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<\/p>\nRUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Susan Rice, our ambassador to the UN. Jacob Tapper, ABC This Week interviewed her. He said, “What is the latest you can tell us on who these attackers were at the embassy or at the consulate in Benghazi?” That\u2019s Libya, for those of you in Rio Linda. “We\u2019re hearing that the Libyans have arrested people. They\u2019re saying that some people involved were from outside the country, that there might have even been al-Qaida ties. What\u2019s the latest information,” Madam Ambassador?<\/p>\n
RICE: It was a spontaneous, not premeditated, response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated. We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people, came to the embassy to — or to the consulate, rather, to — replicate this sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been “hijacked,” let us say, uh, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons. Weapons that, as you know, in the wake of the revolution in Libya are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, the only problem here is that the Libyan president is saying the exact opposite. The Libyan president is saying it was premeditated. There were 400 people. They had rockets, mortars, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades. They had stuff that you don\u2019t just pick up in the street or have in your closet. It was premeditated, it was set up, and it was designed to get that ambassador. It was designed to!<\/p>\n
It was designed to precisely because of what we did in taking out Khadafy, which Hillary was out laughing about and bragging about. Snerdley said, “Why\u2019d they sent send her out there? Why\u2019d they send her out there to look like an idiot?” Her purpose is not to be judged against the Libyan president. Her purpose is to continue with the narrative that it\u2019s this video and the guy that produced it that did all this<\/a>, and that\u2019s why she keeps sticking with this “spontaneous” business.<\/p>\n The political objective is to have this guy, this Coptic Christian, that nobody\u2019s ever seen… (laughs) It\u2019s a mind-boggling thing when you stop and think about it. Nobody\u2019s seen this movie, nobody sees this guy, nobody knows this guy! All of this is created by this one, hapless little individual. Meanwhile, Bill Maher and others<\/a> who\u2019ve made movies that have really laughed at, made fun of, and impugned Islam? Nothing, \u2019cause the rabble in Benghazi and Cairo weren\u2019t told about Bill Maher\u2019s movie. These people don\u2019t just go to movie theaters, folks, and many of them aren\u2019t allowed to have television. And if they do, it\u2019s totally state-controlled, and you don\u2019t get YouTube on it.<\/p>\n So Tapper wants to know: Well, why is the US so impotent in dealing with this?<\/p>\n TAPPER: President Obama pledged to repair America\u2019s relationships with the Muslim world. Why does the US seem so impotent, and why is the US even less popular today in some of these Muslim and Arab countries than it was four years ago?<\/p>\n RICE: Jake, we\u2019re not impotent! We\u2019re not even less popular, to challenge that assessment. I don\u2019t know on what basis you make that judgment, but l-l-l-let me —<\/p>\n TAPPER: It just seems that —<\/p>\n RICE: Let me point out —<\/p>\n TAPPER: — the US government —<\/p>\n RICE: No!<\/p>\n TAPPER — is powerless as this maelstrom arrived.<\/p>\n