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RUSH: All right. So here\u2019s the deal. Last week, Obama reverses himself and says that he\u2019s not gonna go into Syria. Remember, they\u2019re using nerve gas. John Kerry goes out there, 1,500 people, 2,400 people, a lot of kids, nerve gas, sarin gas, got the proof. Look, I\u2019m gonna get into all the hypocrisy. Yes, Kerry dining with Bashar back in 2009 and talking about what a great guy Bashar was. The bottom line is this administration is as incompetent as Jimmy Carter. There\u2019s only one difference. If there were anybody else running this administration right now, this would be reported as incompetent and as buffoonish and as frightening at Jimmy Carter\u2019s. <\/p>\n

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This is Jimmy Carter\u2019s second term here. This is absolutely frightening what\u2019s happening here. Obama with this inadvertent, trying to make himself look like a tough guy, red line comment this past summer. Well, the Syrians crossed the red line, so Obama\u2019s obligated. And late in the week last week, he said, “You know what? I\u2019m gonna go get congressional authority,” after maintaining he didn\u2019t need it, maintaining he didn\u2019t want it, maintaining he\u2019s gonna be a tough guy, gonna act alone. He\u2019s gonna save the people of Syria. He\u2019s gonna make sure this Bashar guy gets what\u2019s coming to him. <\/p>\n

Then all of a sudden he switches gears we\u2019re told after a walk Friday night on the White House grounds. Yes. He decided he\u2019s gonna use congressional authority. He\u2019s gonna go to Congress. Now, when this announcement was made — \u2019cause this had been discussed. I mean, the idea of congressional authority for use-of-force authorization had been discussed. There had been test votes taken by virtue of interview. At the time, there was no way Congress was gonna authorize it. Didn\u2019t stand a prayer, which Obama knew, which the point was to blame Republicans. It was the Limbaugh Theorem in play. Obama forget about it essentially. The plan was change direction, reverse field, announce that he\u2019s gonna go to Congress to get a use-of-force authorization, and then when the Republicans don\u2019t give it to him, blame them for dead Syrians. <\/p>\n

That was the plan. It still may be the plan. Blame the Republicans, the Limbaugh Theorem, a new strain of it. 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. <\/p>\n

When you have a slavish media on your side, you\u2019ve huffed and you\u2019ve puffed and you announce 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\u2019t a big deal. John Kerry goes out there on Friday, cites intelligence sources, telling what happened. Well, we can\u2019t believe intelligence sources. These guys told us back in 2002, 2003, Kerry, Obama, Hillary, they all told us, intel lies, Cheney made it up. So now we\u2019re being asked to believe the very institutions these people have destroyed. They did their best to destroy the CIA\u2019s reputation and MI6 in the UK, and any other group that did intel, any other nation around the world.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the change of direction. I don\u2019t know, cowardly, politics. Blame the Republicans for it. Roll the dice that they won\u2019t grant you the use-of-force authorization. Okay, what happens if they do? If they do then you\u2019re home free. You can\u2019t lose either way here, politically. It\u2019s not about the people of Syria. It\u2019s about Barack Obama. Everything\u2019s always about Barack Obama. I got another media montage that I have coming up for you in due course here. Washington media spent the Labor Day weekend wringing their hands, a little bit upset. The elitists spending their last weekend of the summer in the Hamptons were worried, Obama looked like an idiot here. <\/p>\n

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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 everybody else. They thought Obama was the smartest, greatest guy. 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 Fareed Zakaria, does the CNN show from the dashboard of his car, Fareed Zakaria GPS. Even Fareed\u2019s nervous. Fareed\u2019s embarrassed. We got the sound bites. <\/p>\n

All these leftist, elitist foreign policy so-called experts nervous as hell \u2019cause 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 gonna defer to Congress? It\u2019s all about setting up blame if they don\u2019t grant the use-of-force authorization. By the way, McCain and Boehner are on board for it. Boehner just came out of the White House, “Whatever the president wants.” Wall Street Journal, Kimberley Strassel, I\u2019ll give you the pull quote.<\/p>\n

