>> WHAT SENATOR 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.
>>
>> Sen ator 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!
>>
>> If you can read this, thank a teacher.
>> If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.
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