Jul 14 2005
Wisdom in an Email
We got this email from a relative out west so I have no way to reference the author – but this is stunning.
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. Germany never attacked us; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.
b. 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.
c. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
d. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He [Clinton] was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
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 ..
1. It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.
2. 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.
3. 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 Chappaquiddick4. It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT 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 States 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 mycheckbook, 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 W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA.
Now he’s a Senator! If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran. It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating.
You were looking to confirm some of the information at Decision ’08 (that’s why I stopped by):
One thing I know is that it took almost two years to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. We have been looking for WMD there longer, but considering the original date of the email (I’ve seen it as early as April 04), at the time it was correct.
The email itself is not entirely correct in placing Presidents and timelines and reasons together with the wars they presided over, but it has been going around for some time and has been fisked repeatedly by many liberals all over the web. I must add, however, the attempts to discredit it are lame and distorting themselves.
So what’s worse? Starting an email to bolster the spirit of the American public with a “pep talk” that may only be half truths or denouncing it with more half truths to keep that spirit down? Given the left’s constant denial of so many facts, I’ll take the former.
What they fail to see is the spirit in which the email was created and the cause and effect of much history. These are the same people who still think John Kerry is an upstanding guy, defend and keep re-electing the likes of Robert Byrd and believe that Al Gore “invented” the Internet. So take it for what it’s worth.
And John Glenn rocks. Metzenbaum never actually said Glenn never held a job, but it was pretty close. Glenn’s response was absolutely true. And he said it in ’74.
oYSTER – thanks!
Yeah, it looked like a hodgepodge of emails actually and the timing is a bit off (I realized the Glenn stuff had to be ancient). But my favorite one is still the one about taking Iraq in less time than finishing the vote count in FL.
All good fun.