Mr. Moderate

According to this article on the CNN web site, Rush Limbaugh spoke Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC, where he continued to display his deliberate confusion over the founding documents of our government. According to that CNN article, Rush said this:

We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth, that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, freedom — and the pursuit of happiness.

For the record, here is the actual preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Rush was confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence, whose text includes the words Rush attributes to the Constitution:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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One of my major complaints against President George W. Bush is his egregious blurring of the line between “terrorists” and people, groups, and nations who are merely “enemies.” You see, the whole problem for President Bush is that it is very difficult to find some particular activity engaged in by “terrorists” which has not also been engaged in by the United States or its agents at some point in the past half-century. Thus, if we apply the Bush definitions to the United States of America (USA), then the USA is a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

I mention this because, after the recent Hamas takeover in Gaza, it appears that the USA, Israel and its allies are scheming to cut off water, electricity, food, fuel, and everything else supplied to Gaza on the grounds that Gaza is under control of “terrorists.” This of course misses the point: there are 1.4 million men, women, and children trapped in Gaza and the efforts just discussed seemed designed to terrorize them all, or to even kill them all for lack of food, water, health care, and any other “necessities of life.” I know that President Bush has no heart, but what about the rest of the world? Is there nobody out there who will dare to call Bush and Israel “terrorists” for preventing the Palestinian people from surviving this decades-long occupation and seige by Israel? Isn’t this really a Palestinian Holocaust in the making? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE, WORLD!
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For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist by his own petard
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4

The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 25, 1979. The final troop withdrawal began on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989. Due to the high cost and ultimate futility of this conflict for this Cold War superpower, the Soviet war in Afghanistan has often been referred to as the equivalent of the United States’ Vietnam War.
Wikipedia article on the Soviet War In Afghanistan.

As hundreds of Muslim “enemy combatants” remain held in the Gulag at Guantanamo, lost in all of the moral outrage mounted by the Republicans is the fact that during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States funded and provided arms to those very same Muslim “enemy combatants” (really, “terrorists”) for the purpose of defeating the Soviets in Afghanistan.
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