Did not work so well in 2010. Better to stick with the !%. He is just a radio talker. Most people have no idea who or what he is.

wouldn't he be the worst person for the troops to be listening to?

He's not even patriotic as the draft dodger he is.

Just saying...

o NONE of those "make up the bulk of our military forces" as you put it.

o The ethnic make-up of the US military is about as diverse as the US population, negating your "white Christian blah blah" statement.

o None of those cheap shots you listed even pertain to your post that I replied to. They were just that, cheap shots.

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Unfortunately for you the FACT is the demographics of the US military isn't at all what you described, and neither I nor anybody I know or have ever known in the military were involved in any of those things.

LUCKY? 6 years in the Marine Corps reserves and 8 1/2 years active duty US Army without running across any of those things isn't mere "luck." Look, I have the utmost respect for the fact that you believe Google gives you a better understanding of military culture than my combined 14.5 years of experience, but you really need to rethink that.

I'm not using demographics as a "defense." I bring up the demographics because this exchange was started by YOU bringing up demographics that were just factually wrong.

UGH. WRONG AGAIN! Only 20% of the US military are age 18-21 (who are adults BTW). 47% are 22-30 and the rest are over 30.
http://www.slideshare.net/pastinson/us-military-active-duty-demographic-profile-presentation

USN retired and 21 in the service. In those years he came across two who were Bibble thumpers...

Whatever, I just love broad brushes.

And the problem with Abu graib is NOT the ethnic makeup of the force, nor is it a bad few apples, unless you consider those few apples high ranking officers, and an overall culture, as well as implied orders, going all the way to the White House...at the very least to the SecDef, you might remember Donald Rumsfeld and his statements.

But do carry on, expect no further response.

Nor is this an attempt yo keep those attitudes, but whatever...keep the broad brushes, since we know every trooper, sailor and Marine...let me add Airmen and Coasties ARE fundies. Who knew, I imagines the Jewish High Holidays in Hawaii.

And the Hartmann demographic. After all the armed forces are a reflection of society at large...you go on and believe otherwise.

and those latino soldiers who were offered citizenship under little boots to fight for our country. Jeff christy is a pro-war, bully, anal cyst draft dodger, in my opinion. And while little boots and cheney, who also had not experienced the horrors of war, were more than willing to fabricate to put our soldiers in harms way for their own greedy reasons. jeff may have gushed over how manly little boot's looked in his pretend flight suit; and what a great war leader bush was; yet, he has no respect for this president and it shows.

So, while little boots and his colleagues, attempted to find ways to "screw" soldiers out of pay, medical (privatizing the VA), and benefits; it's been the democrats usually doing the opposite. So, to our soldiers-"who loves ya baby?"

I'm sure armed forces radio can find another conservative, one with more political brains than rush to satisfy some of our rightward soldiers. Without the caustic, ignorant, hate statements directed at fellow soldiers.

So yes, in so many words you did say that.

We got - you hate the military.

you post about a man who obviously cracked under the stress of war. It says nothing about his politics, his religion, the color of his skin. It certainly says nothing about Rush Limbaugh.

Why do you expect people to jump into the muck with you?

"... Contrary to Good Order and Discipline..." is a phrase that has real significance in the military.

Constant attacks on the Commander in Chief fit that phrase nicely.

encouragement to engage in Abu Ghraib type frat house hazing fun.

otherwise a group of women vets wouldn't be leading the charge to get his show taken off the network.

Personally I think Limbaugh is rather pathetic, I'm sure others like him and most don't care about him either way.

Nobody looks to Limbaugh to justify anything. It's rather patronizing to portray members of the military as one homogenous group, when in fact we're a diverse organization with diverse backgrounds and beliefs.

Our system of governance dictates that the military is subordinate to civilian leadership ("I will obey the orders of the President of the United States&quot , and that leadership is chosen by the people. No military can possibly function if it's members can decide for themselves whether or not they agree with a mission from a political standpoint.

The fact that the people chose our Commander in Chief is all the justification that is required. We have Republican troopers who follow the orders of a Democratic President, and we have had Democratic troopers who followed Republican leaders.

We have men and women, black and white and every color between, troopers of varying religious beliefs, gay and straight troopers and varying political beliefs. Don't try to potray us as a bunch of dittoheads.

understands what is really going on, the rest of us are just ignorant sheep.

my SIL is back from afghanistan. I think they can find a more viable rightward talking head. I think rush tends to DIVIDE soldiers, not unite. Also, pushing a lack of respect for CIC. How does that help morale?

that he was allowed to keep his show on AFN after he became a full-blown apologist for torture during the Abu Gharib scandal in 2004-though given how what happened was more or less "official" policy I guess I shouldn't be but it surely could not have made the damage control effort very easy to have him on AFN of all places trying to make such behaviour "ok" while the rest of the (mis-)administration was trying to claim that the perps were just a few bad eggs.

have time to listen to Rush and ARE ditto heads.



I love that broad brush you got there.

Particularly those that are all volunteer, rely heavily on morale. If morale drops, the contest is lost because the political winds will force an end to the policy.


excellent post.

He's the Hanoi Hannah of AFN.

to the troops...I am ALL ears!

He started in a small market and grew by advert money. It's general commercial enterprize.

Let's remember who is the commander in chief.

Rush is still there....