From Rush Limbaugh, whose anal cyst kept him out of the Vietnam draft:
“Folks, we’re getting a daily death update out of Iraq, and we’re hearing slogans like, ‘One a day,’ and ‘Our troops are being slaughtered,’ from the Democrats, as their willing accomplices in the press try to concoct this notion that the casualty rate over there is outrageous and intolerable. The following statistics come from the Centers for Disease Control website: On a daily basis, on average, 10 Americans die by drowning, and nine Americans die by fire in their homes. Fourteen Americans die by pedestrian accidents. Twenty-seven Americans die in falls. On average, 50 Americans a day are murdered; 118 die in auto accidents, and 25 people die from A.I.D.S. every day, on average. Yesterday, two Americans died in battle in Iraq.”
This comes from an essay in which William Rivers Pitt points out the ugly truth that American deaths are Bush’s best political friend. The ugliness resides not only in Bush, but in our own bloodthirstiness. If a voting majority of us were cannibals or pacifists, Karl Rove would be doing his best to sell his product as Jeffrey Dahmer or Mohandas Gandhi.
Posted by Jerome Doolittle at July 25, 2003 04:08 PM
Using Rush's logic: using the statistics he sites, the deaths of 9-11 were insignificant;that the Right-wing media (Clear Channel, Faux news) exploited 9-11 for money, ratings, and to propagandize their extremist agenda. So as his King, George II advised...everything will be fine folks, just go shopping. Leaving me to again wonder
why the Right hates America and has so little regard for our men and women who serve in the military.
Is that "cyst" on chickenhawk Rush's brain or his ass? Oh that's right, on Rush there's no difference between his ass or brain, nothing but sh*t comes out of both.
The cold, hard fact that no politician can admit is that statistically, in every way -- economically, militarily, physically -- the events of 9/11 were a pinprick that the U.S. could sustain not just once, but many times per year, with no discernible effect on the life of the nation.
That doesn't take away from the tremendous tragedy of even one murder, or the enormous psychological impact of 9/11.
Posted by: on July 27, 2003 2:46 PM