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A Soldier's point of view; transcript of a Rush call
Topic Started: May 21 2004, 01:26 PM (316 Views)
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Live, and unscripted

I think many of you will be suprised by what this soldier has to say...although I think some will turn it into a Rush bashing thread.
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Ouch, it hurts to be right on the money.
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I was going to comment on your presumptuous Rush bashing comment, but moving on instead...

That was an interesting call. I know I shouldn’t be laughing (because the situation is obviously very serious), but this story about the Iraqis firing guns is really funny in a ridiculous "they shouldn't even be allowed to do this" kind of way... :lol: :angel:

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CALLER: That was the rules for all Iraqi citizens – and not shoot at us, and every time they'd have a wedding... Every Thursday is wedding night in Iraq for some reason. Now, they will have them on other days but every Thursday we would have to react to all kinds of gunfire and when we would get out on the street, in their celebration. They'd just take shots at us, too. One particular small firefight we got into was with a funeral procession. They love to have their weapons at their celebrations.

RUSH: A funeral procession, and they fire on you even at that. Now, what kind of weapons are we talking about?

CALLER: Well, just about every Iraqi citizen has an AK-47.

RUSH: Waaait a second. We haven't heard that. Just about every Iraqi citizen has an AK-47?

CALLER: Roger. We allow them to keep an AK-47 per household, and/or a pistol.

RUSH: Second Amendment triumphs!

CALLER: In Iraq it does. (Laughing.) But I was telling your screener also, one of the hairiest night we spent in Baghdad was not the night Uday and Qusai was reported killed. It was one of the nights that the Iraqi National Soccer Team actually won a game, and I don't remember who they were playing. We come under heavy fire that night also, by heavy weapons, probably .51 caliber, PKAs --


Firing guns in this manner (especially in the city) should have been banned from the beginning. It is potentially too dangerous for everyone (soldiers and civilians) for people to be firing off AK-47s all willy nilly.
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Yes, there should be a great number of things that soldiers should be able to do to make Iraq safer. However, they cannot do so because the public will start to call us baby killers.

You really need to experiance this feeling. Being so right mixes pain and pleasure in such a way that it is almost masochistic.
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I'm really looking forward to "Some" one's reply. :lol: But, I doubt "Some" one will even reply to this one. :whistle:
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Hey, keep shooting guns in the air and eventually someone is going to shoot back.

This should be posted on the thread about the "wedding"
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I disagree because the shooting was only one of the things he spoke of.
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Sorry, I didn't mean that this didn't deserve a thread of it's own. I just meant it should also be referenced over there.
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Oh. I'll do it. :D
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Thanks! :)
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:rolleyes:
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Well, what do you know, "Some" person didn't reply to this. "Aussie" on last evening? I guess that he doesn't Cairns for the subject. I guess I Canberra to wait for his reply.
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^^^^

I predicted this. My next prediction...We will die of old age before "some" person replies to this. :loling:
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So , some nobody called Rush Limburge (I guess on some second rate cable network) interviews someone who claims to be a soldier in Iraq (or just returned), who tries to justify a massacre at a wedding - who for all we know could be actually be some 3rd or 4th rate actor paid to read a script by some low level PR type in the Whitehouse in a cynical attempt to sanitise yet another Iraqi Occupation PR disaster.

You'll have to do better that.

So who is Limburge and why should we take anything said on his show seriously ?
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^^^^^ :loling: :loling: :loling: :loling: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: YOU KILL ME!!!!!
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