This is an interesting clip and I gotta say, Louie has a point. He’s not blaming Benghazi specifically on McCain, but pointing to McCain’s poor judgement in wanting to support the Libyan rebels that he referred to as ‘my heroes‘ when calling for more NATO air support, rebels who Gohmert says we knew at the time had al-Qaeda elements in their midst. And had it not been for that support from he and Obama, Benghazi would have never happened. And now McCain wants to support the Syrian rebels who are largely made up by al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups. Louie merely points to the past as an indicator of the future:
GAFFNEY: Two episodes that are on our mind, one is Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been in Syria recently hobnobbing with Jihadists about the necessity of the United States of not only continuing to support them in various ways but to fund them and to arm them and basically to start using its military forces to protect them. I’d like to get your thoughts on that sir as well as your current thinking about whether we’re going to get a proper investigation of the Benghazi-Gate scandal, one of the imbroglios that I believe Sen. McCain’s bad advice got us into previously.
GOHMERT: Well exactly and I’m not sure what to think about his trip apparently to Syria. We had seen his tweet about meeting with Qaddafi in Libya at his ranch and then he said “Oh no somebody else must have tweeted from his phone.” But apparently there had been meetings with Qaddafi before yet they came after Qaddafi, he was one of the early ones to sign on to going after Qaddafi.
GAFFNEY: So he was for him before he was against him as they say.
GOHMERT: Yeah and then we know if it had not been for Sen. McCain and President Obama being for what we knew at the time included al-Qaeda in the rebel forces then we would still have a U.S. ambassador and three others alive today because Benghazi would not have happened. But by giving power to the rebel forces that included al Qaeda that brought that whole mess about and helped create problems in Tunisia and Algeria. So I’m not sure what to think about his going to Syria. If history is any lesson the people he met with he wants us to help should be very careful about what Sen. McCain’s support could mean for them.
(h/t: Mediaite, Think Progress)