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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Greg James

10/21/07

You have to wonder if the whole conservative movement in the U.S. is living in a weird alternate reality in which the only thing that matters is what you say, and facts, consistency and honor mean nothing. The recent remarks by Rush Limbaugh in which he called military men who opposed the Iraq war ‘phony soldiers’ is another example of the strange world in which he (and a lot of neocons) exist. The reason: Limbaugh could be the poster boy of a group of war cheerleaders (including Dick Cheney, Mike Medved, Sean Hannity, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Mike Savage, et al.) who chose to avoid military service when it was their turn. Now that the coast is clear, they’ve all morphed into self-righteous war boosters sitting in comfortable offices lecturing the rest of us about patriotism and duty...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/336152_firstperson22.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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