants to do.
And we don't know what Valerie Jarrett's going to decide that she wants to do after Susan Rice decides something.
And then Samantha Power might show up for work and decide she wants to do something.
Then Obama may say, you know what, I'm tired of playing spades.
I want to get in on this too.
Why do we want?
I don't understand why The Republican Party is not taking advantage of every gift and opportunity here to distinguish themselves against this to draw the line of distinction to contrast them.
Why this full speed ahead dive over the cliffs to be joined up with this?
You know, even I mentioned at the top of the program.
This, folks, was the Labor Day weekend.
And in suburban Washington and at the Hamptons, where all of the New York, Boston, Washington power elite go in the summer for their vacations, there's a big wrap-up Labor Day weekend.
They were all, I guarantee you, all these Obama elites and supporters.
I don't mean members of the regime.
I'm talking about the donors and the supporters.
They were talking to them saying, what the hell is going on?
They, too, could not believe this bumbling level of incompetence.
Because Obama last week had them believing that we're going to launch our strike.
We're going to stop this guy from nerve-gassing his own people and move on.
Then on Friday, he changes and wants Congress to get involved.
And I guarantee these people that donate money to him and support him hate Congress.
They hate the Republicans.
And all of a sudden, now he wants to defer to them and they didn't understand.
Fareed Zakaria, you know, the global positioning satellite host at CNN.
This guy, I don't know what his qualifications are other than, I really don't.
One of these egghead theoreticians from the faculty lounge got a TV show, writes occasionally in magazine and highbrow magazine articles.
And he does, he has an audience with Obama now and then about foreign policy.
This guy, even Fareed Zakar, could not believe what Obama was doing.
It did not make any sense.
We've got the bites.
Let me just play these for you.
Here's the montage first of the media and Washington, their Labor Day weekend, wringing their hands, a little frustration, a little bit of anger at Obama, because this red line thing to them was a gaffe.
Go back to that red line comment the president made.
Everyone heard that.
The president's red line comment got him into trouble.
I'm disappointed that we're drawing a red line and not talking about war.
He put himself in a box when he drew the line.
The president is drawing a red line.
Well, constitutionally, I have no clue what that means.
Drew this red line and now has put himself into a corner.
Declaring a red line, he clearly did that as a kind of ad lib.
Why are chemical weapons a red line?
What makes them so bad?
He talked himself into it by saying there's a red line.
Is it all back to that red line comment?
You wonder if the president even regrets ever using those words, red line.
The red line could haunt him.
It's a drawing of the red line.
Clearly, they had not thought it through.
He really does not want to do this.
It's obvious, but were it not for the red line, I don't think that he would be.
You don't draw a line, red otherwise, and then dare somebody to cross it and then call that department.
We call that playing a game of chicken.
That's Tavis Smiley here.
David Rodham Gergen, Frederica Whitfield, Douglas Brinkley, Don Lemon, Nick Gillespie.
They're all in this red line thing just, they knew it's amateur hour.
These people, these media people, they didn't know what they're going to do.
They were beside themselves.
And you heard David Rodham Gergen.
The drawing of that red line clearly hadn't been thought through.
That's right.
It was just Obama puffing and huffing.
I'm a big tough guy.
I'm a tough guy.
They're going to be scared of me.
I'm going to tell them, you cross that line.
And Obama's so full of himself, he didn't think Assad would cross the line.
He doesn't know how they look at him.
Anyway, they were just beside themselves.
And if the line hadn't been drawn, then none of this would be happening.
Probably true.
So let's grab somebody number eight.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
This is Sunday night on the NBC nightly news.
Tonight, the Arab League is meeting again.
The Saudis this time are pushing for a vote to support military action.
But the president's reversal has clearly further damaged the perception of him as a decisive leader abroad.
Further damaged?
That means there was pre-existing damage, ENMEA.
Further damage?
What do you know that you haven't told us?
Why, she just said here, the president's reversalist of the red line business, deciding not to show him who's boss, but instead turn it over to the Republic.
See, that's how they all saw this.
You're going to turn this over to Republicans?
You're going to give the Republicans this story?
You're going to give them the opportunity to beat a big huffer and puffer, blow the house down, guys?
That's what they couldn't believe.
You're going to let the Republicans look like Arnold Schwarzenegger here.
What the hell are you doing?
So Andrea says, the president's reversal has clearly further damaged the perception of him as a decisive leader.
Further, that means there must be some already existing damage out there that this guy's not decisive.
And here's Fareed Zakaria and his GPS locator.
This is on CNN Sunday morning.
Whatever your views on the larger issues, it's hard not to conclude that the administration's handling of Syria over the last year has been a case study in how not to conduct foreign policy.
