May 7, 2004

On May 4, 2004 during his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said the abuse of our Iraqi prisoners was simply a guard's “need to blow some steam off."  He also said the guards were having a good time like a college students would do in a prank.

This is a transcript of part of his show on May 4, 2004:

"CALLER: It was like a college fraternity prank that stacked up naked men --

LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?"

Limbaugh thinks torture of other human beings while in custody is just a prank and not a big deal.  He condones the abuse by minimizing it.

Some of the prisoner abuse alleged at the prison included

Beating prisoners with broom handles and a chair,

Slapping, kicking and hitting prisoners,

Stripping and humiliating prisoners,

Sodomizing prisoners with chem-lights and broom sticks,

Using dogs to threaten and attack prisoners,

Photographing prisoners in sexual positions, and

Forcing prisoners to masturbate each other. 

Abuse of people while in custody is a violation of law and human rights. It is wrong. The prisoner abuse in Iraq helped our enemies. Rush doesn't understand this and he doesn’t know right from wrong.

Maybe one day Rush will go to prison on his drug related charges and find out first hand, about pranks and steam letting by his guards. At least while in prison, Rush won't be helping the enemy and hampering our military efforts in Iraq.