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RUSH: Bashar Assad denied the gas attacks. He was interviewed by Charlie Rose<\/a>. They aired it on CBS This Morning. We\u2019ve got some sound bites. Charlie Rose said, “To this date, you\u2019re not sure chemical weapons have been used, even though you\u2019ve seen the videotape and you\u2019ve seen the bodies, and your own officials have been there.”<\/p>\n

ASSAD: In area they sit the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We\u2019re not there. Our forces, our police, our institutions don\u2019t exist. How can you talk about what happened if you don\u2019t have evidence? We\u2019re not like the American administration. We\u2019re not social media administration or government. We are the government that deals with reality.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh! Oh! I know the guy is a brute, folks. There\u2019s nothing to recommend Bashar Assad. But to say that? “How can you talk about what happened if you don\u2019t have evidence? We\u2019re not like the [Obama] administration. We\u2019re not social media administration,” meaning we can\u2019t just put it on Facebook and Twitter and have everybody believe it. “We are the government that deals with reality.” We don\u2019t have anybody there; none of our people are where that nerve gas was used. <\/p>\n

This is what he\u2019s asserting. Charlie Rose then said, “Well, Secretary Kerry has said that there is evidence that rockets were fired from a region controlled by your forces into a region controlled by the rebels. They have evidence from satellite photographs of that, and they have evidence of a message that was intercepted about chemical weapons and that soon thereafter there were other intercepted messages. So Secretary Kerry has presented what he concludes is conclusive evidence.”<\/p>\n

ASSAD: He presented his confidence and he presented his convictions. It\u2019s not about confidence; it\u2019s about evidence. The United… Sorry, the Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from [an] area where the rebels controlled. That reminds me about what Kerry said about the big lie that Colin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the WMD in Iraq before going to war when he said, “This is our evidence.” Actually he gave false evidence. In this case, Kerry didn\u2019t even present any evidence. He talk, “We have evidence,” and he didn\u2019t present anything. Not yet. Nothing so far. Not single shred of evidence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gosh, folks, this is hard. (laughing) I\u2019ve gotta tell you: This is hard. Nobody wants to believe this guy! But look what we\u2019re presented with. Look what our alternative is. John Kerry? I take you back<\/a> to the way Conrad Black characterized him: A guy who attended North Vietnamese “catechism classes” to memorize their complaints about the US so he could come back home to congressional testimony and repeat it, which he did. <\/p>\n

John Kerry, who accused Bush in intel of lying about weapons of mass destruction. John Kerry, who accused American troops in Iraq of committing atrocities like terrorism and rape, beating down the doors of homes, terrorizing women and children. John Kerry said it happened. He believed it. And then to bring Colin Powell into this? If there were ever a man who was governed by his desire for an impeccable reputation, it\u2019s General Colin Powell.<\/p>\n

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And here you have Bashar Assad citing on CBS the most embarrassing moment of Colin Powell\u2019s career, when he was trotted out to present all that satellite evidence of weapons of mass destruction, and it turned out not to be there when we got to Iraq. General Powell has been… He\u2019s not alone, but it\u2019s a great explanation for why General Powell and his aide Lawrence something or other have totally turned against Bush, turned on Bush after the second term and beyond.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Assad saying no, Kerry didn\u2019t present any evidence. He presented what he thought he was confident of and he presented his convictions, but no evidence. He said it reminds me of what Kerry said about the big lie. Here\u2019s John Kerry doing the same thing Colin Powell did! Essentially, this is what Bashar Assad\u2019s saying, that Kerry did the same thing Colin Powell did except when Colin Powell did it Kerry just reamed him a new one. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s Kerry doing the same thing, except in this case, Kerry didn\u2019t even present any evidence. “He talk, ‘We have evidence,\u2019 and he didn\u2019t present anything. Not yet. Nothing so far. Not single shred of evidence.” Do you think that you\u2019ve seen evidence? I\u2019m just asking. I don\u2019t know. If you\u2019ve paid attention to this, you\u2019ve heard Kerry. You\u2019ve seen Obama and the regime, if you\u2019ve watched any of this on television. Do you think you\u2019ve seen evidence? <\/p>\n

