Posted on 07/25/2008 11:29:21 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
What’s with the Hispanic soldier part? For a second there, I thought he was gonna mouth off about God’s children again.
Nails Obama pretty good there.
And he would be wise to repeat this often.
And ad pointing this out should run all the way until election day.
It was a Hispanic veterans group.
McCain has a great inabilty to quit while he is ahead. He just can’t shut up when he needs to.
Why split American soldiers into ethnic groups?
Oh yeah, poor old fool is stil trying to get those future RAT voters.
What’s with the Hispanic soldier part?
Juat catering to the Mexicans and setting the stage for amnesty when he takes office. He’s been saying this a lot, in more speeches than just this one.
When McCain is in the White House, he’ll say something like this: “Hispanics are good citizens. Many have fought and died for America. How can we deny them all the benefits of citizenship?”
Aren’t you going to call McCain a cancer again?
THEY SHOULD GET AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP AFTER A TOUR IN Iraq or Afghanistan. SHEESH....Unbelievable!
This was the best speech I ever saw Mc Cain deliver. The part when he read the Medal of Honor citation of former Special Forces Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez had tears rolling down my cheeks.
I think FFRANCO should have known this was a speech before a group of Hispanic Veterans before sounding off.
“Juat catering to the Mexicans and setting the stage for amnesty when he takes office. He’s been saying this a lot, in more speeches than just this one.
When McCain is in the White House, he’ll say something like this: “Hispanics are good citizens. Many have fought and died for America. How can we deny them all the benefits of citizenship?”
Hispanic Veterans.....
Juat catering to the Mexicans and setting the stage for amnesty when he takes office. He’s been saying this a lot, in more speeches than just this one.
When McCain is in the White House, he’ll say something like this: “Hispanics are good citizens. Many have fought and died for America. How can we deny them all the benefits of citizenship?”
Hispanic VETERANS...
Roy Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient, and the most highly decorated veteran of the war in Vietnam, died November 29, 1998, at age 63. He had been a member of Chapter 1919, Military Order of the Purple Heart for two years at the time of his death. An extract, only a part of the wording from the citation of his award tells this story. The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of the Congress the Medal of Honor to: MASTER SERGEANT ROY P. BENAVIDEZ, UNITED STATES ARMY, (RETIRED), for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: On May 2, 1968, Master Sergeant (then Staff Sergeant) ROY P. BENAVIDEZ distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions while assigned to Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam. A 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam…the team met heavy enemy resistance, and requested extraction. Three helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy…fire. Sergeant Benavidez was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters returned to off-load wounded crew members…Sergeant Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt. Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team…he was wounded in his right leg, face, and head. Despite these painful injuries, he took charge, repositioned the team members and directed their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members…Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the waiting aircraft. He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up classified documents on the dead team leader. When he reached the team leader’s body, Sergeant Benavidez was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back. At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded, and his helicopter crashed. Although in extremely critical condition due to his wounds, Sergeant Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the stunned survivors into a defensive perimeter. Under increasing automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, re-instilling in them a will to live and fight….Sergeant Benavidez…began calling in tactical air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gunships to suppress the enemy’s fire and so permit another extraction attempt. He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land…he began to ferry his comrades to the craft. On his second trip with the wounded he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, he sustained additional wounds to his head and arms before killing his adversary. He then continued to carry the wounded to the helicopter. Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed two enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the door gunner from firing upon them he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded. Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood did he allow himself to be pulled into the aircraft. His valorous actions in the face of overwhelming odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect the utmost credit on him and the United States Army.
7 posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 2:37:01 PM by gedeon3
You can’t serve in the military without being a LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT, i.e., a green card holder. There is already a program to expedite the citizenship process for LPRs who serve in the military. Approximately 30,000 LPRs are serving on active duty.
Let’s try this one more for the slow of comprehension...
FFranco wasn’t saying that those Hispanics (who are Illegals) shouldn’t be awarded citizenship or treated with anything less than the enormous respect they deserve.
His point was how McCain stretches a truth to try and make it cover something it shouldn’t.
In this case, McCain using the valorous service of Hispanic Illegal Aliens as a cover to give citizenship to a whole lot of people who DID NOT fight in Iraq and who have committed misdeamenors and felonies while here.
Why would I do that in this thread?
“When I bring them home in victory and with honor, they are staying home.”
Damn, say what you want about John McCain, but when he said that, I believed him, just like believe President Bush when he committed us to the war.
We have almost “un-done” the eight years of clinton on the military and the country — I could never imagine jeopardizing it by allowing obambi into office...it’s just to scary.
http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/
Ah, so you're going to call a cancer survivor a cancer in another thread.
What the hell is your point? If you want to have a spitting match about Juan's cancer issue, then go over to that thread, and we'll have the spitting match. But not here, please.
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