Rush Limbaugh: Blast Iraq on 9-11 - host says terror anniversary a good date to start attack

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, August 8, 2002 | By Joe Kovacs

[piasa]

The 'armchair Napoleon' just said 911 would be a good day to pick. He didn't claim to be 'in' on any special information nor claim to be part of any planning process. Unlike all the talking heads who try to pass themselves off as 'experts,' Rush only advertises himself as an entertainer and a radio man. He's never claimed to be 'Napoleon,' nor has he ever claimed to be in the military, as have you. Nor is military service neccessary to be a radio talk show host or to express an opinion.

You've even gone further than Rush and said you were in the war zone in Nam. But unlike Rush, no one knows anything about you and because of your anonymity you can fire shots without anyone investigating every nook and cranny of your closet to look for skeletons. And because you are a nobody, no one really cares if they find anything there or not, nor does anyone care about your credibility.

A lot of people say that they were in Nam, but not all of them are being truthful when they say it. Some concoct stories of their peril and then run for the Democratic nomination. Some just make vague hints to give the impression that they had served in the military or had been under fire. For those who really were there, or those who served honorably in any fashion without exaggerating their experiences, I say 'thank you for your service.' But for those who lie about it because of their incomplete natures, each day to them is one of humiliation and bitterness, so I need not say anything at all. They get what they deserve in the smallness of their existance.

Rush has never said he was a military man. If you can find where he said he was, then you might have a case against him for being a fraud. But unlike a lot of his critics, he has never been antagonistic towards people in the military and has always been supportive of them.

You've slammed the guy and said he evaded the draft. Well, if you know his number was called, cough it up and cough up the day it was called. Cough up one claim by a person who would actually know that there was wrongdoing. A letter where he might have written of his desire to evade the draft or even something like what was found with Clinton and his ROTC note about 'loathing the military.' Find evidence that he was let out of it because of physical ailments which were proven to be nonexistant. No anecdotal stuff, please, because I know of people who were eligible but who were never called and I know of people who had problems which at the time they were called were grounds for passing them over.

If you are going to make negative claims regarding another person's record, you should at least provide proof when called on it of their wrongdoing and also provide some argument for why the alleged wrongdoing is relevent. What does 'credibility' have to do with entertainment and material that is advertised as a talk show (not news show)host's 'opinion?' You would think people would be more concerned about the credibility of people who claim to be 'experts' and are paid for their alleged expertise, or people who are advertised as 'journalists' but who do not live up to their name. There are plenty of them on the news every night, and in the papers every morning. Yet few people ever challenge them.

[Captainpaintball]

Excerpt from Paul D. Colford's The Rush Limbaugh Story pages 16-23

Rush was classified 4-F after a physical found that ehadan "inoperable pilonidal cyst" and a "football knee from high school." He was also classified as 1-Y which was then, and istoday, a "disqualifying condition" for induction. It is a congenital incomplete closure of the neural groove at the base of the spinal cord...The malady can be corrected by surgery, buy short of that is viewed by the military as a needless risk amid unsanitary conditions in the field.

Thanks for serving our country, but ditch the bitterness, please. Not everyone who didn't wade through a rice paddy and catch the clap from Ho Chi Minh hookers is a draft dodger.

[Elle Bee]

Limbaugh Bump

Bomb them back into the stone age (a short trip) pave these countries over and make them U.S. gas stations

Why don't the socialist / liberals scream about the handful of unelected despots who control a natural resource (crude oil) which so effects the quality of life of the world's population with every whimsical price change ??

Consider the outrage if the U.S. owned all of the world's air or water and then chose to maxamise profit by controling the distribution and sale.

If the left had any intellectual honesty the Sultans of Crude would be the enemy .... not conservative capitalists

IMHO.....

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

"I think all this talk about, 'Well, you know the Europeans don't want us to go, Rush, into Iraq.' Screw 'em! If freedom in this country or around the world depended on all these people saying 'I don't think we should do it, Rush,' there wouldn't be freedom."

It's about time we stop asking for opinions and permission from every tom, dick and harriet around the world.

[Fred Mertz]

"I agree with that," said Limbaugh. "The State Department, you know you can put what they're worth in a thimble, and then fill it with bourbon."

I agree with Limbaugh on this, but I'm less supportive of his bomb Iraq plan.

[1Old Pro]

I say we begin ATTACK ON 9-10. This way we can all sit by our TV's on 9-11 remembering the victims of 9-11 as we watch Bagdad burn to the ground.

[Revelation 911]

Someone explain to me...Why does anyone find this armchair Napoleon credible??

Bravo - I just wonder at what point he crossed from entertainment into the public arena of political credibility. He used to be fun & entertaining - now hes a talking head, no better than sam & cokie - I tuned out years ago

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[dts32041]

Funny I graduate from a High school with 13 male seniors in 1968.

I was the only one that went to Nam and I volunteered.

