JOHN GLENN SAID
Things that make you think a little:
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 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 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 W.W.II, Howard
Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party
in the USA.
Now he's a Senator!