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I’m sure a lot of people that come by here listen to Rush, but if you don’t, you missed a great call he received today.

You can read the whole call here if you have 24/7 access.

RUSH: We have a call from Iraq from Tallil Air Force Base. Lieutenant Colonel Luke Fitzpatrick somehow got through. Lieutenant Colonel, this is an honor to have you on the phone with us while you’re in Iraq — at any time, actually. Thank you for calling.

CALLER: Good afternoon, I believe it is your time, Rush, and major dittos here from the sandbox.

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that.

CALLER: I wanted to let you know that you and your cohort, Mr. Hannity, are the only two that I allow to get broadcast across our ready room. The rest of the liberals can go listen on their Walkmans if they so choose.

RUSH: Are you free to say all this? That’s cool.

CALLER: Yes, I am. Well, what are they going to do, Rush, send me to Iraq?

Haa Haa — standard military line actually.

But here is the best part of the whole call …

CALLER: I mean, honestly. I’m here. I do want to take the time, though, to thank you and everybody else who is back behind us for the support you have given us. This is, let me stress, an all volunteer military. So when you take that into account, all the across-the-aisle bickering as to whether or not we need to be here or not be here, whether we should go home or stay and more force, it really is irrelevant. Every one of us, when we signed the papers, we knew what was going to be asked of us in the worst-case scenario. We are here. We are the best trained standing military force in the world, and I only ask one of two things: either unlock our cage and let us do what we are trained to do better than anyone else in the world, or send us home.

This man had me in tears.  He spoke from the heart — the heart of the men and women who voluntarily serve in the military branches of this country.   They hear the news; they hear the John Kerry’s and John Murtha’s back here in their plush homes criticizing about stuff they are NOT involved in and about a war that is being fought much differently than the ones they may have been in.