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RUSH: Here is Brian in Fremont, Michigan, welcome to the program, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s an honor, O great one. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine, sir, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: From the great state of Michigan, contrary to the fact that we have two of the most liberal senators in the senate, you\u2019ve got Levin and Stabenow. Sorry to report on that. Rush, the reason I\u2019m calling, sometimes in the liberal media, it seems like every other day, with the troops in Iraq, they report how long they\u2019re there. They\u2019re there for six months, they\u2019re there up to 13 months sometimes, and how dare they have to stay there that long in combat and battle. Number one, they did sign up. But my father was a veteran of World War II. He\u2019s no longer alive, but that\u2019s beside the point. He married my mother in Newport News, climbed on the Queen Mary the next day and was in the South Pacific for three and a half years without one day of R&amp;R. And so I guess whether that was right or wrong at that time or whatever, I guess I get a little sick of the media reporting on that day after day after day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: As a society and culture, we have elements who have become sissified, not nearly as tough. Life has become easy and challenges are not familiar, and hardships, we make ours up. I\u2019m not saying we don\u2019t have any, there\u2019s some hardships out there, but we\u2019ve got a wuss culture in parts of our culture. I\u2019m not talking about the military. They\u2019re not complaining. It\u2019s the Democrats who are complaining, and they\u2019re just bringing it up because it\u2019s just another way to criticize Bush and to say we don\u2019t have a good military. ‘Bush hasn\u2019t built it up. We\u2019re using it wrong. These poor soldiers. These poor troops. They\u2019re in danger. They\u2019re in a sectarian civil war. They\u2019re not protected. Bush didn\u2019t give \u2019em Humvees. Bush didn\u2019t give \u2019em uparmored Humvees. Bush didn\u2019t give them body armor. Bush hates them. Bush is Hitler,\u2019 and all this. It\u2019s a drumbeat that is never ending. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the army, the military is meeting its recruitment goals. They might be short one month, but they\u2019re not behind because in previous months. They outdid their expectations or their quotas on what they needed. So the people signing up, you\u2019re right, they know what they\u2019re getting in for, and even the Guard people. Look, I\u2019ve been to Afghanistan, as you know, and I\u2019ve flown around the country on a C-130 with a Guard crew from Texas. I spent a lot of time talking to these guys, and they weren\u2019t upset about being there. This is what they could do to defend their families and defend their country. They were thinking they might get sent back after their first tour but they weren\u2019t whining or complaining. Now, they knew that I had a microphone and they knew that I\u2019m a media guy, but they were not whining or complaining. There was not a superior officer around \u2019em when I was with them. I went all over the country. The only place we didn\u2019t get was to Bagram Air Force Base because of a problem with the C-130. It took off and we had an engine failure, had to turn around and land. But I talked to a lot of these people, and officers, too. I didn\u2019t find any of these people complaining. <\/p>\n

Now, this is some years ago. The only complaint they had was how come we\u2019re not getting news coverage over here on how successful our operations are? Because they do have cable television over there, they see CNN and all this, and they saw all the criticism going on of the soldiers and the operation in Iraq. They didn\u2019t see anything about their successes and I told them it was because, ‘What you\u2019re doing over here that\u2019s successful is not considered newsworthy, doesn\u2019t fit the template that America is failing and that George Bush has got us mired in a bunch of screwed up, horrible policies and so forth.\u2019 So I\u2019m glad you called out there Brian, appreciate it very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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