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RUSH: Joe in Louisville. Great to have you on the program. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great. You know, this is only the second time in my life I\u2019ve ever really felt a need to call you because of something I felt passionate about. The first time I couldn\u2019t get through. Being a Marine it really bothers me that our State Department has dwindled down the amount of Marines that are attached at embassies, because there\u2019s only 1,200, at 130 different embassies, and if you had just the ten Marines that should have been there, those ten Marines, I\u2019m sure, could have responded. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, this is all — look, it\u2019s inexplicable. It\u2019s really curious. We have a consulate in an area of the world which is dramatically dangerous, where we are not loved, although I\u2019m sure Obama and his gang thought we were because we had dispatched Khadafy, but still, how do you have this ambassador in a consulate with no security or little security and then under attack not only did you not let defense forces in, you tell the people who are there to stand down. Whoever they were, they were told to stand down. Now, three Americans are dead, they didn\u2019t stand down.<\/a> They went over to help. <\/p>\n

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But I can\u2019t explain it to you. You\u2019re like the third or fourth person to call here today wanting to know why in the world this happened. I can\u2019t tell you, other than incompetence. It makes no sense to me why there was no effort made to defend those lives. I can\u2019t tell you. That\u2019s really what the hearings are about. People want to find out what the heck happened. You do have Marines at these embassies. Now, the embassy was not where the consulate is. The consulate was in Benghazi; the embassy, I think, is Tripoli. But you had a CIA station. There were many installations over there. So A, you don\u2019t have proper security. Look, this whole thing doesn\u2019t make any sense. You have the attack. They lie to us out of the box telling us that it\u2019s a ad hoc protest based on a video. <\/p>\n

Folks, I wish I had the answers for you. I can only use my intelligence guided by experience to come up with guesses, wild guess theories. And, you know, even some of the Benghazi security, we have learned, was handled by locals. We farmed it out to independent contractor security personnel, native Libyans. Some of them might have been terrorists, for all we know. <\/p>\n

Paul in Denver, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Maha Rushie, I\u2019m crossing 1A off my list of things to accomplish is to talk to you. 1B is to have dinner with you, so maybe we can work on that after the conversation. If we can fly a B-2 bomber round trip from Missouri over North Korea without refueling, how come we can\u2019t have a fleet of F-16s responding in — I mean, we could have P-51 Mustangs responding in the amount of time it took for them to do something about this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an outrage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We had troops and forces in Italy. We had C-130s. All we had to do was make some noise in the sky and it might have scattered them. That\u2019s all we had to do. I know, I don\u2019t have the answers. I didn\u2019t devise the policy. All I know is that I\u2019m the one causing the trouble by raising the questions and asking for answers. I\u2019m the problem, and so are you. We are the problem. We are purists. We\u2019re troublemakers. We\u2019re stirring the pot here and we\u2019re making it uncomfortable for everybody. We have to understand, death is a part of life. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw a bump sticker, Rush, that said “End term limits, Obama 2016.” How terrible is that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, believe me. There are all kinds of people who want to get rid of the 22nd Amendment. Who would love for Obama to seek a third term. And then we\u2019re told, “Nah, don\u2019t worry about it, Rush, the job\u2019s so beneath him. He\u2019s so, so, so smart that this job actually bores him. There really isn\u2019t enough in this job to challenge Obama, Rush. So don\u2019t worry about him wanting a third term. Just isn\u2019t going to happen.” Appreciate the call, Paul.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, some people are asking a question. I\u2019m gonna answer the question that people are asking about the security, Marines, why didn\u2019t they have people there. Some people have said… Nobody knows, folks, is the point. Some people have said that it was Hillary Clinton\u2019s decision not to post Marines at Benghazi. You have to… Folks, I know. This is so hard, because all of this sounds unreal. The left — the Clintons, especially — are known, from their days in the White House on this.<\/p>\n

They think that posting uniformed military people is “intimidating,” and it makes them uncomfortable. Some people say that it was Hillary\u2019s decision not to post Marines at Benghazi. It\u2019s “provocative.” They see the military in a totally different way than you and I do. When they\u2019re at the Super Bowl and they see jets in a flyover start of the game, they\u2019re threatened by it. They see the agents of war. You and I see freedom flying over.<\/p>\n

