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"How can you run for Senate
when you've never held a real job?" |
labman |
02/13/07 |
My wife's coworker sent this to his local paper:
There is a widely circulating opinion in the mainstream media that says that President Bush is doing a poor job
with international affairs in general. That opinion says that he is dealing improperly with Iraq specifically. By
such accounts we are to believe that our military is drowning in problems from which there is no resolution
except to quit and go home.
Below is a text with interesting comparisons. After that is a section purported to be from Democratic Senator
John Glenn. I have not researched the authenticity, but the text is worth reading regardless of who said or
wrote the words.
The message was forwarded to me. The original had many grammatical errors, so I made some corrections. I
rearranged or deleted some headings. The content is essentially the same as I received except for those.
_____________________________________________________________________________
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-Qaeda, 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.
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.
JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13
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!!! |
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