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No, I still haven\u2019t gotten to the primary point. I\u2019m setting it up. Sit tight, folks. Don\u2019t go anywhere. Can\u2019t afford to miss this. Pull quote from Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal. I hope you\u2019re sitting down here. It\u2019s the Wall Street Journal, not the New York Times. Ahem. “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\u2019s 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\u2019s failed foreign policy.”<\/p>\n

So the urge here from the Wall Street Journal is (summarized), “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\u2019s reputation is at stake! We cannot allow this guy, Bashar al-Assad, to nerve gas his own people with impunity, otherwise we don\u2019t stand for anything. You may think that you are screwing Obama by not granting him the use-of-force authorization, but all you\u2019d be doing is sabotaging your own country.”<\/p>\n

So, once again, a piece of advice to the Republicans is, “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 in all of the headcount polls and this kind of thing right now, the use-of-force authorization would not pass. There\u2019s another thing, folks. (interruption) No, I still haven\u2019t gotten the main point. It\u2019s all leading up there. Just sit tight. <\/p>\n

You have here, ostensibly, Bashar al-Assad nerve gassing his own people. Sarin gas. Lurch told us. John Kerry<\/a>. He told us this Friday. Obama\u2019s got the red line drawn out there. They crossed the red line. Obama\u2019s manhood is on the line. Oh, my God, he\u2019s a gotta huff and puff! He\u2019s been huffing and puffing. All of a sudden, “You know what? To hell with it! I\u2019m gonna wait awhile. I\u2019m gonna wait on Congress.” <\/p>\n

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Wait a minute. People are dying, I thought. He\u2019s nerve gassing people! He\u2019s nerve gassing his own people, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and we\u2019re gonna wait for Congress to get back? We gotta wait a few days, rather than strike now? ‘Cause all we\u2019re gonna do is we\u2019re gonna have a, what, three-minute to five-hour strike, whatever it takes to show that… (interruption)<\/p>\n

Yeah, the assets are already in place and we\u2019re gonna launch \u2019em for three minutes to five hours. That\u2019s the length of time we\u2019re talking about here. Get in, get it, and get out. Why wait? I thought time was of the essence here! I mean, he\u2019s nerve gassing his own people. Anyway, here\u2019s the point, folks: Four different people now, and the third one was just this morning, are asking, “What if Bashar didn\u2019t do it? What if Bashar is being framed? <\/p>\n

“What if Al-Qaeda is setting off their own chemical weapons on their own people, if the rebels are nerve gassing their own people to create exactly what is happening, us mobilizing to get rid of Bashar because they can\u2019t for some reason.” So they use chemical weapons on their people, it gets blamed on Bashar, we go in and take Bashar out or do something and end up on the same side as “the rebels,” in this case Al-Qaeda. <\/line><\/p>\n

What if Bashar is being framed? <\/p>\n

What if Bashar didn\u2019t do it?<\/p>\n

Sit tight, \u2019cause I\u2019ve got a story by a man whose credibility is intact and beyond repute. His name is Yossef Bodansky. He “is an Israeli-American political scientist who served as Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004. He is also Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association and has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).<\/p>\n

“In the 1980s, he served as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State. He is also a senior editor for the Defense and Foreign Affairs group of publications and a contributor to the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia and is on the Advisory Council of The Intelligence Summit,” and he has a piece today in Defense and Foreign Affairs. “There is a growing volume of new evidence” that the White House knew and possibly helped plan a Syrian chemical weapon attack by the opposition. <\/p>\n

