Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib debacle:

“RUSH: 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? These people are the enemy. Our people are being fired at, shot at, these are young people that have volunteered to go over there and they’re having bullets fired in their way, bombs and mortar fire aimed at ’em by the people that they are guarding and charged to get information from. Everybody has a breaking point. Now, I’m not suggesting that it’s common, normal in disciplined military structures for people to lose control. I’m suggesting that it might be understandable.

“…This sucks, folks. This really, really is getting out of hand. It’s not about us. And this whole self-absorption with us, why, that makes me look bad. It doesn’t make you look bad. You didn’t do it. No, it makes ugly American — you’re not an ugly American, we’re not ugly Americans. Screw all this. Stop making everything about us. Some people did something that was wrong. Fini. It’s over. Fix it. Move on.”

[via Wonkette]