John Glenn

>   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!
> >
> >   If you can read this, thank a teacher.
> >   If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.