How many of you are convinced? Are you dead certain that Bashar Assad used chemical weapons on his own people? I don\u2019t know. (interruption) Well, yeah, people are waiting for the UN report. Yeah, that\u2019ll really bring confidence. You\u2019ve got Putin with his hundred-page report saying it wasn\u2019t Bashar, that it was the rebels. Really, what are we supposed to believe? Well, this is where once again I\u2019m gonna run right in and say we believe what we know, and what we know is not speculation any longer. <\/p>\n

This never has been speculation for me. What we know is what Obama\u2019s intentions for this country have been since his campaign in 2007. We know that Barack Obama and John Kerry and Samantha Power and Susan Rice and everybody in this administration believes that the United States is the problem in the world. We know that they believe that the number one superpower ranking or status hasn\u2019t been deserved, it\u2019s not been just, and they are presiding over an America in decline, while saying just the opposite. <\/p>\n

I mean, if we\u2019re searching for things, evidence — things that we know — we know that. We know those things, and from there we can make informed assumptions about what\u2019s happening policy-wise, if people have the guts and the courage to do that. And that\u2019s what is not happening inside the Beltway. The formulaic analysis is absent any guts or courage. They continue to analyze this as though it\u2019s just your average Democrat president and your average Middle East problem and your average conflict and standard American role in something like this. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not looking at any of the known specifics. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s so empty. That\u2019s why when you watch it you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019re learning anything. In fact, you feel like you\u2019re watching a mirage or, well, you\u2019re being lied to. You\u2019re being stoked by people seeking to be the smartest people in the room with their conventional analysis, absent any specifics that are really known. So, after Assad compared Kerry to Colin Powell and said (summarized), “You guys can talk all you want about what you think, but you haven\u2019t presented any evidence,” they then had this exchange, Charlie Rose and Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n

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ROSE: They have shown the Congress what they have, and the evidence they have from satellites, intercepted messages, and the like.<\/p>\n

ASSAD: Nothing presented. Nothing has been presented so far.<\/p>\n

ROSE: They have presented it to Congress, sir.<\/p>\n

ASSAD: But you\u2019re a reporter. Get this evidence and show it to the public in you\u2019re country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Again, what are we supposed to do here? On whose side are we? This is uncomfortable and troubling. I am intrigued here that somebody under attack is telling an American journalist, “Hey, you\u2019re a reporter. Go get the evidence! Show it to the public in your country.” See, this gets to something fundamental. Charlie doesn\u2019t have any. He\u2019s just doing what every journalist is doing: Just relying on Obama, and rely on the Democrat administration.<\/p>\n

Whatever they say is gospel. Whatever they say is true, no questioning it. There never has been. No curiosity. Never has been. No suspicion. Never has been. If this were all happening with a Republican president, I guarantee you the Republican Party president would not be judged as telling the truth. The American president, if he were Republican, would be accused of lying. He\u2019d be accused of having some personal desire here or some megalomaniacal power that he wanted to use and achieve.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d be accused of having an objective he wanted to achieve. “He\u2019s gonna send American troops in to die for his own personal wacky beliefs,” or whatever. This is the kind of thing that would be said and these reporters would be trying to uncover every bit of evidence they could that the Republican president was lying. In this case, whatever Obama says and shows (ditto Kerry), they just accept without question. So Charlie says, “I\u2019ve seen it, evidence, transcripts, cables, encrypted messages that the administration says prove it.”<\/p>\n

Bashar says, “You\u2019re reporter. Why don\u2019t you go find it yourself?<\/p>\n

That is a part of that that tickles me, I must admit. So finally Charlie Rose says, “Will there be attacks against American bases in the Middle East if there\u2019s an air strike on you?”<\/p>\n

ASSAD: You could expect everything. You could expect everything. Not necessarily through the government. The governments are not the only player in this region. You have different parties, you have different factions, you have different ideology, you have everything in this region now. So you have to expect that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, folks, you may be shouting at your radio. I haven\u2019t brought it up yet, but it\u2019s time now to introduce the latest player in this whole scenario, and that is this. All of a sudden, Obama is saying this is about Iran. Starting last summer, Iran was not part of this. Now, we know that Iran\u2019s the state sponsor of Assad and Syria. We know this. But Obama has not said that Iran\u2019s involved here. This isn\u2019t about sending a message to Iran. <\/p>\n

All of a sudden it is. <\/p>\n

All of a sudden now. Since the previous efforts to sell this don\u2019t seem to be working, now all of a sudden let\u2019s bring Iran into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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