What stupidity would call one's draft obligation meager. In the prime of life one had to give a few too several years. Calling that meager is idiotic. The President chose honorable National Guard Service.
General Tommy Franks has stated PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH has provided "quality leadership".
It is claimed by the Author of UNFIT for COMMAND that John Kerry has been documented over 50 times telling of his Christmas in Cambodia. Just once in the Congressional Record is a huge deal when telling a lie.
I am a child of the Fifties. Why is the lie above so important. I did a google of truth justice and the American way as I learned in part what being an American was by the book, movies and TV I read or watched while growing.
By todays standards the Character of Superman was corny. But in fact being a true American is adopting some corny simple beliefs.
With google I found this written. The first several paragraphs do a good job of explaining the corny. The do a wonderful job of describing my own fellings about telling the truth. To any person who values truth in the simple corny American way the black and white of Kerry being UNFIT for COMMAND is crystal clear.
In UNFIT for COMMAND you will hear 60 Vets express their own corny concept of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
And for the record, to this American a human of born at the moment of conception.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way
By David Chandler
[This was prepared to deliver as a Webb School chapel talk but never delivered.]
As I was growing up, every T.V. episode of Superman had an introduction that described our hero as a defender of "Truth, Justice and the American Way". The pledge of allegiance talks about "Freedom and Justice for all". Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence declared, "We hold these truths self evident, that all men are created equal". I grew up taking the values America stands for very seriously. I always thought of this country as special.
I am not for America because we are the richest nation or the most powerful nation. We may not always be the richest or most powerful nation. Rather, I believe in what America stands for.
Why do America's values seem so right? Is it because we are better than the rest of the world? No! If we truly believe in equality, then we have to realize that we are no better or worse than anyone else anywhere. We are not the only people in the world who value freedom. We are not the only ones who recognize when justice is done or not done. We do not have a monopoly on the truth. Equality, Freedom, Justice, and Truth are not just American values, they are fundamental human values. They seem right because they are right, and they are recognized as being right by ordinary people the world over. All human beings, wherever they are born, are worthy of respect, the right to live in peace with their neighbors, the right to make choices that will affect their lives, and the right to fair treatment. If we really believe all men are created equal, we can't draw boundaries in our minds between ourselves and the rest of the world.
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