From: sleeptea@adelphia.net   
      
   you are a fucking moron   
      
   nothing more needs to be said , I won't even waste my time why your post is   
   about as relavant and accurate as a pile of frog turds . Now go play "hide   
   and go fuck yourself"   
      
      
   "Little T"  wrote in message   
   news:43225e4f.12590213@nntp.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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