There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the
month of January.That's just one American city,
about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.
When some claim that President Bush shouldn't
have started this war, state the following:
a. FDR led us into World War II.
b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 112,500 per year.
c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 18,334 per year.
d John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ..
an average of 5,800 per year.
f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three
times by Sudan and did nothing Osama has attacked us on
multiple occasions.
g. In the years since terrorists attacked us , President Bush
has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled
al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North
Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who
slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
The Democrats are complaining
about how long the war is taking.
But
. It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno
to take the Branch Davidian compound.
That was a 51-day operation.
We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons
in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find
the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the
Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard
than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his
Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick
It took less time to take Iraq than it took
to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing HIS JOB!
The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant
to realize the facts
But Wait there's more!
JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13
Some people still don't understand why military personnel
do what they do for a living. This exchange between
Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum
is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one
man's explanation of why men and women in the armed
services do what they do for a living
This IS a typical, though sad, example of what
some who have never served think of the military.
Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
"How can you run for Senate
when you've never held a real job?"
Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
"I served 23 years in the United State s Marine Corps.
I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.
My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different
occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my
checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line It was
not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the
daily cash receipts to the bank."
"I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...
to a veteran's hospital and look those men ..
with their mangled bodies in the eye, and tell THEM
they didn't hold a job!
You go with me to the Space Program at NASA
and go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphans
of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...
and you look those kids in the eye and tell them
that their DADS didn't hold a job.
You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in
Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends
buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch
those waving flags
You stand there, and you think about this nation,
and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?
What about you?"
For those who don't remember
During WW.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney
representing the Communist Party in the USA.
Now he's a Senator!
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This looks like typical e-mail fodder.
Who cares about comparing other wars? As Bill O'Reilly would say, you don't justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. War should be used much more sparingly than it has in recent history.
Taking Iraq may have been quick, but the process of rebuilding it is taking MUCH longer, and who knows when it will be done.
Who cares about comparing other wars? As Bill O'Reilly would say, you don't justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. War should be used much more sparingly than it has in recent history.
Taking Iraq may have been quick, but the process of rebuilding it is taking MUCH longer, and who knows when it will be done.
Quoting O'Reilly?
Well I never..
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It's stupid and John Glenn never said it.
Quote:
In 2005, someone prefaced the John Glenn/Howard Metzenbaum article with the following item about Iraq. This addendum has nothing to do with John Glenn — it's an anonymous piece that has been floating around the Internet since 2004, but because it has been tacked onto an article about Glenn, readers have been misled into thinking that it is a transcription of something he said:
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
So just because fewer troops have died in Iraq the war is okay?
Anyone who thinsk World War II was the same situation as Iraq is out of their mind.
Prostrate exams are never fun either, but sometimes it is good for preventative measures.
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zxlr8 wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
This looks like typical e-mail fodder.
Who cares about comparing other wars? As Bill O'Reilly would say, you don't justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. War should be used much more sparingly than it has in recent history.
Taking Iraq may have been quick, but the process of rebuilding it is taking MUCH longer, and who knows when it will be done.
Quoting O'Reilly?
Well I never..
If you viewed this forum more, you should know that that's not a surprise.
And John Glenn's term of office ended 4 years before the war in Iraq began.
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Green Habit wrote:
zxlr8 wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
This looks like typical e-mail fodder.
Who cares about comparing other wars? As Bill O'Reilly would say, you don't justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. War should be used much more sparingly than it has in recent history.
Taking Iraq may have been quick, but the process of rebuilding it is taking MUCH longer, and who knows when it will be done.
Quoting O'Reilly?
Well I never..
If you viewed this forum more, you should know that that's not a surprise.
Yeah, Nick is gay for O'Reilly.
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
It is all in good fun. I just get a kick out of B all of a sudden madly typing words and phrases into Google in hopes to debunk this email before it spreads good values and he loses his sympathetics.
_________________ The stakes are so high, he said, that we should gamble on God's existence. We have nothing to lose if it turns out that God does not exist, but everything to gain or lose if he does exist.
And John Glenn's term of office ended 4 years before the war in Iraq began.
i thought that he had been gone for a while. the thing in that post that set alarms ringing in my head was the part where glenn's opponent was a lawyer for the communist party during ww2; that would mean the guy was at least 95 years old by now and still serving in the senate. unless you are jesse helms, that doesn't happen.
It is all in good fun. I just get a kick out of B all of a sudden madly typing words and phrases into Google in hopes to debunk this email before it spreads good values and he loses his sympathetics.
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Mind of Meddle wrote:
zxlr8 wrote:
It is all in good fun. I just get a kick out of B all of a sudden madly typing words and phrases into Google in hopes to debunk this email before it spreads good values and he loses his sympathetics.
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