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May 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 12, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You are listening to America's real anchor man and the doctor of democracy.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone and the most listened to radio talk show in America.
And we're going to get to your phone calls pretty quick in this half hour.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Some guy from Ohio says a rush comic book is really good.
I didn't know there was a rush comic book.
I didn't know there was a rush comic book.
I don't know.
I'll be learning about the Rush comic book from the caller when we get there.
Now look, folks, immigration.
There's some fabulous, fabulous, just amazing news on this today.
70%, 70% of Massachusetts voters, favor a proposal recently rejected by the state legislature that would stop illegal immigrants from receiving public benefits.
70% in Ted Kennedy's state out there.
A new Rasmussen report's telephone survey shows that just 17% opposed the proposal to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining access to public housing, unemployment benefits, welfare, or workers' comp.
The proposal failed to pass in a Democrat-controlled state house last month by a 75 to 82 votes.
So once again, the Democrats are governing against the will of the voters, which is exactly what Obama is doing.
Obama doesn't care what the people want.
So he's not going to bend to any public opinion or public opposition.
And the Democrats throughout the country are not either.
And this is not going to stand them in good stead.
Once people figure out in mass, and it's happening, that the Democrats are a minority and are governing against the will of the people, that they are siding against the American people.
That's something that these people pay for down the road.
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a bill targeting a scroll district's ethnic studies program yesterday, hours after a report by a United Nations human rights expert condemned the measure.
The United Nations had to look at what's going on in Arizona condemned it.
This is another thing that's going to cement support for Arizona.
State School's Chief Tom Horn, who has pushed the measure for years, said a Tucson School District program promotes ethnic chauvinism and racial resentment toward whites while segregating students by race.
He says it's just like the old South.
The measure prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group.
It also prohibits classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government.
The Tucson Unified Scrual District program offers specialized courses in African American, Mexican American, and Native American studies that focus on history and literature and include information about the influence of a particular ethnic group.
A Republican running for attorney general, uh Tom Horn has been trying to restrict the program ever since he learned that the Hispanic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta in 2006 told students that Republicans hate Latinos.
That was being taught in Tucson.
Republicans hate Latinos.
So we have the new law.
Now we got the United Nations checking on the new law in Arizona.
Now, ethnic studies classes.
You know what ethnic studies classes really are?
Racial profiling, are they not?
Ethnic studies.
If you're gonna sit out there and say Republicans hate Latinos, are you not profiling?
You most certainly are.
So you can profile one way if you want, and then liberals can do all the profiling they want.
And they can say to anybody that anybody else is a racist, a sexist, a bigot, a homophobe, they can do that with impunity.
And they're not accused of profiling.
Like I said yesterday, I've been profiled my whole life simply because I'm a conservative.
All conservatives are profiled every day.
And nobody ever says a word about it.
There is a new poll out that is just stunning.
We are three weeks from the governor signing this immigration bill in Arizona.
The public, the American public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law's provisions giving the cops increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally.
73% of the American people, fully 73%.
And this is a pew center for the people in the press poll.
Seventy-three percent say they approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if the police ask for them.
Two-thirds, sixty-seven percent approve of allowing police to detain anyone who cannot verify their status, while sixty-two percent approve of allowing police to question people they think may be in the country illegally.
Now, when you have seventy-three percent of the American people supporting the law, how are the Democrats going to then say that the entire nation is a bunch of bigots?
That the entire nation is a bunch of racists.
I mean, they will try, but this is their task.
They now have said anybody who opposes this is a Neanderthal, a racist, a bigot.
Uh all of these things.
73 do you realize, folks?
Just like in healthcare, the support which which the support for appeal is growing.
Nationwide support for Arizona's immigration law is growing because people understand it's very simple.
All Arizona does is find a way to identify who's here illegally, not by targeting them on anything else.
They have to be stopped in the in the process of of uh any other violation the cops would think might be a violation of the law.
But everybody knows if we if we don't seal the border, this is gonna continue to happen no matter if we grant amnesty or not.
And people are seeing this massive protest of what's happening in Arizona, don't understand it.