This is the first scholarly piece on it that I\u2019ve seen. <\/p>\n

So I want to throw this out to you, after the break here, as just a possibility, \u2019cause I\u2019ve heard from a couple people who have lived in the Middle East (some of them claim to know Bashar) who say, “Basher just wouldn\u2019t do it. He just wouldn\u2019t gas his own people. There\u2019s nothing in it for him. What\u2019s in it for him to do this, other than get what\u2019s happening now? What\u2019s in it for him? Who benefits here by nerve gas being used, and how do you make the case that Bashar benefits?”<\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u2019s just speculation. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not part of the scholarship in the piece. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My friends, do you remember when 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 remembers it. Even people who keep up with the news every day, I doubt that anybody remembers that, so I want to remind you.<\/p>\n

Syrian rebels — the same rebels that we\u2019re talking about today — overran and controlled a government base, a Bashar 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. <\/line><\/p>\n

The idea that Bashar didn\u2019t do this…<\/p>\n

I mean, I\u2019m not the first one to float it nor are the people who sent me their thoughts on it, nor is Yossef Bodansky the first. It\u2019s been talked about in Washington. There hasn\u2019t been a lot of news reported about it. But in dissecting events in Syria, people have posed the possibility in a rhetorical way. 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.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 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. Kerry and the regime say that that didn\u2019t happen, that the US government has kept track. Which, folks, is simply not true. Furthermore, didn\u2019t a lot of the same people who say that Congress now must back Obama to maintain US credibility…<\/p>\n

“Oh, yes. Congress must back the president! They must, must, for the purposes of the credibility of the United States of America.” Didn\u2019t a lot of the same people try to stop funding our troops while they were on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan? Didn\u2019t some of these same people now demanding a united front actually engage in behavior that hampered the US military effort, particularly in Iraq? John Kerry two times, in Vietnam and Iraq, agreed that US soldiers are reprobates, rapists, terrorists.<\/p>\n

Now all of a sudden they\u2019re angels. You know, it\u2019s Foreign Policy magazine, a flashback: “Panetta: We\u00c2\u2019ve Lost Track of Some Syrian Chemical Weapons.” That\u2019s September 28, 2012. This is after Benghazi. That\u2019s what Benghazi was all about in many ways. It was not last summer; it was last September in Foreign Policy magazine. Panetta said, we have lost track of some Syrian chemical weapons. This is after Benghazi. So I\u2019ll give you some thinking on this notion that Bashar is being framed, that he didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: AP just last week: “AP Sources: Intelligence on Weapons No ‘Slam Dunk\u2019 — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no ‘slam dunk,\u2019 with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria\u2019s chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.”<\/p>\n

That was August 29th. That\u2019s four days ago. Folks, I don\u2019t know how many of you have seen those stories. You in this audience, you\u2019re pretty informed. I imagine some of you have noted them or come across them. But I\u2019m gonna tell you the conventional wisdom on television throughout the Drive-By Media is that Bashar conducted the chemical weapons. The rebels don\u2019t have any. Bashar did it. Bashar crossed the red line. The Syrian regime\u2019s a bunch of reprobates, and Obama said if you cross the red line you\u2019re gonna pay a price. He crossed the red line and now Obama\u2019s gonna make him pay a price. He wants Congress to join him in it. <\/p>\n

The conventional wisdom is that it\u2019s Bashar, it\u2019s a fait accompli, but I\u2019m telling you, since last September, for anybody keeping track, wanting to remain open-minded about this, it\u2019s 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 \u2019em, which Bashar was doing, they launched chemical weapons on their own people, framing Bashar. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll tell you how this all started for me. On Saturday I woke up, and it\u2019s almost habit now, I fire up the computer just to get my fix, news and stuff to start the day, and e-mails. I got a note from a friend of mine, and it was the first of two, turned out, and these two guys don\u2019t know each other. The things that this friend of mine is telling me, things about him I didn\u2019t know, but I believe to be true. Anyway, he 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. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019m not gonna read the whole thing to you, but basically he says he\u2019s traveled around a lot over there and doesn\u2019t believe Bashar would do this. There\u2019s nothing in it for him, he\u2019s not this kind of guy. It was almost a personal reference for Bashar 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 filed it away. I thought it was interesting, but, you know, anybody can write me anything and say anything. I\u2019ve gotta be very careful. I just can\u2019t accept what somebody sends me in an e-mail and run with it. <\/p>\n

