How about many of these rebels were in Iraq fighting alongside al-Qaeda a few years ago? And that’s just for starters.
(Newsbusters) — Ed Schultz is so gungo ho for the Libyan war that he wants Obama to provide weapons to anti-Qadhafi forces — without scrutinizing who gets them.
Seeing how Qadhafi’s opponents in Libya could include al Qaeda and Hezbollah, according to the U.S. NATO commander, what could possibly go wrong?
Here’s Schultz engaging in his singular brand of bellicosity while talking to a caller on his radio show yesterday, followed by an unintentionally hilarious remark by Democratic congressman Adam Smith later in the same show
CALLER: I’m with you on this. I mean, I feel comfortable standing behind this administration a lot more than I did the last. And given the situation, I would think that we definitely have to have some kind of covert action going on and it shouldn’t have been leaked out. But, I mean, we can’t just go in there and start arming random people. We gotta know who we’re arming, for one thing. But I like to think that we’re trying more to disarm Qadhafi more than we are actually trying to arm people. And I would think that that would take some covert action or, you know, somebody on the ground (inaudible) this thing. . .
SCHULTZ: Well, why are we concerned with who gets arms? I’m just, for conversation now. . . . I mean, if they’re going to take out Qadhafi, hell, they can’t be all that bad!