Why I I thought everybody Democrats, everybody's been talking about securing the border.
So here's a state finally taking it upon itself to do it because the federal government won't.
And the Democrat Party is having a cow.
And remember, never forget this.
70% of these voters, if they were identified as Republican voters, the Democrats would be hunting them.
The Democrats would have built a fence.
The Democrats would have snipers on the border, and we'd be picking them off.
And the ones that got through the snipers, we put on an acellar train bound for Peru.
There wouldn't be any discussion about fairness and racism, and they just want a better life.
There wouldn't be any of that.
If it was thought that these illegals were going to vote Republican.
Broad approval for the I mean this this stunning.
Stunning stuff.
Brief time out here, my friends.
We'll be back and continue to get to your phone calls when we get back.
All right, as promised to the phones we go, and it's mentor, Ohio.
This is Scott.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Hello, how are you?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
We just got in the uh new Rush Limbaugh comic book.
And I didn't know if you were involved with No, I'm not involved in it.
I didn't know there was a Rush Limbaugh comic book.
Uh uh somebody reminded me a moment ago they sent me news about it last week, but I don't remember it.
What what what is it?
Well, uh there's a company out there called Blue Water Comics, and they uh produce uh a variation of a comic called Political Power.
And this month uh you're it.
It's the Rush Limbaugh.
The cover is really great.
It's got uh really nice artwork on it, but of course, the interior story.
I wasn't sure if they discussed it with you or reviewed it with you, then how true is it?
It talks about, you know, you being on the EIB in the first couple pages, and it talks about your youth and how you came to be the individual on the radio that you are today.
Well, and you're wanting to know if this is true?
Well, obviously, you just answered that.
If you didn't know there was a comic book, they probably didn't have any conversations with you about the content.
No, I've never had any conversations with anybody, any comic book about...
I usually don't when people write about me.
this is uh it's very rare that I participate with people writing about me and I'm sure well what give me something this thing says that you are uh uh curious about as to whether or not it's accurate well as I open it up it talks about uh you and a cat named Banjo did you ever have a cat named Banjo?
No.
All right well it talks about you being on the air in the nineteen seventies it's not you as a superhero it's you as an individual a biography.
Well, I am a superhero as an individual.
It doesn't matter.
Well, we'll put you next to Iron Man on the show.
Well, no, Iron Man's a fictional character.
I exist.
I'm real.
They have a cat named Banjo?
Yeah, well, references a cat named Banjo.
I think they probably take some creative liberties here.
I have a cat.
Cat's called Punkin.
But I didn't have a cat in the 70s.
Okay.
But, you know, that was my curiosity.
uh wasn't sure just you know obviously how true the content is a good about it you said it was biography you said it was good what's good about it well the artwork oh the artwork is good yeah the artwork is good well I guess that's why people buy comic books I guess that's why people buy Playboy I read the articles oh there you go all right just making you where that's available if you want us uh send you a copy of it if you don't have it uh take me off the air and well but I'm not a big I'm not a big comic book guy.
Okay.
Uh I've I've I've never read comic books in fact I I just I never have you know I was stunned um I've heard of Spider Man and all that but I never read them but I'm I'm I'm like I didn't know Iron Man was a comedy comic book.
They make these movies that I didn't have no...
Staff is worried here that I'm somehow doing harm to myself by admitting truthful aspects.
What is so horrible about not having...
I'm sorry, Snurdly.
Sorry, Snurdly.
Snurdly's telling me that Marvel comic books are a way of life for American boys.
Alright I see that's not X-Men I never knew the X-Men was a comic book.
When I saw that one the first X-Men movies I thought wow somebody's got a creative imagination.
I never knew X-Men was a comic you you could if if there were a repository of every item I've ever had as a you would not find one comic book there was what did I do?
I did play with baseball cards.
I played baseball I uh I read a lot uh I started working when I was thirteen I hated being a kid don't forget that snurtly I hated being a kid and I didn't want to do anything that was identified with being a kid I wanted to be an adult the first time I hung around them.
They were having fun plus they were bossing me around so I might have wait a second wait a sec.
