No matter what President Obama does there will be a cacophony of lunatics leaping up to foment a delusional conspiracy theory as an explanation. The crisis in Syria is no exception. As a starting point, Foreign Policy has helpfully compiled the 5 Craziest Conspiracy Theories About Syria’s Chemical Attacks.
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Rush Limbaugh’s contribution to the call for crackpot conjecture is a particularly obtuse fantasy in which President Obama is a prime suspect in the horrific gassing of Syrian civilians. But even worse, Limbaugh wonders whether poor Bashar Assad is merely a victim of an evil American regime, asking “What if Bashar is being framed?”
Limbaugh: We could be looking here at a frame job, a pretty big setup. […] It’s the rebels nerve-gassing themselves, framing Bashar, setting him up so as to engineer a response that takes Bashar out; so that the Al-Qaeda guys win, and then we end up on the side of Al-Qaeda.
Talk about your brilliant Master Plan. This scheme would let Obama join his Al-Qaeda pals in a coup that unseats Assad, the Middle East’s best friend to democracy. How did we not see this coming?
Thankfully, Republicans in congress have been paying close attention to Syria and, more importantly, to Limbaugh. Several of them have advanced his theory within the halls of congress:
Joe Wilson: Why was there no call for military response in April? Was it delayed to divert attention today from the Benghazi, IRS, NSA scandals; the failure of Obamacare enforcement; the tragedy of the White House-drafted sequestration or the upcoming debt limit vote?
Of course. Obama orchestrated the gassing of 1,500 innocent people so that he could divert attention from the screwball antics of Darrell Issa and GOP attempts to derail ObamaCare that have been going nowhere.
Jeff Duncan: I can’t discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war without also talking about Benghazi.
This appears to be an admission of some rare form of Tourette’s Syndrome that causes the sufferer to involuntarily blurt out Benghazi whether or not it was the topic of the conversation. Hopefully he will get the medical attention he so obviously needs.
Ted Cruz: We should be focused on defending the United States of America. That’s why young men and women sign up to join the military, not to, as you know, serve as Al Qaeda’s air force.
Sen. Cruz has jumped to the front of the pack with the most offensive statement yet. He has opted to insult the members of the United States armed forces by portraying them as allies of America’s terrorist enemies.
When the level of debate over a serious matter involving the deployment of American soldiers sinks to such despicable lows, it is usually with the help of rabid extremists like Rush Limbaugh. But it is especially disturbing when elected representatives take up his baton and use it to whip up irrational hysteria based on nothing more than their warped fantasies.
Your accusation of Sen. Cruz is complete nonsense – it may not be the best choice of words, but it has nothing to do with the men and women of the armed forces and you know it. You are getting to be as good at spewing propaganda for your own ignorant purposes as Fox News – nicely done. The comment suggests that using US forces to topple another middle east leader/dictator does more to help those aligned with Al Qaeada than to further our own interests – it’s rhetoric that may not be very good, but it’s certainly not meant as an insult to our armed forces as you would so happily suggest to push your hatred of anything or anyone NOT blindly following Barack Obama.
The only ignorance being spewed here is from your befuddled brain. Cruz clearly stated that if we end up striking Syria, then American soldiers doing their patriotic duty would be serving as Al Qaeda’s air force. If you want to be an apologist for such nauseating bullshit, that’s your prerogative.
And your absurdly moronic swipe at “anyone NOT blindly following Barack Obama,” fails to acknowledge that almost every liberal entity is AGAINST intervention in Syria, thus NOT following Obama (i.e. MoveOn, Progressive Campaign, DailyKos, Code Pink, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and many Dems in congress.)
It seems like you have only one message that you repeatedly regurgitate here. It’s always about some imaginary statism and fealty to Obama. Sometimes I think you’re not a real person, but a comment-bot programmed to say the same boring shit all the time. You obviously have no capacity to reason.
Mark, I would agree with some of what you say if – even once here – you actually took a position critical of the President. Given your blind, sycophantic following of the president and everything he does, your opinions are predetermined and only supportive of BHO – so acting like you are some honest or balanced presenter – you’re full of shit as always because you are wholly and completely a single view – no “compromise” – political hack. Save your sanctimonious idiocy for the blind followers – there is no thought or reason with you – you’re an extremist just like me – with opposing views.
So he calls you out for always saying that he blindly follows Obama, and then gives pointed examples of not only himself and others who are not blindly following the president, and your response is to go on a rant about him blindly following the president.
Either you’re not very bright, or you’re a troll who is way too obvious.
Unless there are words not in his response – he pointed out other liberal groups who don’t support the president – I don’t see him stating anything himself critical – so exactly where am I wrong??
You can’t seem to grasp that it is totally irrelevant, even if you were right (which you’re not), about whether or not I blindly support Obama.
You are so intellectually retarded that you can’t make a coherent argument on the substance of what I say, so you attack something unrelated and personal. You try to make the debate about me.
It’s pathetic and boring. And you know very well that I am not “full of shit.” Why on earth would come to a site every friggen day if you thought that? The truth is you know that what I say is well reasoned and documented. You come here to vainly spew your robo-comments and troll-speak.
Sadly, you are ill-equipped to actually engage in a debate so you revert to diversionary and infantile insults. On one hand, your comments are a complete waste of bandwidth, but on the other, you are such a perfect example of the vacancy of right-wing blather that I like to leave it on display for all to see and laugh at.
[Note: In all of your comments posted so far, you have not once addressed the subject of this article (Limbaugh’s lunatic theories being adopted by Tea-publicans in congress). And that is typical for you]
These options are not mutually exclusive.
Here’s a simple, clear-cut question for you to answer, Steve: Did Cruz say that or not? That’s all you need to answer. “Yes” or “No.”
Answer that question CORRECTLY (ie, based on Cruz’s OWN statement) and then you should take a minute or seven to reconsider your own comment.
And, just for what it’s worth, did you feel the same way after Dubya and Cheney and Powell and Condi Rice INSISTED on toppling Saddam Hussein, by claiming that he was connected to al-Qaeda and 9/11 as well as claiming he had this vast reserve of biological and chemical weapons? I would suggest that YOU have a hatred, plain and simple, of Barack Obama and (like FoxNoise and the Republicons) are ready to blame Obama for everything bad that happens and refuse to credit him for anything good that happens.
Cruz’s comment was blatantly offensive and if he had uttered the same, exact comment during Dubya’s little invasion of Iraq, he would’ve been called a traitor for impugning the good name of the US military. Of course, now he makes the comment with Obama as C-in-C and you blame News Corpse for challenging his heinous words.
The Dork from York.
I don’t think I denied him saying it – so that should answer your question. I see nothing offensive about it – it’s clearly meant as a swipe at this president and his perceived misuse of the military – which is nothing new for recent presidents – not the military. If you hate it for that reason, fine, buy stop acting like it’s something it’s NOT – an insult to any military person. The only people insulting the military personnel are presidents who use them for any bullshit operation not related directly to the security of this country – that’s past and present presidents.
Here is another great petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/flush-rush-limbaugh-s-bust-remove-the-rush-limbaugh-bust-from-missouri-s-state-capitol.
Cruz may be a crackpot but he may also not be too far from reality.
Like it or not, our government will side with any group regardless of extremist views and or hatred of the US as a means to an end. We teamed up with a nifty group against the Russians when they were in Afghanistan and we all know where that ended.
At this point I believe that a decent majority of Americans are against Syrian intervention but what power do the American people really have up against the Military Industrial Complex? We will get involved not because Americans wish to stop the bloodshed but because corporate interests demand it and they are the real power in America.
See, we can agree.