Lovely manipulation of the truth in that attachment.
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There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of
January .
. .
US personnel, or does that include civilian deaths, prisoner deaths, collateral fatalities?
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FDR...led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. €
From
1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.
The US was attacked; it was fighting in self-defence and to aid its allies, who were fighting for their very survival. World War Two was a fight against the genocidal expansionism of the Nazis. The war was a moral cause, as well as a political one.
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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.
Everyone knows that the Korean War was a "police action" against communism. It was little more than an abomination; it's exactly the kind of thing we're seeing in the "war on terrorism". Just because bad things happened in the past doesn't make the present any better or more justifiable.
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John F. Kennedy...started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never
attacked us. Johnson...turned Vietnam into a quagmire. € >From
1965-1975,
58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
No kidding. Atrocities happened regularly in Vietnam; if anything, it should've shown the world that meddling in other nations' affairs like that should never be done without dire need.
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Clinton...went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia
never
attacked us.
The NATO air strikes prevented the genocide of 300,000 Kosovar Muslim innocents. It also led to the fall and current war-crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic. It was a swift, efficient campaign; the civilian death toll was far too high, but it was far better than Bush's bungles.
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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.
After the USS Cole attack and the African embassy bombings, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on terrorist facilities and camps in Afghanistan. They were trying to capture or kill Bin Laden from 1997 onward. Whoever wrote this document is either lying, or poorly informed.
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In the two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has
...liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida
Yes, Iraq is so free right now, and there's no violence or fear in Afghanistan.:rolleyes2 Afghanistan is still under UN interim administration, and insurgents are capturing Western civilians. Iraq is both a mess and a bloodbath.
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put
nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a
shot
By threatening to invade other sovereign nations and kill their leaders and cause heavy collateral casualties, yes. Way to go.
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and
captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
Hussein's wars killed two million people. Those wars were fought with US and Russian weaponry and support. Up to a hundred thousand people have died in the war that eventually led to Hussein's capture. Again, way to go.
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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.
In the Branch Davidian case, the US authorities were actually trying to avoid bloodshed. In Iraq, Bush made it clear he was going to invade and kill no matter what was said or done.
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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. 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.
The US government has already announced that there were no WMDs in Iraq at the time of the invasion. Not that they haven't found any, but that there were none at all.
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It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in
Florida!!!!
Tell that to the people of Fallujah.
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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.
Yes, and this message was brought to you from a totally non-biased source. Also, US forces are overjoyed at their sometimes poor equipment and poor support.
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For those who don't remember - During WWII, Howard Metzenbaum was an
attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA. Now he is a
Senator!
Yeah, getting a fair trial with equal legal representation has never been important in the US, especially for communists. We know this already. It's what makes America the greatest land of freedom in the world.
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If you can read this, thank a teacher.... If you are reading it in
English
thank a Veteran. It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating
'till
next November . . .
Yep, don't bother thanking the president who decided to go to the world's aid against the Nazis. That had nothing to do with it; it was all G.I. Joe's doing.
I mean, omgwtf.
That's one of the most stereotypical pieces of garbage propoganda I've ever read. If the US public are buying into that, it's no wonder Bush is currently ahead in the elections. I fear for this world, I really do...