Wait a second wait a second what a sec, wait a second I do remember this I I have I have I have erred I do remember one time my mother gave me a Swanson's frozen fried chicken TV dinner and I I read a couple pages of a Superman comic book while doing it and I watched Clutch Cargo on TV which is a cartoon show.
One of the worst of all times but it was still it was one of my one of my one of my uh one of my favorite cartoons was the wacky racers oh yeah uh the wacky races and and the the the Roadrunner and coyote but I didn't read comic books no no no guys in Missouri didn't have to go out and do the harvest.
And I'm sure that even people that had to go out and do the harvest read uh read comic books.
No, I never I never read Sergeant Rock.
I never heard of Sergeant Rock.
Let me let me go back to the phones here because I I I can't why why is this so uh unbelievable?
Um it's not comic books comic books are like Rockwell Americana stuff.
Sorry.
Sorry, not me.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dave, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, how are you, Rush?
Very well, thank you.
Glad to be on your show.
I I can't appreciate I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate what you're doing.
Thank you, sir.
Um, you know, I I do have one disagreement with you, though, and uh something you said uh earlier in the program a couple times.
Uh that that the Obama administration uh was somehow an architect of of what we're dealing with.
And while I recognize the escalation is totally within their um, you know, they're they're completely responsible for the escalation of it.
I I truly believe that we have to look at the the liberal progressives that are in the Republican Party as well.
And I think not enough conservatives, talk show host people whoever are are really remembering this.
We have to send the right people to Washington in November, and I think that means the electing a lot of the the party, you know, the Republicans who are are lifers and who are vested in the system.
Give me some names.
Uh well, Lindsay Graham.
Um, you know, for one, uh you know, this Scott Brown.
I don't know if you just heard on the news his his uh comment that he made about uh the you know uh Kegel or Kagan, I'm excited, uh Lana Kagan.
Yeah, the the sort of sort of mealy-mouthed Nambi Pambi stuff that we hear, the people who aren't willing to fight in the Republican Party should not be there.
We need fighters.
And well, I yeah, you know, I I understand what you're saying.
I said this uh in fact this morning when I was discussing that Orrin Hatch, or this happened early the first hour when Orrin Hatch is in trouble in Utah.
Uh and and you know, Orrin Hatch, back in the old days, he was rock ribbed, strong conservative as he could be, but I know Washington overtakes a lot of people.
Uh and you become a creature of the beltway and so forth.
But you know any the the uh I don't I don't see the the purpose here uh in trying to nitpick, you know, you can you can look at Bush and see I was a big spender, no question about it, and you'd be critical of it.
And I have and I was.
And you could look at Bush on immigration, and it wasn't the right thing to do, and so forth.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
What this what this gets toward is that there's no difference in the two parties, and that I cannot allow that to stand.
The two to the two parties are entirely different.
There's not one Republican that voted for health care.
Not one.
And and you know, the the the idea here that you throw all of the bums out, misses the point.
The problem is liberalism.
Yeah, there are some some moderate Republicans, rhinos and so forth, very few.
You don't there aren't any Obama Republicans.
There aren't any Harry Reed Republicans.
Uh this is you know, this is a uh circumstance if we're not careful, you can you can look at what's happening here in Florida in a two-way race, Charlie Christ gets cream by Marco Rubio, who I'm sure is a Republican you're pretty much in favor of.
So Charlie Christ decides to go independent.
And somehow in a three-way race, he's winning now.
Why?
Because he splits the opposition vote.
So it it that and the and the danger of this kind of thinking leads to a third party of purity and so forth.
We've got a lot of work to do here, and I think the objective is to stop liberalism wherever it is.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
This is uh where are we going next, uh Snerdley?
Give me a uh nine Charles in Bozier City, Louisiana.
Great to have you here, sir.
Yeah, we should uh be able to pick up uh that Virginia seat.
Uh that incumbent that just got beat in West Virginia, uh Palin and McCain did carry that district.
We get us a good conservative.
We should win that.
And can I make one other quick comment to you, real quick?
Sure.
One of your high school friends said to tell you hello.
