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WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID (Vanity E-mail i received but worth a read)
e-mail | 2/19/06

Posted on 02/19/2006 12:00:00 PM PST by curtisgardner

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.

For those who are complaining about how long the war is taking...

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno t o 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 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!


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I got this is my e-mail, and im sure others have seen it, but it is worth a read to keep things in perspective.
1 posted on 02/19/2006 12:00:02 PM PST by curtisgardner
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To: curtisgardner
Another point of perspective: war does not increase death.

Everyone dies - war or not.

2 posted on 02/19/2006 12:04:52 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: curtisgardner

Well, the point about putting the nuclear inspectors in Iran and North Korea better be omitted for now.


3 posted on 02/19/2006 12:09:36 PM PST by GSlob
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To: curtisgardner

When did this happen? Howard Metzenbaum left the senate 10 years ago, and Glenn in 1999, so that date is confusing.


4 posted on 02/19/2006 12:12:31 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: Darkwolf377
I have seen this email before the second part took place in 1974. Check out Snopes.com for the whole story.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/glenn.asp
5 posted on 02/19/2006 12:20:02 PM PST by FloridianBushFan (God Bless our Troops and President Bush)
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To: FloridianBushFan

Thanks for that. It just seems like two different pieces glued together, the first relying on the second for some kind of veracity.


6 posted on 02/19/2006 12:27:43 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: curtisgardner

I hate to burst your bubble, but Glenn and Metzembaum were not United States Senators in January 2004 -- JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR) Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13


7 posted on 02/19/2006 12:30:07 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Throw out OK's Governor DoLittle in 2006! Allen in 2008!)
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To: curtisgardner

bttt


8 posted on 02/19/2006 3:07:18 PM PST by lunarbicep (Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain)
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