I'm telling you, this is a horrible Labor Day weekend for the elites and the ruling class ruining their last weekend at the Hamptons.
Fareed Zakaria.
It's hard not to conclude that this administration's handling of Syria over the last year has been a case study in how not to do foreign policy.
Now, Fareed's taken it personally because he advises Obama on foreign policy.
You know, this Obama red line thing, what it was, was a tip-off to Al-Qaeda.
What they had to do to make the U.S. get involved.
That's what the red line was.
That's what these guys don't get.
The red line was not aimed at Basher.
Obama, whether he intended it or not, he draws the red line, and all he did was tell Al-Qaeda what they have to do in order to draw us in.
And that's another thing these guys, I think they don't want to say that as plainly as I just said it to you.
Obama set himself up to be humiliated this way, acting like the John Wayne character, or trying to be George W. Bush.
You're either with us or you're against us.
Or bring it on.
Remember how they mocked Bush for that?
Well, Obama's doing the same thing with drawing his red line.
But what he did in drawing the red line was tell the bad guys, oh, that's all we've got to do?
And make it look like Basher did it?
Oh, cool.
And they did it, apparently.
Wasn't even aimed at Basher.
It's embarrassing.
It's just flat out embarrassing.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe that this guy's been elected.
Well, that didn't take long, did it?
Mediaite, which is primarily as a TV website.
They report what happens on TV with clips and so forth.
Mediaite has just reported on the first hour of my program today that maybe Basher al-Assad was framed and set up.
There's one thing they left out.
The source.
They did not mention Bdansky.
They did not mention the website I cited.
They do not mention the quotes I read from the piece.
They attribute all of this speculation to me as though I am advancing the idea that Basher is being framed, that Al-Qaeda is nerve-gassing people, not Basher.
When, in fact, I don't know how I could have made it any plainer.
Let me go to the phones because people have been waiting, and I hate, I really do hate people waiting this long.
Walid in Cleveland, you're up first.
It's great to have you here.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon, Rosh Wazan.
Honor to speak with you, sir.
How are you doing today?
I'm very well.
Thank you very much.
Listen, I just want to make a comment about President Barack Hussein Obama.
First of all, I'd like the American people to know he's 100% Muslim.
And what's going on in Syria is not what they report.
Much as I hate Bashar al-Assad, and I want him to be out of power, he didn't do that to his own people.
The al-Qaeda and Hezbollah back in Bashar al-Assad, they did that, so the opposition make it look bad, and the opposition needs somebody to help them.
Well, that's the premise of the story that I quote today, that Assad didn't and wouldn't do this.
But you say that President Obama's 100% Muslim.
He's a Christian.
He goes to church.
What church?
The Holy Trinity, whatever it is.
The Reverend Wright's Church.
Oh, yeah, well, that's a Muslim church.
No, it's a black liberation theology church.
Well, he doesn't believe anything is the Constitution of the United States.
Well, now, I know that the parts of the Constitution are a problem for him, and he tries to get around it.
I understand that.
That's not even arguable.
That's not even in dispute.
Barack Obama and his Democrats, the leftists, think the Constitution severely, way, way too much.
Limits the government.
And they want to change it.
But he said, and he goes to church now and then.
I've not seen him go into a mosque.
What's Wright's church name?
What is it?
That's Trinity something.
It's the Trinity Baptist whatever.
But I know that Reverend Wright's not an imam.
At least not in that church.
That's it.
Trinity United Church of Christ.
Walid, thanks to the call.
Appreciate it.
Who's next?
Where are we going next?
Helen in Alexandria, Virginia.
Hi, great to have you here.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
It's back to the former Yugoslavia all over again, isn't it?
It is.
It's what you and I were talking about 20 years ago.
1995, exactly right.
And not these types of crimes against your people are not just Sarajevo.
It happened all over the former Yugoslavia.
And people just fell for all the PR that was given out to the press, etc.
You know, the press that supposedly was doing stories, and all they did was sit in the saloons and get drunk and read their PR forms passed in front of them.
And by the way, I carried Joseph Badansky's book in my car for 20 years, passing it out to whomever I thought needed an education.
And there are a lot of people.
He's excellent.
Joseph Bdansky is the piece I cited today, and he has written extensively on how this same kind of deception was, in fact, used in the Sarajevo, the Bosnian-Serb, the Muslims in Sarajevo, 1995.
Same exact thing being done here.
And, well, I take a break, but thanks very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are other things going on out there.
Other things that I want to mention, talk about.
So we'll do that in the next segment, next hour, when we get back.
And your phone calls will be included.
You want to talk about this Syrian thing?
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