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FINALLY SOMETHING WORTH FORWARDING!!!!!!!
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.
> >
> >
> >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 >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
> >< waving> 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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