Uh Buford Moyer in Louisiana.
He went to high school with you in his freshman year before he moved off.
And he ever told me to tell you if I ever got a chance to tell you hello from him.
Buford Moyer.
Yeah.
Him and his wife owned Sue Country Kitchen and country uh in uh Bowser City, Louisiana.
It's uh they've had it for about 30 years.
Sounds like a restaurant.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Uh-huh.
Uh uh.
They moved from Missouri.
Well, he did.
Uh yeah, his family did.
Uh, but he said he went to school with you, his uh freshman year, I believe it was in high school.
He said you were a real nice guy.
Obviously, he didn't know me.
Well, anyway.
Uh, Charles, thanks for the phone call.
Quick timeout, folks, be right back.
They're pulling out all the stops at the White House here, folks, to oppose Arizona's immigration law.
I want to I I have a question.
I've got a I've got a story just cleared here, the Fox News.com wire.
Administration threatens to veto health spending bill after price tag jumps.
The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers at the CBO found that the package would add at least 115 billion dollars more to government health care spending.
Obama's budget orifice charged Congress with finding 115 billion dollars in spending cuts or tax increases to offset this new price increase.
The figure approached the amount of money the CBO previously estimated a law would save and push the uh total ten-year cost of the package past a trillion dollars.
The Office of Management and Budget stood by the administration's original claims that the law would reduce the deficit and tasked Congress with making more that uh making sure that happens.
Ken Baer, budget office spokesman, said, Look, the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit by more than a hundred billion dollars in the first decade, and that'll not change unless Congress acts to change it.
If these authorizations are funded, this additional 115, they're gonna have to be offset somewhere else in the discretionary budget.
The president has called for a non-security discretionary spending freeze, and he will enforce that with his veto pin.
So it's gonna close Gitmo, I know, but but how do you how do you veto something that you've already signed into law?
What is this?
Administration threatens to veto health spending bill after price tag jumps.
This is not a new piece of legislation.
This is a new calculation that says the bill Obama's already signed will add 115 billion dollars to it.
And now they're threatening to veto health spending.
I mean, this is just this is an excuse to raise taxes somewhere 115 billion dollars, but it's still a strangest story.
Administration threatens to veto health spending bill after price.
It's his bill.
But he's dumping on Congress, throwing them overboard here.
It's amazing.
Let's go to the audio sound dice because I told you earlier today that uh Obama was a 180.
Uh, here on the way he was treating Hamid Karzai of uh of Afghanistan.
Here Obama welcomes Karzai after his regime has spent months trashing Karzak.
Mr. President, thank you and welcome to the United States.
More importantly, this visit's an opportunity for us to assess the progress of our shared strategy in Afghanistan and to advance the strong partnership between our two nations.
One that's based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
We would forgive Karzai if his mouth fell open and he fainted here after hearing this.
Yes.
Because, I mean, they tried to defeat this guy.
Obama was working to get this guy defeated in an election in Afghanistan.
It got so bad that Karzai threatened to quit and join the Taliban.
He denied saying that, by the way.
But now all of a sudden there's been this 180, and Hamid Karzai is one of the most beloved world figures to Obama.
CNN's uh White House correspondent Suzanne Malvo said, President Karzai, is there anything that you can do, your government, your people to maintain this deadline, uh, the end game of July 2011?
And have you found your meetings with Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadini Zad to be helpful or hurtful in your relationship with the Obama administration?
Obama answers a question.
Let's be clear about what July 2011 represents.
What I have said is that having put in more troops over the last several months in order to break the momentum of the Taliban.
The beginning in 2011, July, we will start bringing those troops down and turning over more and more responsibility to Afghan security forces that we are building up.
But we are not suddenly, as of July 2011, finished with Afghanistan.
But after July 2011, we are still going to have an interest in making sure that Afghanistan is secure, that economic development is taking place, that good governance is being promoted.
My God, folks, do you imagine what his kooks on the left wing fringe are react doing after they hear this?
Well, we're not leaving in 2011.
Oh, we're gonna build schools and we're gonna build roads and we're gonna we're gonna build them houses and we're gonna we're gonna have good governance promoted.
