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During the last Roundup I talked a little about Rush Limbaugh. They were saying that he was calling soldiers who disagreed with the war in Iraq were “phony soldiers.” Well, needless to say, they were wrong. Here’s what Rush had to say from his daily email:

On today’s show, Rush broke down the anatomy of the left’s latest smear against him:

1) The Clinton-Soros Group Media Matters for America takes Rush out of context and reports that he called soldiers who oppose the war in Iraq “phony soldiers.”

2) The Drive-By Media runs with the lie.

3) A reporter challenges President Bush’s spokeswoman to repudiate the quote (that Rush never said.)

4) Democrat senators and House members trip over themselves to condemn Rush, demanding he apologize (for what he never said) and challenging Republicans to condemn him.

If reporters had bothered to check the transcripts and audio at RushLimbaugh.com, or even to call the EIB Network for comment, they wouldn’t look like such fools. Rush was talking about phony soldier Jesse MacBeth. MacBeth portrayed himself as a decorated Iraq war veteran who opposed the war. Since “Corporal” MacBeth fit the left’s anti-war template, the Drive-By Media lapped up his lies. The truth? Mr. MacBeth was just sentenced to five months in jail for being…a phony soldier. MacBeth never served in Iraq, never won a Purple Heart, never reached the rank of corporal, was never an Army Ranger — and therefore never could have witnessed war crimes against Iraqi civilians as he claimed. In fact, MacBeth washed out of Army boot camp after 44 days.

Like I said yesterday, if they really wanted to create a controversy surrounding Rush maybe they should focus on what he’s calling Obama right now. I’m sure Rush would love that.

Or conservatives could unload their rhetorical guns into Bill Clinton for supporting the moveon.org ad debacle. (Thanks to Sweetness & Light for highlighting this.)

Besides the fact that what Clinton says is nothing more then political triangulation (he moves left while Hillary moves right trying to appease as many people as possible) this is not the same thing at all. Gen. Petraeus has served in Iraq and there are signs that the situation in Iraq is improving largely thanks to his change in tactics. Rush talked about an anti-war soldier who lied about his military credentials to bolster his credibility and give more validity to his arguments. Both attacks were aimed at a person’s credibility, that’s where the comparisons end.

About that good news in Iraq; both Little Green Footballs and the Huffington Post are reporting that we bagged a real SOB in Iraq. Abu Usama al-Tunisi was put out of commission recently in an airstrike in Southern Baghdad. He was one of the leaders of al Qaeda Iraq and was influential in the battle for Fallujah, bringing foreign fighters into Iraq, and for the general destruction of the country as well. This in conjunction with the news that we have killed about 19,000 terrorists in Iraq in the last four years shows that we are making progress in Iraq.

Onto elections; we all know that democrats have been buying votes for decades now (unions, alcohol and sandwiches to the poor, even Whiskey shots in the HBO series Deadwood, seriously, look it up) but this new version is even more audacious. Hillary is going to give every child a $5,000 bond. At least they used their own money before.

“I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home,” she said.

The New York senator did not offer any estimate of the total cost of such a program or how she would pay for it. Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States.

So, $5 billion a year. Social Security is floundering, the government is taking on an ever-increasing role in providing health care, and they spend money on everything they can find a reason to fund. But sure, $5 billion a year, why not? It seems to be working for her in the polls.

And maybe she’s right, kids need every advantage they can get. It is important for kids to be able to just focus on their education while they have the greatest ability to retain volumes of information. We need to do this so that kids do not have to take jobs like 12-year-old Graeme Frost! He is neglecting his studies so he can do the democrat’s weekly radio address opposing President Bush on SCHIP. This is why kids need that $5,000 baby bond so they don’t have to take jobs that pay very little, like poor Graeme Frost, so they can put themselves through school.

Yahoo has satellite photos of a Burmese village that was destroyed by the Russo-Sino backed junta in that country. Here it is:

In other dictatorship news, Robert Mugabe’s racist Zimbabwe regime has moved to expropriate white farms. Mugabe has done this sort of thing in the past transforming Africa’s breadbasket into Africa’s basket case.

At least some British academics decided to do something about this. Oh, wait, they didn’t. But they did try to boycott every other academic who has anything to do with Israel. This hatred of Israel, more commonly called antisemitism, is disgusting. And… wait a second, didn’t we just get through a week of intellectual angst saying how it was a great thing to have someone who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map to get his chance to speak? Free speech isn’t sacred to these people but destroying Western Civilization is.

Bono, while accepting the Liberty Medal, said this:

When you are trapped by poverty, you are not free. When trade laws prevent you from selling the food you grew, you are not free.

From what he says it would seem that he is an ardent free-trader. Maybe he is, I don’t know. But what he says is absolutely right. Free trade makes the world’s economy grow substantially because it allows the powers of comparative advantage to leverage indigenous skill sets. Free trade also facilitates interaction between countries and the growth of knowledge, which has many advantages.

From Jihad Watch we find out that Hamas is ready with its new line of homicide bombers.

If Israel decided to return to occupy the Gaza Strip, it would find 400 kamikaze in expectation ready to die for their cause, and 50,000 combatants.

From ANSAmed

Kamikaze? Really? Hamas mastered time travel and went back to Imperial Japan and recruited? Robert at Jihad Watch also caught this odd wording. The only reason for the wording I can think of is that they use kamikaze to make heinous terrorist murders more palatable to their readers.

BigT’s Linkapalooza:
I know you want to know how the Delta Force works.
Greenspan doesn’t put good odds on a recession. I don’t put good odds on him being the left’s hero any longer.
Soldiers at risk every second while lawyers try to get wiretap approval.
Big companies stand to make big bucks from national ID card.
Prevention of taxation on Internet stalls.
What you get when you elect Hillary! Or you could just look at the picture, it’s Billary!

The most ringing endorsement for democrats ever.

BigT

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