The sound of those jets, that equals freedom to you and me. It\u2019s our the defense. To them it\u2019s provocative and might make people mad. So Mrs. Clinton not wanting Marines there, as I understand the way she thinks, makes perfect sense. I shouldn\u2019t tell this story, but I want to try to come up with an analogy to explain this. My father went out. He loved flying. He loved aviation. He flew P-51s in World War II. He scrimped and saved and found a way to finance the purchase of a little Cessna 182.<\/p>\n

My mother was afraid that it would give people the wrong idea, that they would think that we were economically situated in ways that we weren\u2019t. Well, that\u2019s the way Hillary is with the military — only in Hillary\u2019s case, it\u2019s not a protective thing. To them, the military\u2019s provocative. So they think other people would look at it that way. Mrs. Clinton is… When I talk about incompetence, it\u2019s entirely possible that she could think that the presence of Marines in uniform would make things more dangerous.<\/p>\n

Now, I realize how hard that is to understand.<\/p>\n

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I realize that to a lot of people that just sounds crazy. But you have to understand the way these people (by “these people,” I mean huge leftists) think. Any rate, Mrs. Clinton is said by some to have made the decision not to post Marines at Benghazi. It was a Big Government story, some colonel who made that statement. Also, we haven\u2019t heard much about this, but there are people who told these whistleblowers to keep quiet. But we haven\u2019t heard much about who told them to keep quite.<\/p>\n

They have been threatened, these whistleblowers have. Gregory Hicks did say that he got a call from Cheryl Mills, who was very upset about them talking to lawyers. Now, that\u2019s not a direct quote. It\u2019s my memory of what Hicks said. Cheryl Mills wanted to know what had been said to him. So there have been some people very uncomfortable with this testimony. Cheryl Mills is Hillary\u2019s top aide. She was once Bill Clinton\u2019s deputy White House counsel during the impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n

At the time of her call to Gregory Hicks, she was Hillary\u2019s chief of staff and legal counsel. Hicks said, “Cheryl Mills called me very upset.” She was very upset. She wanted to know why he was gonna testify and why he was getting lawyers. So there has been pressure applied on these people not to testify. It hasn\u2019t been threats per se. They have just let it be known that they\u2019re not pleased. People at the highest levels are not pleased with this.<\/p>\n

No doubt there have been efforts to silence these people, or at least intimidate them into saying very little. But I can\u2019t tell you why other than what this colonel says in this Big Government story that it was Mrs. Clinton who didn\u2019t want any Marines there. Well, I only told you what I think could be a possible reason based on how I understand these people. “Yeah, well, if we post Marines there, that could provoke people into violence or it could intimidate \u2019em.<\/p>\n

“It could provoke them into hostilities, and we don\u2019t want to do that. We don\u2019t want to send the wrong signals so we don\u2019t want to do that. We\u2019ll show that we don\u2019t intend them any harm. We won\u2019t have uniformed Marines there. That will show \u2019em we don\u2019t intend \u2019em any harm, and that will make them leave us alone.” It\u2019s Conflict Resolution 101 kind of stuff. Dusty in Morgantown, West Virginia. Hi. Great to have on you the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was calling about another aspect of this whole Benghazi story. I think its\u2019 worth mentioning the fact that when the administration and the State Department decided to use this whole video — online video — as a scapegoat for what happened in Benghazi, additional protests broke out all over the world after we decided to apologize for it. As a result of those protests in Yemen and all over the Middle East, there were over — I believe the reports I read — 75 people who died, and almost 800 people injured. And I don\u2019t think that those protests would have happened had the media in the United States and the administration not used the video online as the reason why Benghazi happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that\u2019s an excellent point. Nobody had seen this video, and then the president and Hillary and the media started talking about this really offensive video that\u2019s out there. That, in turn, did create a lot of protests in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yup.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a great point you\u2019ve got there, Dusty.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. I\u2019m glad you called. Thanks so much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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