OEF / OIF -> Open a liberal's eyes.

[LT Rich]

Thought you all might like this, i got it in an email. What would the blind lberals every say if they got their hands on the truth?

LT

Originally Posted by Hoah!!

Quote on bottom is also engraved on Jeff Lordi's gravestone. In Evergreen Cemetery.

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, note 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 Jane t 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 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 veterans' 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.

It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating.

Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

- George Orwell

[King James]

awesome post LT! it's a sad thing that you could show that to many people against Bush and they would come up with some other excuses not to like him...awesome read though

[rumballs]

Some interesting details:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/glenn.asp

[Hammerhead]

Originally Posted by mmblz

Some interesting details:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/glenn.asp

Mmblz, I'm not sure if you're rebuking LT's post, but if so, you may want to read the Snopes entry again.

The quote is correct, and so is the factual data and anecdotal points related to Iraq. The only reason it appears on snopes is because the author put the two together, so the attribution of datapoints as a Glenn quote could be mistaken. Otherwise, both are all true, and each segment stands on its own.

[rumballs]

Originally Posted by Hammerhead

Mmblz, I'm not sure if you're rebuking LT's post, but if so, you may want to read the Snopes entry again.

Nope, like I said, just some details.

Originally Posted by Hammerhead

The quote is correct, and so is the factual data and anecdotal points related to Iraq. The only reason it appears on snopes is because the author put the two together, so the attribution of datapoints as a Glenn quote could be mistaken. Otherwise, both are all true, and each segment stands on its own.

The context of the Glenn part is also interesting.

[Franksmith]

Thanks LT!!!