Posted on 04/17/2004 8:44:02 PM PDT by Conservative_since_63
My nephew, who is in the Navy, sent me this: "You have to go after the facts, they won't come to your office" General Bruce C. Clark
Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S history. Let's clear up one point: President Bush didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11. Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.
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. 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 18,333 per year.
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. 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. Over 2,900 lives lost on 9/11.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, rushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered at least 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.
Worst president in history? Come on! 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 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 Teddy 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 military is GREAT! PASS IT ON.
That gets the juices flowing. Great post.
How many non-combat deaths occur each year in the military? In peacetime?
I would just about bet that there are more than we have lost to combat each year in Iraq.
Eisenhower got us involved in Viet Nam, not Truman................FRegards
That would embarrassing for domestic enemies to think about.
Actually true, however I think it was 'observer status' only, although the first Vietnam death of an American was one of these observers. I think History shows it more actually as Kennedy actually getting us in on a war footing, and all coincidently after the mess at the Bay of Pigs. And Johnson DID make it worse, quagmire is being polite. Nixon got us respect and a cease fire till the Dem 's made Watergate be his undoing.
That would embarrassing for domestic enemies to think about..."
I wonder if anyone will approach kerry with that bit of data? Naw, not with hildabeaste clawing as his running-mate!
kerry's an a$$hole alright, but I'd hate to be in his shoes. Old-crustypants HAS to be the VP choice, just to get her out of a Senate defeat in '06, which would finish her forever.
By now, kerry knows that he'll NEVER be President, at least not for long.............FRegards
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