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  1. #1
    mrossum
    i received this email the other day. i thought it very interesting. hopefull all of you will as well. :wink:
    WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID:
    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, consider 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 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 WWII, 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.
    In God we Trust

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    Perhaps John Glenn should be our next President.

  3. #3
    mrossum
    Perhaps John Glenn should be our next President.
    he's got my vote.

  4. #4
    3 daytona`s
    That man is a hero and how marvelous would it have been to sit there and watch it live.

  5. #5
    mrossum
    That man is a hero
    as are all of our armed forces.
    i believe that if you do not want to stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them!!!

  6. #6
    Phat Matt
    Nobody knows who actually wrote the first part. The second part is true though. It just happened in 1974.
    http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/glenn.asp
    Still good though.

  7. #7
    My Man's Sportin' Wood
    Perhaps John Glenn should be our next President.
    I think I remember him running for president in the 80s. I was just a kid, but I think I remember it.

  8. #8
    My Man's Sportin' Wood
    Yep, 1984. Lost the Democratic nomination to Walter Mondale.

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