Yeah, and they were gonna close Club Gitmo this past January as well.
So he said we're breaking the momentum of the Taliban.
And yet the Taliban, sick, the Taliban, just happened to sneak a bomb into the country and almost blew up a portion of Times Square recently.
So Obama now gets fired up when talking about civilian casualties.
Now remember this was not his attitude when John Kerry and Jack Merther were calling our troops racists.
And in fact, let's go back, let's let's grab Soundbite 26 first.
Because this August 1st of 2007, New Hampshire campaign event.
Then Senator Barack Obama had this to say about Afghanistan.
We've got to get the job done there.
And that requires us to have enough troops that we're not just air raiding villages and killing civilians.
So he's demonizing the troops under Bush, air raiding villages and killing civilians.
And that's has that's his take.
And it was right along the lines with Jack Murphan and and uh and and John Kerry, the haughty uh John Kerry served in Vietnam, by the way, who were calling our troops rapists and uh murderers and terrorists and so forth.
So now here is Obama talking about civilian casualties and defending them.
War is tough and difficult, and mistakes are going to be made, and our troops put themselves at risk, oftentimes, in order to reduce civilian casualties.
Because of General McChrystal's direction, oftentimes they're holding fire, they're hesitating, they're being cautious about how they operate, even though it would be safer for them to go ahead and just take these locations out, because part of what the American military stands for is that we distinguish between civilians and combatants.
I want everybody to be clear, especially the Afghan people.
I take no pleasure in hearing a report that's a civilian has been killed.
That's not why I ran for president.
It's not why I'm commander-in-chief.
What?
What?
Hey, by the way, you people Afghanistan.
I didn't run for president, so you get killed.
I didn't run for president.
I don't want to be commander-in-chief.
Oh, so you get killed.
What a thing to say.
By the way, to say the people of Afghanistan, I don't take any pleasure in hearing that one of you has died.
As though there's some question about it.
As though Bush did, as though Bush wanted you to die.
Is this what this is?
Damn right it's what it is.
But now, okay, killing civilians, it's tough out there.
You know, war, tough.
Mistakes are made.
You know, what Obama can't.
If you listen to these sound bites and you put them all together, you've got to build roads, he's got to build schools.
You can have good governance.
He's gonna build houses.
Obama simply cannot comprehend a Taliban can't be bought off.
He's like anybody else on the left.
Just throw enough money at them and you own them and they'll run away and not be a problem.
These guys are true believers.
You know, Hamid Karzai has offered the Taliban government jobs.
Hamid Karzai has offered them payoffs.
And they don't take it.
They are the epitome of the true believers.
Here's Obama.
He knows that Karzai doesn't have a whole lot to offer money-wise.
So he's upping the ante.
I'm gonna build use of the roads.
And I'm gonna build you houses and schools, and I'm gonna get you good government.
And by the way, when one of the civilians dies, that's not me.
And this, this is our foreign policy.
This is our esteemed leader in a press conference televised around the world.
Obama's now with this statement, he has put our troops at risk to prevent civilian casualties.
It's not the troops' idea to do that.
So it's everybody else's fault.
The troops' fault.
I didn't do it.
Uh, people of Afghanistan.
One of my soldiers kills one of you.
Uh not me.
Don't blame me.
George Bush and the troops.
Uh I didn't get a I didn't run for president to kill you.
It's unbelievable.
This is now one other thing that Obama did here in this uh in this soundbite.
I'm not gonna play the soundbite again, but this is just here's this is a commander-in-chief passing the book.
Obama said, war's tough, difficult.
Mistakes are gonna be made.
Troops put themselves at risk oftentimes in order to reduce division casually.
The troops are not putting themselves in these positions.
Obama is.
Obama's rules of engagement, not the troops.
And then he blames it on McChrystal.
He next says, because of General McChrystal's direction, oftentimes they're they're holding fire, they're hesitating, they're being cautious about how they have to operate, even though it'll be safer for them to go ahead.
McCrystal.
It is Obama who's ordered these rules of engagement.
