8/4/04
(From
an email circulating
through the Simpson mill. I composed this rebuttal in an attempt to show our
members how something so seemingly simple just doesn't turn out to be true. --
President Chuck
Whitt)
Here are some interesting
points that help put current events into perspective: Very interesting!
There were 39 combat
related killings in
Iraq
during the month of 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
. (The
murder rate in the
US
is 5.6 murders for every 100,000 people. With 130,000 troops
deployed in
Iraq
in January 2004, that puts the murder rate (killing our
soldiers IS murder) in
Iraq
at 29.8 for every 100,000 soldiers. This is better? No,
it’s just further evidence we should be spending our money saving lives here
rather than wasting lives in
Iraq
.)
When some claim President
Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following...
FDR...
led us into World War II.
Germany
never attacked us; Japan did.; (Couldn’t stay awake in history, huh? In 1940, before Japan
had ever attacked us, German U-Boats attacked American shipping on the following
dates: Sept. 11- US freighter "Montana" sunk en route to Iceland;
Sept. 19 - armed US-Panama freighter "Pink Star" sunk en route to
Iceland with cargo of food; Sept. 27 - US-Panamanian oil tanker "I.C.
White" sunk en route to South Africa; Oct. 16 - US tanker "W.C. Teagle"
sunk and U.S.-Panama freighter "Bold Venture" sunk; Oct. 17 - US
destroyer "Kearny" torpedoed and damaged with 11 killed inside
Security Zone; Oct. 19 - U.S. freighter "Lehigh" sunk in South
Atlantic; Oct. 30 - U.S.-Panama armed tanker "Salinas" torpedoed and
damaged; Oct. 31 - U.S. destroyer "Reuben
James" sunk inside Security Zone, 115 killed)
From
1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. (Comparing apples to apples: According to recent Department of
Defense statistics, the
United States
had 291,557 combat
related killings in WWII.)
Truman...
finished
that war and started one in
Korea
.
North Korea
never attacked us. (
North Korea
attacked our ally
South Korea
. Interesting to note here, the
U.S.
went to war in
Korea
after the U.N.
asked us to join a real coalition.)
From
1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year. (There were 33,741 combat related killings in the
Korean War.)
John F. Kennedy...
started the
Vietnam
conflict in 1962.
Vietnam
never attacked us. (Kennedy
took office in 1961. In 1945: First
American Dies in
Vietnam
: Lt. Col. A.
Peter Dewey, head of American
OSS
mission,
was killed by Vietminh troops while driving a jeep to the airport. 1957:
Terrorist Bombings Rock
Saigon
: Thirteen
Americans working for MAAG and US Information Service are wounded in terrorist
bombings in
Saigon
. 1959: US Servicemen Killed in Guerilla Attack: Major
Dale R. Buis and Master Sargeant
Chester
M. Ovnand die in the Vietnam War when guerillas strike at
Bienhoa.)
Johnson...
turned
Vietnam
into a quagmire. (“Following
conflict between
U.S.
destroyers and North Vietnamese gunboats, Pres. Johnson is
given authority to "prevent further aggression." Measure passes
Congress 416-0 in House and 88-2 in Senate.” Let’s see, now Bush’s support
in his Republican House and Republican Senate were: The Senate voted 77-23 to
authorize President Bush to attack
Iraq
if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons
of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions. Hours earlier,
the House approved an identical resolution, 296-133. Not the overwhelming
support Johnson had, is it?)
From 1965-1975, 58,000
lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year. (According
to recent Department of Defense statistics, there were 47,424 combat related
killings in the Vietnam War.)
Clinton
...
went to war in
Bosnia
without UN or French consent.
Bosnia
never attacked us. (Clinton
went to Bosnia as part of a NATO force, designed since the 40’s to stop wars
in
Europe
. NATO’s intervention stopped the Balkan conflict. There
were zero American combat related
killings. And through
Clinton
’s entire 8 year term, the DoD reports that only 59 of our
brothers and sisters in uniform gave their lives in hostile attacks. Let’s
see, three and a half years later, about 1000 have given their life to Bush’s
policies.))
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. (“From
the fall of 1996 until weeks before the September 2001 attack on the
World
Trade
Center
, the Mukhabarat(Sudanese Intelligence Agency) made repeated
efforts to share its files on terrorists with the
U.S.
On more than one occasion senior F.B.I. officials wanted to
accept the offers, but were apparently overruled by the State Department.”
Note that this time frame involved the Bush Administration too, and had they
engaged the Mukhabarat, 9-11 may have been prevented. Do yourself a favor, read
the report of the 9-11 Commission.)
In the two years since
terrorists attacked us President Bush has...
liberated two countries, (
Afghanistan
and
Iraq
, yeah, Bush’s idea of liberty.)
crushed the Taliban, (Yeah
he did, and bravo for him and our soldiers. We should have stayed there looking
for the man who attacked us on 9-11, Osama Bin Laden. But no, Bush pulled our 5th
Special Forces out of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden to send them to
Iraq
(who has never attacked us).
crippled al-Qaeda, (counter terrorism expert Richard Clarke recently said,
“al-Qaeda has metamorphosized into a hydra-headed organization with cells that
are operating autonomously, like the cells that operated in
Madrid
recently.” The International Institute for Strategic
Studies annual Strategic Survey states that al-Qaeda still has more than 18,000
“graduates” of the terror camps it can call on—and its recruitment has
accelerated as a result of the invasion of Iraq.)
put nuclear inspectors in
Libya
,
Iran
and
North Korea
without firing a shot, (We have
nuclear inspectors in
Iran
and
North Korea
? This is where ignorance is really dangerous. We know North
Korea (who we fought a war with) has nuclear weapons, because they have already
threatened us with them, and suspect Iran (who attacked our embassy and took
Americans hostage) has a nuclear program, but we have no one on the ground to
control or verify these threats because we’re wasting our soldier’s lives in
Iraq (who has never attacked us.)
and captured a terrorist
who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
(Simply armed Americans fought for our own freedom and threw off a militarily
powerful and brutal ruler. The Iraqi’s are, and have been, well armed with
automatic weapons (AK-47’s)and explosives of all types. Why didn’t they use
them to fight for themselves? Do they really want our “freedom”?)
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. (OK, great
comeback! But I still have to ask: Have we taken
Iraq
yet?)
We've been looking for
evidence of chemical weapons in
Iraq
for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to
find the Rose Law Firm billing records. (“We
know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and
Baghdad
.” Donald Rumsfeld
March 30, 2003
. If they knew where they were, then it’s fair to ask; Is
the Bush Administration hiding something similar to the Republican accusations
that Hillary was hiding something?)
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. (
Clinton
sure did build one fine military force in his 8 years in
office. You gotta love our soldiers!)
It took less time to take
Iraq
than it took to count the votes in
Florida
. (It
would have gone much faster if those rabid Republicans had not interrupted the
recount of American ballots by banging on the windows and doors of the election
recount room. Most of us would spank our kids for behavior like that.)
Our Commander-in-Chief is
doing a GREAT JOB. The Military moral is high. (If dividing
the country, fracturing the Constitution and reducing military recruiting and
readiness is doing a good job, then, yeah, Bush is “Gitten ‘er Done”)
The biased media hopes we
are too ignorant to realize the facts. (And the
Republicans count on it.)
There are real facts out
there if you’re willing to seek them. An email such as the one rebutted here
does not meet the criteria of seeking the truth.
Ignorance,
it’s up to you.
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