Remove Rush Limbaugh from American Forces Radio Petition
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We request that Secretary Rumsfeld remove talk radio host Rush Limbaugh from the American Forces Radio and Television Service (formerly known as Armed Forces Radio). Mr. Limbaugh, whose program is broadcast for one hour per day to U.S. troops overseas, has spent the past four weeks condoning and trivializing the abuse, torture, rape and possible murder of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. guards at the Abu Ghraib prison—gross misconduct that you have described as “fundamentally un-American.”
While I can see this as a freedom of choice issue, I don’t agree that taxpayer dollars should pay for the distribution of radio broadcasts that are at odds with the public opinions of the president, the secretary of the defense, and I suspect, most Americans.