When I heard that Rush Limbaugh was annoyed at President Obama for sending 100 troops to help out in Uganda I chalked it up to his usual hate.   However, the story below on CNN shows how wrong he is about the situation.  He got called out by one of the victims of the atrocities there.

(CNN) — What does a 22-year-old see when she looks at herself in the mirror?

Evelyn Apoko sees a face marred by war, one that is jarring to others. Even she can’t stand to look sometimes.

Doctors reconstructed her jaw, removed scars and balanced her lips. In the coming days, she will get a new jaw implant, a bone graft and a set of upper teeth.

“I see me,” she says, after pausing to think about how she might describe her reflection. “I look into my eyes and I know there is something there.”

That something came from three harrowing years of captivity and the inner fortitude that fueled her desire to survive, so that she could live to tell about the ugliness she saw.

One summer night in 2001, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas snatched Apoko from a community center near her home in Gulu district, Uganda. Notorious for their cold-blooded cruelty, the LRA beat her, tortured her.

She chooses not to discuss all the details but says this: if she didn’t do what the LRA told her, she knew she would die.

Apoko’s tale, sadly, is not uncommon. She is among thousands of children abducted by the LRA…

Ex-child slave takes on Rush Limbaugh

Cross-post CNN.com

Your turn Rush…

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