So I ran the theory by a couple of people whose opinion on these things I\u2019ve respected over the years, and they both said, “Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, that\u2019s a little crazy.” I said, “Okay.” So I set it aside. Then another one came on Saturday afternoon, and I set it aside. So powerful is the idea, the media gets into this convention wisdom mode and starts pounding things and it doesn\u2019t take long for everybody to start believing the story. And the story is that Bashar used sarin gas, chemical weapons on his own people, even though it\u2019s John Kerry out there making the case. <\/p>\n

And then late last night, early this morning, I run across this piece by Yossef Bodansky. 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 this Syrian chemical weapon attack by the opposition. <\/p>\n

So this is a double whammy. So then I said, wait a minute now. I just rejected these two e-mails from friends of mine thinking, quite frankly, that it was quackery. I said, wait a minute now, I\u2019ve got to start thinking this seriously. One of the learned people in this field that I ran the theory by who initially rejected it is now rethinking the whole thing based on the Bodansky piece. Look, I don\u2019t want to overdramatize this. I\u2019m just saying, with this administration, one thing I\u2019ve 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\u2019s not about the people of Syria. It\u2019s not about anything but Obama and the elimination of opposition and winning the House in 2014 because everything with these people is political. <\/p>\n

“There is 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 21, 2013, chemical strike in the Damascus suburbs was indeed a pre-meditated provocation by the Syrian opposition. The extent of US foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the ‘horror\u2019 of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light.”<\/line><\/p>\n

This guy is not a kook, folks. He\u2019s not a nut. He\u2019s not an Internet Looney Toon, the guy writing this, Yossef Bodansky. In fact, in reading further about this guy, Yossef Bodansky argued that the deception playing out right now in Syria is a deception similar to one used in Sarajevo in 1995 to provoke air strikes against the Serbs for the benefit of the Bosnian Muslims. <\/p>\n

Now, if this is right — and I say “IF” in capital letters — if this is right, this is the setup of all time. This thing prints out to four pages and I\u2019m sure Koko and the boys have found it and are getting ready to put a link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. Defense and Foreign Affairs. If they don\u2019t have it I\u2019ll send \u2019em the link. At any rate, it looks like there was US 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, a pretty big setup. <\/p>\n

“The extent of US foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the ‘horror\u2019 of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light.” The way that\u2019s written, what it means is Obama is describing what happened in Syria as a horror, and it\u2019s something we as a freedom loving, decent, good-hearted people cannot tolerate. It\u2019s a horror. <\/p>\n

Well, what Mr. Bodansky is saying is that “available data puts the ‘horror\u2019 of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light,” meaning it\u2019s not Bashar doing the horrible things. It\u2019s the rebels nerve gassing themselves, framing Bashar, setting him up so as to engineer a response that takes Bashar out; so that the Al-Qaeda guys win, and then we end up on the side of Al-Qaeda, and you\u2019ve heard that being speculated about. <\/p>\n

“On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major and irregular military surge. Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and representatives of Qatari, Turkish, and US Intelligence [‘Mukhabarat Amriki\u2019] took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors.<\/p>\n

“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 development\u2019 which would, in turn, lead to a US-led bombing of Syria. The opposition forces,” meaning the rebels in Syria, “had to quickly prepare their forces for exploiting the US-led bombing in order to march on Damascus and topple the Bashar al-Assad government, the senior commanders explained.<\/p>\n

“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 Bashar after a US-led attack on him, which would follow what these people are determining or calling “a war-changing development.” <\/p>\n

That would be the nerve gassing of their own people. Now, again, it remains a big “if,” but if… Look at the world right now. Look at this country. If indeed this is a frame job, look at how well it\u2019s being run. I mean, everybody thinks that Bashar did it, and everybody thinks Obama\u2019s gotta do something, and everybody thinks Congress has gotta join Obama in doing something, and everybody thinks the United States has gotta do something.<\/p>\n

