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BCfosheezy

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« on: January 26, 2007, 07:43:00 AM »

JOHN GLENN SAID
 
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.
 
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 W.W.II, Howard
Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party
in the USA.
 
Now he's a Senator!


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pug_ster

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2007, 08:44:00 AM »

E-mail from John Glenn?  I didn't know that he was into mass e-mailing.

I'm sure that these e-mails are strictly one sided and all that said and done, couldn't convince us that Iraq was more stable than when Saddam was in power.
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BCfosheezy

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2007, 08:53:00 AM »

QUOTE(pug_ster @ Jan 26 2007, 09:51 AM) View Post
E-mail from John Glenn? I didn't know that he was into mass e-mailing.


Lol. "Concerning" does not equal "from".
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I'm sure that these e-mails are strictly one sided and all that said and done, couldn't convince us that Iraq was more stable than when Saddam was in power.


It's hard to tell if it's one-sided or not. It does not hide the fact that Iraq is "war-torn" or that in January of whatever year that was 39 people died in Iraq. I think if it were strictly one-sided it would attempt to hide such facts. They are made blatantly obvious in that email.

At any rate, it informs the reader of facts. With very few opinions.
Also, I'm not sure anyone who enjoys the fruits of Democracy can say that the hardships a nation must go through to achieve it are not worth the end result. If you say they aren't getting anywhere, take a look at American History. It took us a long time to get it right. Why would we expect anything different from Iraq?

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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2007, 02:21:00 PM »

Like I said, this e-mail is strictly one sided.  39 from combat related killings and not 39 'died' like what you said.  They obviously omitted the fact that most of the troops died by roadside bombs.

Second, the speech from John Glenn is dated at 2.5 years ago.  I'm not even going to go into the other details.
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BCfosheezy

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2007, 02:33:00 PM »

QUOTE(pug_ster @ Jan 26 2007, 03:28 PM) View Post
Like I said, this e-mail is strictly one sided. 39 from combat related killings and not 39 'died' like what you said. They obviously omitted the fact that most of the troops died by roadside bombs.


None of what you said shows at all that it is one-sided.... not even at all.


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Second, the speech from John Glenn is dated at 2.5 years ago. I'm not even going to go into the other details.


What does that have to do with anything?

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BCfosheezy

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2007, 08:04:00 PM »

QUOTE(Colonel32 @ Feb 4 2007, 06:26 PM) View Post


Actually it is from 1974, making it even more ridiculous wink.gif




Lol why would you even dig this thread up to say that false bs?

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2007, 07:01:00 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2007, 07:19:00 AM »

QUOTE(throwingks @ Feb 5 2007, 08:08 AM) View Post


 

Oh ok. I wasn't even considering that part as it is the most insignificant part of the whole thing. Also, I thought the date given there in '04 was for that verbal exchange. I don't see how the first part could be from '74 as there had been no "iraq war" or "president Bush" yet. smile.gif

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An Email I Got Concerning John Glenn
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2007, 10:26:00 PM »

QUOTE(BCfosheezy @ Feb 5 2007, 08:26 AM) View Post

Oh ok. I wasn't even considering that part as it is the most insignificant part of the whole thing. Also, I thought the date given there in '04 was for that verbal exchange. I don't see how the first part could be from '74 as there had been no "iraq war" or "president Bush" yet. smile.gif
 

John Glenn had nothing to do with the first part of your post, and the second part was dated 30 years too late, and labeled an impromtu speech in congress (it was a prepared speech for a debate)..

Comparing murders in detroit to combat killings in iraq is definitely one sided.. how many murders happened in iraq in january?

These mass forwarded emails are ALWAYS one-sided and unfounded on anything, that's why people like to forward them. (remember that one about NASA finding a day missing in space.. proving the bible correct once and for all... wtf?)
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