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RUSH: Men and women are “dying in Iraq,” and this is unspeakable! This is intolerable; we can\u2019t have this, even though in war (may I speak brutally and bluntly?) In war, death happens. It\u2019s, in fact, one of the ways in which you define who wins! There is a statistical expectation that when you get in a car, you could be in an accident and you could die, but by definition, the automobile was not invented so as to be able to limit the population by assuring that X numbers of thousands of citizens every year will be wiped out using them! I get so confused and curious about this preoccupation with death in a war, when there is no similar preoccupation with it, say, in abortion. There\u2019s no similar preoccupation with death in these automobile accidents. We don\u2019t take steps to ban some of the equipment that we have that leads to lots and lots and lots of death. Somehow, in this case, whatever number of deaths there are is intolerable! It\u2019s too many. <\/line>But it\u2019s a war, and the people who — God bless them; it\u2019s why we revere them so — volunteer and sign up know full well what they\u2019re getting into, which is why some of us in this country genuinely do have awe and admiration and respect plus support for the troops, and thus knowing full well what they are getting into, we support their mission because we know what their mission is. Do you think the troops are in this on to lose? You think people sign up for one of the branches of the military to lose, to be sent off to some foreign place and to lose? They want to win! The American people want to win. Somehow the Manhattan-DC-Boston axis, this corridor of media, has itself convinced that the troops think they can\u2019t win and that the American people don\u2019t want to win and that we\u2019ve gotta get out. It\u2019s a huge disconnect. I want to ask you to play a little game here, folks, and this will give you some indication how you have been manipulated by the Drive-By Media; how much media manipulation has clouded your judgment. <\/line>I want to ask you a single question in this little test, and in your minds, you have to give an instant response, and you have to be honest with yourself after you give that response as I tell you what your response means. You cannot think about it, and when I ask you this question go, “Uhhhhh.” An instant reaction is what I need, if you are to properly play along with this test and illustration. No thinking. No Googling. No talking it over with friends. No cheat sheets. Your instant response will tell you, and only you, if you are being manipulated and how much that manipulation is affecting your judgment. Now, you\u2019ve gotta do this with no distractions. If you\u2019re driving, pull over. Well, that\u2019s not practical, but if you\u2019re driving, it\u2019s going to be tough because you\u2019ve gotta be focused on this. No coffee. No smoking. No doodling while this is happening!<\/line>Remember, I\u2019m going to ask a single question. You will answer with an instant response. There\u2019s no right or wrong here, just an instant answer. Don\u2019t worry about telling me what you think — because I\u2019m not going to be able to hear you and I can\u2019t read your minds. Don\u2019t worry about what I think. This is not a polling question where you have to worry about what the pollster is going to think of you. You\u2019re thinking the answer. Nobody will even know what you\u2019re thinking unless you blurt it out and tell somebody. So don\u2019t worry about what somebody is going to think of you after you answer the question. Just respond in your mind instantly. No thinking. Here we go: five, four, three, two, one, here\u2019s the question: “How many of our troops died in Iraq last year.” What is your answer right now? What\u2019s on your mind? Keep that answer in your mind. Don\u2019t start thinking about it. Don\u2019t recall what you\u2019ve read. It\u2019s what\u2019s in your head. We\u2019re talking about manipulation and how anybody and all of us can be manipulated. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s interpret your answer. If you answered less than 500 deaths in Iraq, troop deaths in Iraq, last year, you have not been manipulated — and you are healthy, and you\u2019re in good shape. If your answer to the question, “How many of our troops died in Iraq last year?” is more than one thousand, you have been manipulated. You have bought into it hook, line and sinker. If you answered more than 2,000, you have not just been manipulated; you have been programmed! You have been co-opted. Your mind is not yours anymore. It belongs to the Drive-By Media. If you answered more than 3,000 deaths, troop deaths, in Iraq last year, you are not just manipulated or seriously programmed. You have been brainwashed, and you are hopeless! <\/line> If you answered more than 4,000 troop deaths last year in Iraq, you probably subscribe to the New York Times, and watch a combination of CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS, and you have gone beyond being brainwashed; you are the enemy. “How many troop fatalities did we have in 2006,” last year? The correct answer is: 821. Eight hundred twenty-one of our bravest gave their lives in Iraq during the calendar year 2006. Any answer between 800 and 850 tells you that you have followed the news; you\u2019ve been informed by the news and not manipulated by the liberal media, and you would probably be on the EIB Institute Dean list if we had one. Eight hundred twenty-one. Now, 821, depending how you look at it, “Yeah, it\u2019s a pretty big number,” but in a war? In a year? Eight hundred twenty-one in a year, and for this we are roiling the country with stupid debates over resolutions to engender defeat, in a war? <\/line>We lose more than this in a training exercise<\/a> for World War II D-Day invasion or the Battle of the Bulge<\/a> — and you veterans of the greatest generation know exactly of what I speak. Eight hundred twenty-one! Senator Hagel is beside himself, as are all the liberals, and most of the Democrats. Eight hundred twenty-one! The source for this, by the way, is a website Icasualties.org.oif — and if you look at it, they classify deaths in five periods every year. “Period five deaths were 915 from December 15th of \u201905 to January 21 of \u201907. ” If you take out the late \u201905 deaths and the January \u201907 deaths, you are left with 821 in calendar year 2006. Eight hundred twenty-one troop deaths. For this, we\u2019re going through all of this rigmarole in the United States Senate. For this we\u2019re talking about cutting off the funding of the troops! The three-year total is just over 3,000, so the number of US deaths must be declining, because it takes over a thousand a year to total more than 3,000, and yet last year: 821. <\/line>Now, my point is not to diminish the 821. My point here is to, A, illustrate for you how you may be in the process of being brainwashed, propagandized or manipulated by the Drive-By Media who want you to believe that many are dying every day! The second thing is to try to put some perspective on all this with ways in which Americans die while not at war. Wouldn\u2019t you say that if 821 Americans out of a troop force of 150,000 died in one year (I haven\u2019t worked up the percentages on this) but you might have a better chance at living, going to war than living in certain cities where the crime rate is out of control! I put this in context because the purpose of this war is to protect US national security. This is not just about “stabilizing” Iraq. This is about protecting us and defeating an enemy that is scattered around the globe — and somehow, that\u2019s irrelevant. <\/line>That doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019ve got to abandon that. We\u2019ve got to bring the troops home so no more of them die<\/line><\/p>\n

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