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Interesting..... Email
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2/1/2007 10:13:23 PM
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Sorry, I thought this was interesting. I know it is long, but I know no other way to post it. It is an email I recieved.
> >
> > WhAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID:
> >
> > 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,
> > consider 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 and had his sorry azz hung along with his
> > henchmen
> > .
> >
> > Some people 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, murdering 80 people, 27 of
> > them ranging from 14 years old to the unborn in the womb.
> >
> > 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. Now she wants to be president and let
> > Bill Clinton be first pervert husband!
>>Meanwhile, some public service provider in our country Pushed a bill through the Al. State senate banning a small class of citizens from using public waterways with their boats that the state accepted thousands of sales tax dollars on at the time they purchased them.
> >
> > 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 murdering a woman by leaving her to
> > drown.
> > He had over 12 DUI tickets, his punishment: $75.00 for leaving the scene
> > of
> > a fatal accident.
> >
> > It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida
> > !!!!
> >
> >
> > Our Commander-In-Chief has done a GREAT JOB as far as I am concerned.
> > 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 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 WWII, 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. If you are an
> > American,
> > Thank God Almighty for our forefathers and their wisdom.
> >
> > IF YOU OWN A GUN AND KNOW WHEN AND HOW TO USE IT, YOU ARE A CITIZEN, IF
> > NOT,
> > YOU ARE A SUBJECT.
Sorry, that is so long. But interesting.
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