This from a guy who has not served in the military? You gotta wonder: why is someone with no military experience so dead-set on convincing millions of Americans that the Iraq war is a good thing? This is from Media Matters, which has an audio clip:
"During the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh called service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq 'phony soldiers.' He made the comment while discussing with a caller a conversation he had with a previous caller, Mike from Chicago, who said he 'used to be military,' and 'believe[s] that we should pull out of Iraq....'
"Limbaugh told the second caller, whom he identified as 'Mike, this one from Olympia, Washington,' that '[t]here's a lot' that people who favor U.S. withdrawal 'don't understand' and that when asked why the United States should pull out, their only answer is, "Well, we just gotta bring the troops home. ... Save the -- keeps the troops safe' or whatever," adding, "[I]t's not possible, intellectually, to follow these people."
"Mike from Olympia replied, 'No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.' Limbaugh interjected, 'The phony soldiers.'"
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