Rudy's Russkies

History is a passion for me, so it bothers me when folks throw around egregiously wrong facts and nobody says boo about it. Here is a link to Rush Limbaugh where he comments on a Rudy Giuliani interview with Larry King:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021507/content/01125107.guest.html

Guiliani is discussing American intel failures during wartime:

"The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving three, four, 500,000 troops. We missed it."

The battle of the Bulge was between the Germans, Americans and Western Allies; no Soviet troops to miss there and even if there were, the Soviets were our allies. The Germans had at best 200,000 men, not 500,000.

And then we get this snarky little tidbit from Rush:

"We missed it," and King says: The Battle of the Bulge? What was the Battle of the Bulge? That was, uh, uh... Wha? What was that? "

Making fun of King while missing completely the 500,000 Soviets that weren't there (and I thought I knew intelligence failures).