>Rush also said that the soliders were just blowing off steam and having some fun. My lord! Did Rush REALLY say that?
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Limbaugh was foaming at the mouth today in a manner that was a detriment to the conservative cause. He came off as the personification of the worst unhinged bloodthirsty warmonger caricature ever dreamed up. Some poster here said he was off his meds today and that is an understatement from what I heard. I must admit that I kept switching the channels on my car radio but continuously came back out of morbid curiosity.
Limbaugh was not only unhappy about any idea of an apology but he denigrated the treatment of the prisoners as minor collage like hazing or something no worse than seen in a S&M porn film and thought perhaps the kids were just a product of popular college in which case it's all the liberal's fault. Basically he treated the subject as a manufactured partisan liberal attack and not a real event.
He also endorsed torture for the good of humanity as he read from some book on the necessities of torturing our enemies as the only way to save ourselves and basically was saying it's a good thing we have people willing to carry out such tasks.
Not finished there he then gloated in our mass killing of German and Japanese civilians in WWII through carpet bombing. - and I mean gloated. No apologies needed for our past actions and none needed now. His rantings did Bush no favors, that's for sure. Didn't make the conservative movement look too good either.
"His rantings (Rush's)did Bush no favors that's for sure. Didn't make the conservative movement look too good either."
Rush also proposed that we take the next logical step and offer compensation to the victims. Of course if we did that, many Iraqi's would gladly submit to the same sort of treatment so they could be compensated too.
Rush was right to rant. The fact that our president gravely apologized to the prisioners, their families and the Iraqi people is farcical. If an a US Post office worker goes berserk and goes on a shooting spree that kills a German tourist, does that merit a presidential apology and hand wringing angst also?
Rush was upset that Bush caved to the the enemies without and within and thereby gave up some of the moral high ground.
Rather than a carefully worded almost apology Bush should have said that soldiers who commit crimes will be prosectuted and then gone on the offensive about the hypocracy of those attacking the US over this. He even rebuked Rumsfield for not telling Bush sooner. There are probably other crimes like rapes and thefts that were committed by US troops and are hopefully being investigated. Does bush plan on micromanaging everything that could give the libs something to attack him on?
There is a large segment of people in the world who call good evil and evil good. Bush made nice and caved in to them rather than calling them on it. The main theatre in the war on terrorism is ideology. Rush is a more potent warrior in this area than Bush. Bush blinked, and Rush was frustrated by it.
I agreed.