“We gotta go in there! We\u2019ve gotta save the Syrian people! This Bashar guy is an absolute reprobate. He\u2019s no different than Saddam; he\u2019s nerve gassing his own people.” 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 two e-mails I got from my friends who cite anecdotal evidence, I\u2019m not attaching any weight in this to what they have said. It just, to me, is coincidental. <\/p>\n

On Saturday, I got these two notes from friends of mine who have done business in the Middle East and in Syria. They know Assad; they cannot believe that he would do this. “He\u2019s not that kind of guy, number one,” they said. “Number two, there\u2019s nothing in it for him. There 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 US had to get involved to even it up because Bashar was winning so good. What in the world did he need to do this for? He doesn\u2019t, Rush.”<\/p>\n

Both my friends distrust Obama tremendously, so I must put that in there. So it was out of clear blue I run into Yossef Bodansky and his piece which is four pages of what he says is “growing volume of new evidence” from numerous sources in the Middle East, that not only did the Syrian rebels use the nerve gas on their own people and frame Bashar, but that we knew and possibly helped plan it. Now, that\u2019s gonna make people ask, “Why do we want to get rid of Bashar? Kerry, Hillary, and Obama have all called him a great reformer. What could this possibly be about?” <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I just sent the link for the Yossef Bodansky piece at Defense and Foreign Affairs up to Koko at the website, RushLimbaugh.com. I don\u2019t know if Koko 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\u2019d urge you to do. I\u2019m not gonna read four pages here. It\u2019s really detailed. It\u2019d be tough to follow over four pages, but it\u2019s convincing. <\/p>\n

I just want to make one thing very clear here. <\/p>\n

I am simply being honest with you. I get two e-mails on Saturday from two different friends, ostensibly (you talk about over the transom, talk about out of the blue) that they don\u2019t believe it. Because they\u2019ve worked on in the region, lived there, done business there, and they don\u2019t believe Bashar\u2019s capable of doing it, and there\u2019s no upside for it. In fact, that Bashar\u2019s probably paranoid, \u2019cause what is Obama doing in the Middle East? The regime\u2019s agenda appears to be eliminating dictators in favor of Muslim radicals.<\/p>\n

He got rid of Mubarak. He\u2019s a dictator. He might have been a horrible guy, but he was stable. Khadafy may have been a horrible guy, but he was stable. We\u2019re getting rid of all of these dictators — which, of course, sounds great — but they\u2019re being replaced with Muslim radicals, i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Qaeda is basically who\u2019s in Syria. If they get rid of Bashar in Syria, it will be Al-Qaeda. Muslim radicals. Sharia is on the march in the Middle East is what\u2019s taking place here.<\/p>\n

The point is that Bashar may be looking at this, seeing this, and of course wouldn\u2019t smile upon it. He\u2019d be considered one of these dictators that the US is targeting and taking out. I\u2019m not asserting any of this to be true. I just found it now in a very credible place, and you know me. I don\u2019t go with the flow of conventional wisdom — and I\u2019m not a conspiracy kook, either. This makes perfect sense to me that Bashar could be set up. So I\u2019m just putting this out as a possibility, because it\u2019s already out there. I didn\u2019t put it out there. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just reminding you and sharing with you what\u2019s there. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to you. <\/p>\n

You know the old, “We report, you decide” thing here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This has been done before, folks, as I mentioned. It\u2019s been done before in Sarajevo in 1995. But aren\u2019t we preparing in our country for Al-Qaeda to possibly use chemical\/biological weapons on us? What\u2019s so hard to believe that they could do it in Syria? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, one quick thing: Bodansky 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\u2019t ID \u2019em, and so we gotta be careful here. It could be that his sources are Israeli intelligence, in which case he wouldn\u2019t ID them, but he doesn\u2019t ID the sources.<\/p>\n

So keep that in mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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