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| Dr. Laura talks to an Iraq war vet |
| 2007-03-19 |
| Dr. Laura: Jay, welcome to the program. Jay: Doctor, thank you very much for taking my call, ma’am. Dr. Laura: My pleasure. Jay: I am an ex-military soldier with a loss of limb, and I’m having a difficult time reconciling between being revered as (quote) “a war hero” and reviled as an oppressor. Friends, family… Dr. Laura: Who reviles you as an oppressor? Jay: Believe it or not, my family. Dr. Laura: You mean your mother and father? Jay: And my sister as well. Dr. Laura: Who do they think you oppressed? I mean, how stupid is your family? Jay: My family is….ah, they’re not “with” the current times. My sister is currently in India, in her second marriage. She married a Pakistani of all things. Dr. Laura: Oh. And she doesn’t understand the problems between Pakistan and India? Jay: No. Dr. Laura: But she’s living there… Jay: Well, she chooses not to… Dr. Laura: Has she been on a train that’s been blown up yet? Jay: No, and I certainly hope she’s not. Dr. Laura: I mean, this is just stupid. I always want to tell these people, gee, why don’t you go march in front of, let’s do some history, I don’t know….let’s march in front of Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, militant Islam right now, you go march in front of the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Brotherhood, Al Qaeda….you go march over there and talk about oppression! To tell an American soldier that he oppressed somebody is somewhere between stupid, ignorant and evil. And you know what, Jay? Jay: I did my job. Dr. Laura: Jay…. Jay: I did my job. Dr. Laura: You can’t just say you did your job. They said that in Nuremburg. That’s not the truth. You stood between the innocent and evil. And more evil cropped up. So now we have a worse time dealing with evil. People who have killed their own just for the sake of some power in their town. These are oppressors. You don’t see anybody in Minneapolis taking out a whole segment of Minneapolis, because they’re of the same religion, but they believe a little differently. Go read it all. The Doctor rocks! |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 You stood between the innocent and evil |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-03-19 18:06 |
| #9 yes i think her son is on hi way there now. saw a segement on fox news in the morning where steve mentioned towards the end of the segment and she almost lost it near the end of the segment. |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-03-19 15:17 |
| #8 I believe Dr. Laura also had, or even has, her only son serving in Iraq. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2007-03-19 11:25 |
| #7 Good on Dr. Laura |
| Posted by: DanNY 2007-03-19 10:57 |
| #6 Oh!.....well that's very different. Nevermind. ---Emily Litella |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-03-19 10:48 |
| #5 TW, Hint, Coffee first, posting second, I'm guilty of that too(Grin). |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-19 07:58 |
| #4 Never mind. It's Dr. Laura, not Dr. Ruth. Clearly it's much too early for me to get near a keyboard. A good interview, and presumably heard by a wide audience. Mike -- thanks for posting it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-19 07:46 |
| #3 yeah TW, but this is Dr. Laura..... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-19 07:45 |
| #2 Dr. Ruth is no limousine liberal; she knows whereof she speaks. She's the sole member of her family to survive the Holocaust, only because her mother sent her alone on a Kindertransport to Switzerland at the age of 11. Afterward she went to Palestine, where she was trained as a sniper in the Haganah. In 1948 the Arabs tossed a bomb into the student dormitory where she slept, killing three of her friends, and nearly completely tearing off her legs. link Dr. Ruth is one of my heroes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-19 07:41 |
| #1 Anyone who fights Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Mahdi Army is a hero. Period. |
| Posted by: Sneaze 2007-03-19 06:03 |