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Old 10-02-2007, 02:09 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Well did you read the transcript???? The caller (Mike) from Washington says:

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No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.
and Limbaugh responds

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The phony soldiers
in which Mike states:

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The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for their country.
When I served in the Army time and time again I read quotes in the paper attributed to soldiers serving in Saudi Arabia (during the first Gulf War). I always wanted to know who these guys were, because their views were not mine, nor the rest of my fellow soldiers. I always wondered why the press never came to talk to us, the grunts serving on the front line. We were the 11B's the bullet catchers, the cannon fodder, yet time and again the quotes were attributed to some soldier serving in a rear-echelon unit, sitting on their ass in the comfort of air conditioning. Oh how they hated being there, well the rest of us loved it. We had a chance to do our duty and we were proud.

We all wanted to go home, nobody wanted to be there, but at the same time as a soldier we knew it was our place. We did out duty, the duty we swore to do. We hated the waiting, we were ready to drive in guns ablazing to accomplish the mission and get out.....

Unfortunately, we had rules of engagement that we had to follow, and UN directives, and political implications that handcuffed our actions, so we waited and when the time came we drove in to Kuwait and continued on the the Euphraties where we stopped and watched the long trail of the Iraqi Army walking home begging for food.

Again where was the press???? No where near the front lines. It is easy to find soldiers who don't want to be in Iraq, they are the ones willing to line up in front of the cameras to say it. The soldiers who accept being in Iraq and want to do their duty are usually busy doing it, or spending their off-time thinking about friends and family and home. Interview the soldiers who don't want to come to the camera, for they are the ones that will tell you not what it is you want to hear, but rather what they really believe.

dmk
Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk-