Posted on 08/06/2004 7:22:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
This guy just nails it on every point!
I live in a big military town and I haven't talked to a single military person who has even considered voting for Kerry, he scares them even more than Clinton did.
First the wonderful interview on Hannity regarding the swift boat vets and now this endorsement by another hero, Scott O'Grady.
I'd like to see O'Grady run for a U.S. congressional seat or something. The guy has the right stuff.
At one time he was giving inspirational speeches, not sure what he is doing now. He surely was a hero.
I wonder if Owen Wilson knows there is an election in three months. . .
"..he scares them even more than Clinton did."
He scares me more than Clinton did, too. Not just for military reasons, but for other reasons as well. Clinton may be an unprincipled self-serving womanizer, but he did at crunch time have a certain amount of judgment about the potential consequences of his actions (at least during his first term).
Kerry is a totally amoral, spineless liar and an elitist jerk. Plus, he's not very smart. He would be an absolute disaster, we would be sitting ducks for all of those who want to harm us.
Yeah, I don't remember Klintoon asking the UN or anyone else for permission to do anything. Kerry would turn us into the laughing stock of the world.
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"At one time he was giving inspirational speeches, not sure what he is doing now."
I attended an event with O'Grady as the guest speaker in July. It was a great experience. He is, in fact, a true American hero.
Wrong war.
O'Grady was shot down on June 2nd, 1995, while patrolling the no fly zone over Bosnia.
It's still something of a mystery as to why the Bosnian Serbs shot down O'Grady's plane - but a case could be made that they were looking for a hostage to win some more concessions, as they had done from the pusillanimous Europeans throughout the course of the war in Bosnia.
Mike Durant, the lone surviving member of the second Black Hawk helicopter shot down in Somalia, is a Bush supporter too. I hope we see more of him on the campaign trail and at events. He will be a strong asset with Somalia really being the first fight against Al Qaeda.
Ok wrong war, but did I at least get the right President?
No harm, no foul.
He did not do neither of those. He was a complete screw up when he was shot down. He did not know how to properly use his comm gear. A basic SAM shot him down, showing his average or below average pilot skills.
He killed innocent civilians along in Bosnia, that makes him a civie killer.
He would be torn apart as a political candidate, he does not have the right stuff either. He could not handle the stress of combat, which is why he opted out of a military career. He chickened out of future wars, otherwise, he would have stayed on.
His incompetant actions in Bosnia rivals Kerry of Vietnman-to-current.
He was shot down while flying illegaly over Serbian airspace. He did not take proper evasive action. He did not know how to avoid a simple outdated SAM missile. Even an Iraqi pilot could have avoided the SAM.
Then on top of that, he nearly shot his own rescuers. He was trying to put his Baretta on safety and a round went off, nearly killing one of the Marines. They had to do a take-down on him, one Marine took his lower the other upper body so he does not inflict casualties. Yes, a man of true competance.
You were a member of the VRS when O'Grady was shot down, weren't you?
And you didn't renounce your citizenship before joining.
Living with your treason is a bitch, isn't it - no matter how hard you scrub your hands, that stain is never going to come off.
Maybe you are delusional with old age.
You used to be so fiesty - did you finally figure out that you did hand me enough rope to hang you with?
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