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Cold realities in hot zone (Excellent Read)
Washington Times ^
| 3/20/04
| Karl Zinsmeister
Posted on 03/19/2004 11:41:10 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
[history]
At the first anniversary of the war that removed Saddam Hussein and set Iraq and the rest of the Middle East on a dramatically new path, about 400 American men and women have been killed in action.
Each of those lost sons or husbands or daughters is a source of heartache for their families, and for all Americans. They're also a reminder that, as the saying goes, "Freedom's not free."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: roosevelt; sacrifice; september12era; zinsmeister
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; kattracks; MeekOneGOP
Next was the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center, in 1993, to which
the U.S. Clinton made no effective response at all.
~~~
Enter George W. Bush and our coalition warriors--
--and the craven terrorists are absolutely kerrified1.
_________
Note1 kerrified (KER' rih fide) adj. concealing one's weakness while proclaiming strength, privately whining, publicly lying [see also PHONY, SCHMUCK, LOSER]
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posted on
03/20/2004 6:05:22 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: taxesareforever
It was about two weeks before the war started Dennis Prager read some letters to the President from some 1st-2nd graders at a Quaker school (killing is bad, God doesn't want us to kill each other..that sort of thing) and it suddenly occurred to me that these children were making the same argument(sometime using the same words) as the "anti-war" groups were using, and so I realized that for many of that group their moral development stopped in early grade school. And that those of us who are "pro-war" grew up.
War is bad...but not the worst thing.
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posted on
03/20/2004 6:47:34 PM PST
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: PhilDragoo
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posted on
03/21/2004 5:33:44 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: kattracks
In the early 1970s, there was a grand total of 40 democratic societies across
the globe. Democracy, it was said, simply wouldn't grow in certain kinds of soil.
Then stony lands like Portugal, Spain, Greece, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines,
Indonesia, nearly all of Latin America, all of Eastern Europe and South Africa began
to hold free elections for the first time. Many of these dramatic turnovers
took place in a blink.
Today, just 30 years later, there are 120 democracies, and the fraction
of the world's population able to elect its own rulers has increased from one-third
to two-thirds.
Whoa! Now there's an under-reported factoid if there ever was one!
I knew the trend was in this direction over the past couple of decades...
but I'm sure this sort of news is NOT common knowledge...especially in
the classrooms of the the universities and public schools!!!
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posted on
03/21/2004 10:43:49 AM PST
by
VOA
To: kattracks; Ragtime Cowgirl; ALOHA RONNIE
In 1918, Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin (who had left Harvard during his sophomore
year to serve in World War I) was shot out of the sky in one of aerial warfare's
early dogfights. German propagandists took photos of his maimed body amidst the
plane wreckage and, hoping to dampen American morale, sent one to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Rather than letting herself be cowed, however, she insisted the picture be
displayed over a mantel, as an emblem of her family's sturdiness and their pride
in sacrifice for a high cause.
Now there's something I never heard in American History class.
Even in conservative Oklahoma.
And that was a few decades ago, before the National Education Association
got it's jihad against basic education going at full speed.
The other sad question after reading this is...
What happenened to the men of Harvard since then?
Have they all gone metrosexual?
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posted on
03/21/2004 10:48:07 AM PST
by
VOA
To: kattracks
Bump
To read later
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posted on
03/21/2004 10:49:18 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: VOA
The Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio has an exhibit on the early years of air combat. And one panel shows photographs of the make-shift grave of QR that local Germans created, with a cross made out of large sticks. Very moving. There is also a postcard--maybe the one sent to Mrs. R--of the wreakage of the plane, with the title, "Amer. Flieger Roosevelt."
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posted on
03/21/2004 10:55:52 AM PST
by
Remole
To: kattracks
bump
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posted on
03/21/2004 11:01:53 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Remole
I was just sort of shocked at the story...Edith Roosevelt sounds like "one tough mutha'"...
the match for Teddy!
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posted on
03/21/2004 11:10:27 AM PST
by
VOA
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