The next class that graduated in 69 had 20 males and only one of the went to Nam BTW he was a volunteer also.

Only 4 served in uniform.

I know anecdotal information.

But all those graduates didn't go to college some went straight to work.

So out of the 40 male graduates only two can offer their lame opinions on the use of military force, I think not.

I sometimes think military veterans are more elitist in their opinions than the most obnoxious graduate of Yale.

[navigator]

Rush was classified 4-F after a physical found that ehadan "inoperable pilonidal cyst" and a "football knee from high school."

Truly a "lame" excuse!

Don't let the medical mumbojumbo fake you out. A pilonidal cyst is literally a "wild hair up your ass." Again, my point was, when it was Rush's time he didn't show up. If every American through time had emulated him, we'd still be a collection of colonies kissing the Queen's pilonidal cyst.

Rush has a big blank spot when it comes to the Vietnam War, claiming the Baby Boomer generation, his generation, knows nothing of sacrifice. The facts are to the contrary. Millions of Boomers served in the military, millions in a war zone, and tens of thousands died. Just not him.

In contrast, since 1980 only about 650 Americans have died in uniform during hostile action.

So Rush is Rong, Clearly the Baby Boom generation knows a lot about war and sacrifice and service just like the WWII'ers, Unfortunately we have to deal with that group of Boomers, the Rush group, who know they are cowards and are a long guilt trip because of it. The major symptom of which, is a tendency to bloviate from an armchair about military matters beyond their comprehension, and a willingness to send other people's kids into battle overseas.

[Pelham]

It was a rare 19 year old male who could quit college in the middle of his freshman year and not wind up in uniform.

Maybe for those a couple of years older than Rush, but not for him- he was in one of the "draft lottery" cohorts- your likelihood of being drafted was a function of your birthdate more than anything if you were born in 1951.

[Nita Nupress]

Bitterness, plain and simple. [..Yawn...]

[Nam Vet]

Hey Gramps, I read that article about the Turks and the airbase in Northern Iraq too and was elated to say the least. Sept. 11th has always been my personal prime date to open the assault on the Sad-man. President Bush addresses the nation during prime-time on the 11th and states, "My Fellow Americans, as I address you tonight, we are opening our attack to unseat the terrorist dictator of the people of Iraq..........". The Nation as a whole would change their somber attitude to elation in a heartbeat.

Nam Vet

[Grampa Dave]

We are in total agreement re our view of a proper way to celebrate and remember 9/11.

Of course the whiney libs and whiney super rights would be really upset that we started a big time payback on 9/11.

I would be happy if it was Iran or Iraq or both of them with Syria thrown in as a piece of raw meat to make a big sandwich.

Have a great weekend!

[Nam Vet]

I'd differ with you ONLY in the following 2 ways Gramps. First, I would only bomb the Hezbollah in Syria during the opening attack on Iraq, not the government of Syria,yet. Then ,in the same address, I'd like to hear Dubya issue a thinly veiled warning to other countries in the region. I think the Saudis, in addition to others, would shudder. It might just hasten the re-freeing of Iran from within.

Nam Vet

[navigator]

I agree with you completely. Rush needs to put his bitterness behind his behind and find something else to do besides carp about the ableness of Colin Powell's point of view on military strategy and generalship .

Anyone who thinks Rush is more knowledgable than Powell on the subject desperately needs surgery to have their hand removed from that bottle of Jim Beam it's welded to.

Anyone (e.g. Rush Limbaugh) who claims the baby boom generation didn't sacrifice, didn't experience firsthand the perils of war, and didn't serve their country honorably doing so probably knows that they themselves were, on the other hand, scared bleepless, did everything they could to evade the draft, and the shame of it all is eating them up to this day.

[Grampa Dave]

You don't differ from me at all. I have been advocating taking out Syria and Iran before we start to dismantle the despots in Iraq. Syria's ruthless leaders need to be removed as well as the Islamakazi Mullans in Iran. That can be done in about 48 hours at the same time.

Then we will have bases in Iran and Syria to exterminate the mass murderers in Iraq. With Iran and Syria gone, when we attack Iraq, the Israelis can flush out the Islamakazis of Arafats thugs.

[DennisR]

Exactly. Rush (born January 12, 1951) is less than a month older than I am (born February 10, 1951). My lottery number was 046, Rush's was 152. According to http://www.sss.gov/lotter2.htm, THE HIGHEST NUMBER DRAFTED FOR THAT PARTICULAR AGE GROUP WAS 125. So regardless of what Rush did or did not do, he would not have been drafted anyway.

So truth conquers again, and the liberals have one less lie to spread to the unthinking. However, that should not stop them from doing it anyway. :)

[Nita Nupress]

Let's not confuse people with facts, now. ;-)

[Nita Nupress]

Rush is not a carp; Colin Powell does not need surgery; and not all Baby Boomers overeat and get fat.

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And thank you for defending our country. I would probably be bitter, too.