{"id":14397,"date":"2012-10-02T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:25:33","slug":"libya_mess_should_open_millions_of_eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/02\/libya_mess_should_open_millions_of_eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Mess Should Open Millions of Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s Bob in Columbus, Georgia. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (bad cell) Hey, Rush, what an honor just to speak with you. Born again, Bible-believing, Airborne Ranger, Christian dittos from Georgia!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I just gotta tell you two of my first two disappointments in my life. The first was when you were flying into Bagram, Afghanistan.<\/a> I was on the ground waiting for your C-130 to land. This is near the end of 2004, and you guys had to divert to Kabul because of weather, and I cannot tell you how sad I was that I didn\u2019t see you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was weather. It was. We had two C-130\u2019s flights that were diverted. One we were coming out of… We had a mechanical problem and had to go back to Kandahar. And I think, yeah, Bagram was weather. You\u2019re exactly right. We couldn\u2019t get there.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Well, anyway, that plane — that C-130 — had a Texas Air National Guard crew, as you probably remember. They came into Bagram, I got on the plane, and they showed me the note you gave them thanking them for your service. And I just tell you: They were excited, and I was disappointed. But, Rush, I really appreciate you fighting the good fight to support and defend our Constitution. I know it\u2019s lonely and I appreciate what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate it. And the same to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir. And my second disappointment is I did not meet my wonderful wife Sally earlier, but that\u2019s the way life goes sometimes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you did meet her though, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And it\u2019s been good ever since.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s good. I mean, take it. Take it. A lot of people can\u2019t say what you just said.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Amen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Take it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Amen. Well, my dad was State Department, so we\u2019ve been around numerous embassies all over the world. In Mexico City, they had a contingent of Marines \u2019cause you know how dangerous Mexico is. In Paris, France, a contingent of Marines is guarding the embassy. You know, in Brussels, too. Anywhere you go to an American embassy, there\u2019s a contingent or a detachment of Marines guarding the embassy. Now, why weren\u2019t there any Marines guarding our ambassador in Libya? Well, my theory — I believe — is they wanted to be able to say that no troops were killed in the liberation of Libya. The last thing we wanted was a US military death in Libya. So we can\u2019t risk that, and that\u2019s my theory on that, Rush. And it really saddens me to think we would let that happen. Over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So just so I understand, you don\u2019t think it\u2019s incompetence. You think that there were no Marines in Libya at the consulate because the regime didn\u2019t want any casualties in the liberation of Libya. They didn\u2019t want any news that Americans had died in that effort, right? That\u2019s your theory?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is exactly my theory. If you study the fact, you know that the mainstream media would do everything they could to cover it up, with nary a word about the 2000th death in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s true. Oh, if this were a Republican president running Afghanistan, a body count would be taking place every day or every week and a review of the incompetent strategy, the lack of any chance at winning. Everything that\u2019s happening that they\u2019re ignoring would be front-page news. Well, that\u2019s an interesting theory. They did not want to put any Americans at risk so as not to hurt their optics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that is not to diminish the fact, you know, of the sacrifice of those SEALs and any other operations that are ongoing over there. But that\u2019s my belief with regard to that, and that was true incompetence, the fact that the security wasn\u2019t adequate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but, Bob: Look what they ended up with. They ended up with a dead ambassador and three other Americans. They\u2019ve got four deaths now. They were trying to avoid it. They didn\u2019t want any news of a body count. <\/a>They didn\u2019t want any photos of the dead. All that\u2019s out the window now, and so what did they do? They blame a video for it that nobody saw. It was ridiculous. Patently ridiculous.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Three hundred hits! At the time they were blaming that video for the uprising there was like 300 hits on YouTube on it, Rush. Who were they? You know? Come on. No way. It\u2019s not even possible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a fascinating theory, because there were numerous requests for more security. The ambassador himself, in his diary that CNN found four days later, indicated that he feared for his safety. They had requested more security. There had been at least 13 that we know of, there had been at least 13 attacks on the Benghazi consulate in the six months prior to the attack and yet there was no ramp-up in security. Huh. Fascinating. The only problem I have with it — well, the FBI is still not on the ground and they won\u2019t be on the ground — not before the election — because the regime does not want an official explanation of what happened. They can\u2019t stop the speculation. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s only in the last couple of days that CNN is starting to focus on this. USA Today has an editorial: “Shifting Libya Attack Story Raises Red Flags.” This editorial talks about all of the unanswered questions. And then you had Eli Lake writing at Tina Brown\u2019s website, The Daily Beast, that\u2019s Newsweek. The usual left-wing media writing very critically of the regime and of Obama and of the administration. So whatever they hoped to avoid didn\u2019t work. Everything they hoped to avoid has happened. But they did get eight to nine days of a cover-up in the media. Their story was promulgated, and their propaganda was put out exactly as they wanted. <\/p>\n