And he's making it sound like the troops are handicapping themselves.
And it's in the crystal's rules.
They can't here are the rules.
U.S. troops in Afghanistan cannot fight in their houses.
They cannot fight at night.
Uh what else?
There's all kinds of restrictions on them.
I mean, if if if they see a civilian anywhere near where there's a target, of course we know how the Taliban dresses the civilian, he can't fire.
So he's war is tough, difficult, mistakes are being made.
Troops put themselves at risk oftentimes in order to reduce civilian casual trips.
Troops are not.
The troops are not making policy.
They follow orders.
And don't tell me that it's McChrystal's orders here.
There's no question, this is Obama's order.
I'll tell you what Obama's doing here, folks.
Don't doubt me.
Obama is giving himself an out to get out of this without victory.
Pure and simple, there's no question in my mind, that's what this is all about.
I have, you know, this we have this is a man child.
This is an immature childish man child.
Here he's got Hamid Karzai, who yesterday he despised and hated.
Well, maybe last week.
Treated him worse than he's treated Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
And now all of a sudden, roll out the red carpet, four days, Hamid Karzai comes to Washington, D.C. Do a joint press conference.
Obama on loads on the crystal and the troops for the mistakes that are made.
Now I'm sure in Obama's mind, he's praising the troops.
What do you mean, Limbo?
You're gonna know my case for.
I'm talking about how valid our troops are.
Yeah, ballon, dollar, whatever.
They're not, they're not taking every opportunity they can to kill the enemy, because they know they might not be killing a kid.
That's what he that he he won.
he's trying to make the troops think that they are defining the rules of engagement and in his way, this is how he's crediting them, when in fact he's got them in straight jackets.
And then a dump on the Now I know this is not the first time a president is dumped on a general, but this this little man cannot even stand up and defend his own policy.
To dump on the troops this way and and and McCrystal.
Uh what?
What about a medal for restraint?
Oh you I've got to be kidding.
How did I miss the?
You mean Obama has proposed a new medal of uh uh uh valorous valorous medal for restraint.
Oh, it's Obama.
Don't tell me it's in dis.
You mean at the Pentagon, they're gonna, instead of a uh like the purple heart, the green heart, the red heart, whatever, uh uh the yellow heart for restraint.
What are we gonna call it?
Holy cow, how did I miss this?
Must have been reading a comic book or something.
It's it what is it the congressional?
The military medal for courageous restraint.
Send me that.
How the hell did my staff miss this?
Well, you yeah, you just told me about it, but you didn't tell me, you didn't tell me about it when you found out about it.
Yeah, you were reading comic books too.
All right, so the military medal for courageous restraint.
Well, see, it it dovetails here.
Uh, troops uh, yeah.
See, Limbaugh finally figured it out.
Didn't take long.
Troops put themselves at risk, oftentimes in order to reduce civilian casualties.
The military medal for courageous restraint.
Now this is it's just a proposal, right?
This this is it hasn't, it hasn't been acted on.
It's like, yeah, okay, I'm looking at it now.
It has not, it's not, it's just a proposal at uh at this stage.
Okay, look a quick time out here, folks, uh, and we'll be back and continue right after this on the EIB network with your host, L. Rushbow.
All right, here it is.
I'm holding it right here.
My formerly nicotine-stained fingers, dateline today.
Uh my version of it here is from the Navy Times and the headline, Hold Fire, earn a medal.
Uh, U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
This would be the Yellow Heart Medal.
Uh, U.S. troops in Afghanistan could soon be awarded a medal for not doing something.
A precedent-setting award that would be given for courageous restraint for holding fire to save civilian lives.
The proposal now circulating in the Kabul headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, according to a command spokesman yesterday.
Soldiers are often recognized for non-combat achievement decorations like their services uh commendation medal, but most of the highest U.S. military decorations are for valor in combat.
A medal to recognize a conscious effort to avoid compact action would be unique.
Well, okay.
I'm sorry I missed this, folks.
I'm up to speed on it now.
So we're gonna have uh courageous military medal for showing restraint.
And if you really want to do it right, you make it posthumous.
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