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RUSH: Bergen County, New Jersey. Hello Bill. I appreciate your patience. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you. I think I can see no reason why we went into Libya at this point in time. The only thing I can think of is Obama may want Khadafy taken out because he hasn\u2019t been a threat to us. He\u2019s been very independent since over ten years ago when we went after him for what he did to the plane. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. You think Obama wants Khadafy gone because Khadafy has not been a threat to us?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Why else would he attack the guy? The guy doesn\u2019t do anything to the United States. He doesn\u2019t represent a threat here. He hasn\u2019t done anything. He hasn\u2019t thrown down any of our planes or anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but he has.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That was a long time ago. He got paid for that. We almost killed him as a result of that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So why does Obama want people in power who do threaten the US?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is the question that I think the American people have to answer as to why they voted for him last election and why they should not vote for him in the next election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You really mean that you think get Khadafy out of the way because he doesn\u2019t threaten the US and have him replaced by someone who does, i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood or what have you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I believe that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a serious charge you\u2019re making out there, Bill.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand that. But I\u2019m not a politician, and I see it this way because I do follow the news and I follow what\u2019s going on in the world, and Libya just isn\u2019t a threat to the United States. There\u2019s no reason for him to have gone after this guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think one of the reasons for doing it is because they thought it would be easy. Because the case could be made. The same kind of thing is happening in Syria, and Bashar Assad is no different than Khadafy. Male, Arab, anti-American, slaughtering his own people. There\u2019s no difference whatsoever. Iran, ditto. We\u2019ve gone through this all week. Any number of places around the world. North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe. But Libya&hellip; The Middle East is on fire. The geography here is not irrelevant. You look at the record: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, these countries have, to varying degrees, and sometimes in contradictory ways, but in varying degrees have all helped us with the war on terror. Now, they\u2019ve also got factions inside who have attacked us. Yemen, of course, and the USS Cole. Libya, we know that Khadafy has been behind acts of terrorism. Egypt is an ally. Saudi Arabia\u2019s a target of what\u2019s happening. (laughing) Jeffersonian Obama. <\/p>\n

Charleston, South Carolina, Carl. Thank you. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you for calling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand that the administration was using social media to encourage protests in Egypt and other places. So to that point if they did, then I think they have blood on their hands.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait just a second now. The Obama regime was using social media?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I heard one scant report, I think CNN mentioned it. I hadn\u2019t heard it since.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know social media was being used by people in Egypt. (interruption) Our State Department was using Twitter to try to communicate with protesters? Okay, but was the State Department encouraging the protesters to rise up and overthrow? That\u2019s what Carl here is saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, well, that\u2019s the data we need to know. If we could find that out it would be critical, and if they did then we\u2019d have blood on our hands. Secondly, we went in to support, we brought in a no-fly zone —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and now if you take a look at Syria, Syria is blowing up and my guess is a lot of protesters are emboldened by the no-fly zone support they\u2019re getting in Libya, and my guess is that they\u2019re now going to want or expect a no-fly zone in Syria, so that now we\u2019re in checkmate. We either don\u2019t help them or we do help them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: This should be the end of the president\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Meaning they want the no-fly zone to use it as cover for committing atrocities?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, right. If the people of Syria begin to protest and there are atrocities then they\u2019re gonna expect — I think they\u2019re emboldened now, they expect a no-fly zone, whether it\u2019s the US or NATO or whomever. If they don\u2019t get it, then we\u2019ve abandoned them and he\u2019ll lose a large part of his base —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Well, is Obama talking about expanding the no-fly zone to Syria?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, but Syria is blowing up today. There are protests in the streets of Syria.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. This is why we\u2019re raising the question, given the reasoning for Libya, why not go into Syria and save the people? You\u2019re saying Syrian protesters are going to be expecting it. (interruption) Okay, they want one, but expecting is another thing. No, I don\u2019t know that I would expect a no-fly zone if I\u2019m — where have we ever tried to liberate the Syrians? What in the world would make \u2019em think we\u2019re going to do that? What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what the last caller was saying. I\u2019m trying to be my usual polite self here. I\u2019m sure a lot of other people think that Syrian protesters are gonna expect protection from us, a no-fly zone from us like the protesters in Libya got. The Iranians probably thought so, too, and there\u2019s been no evidence that we\u2019re gonna help them. Okay, we\u2019ve gone into Egypt and we\u2019ve helped out, but look what\u2019s happened? We\u2019ve installed the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is running Egypt. It\u2019s not a democracy movement. In Libya, we still don\u2019t know for sure why we\u2019re there. This is the most muddled policy ever. Nobody knows. One day we\u2019re there to get rid of Khadafy; then we\u2019re not there to get rid of Khadafy. We\u2019re there to protect people. Then we\u2019re not gonna. There\u2019s not been a presidential address. We don\u2019t know what the purpose is here. Now NATO\u2019s running the show and the leadership in NATO has just been passed off to a Canadian. Under no-fly zones, genocides happen. The no-fly zone in Bosnia led to the genocide over there. No-fly zone over Libya. They don\u2019t have an air force. There\u2019s no point in a no-fly zone in Libya. But on what grounds would the people in Syria, intellectually, expect that we\u2019re gonna come to their rescue? On what grounds? Syria is properly anti-Israel. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another aspect about this. Syria is anti-American. And the Obama regime has yet to go to bat for anybody protesting anti-American regimes. Now, stop and think about that. The people in Libya were protesting Khadafy. The people in Syria are protesting or rising up against Bashar Assad. But Bashar Assad is anti-American. We have not gone to bat for anybody protesting anti-American regimes. We haven\u2019t done it. Now, you can draw your own conclusion from it, but we haven\u2019t. And let me tell you where the end of this all leads. The end of this, the trail that we\u2019re on leads to Israel, whether you want to admit it or not. Netanyahu is talking about erecting his dome, his anti-missile dome. Has Obama called Israel to assure them of our assistance should any of this get outta hand aimed at them? (interruption) He called Netanyahu yesterday? Yeah, about the bombing in Israel, but has he offered any aid or — I don\u2019t know. If it has been offered, it hasn\u2019t been reported. <\/p>\n

If these people in Syria think that Obama and Hillary just pulled us out there for all intents and purposes. We\u2019re not a superpower anymore. We can\u2019t do it. We can\u2019t afford it. NATO\u2019s doing this. The whole point of all this has been to exhibit, to illustrate, to establish that the United States can\u2019t do all this stuff anymore and isn\u2019t going to. So they\u2019re in for a rude surprise in Syria. We\u2019re asking the question here rhetorically because we\u2019re trying to point out the hypocrisy and meaninglessness of stated policy. Okay you\u2019re gonna go in there and get rid of Khadafy because he\u2019s being mean to his people. Well, hello Bashar Assad, and hello Kim Jong-il, and hello Robert Mugabe, and hello whoever\u2019s running Darfur. It\u2019s not the standard. They say it\u2019s the standard, but it\u2019s not the standard. There are all kinds of people being mistreated. People of color are being mistreated all over the world. In fact, far worse than the people in Libya, in some cases, are being treated. Or far worse, I should say, than Khadafy is treated. <\/p>\n

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