CALLER 2: 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: The phony soldiers.

CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they’re willing to sacrifice for their country.

LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined –

CALLER 2: A lot of them — the new kids, yeah.

LIMBAUGH: Well, you –

As Media Matters has also documented, on the August 2, 2005, program, Limbaugh repeatedly referred to Iraq war veteran and then-Democratic congressional candidate Paul Hackett as “another liberal Democrat trying to hide behind a military uniform” and accused him of going to Iraq “to pad the resumé.” On the day of Limbaugh’s comments, Hackett narrowly lost a special election to Republican Jean Schmidt for Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District seat.

from an Iraq Vet
http://armyofdude.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-deal.html
As a phony civilian hoping to be a phony soldier, I tried to enlist in the military after I graduated high school in 2003. In 2002 I had a Nissen fundoplication operation to repair a hiatal hernia caused by severe acid reflux, preventing esophageal cancer later in life. I was immediately flagged on my attempt to enlist because of this surgery, as there was a chance that a physically stressful job such as Army infantry would complicate it. I had to be cleared by the surgeon general before entering the service. As the war kept on, so did I. I waited for a little over a year to get my results back: I would finally be able to join despite the surgery I had two years prior. As Rush found after dropping out of his first year of college at Southeast Missouri State University in 1969-1970, he found himself on draft status. Nothing that a claim of an old football injury or a boil on the ass can take care of, though! The medical deferment he was referring to was a pilonidal cyst, which apparently is a clump of severely ingrown hairs. That barred him from enlistment, and I’m sure he was ecstatic. After all, there was a war on. Here’s a first hand account of the surgery that was done to correct it. She claims that in eight weeks, it was perfectly healed. Rush is willing to sacrifice the lives of Americans in Iraq but not his own ass (literally) in a simple surgery. I waited a year to get in, and he didn’t try. Boy, do I really give an effort at being a phony soldier!

This goes back to the nature of the balance of powers I wrote of before.

People talk about civil liberties. Their idea of securing civil liberties is to be perfect. After all, since nobody can be perfect, the Left cannot then be faulted for failing… now can they.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/10/game-set-match-.html

If you don’t fight back, the Left will call in the sharks and you’ll be too busy dodging their teeth to worry about how Reid looks. If you do fight back, at least you’ll get folks like Reid more worried about themselves than thinking about ways to hurt people. Because it is guaranteed that when people like Reid feel safe, they will spend plenty of time on figuring out ways to hurt people in their way to ultimate power and wealth.

Don’t let them feel safe. After all, it works against terrorists, why not the Left?

I don’t know why I waste my time but when I heard what he said on the floor of the Senate today, I wrote him a letter. I’m sure they don’t read correspondence from their constituents, much less from people who aren’t even from their state, but I don’t care.

I couldn’t be more thrilled for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation!