Rush Limbaugh still not ready for Blowback
Around noon today, Rush Limbaugh played an audio clip of Michael Scheuer explaining the insanity of U.S. foreign policy Saying, “The meme is ‘we did it.’ Once again, Rush seems incapable of critical thinking skills when it comes to terrorism. He even tried to pretend that Scheuer was a ‘leftist.’
THE CLIP:
Everyone (with a brain) understands that the motive of a crime is essential in a domestic criminal case, but when it comes to neocons, terrorists are only motivated by a ‘hatred for our freedoms.’ Heaven forbid we ever consider how we would react if another country was using drones to strike homes in Texas.
“Blowback” is the term that Rush Limbaugh, John McCain and Lindsey Graham can’t seem to understand. “Blowback” is the CIA’s own term for the “unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by a civil population.”
Our interventions, in addition to stirring up hatred for the U.S. from Muslims, have also brought more persecution to Christian communities. Is Rush aware that Iraq’s Christian population was mostly forced to flee after our intervention? Now, those Christians who remain, are targeted. “Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, an estimated 1,000 Christians have been killed,” according to Christianity Today.
Read Michael Scheuer’s latest blog post addressing the Boston bombing here.
Here is what Rush said…
RUSH: Let’s go to the audio sound bites. This is this morning on Happening Now on Fox, just moments ago, actually. Jenna Lee is talking to the former head of the CIA bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer about a recent blog he wrote where he argues the Boston Marathon bombers were motivated by — wait for it — what the US does in the Muslim world. Jenna Lee said to Michael Scheuer, “Why do you say that?”
SCHEUER: Because it true, ma’am. There’s been no evidence since Osama bin Laden declared war us on in 1996 and his followers and those he inspired continued to wage war, that they were bombing us because we had women in the workplace or you or I had a beer after work or because we voted in Iowa every four years. The description has been consistently, including the young men who bombed in Boston, that their activities are a response to our support for the Saudi tyranny, our invasion of Iraq, our support for the Israelis. Most recently Mr. Obama has invaded two Muslim countries, Mali and Libya. It seems to me we spend a lot of wasted time trying to figure out what motives these people.
RUSH: So there you have it…So the meme is we did it, the United States. We are responsible. Michael Scheuer, who… I’ll refrain, but to me, no credibility there whatsoever, There’s a bias. There’s an agenda, but it’s our fault. Islam’s got nothing to do with this. The Koran has nothing to do with this. Sharia has nothing to do with this. The fact that we’re infidels, nothing at all to do with this. In fact, do you know that radical Islamists, the jihadists, are attacking people all over the world because of the United States foreign policy? Well, wouldn’t that have to be?
Why would the jihadists be attacking anybody but us? Nobody else is supporting Israel the way we do. Nobody else invaded Afghanistan. Nobody else invaded Iraq. Nobody else has such a tight relationship with the Saudis. Certainly no other country does, no other nation. And yet the jihadis are all over the world trying to convert people, the infidels. So what’s the excuse? Why are the jihadis all over the world attacking innocent people? You think it might have something to do with the fact that they’re infidels, that they have not accepted Sharia, that they maintain their own religious independence from Islam? It has to be that they’re all allies of the United States. It has to be that, boy, if they could have invaded Iraq, they would have. If they could have invaded Afghanistan, they would have. This is how this works.
So it’s all our fault. Our natural state, the way we exist vis-a-vis our foreign policy is why they’re doing this. (LINK)
Little does Rush know, Michael Scheuer is the world’s number one expert on Osama Bin Laden and a pro-life conservative. You can contact Rush Limbaugh here. I suggest we ask Rush to have Michael Scheuer on as a guest…
Read Michael Scheuer’s latest blog post addressing the Boston bombing here.