Originally posted by War Griffon
Ok Don\'t take this the wrong way it is not meant as a bash at US polotics but something that was sent to me earlier this afternoon
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.
Long story short, anyone can take the a worst month of crime from a city and compair it to anywhere else and say it means something, it doesn\'t.
When some claim that President Bush shouldn\'t
have started this war, state the following:
a. FDR deceptively 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.
Military tactics, common sense, and WWI tell us that if we had just attacked Japan, the Germans wern\'t just going to sit around as we killed their ally. Yes, there was behind the scenes issues, like the fact that the US like in WWII had a lot of invested interest in keeping Western Europe out of Hitler\'s claws. It worked out in the end.
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.
Truman didn\'t start the war, he just f\'ed it up (I say this because he was playing favorites with his generals not just because he was president at the time). United Nations started the war (the reason it was called a police action) after communist North Korea attacked South Korea. War was put to a vote by the UN and only succeeded in being passed because the USSR representative wasn\'t there to veto it as he had boycotted the meeting because of what it was about (Sometimes we just slip up in our jobs...)
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.
(I wasn\'t there so for those who were or were around there please don\'t let me offend you if I slip in my tact.)
The second part if fairly correct, but the quagmire was only completed durring Jhonson\'s term, it was begun before that by the mentality among the higher-ups that we should not take ground. If we had been allowed to actually take the ground and move up instead of trying to standstill them to death, we could have had a few more casualties or a few less but hindsight is 20/20. What\'s not Hindsight is that politics starts wars, and if a politician is going to start a war then they should stay out of the workings of the war or go there and actually fight it out. \"War is old men talking and young men dieing\"
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.
Bosnia- Seriously, do you think anyone would ever let us live it down if we hadn\'t gone in there? There was some Grade A prarie-cakes (Avoiding the other words for sake of the message) going down in there. America got a lot of bad rep from the reports that we supposedly new about the Holocaust long before Japan attacked, were we about to let entire areas of people be killed? No!
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.
Kinda interesting facts huh? Media blindsiding isn\'t always 20/20 then...
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.
Bad examples all way way round! Get em while their still controversial!
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
Ooo...and it\'s a low blow against America\'s deserving punching bag!
It took less time to take Iraq than it took
to count the votes in Florida!!!!
So very very true...yet so sad...
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 my tie 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.
If it wern\'t for the partizan politics, the ranting and the down right sloping of each statement made by the person who sent that, it\'d almost be a worthy of me opening it and reading it myself instead of simply dropping it in the spam folder.
