From: allenclan@charter.net   
      
   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.   
      
      
      
   There are those who 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.   
      
   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 Proram 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   
      
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