{"id":26393,"date":"2007-07-31T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:10:22","slug":"the_real_story_from_afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/31\/the_real_story_from_afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: To the phones we go, Jesse in Houston. This guy was in Afghanistan when I was there, and has a report. Hey, Jesse, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m doing fine, sir, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Never better, sir. Glad you called.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you. I just got back. I\u2019ve been home for two weeks now, and I\u2019m going to tell you one thing. The base that you were at was in Kandahar, and that\u2019s where I was. You went to visit us there. I did not get a chance to see you because of security restrictions and everything. They did not let us know you were there. But basically you were there for the troops. We appreciate it very much, sir, and I\u2019m going to tell you one thing, that base right now, you ought to see it now. It has expanded, it has grown, and we have the number one top-notch military forces there. And that\u2019s all I gotta say about that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/home\/eibessential\/rush_reports_back_from_afghanistan.guest.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a> RUSH: And they are victorious. They\u2019re winning.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Very much so. Very much so.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, I\u2019ll tell you, Jesse, what amazed me. I\u2019ve never been to Afghanistan. I\u2019ve never been to anyplace like Afghanistan before. And it totally changed my view of &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; poverty and struggle and this sort of thing. The US military installations I saw, like at Kandahar &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, where are these women libs right now about women\u2019s lib and everything? They need to go over there and see how these people live and see how those people are being treated and tell me that we\u2019re not making a difference over there. Yes we are. We\u2019re making a big difference and I\u2019m so proud to be an American.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is how every one of you guys that I ran into over there was. You were there because you loved your country; you were there on a mission, and I didn\u2019t find anybody who didn\u2019t want to be there. I didn\u2019t find anybody who was there because they had to be there. I didn\u2019t find anybody that was upset. Sure there were people upset, but I didn\u2019t run into them. But what I was going to say was, the US military installations that they build, the temporary installations for housing and so forth, the water treatment systems, the HVAC, were thousands of years ahead of how average Afghanistan people live. It was the most amazing thing to drive through Kabul. We would go on convoys of multiple SUVs. We had security people in every one. The convoys did not stop for anything. People, red lights, didn\u2019t matter. You zigzagged behind the SUV you were trailing, and the SUV behind you is doing the same thing, so everybody was constantly a moving target. This stirred up a lot of dust like crazy. I\u2019m looking out the window, and there are Afghanis with their outdoor markets, food, sides of beef, goat, whatever it was, just hanging with dust all over it. It was mind-boggling. I just had a whole new appreciation for it. I met a lot of great people over there. Jesse, it\u2019s great for you to call. It\u2019s wonderful to hear your attitude about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: To the phones we go, Jesse in Houston. This guy was in Afghanistan when I was there, and has a report. Hey, Jesse, how are you? CALLER: I\u2019m doing fine, sir, how are you? RUSH: Never better, sir. Glad you called. CALLER: Thank you. I just got back. 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