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Here is a lie so egregious ... it's difficult to imagine why he was not brought up on charges.

Check it out ... it's truly an amazing story ... and factual.

Rush transcript of a talk to troops overseas:

I said, "It's an amazing thing to be home and to look at the politics of the situation. There are actually some people who have set themselves up politically to only benefit if you fail or if we fail in Iraq." I said, "It makes no sense to me, but it's not the majority of the American people."

I mentioned this in Kandahar; you could have heard a pin drop. They did not know this story. I repeated the story to them about this Reuters dispatch that we got that found problems with the news that battlefield fatalities were down and lower per capita than ever before in the history of American warfare. Battlefield fatalities are down, and I said, "Folks, this news was presented as a problem, and the people that reported the news said it's a problem because the reason this is happening is because doctors are where they shouldn't be. Doctors are on the front lines. Doctors ought not be in the front lines, it's too risky. So doctors are saving more lives and then I pointed out to them as the story also said, that the critics said it may not be worth saving all these lives." I looked these uniformed men and women in the eye and I said, "Let me tell you what this story said. It said that these battlefield fatality rates are low because we're saving lives that might not be worth living now, amputees, lose an eye, lose an arm, both arms or what have you. There are actually people, not a majority,but there are people who are reporting that this is bad news," and I said, "My staff and I, for a day, we tried to figure this out.

They're just livid - the press, the leftists in this country - are just upset there are not enough deaths to get people outraged and protesting in the streets against the war. They're mad these doctors are saving lives. They want deaths! They've been counting deaths up to 1000. They still want Bush out of office. Make no mistake about it.

end transcript

The Reuters article was NOTHING like the way Rush "presents" it. The article discusses that due to the success of the front line medical system and its personnel, wounded survivorship is way up. And as result of the success of saving soldiers lives, the human cost of the war might not be accurately represented by soley considering fatalities.

NOWHERE in the article did it state or imply there is anything negative about saving soldiers lives. It directly commended the abilities of the medical teams. In no place in the article did it suggest or imply a desire for there to be more casualties. The article did not yearn for more deaths.

What Rush did ... is to instill a demoralizing effect upon these troops ... so that he could continue to vent his own spleen about his hatred for the Left.

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