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Price of Freedom
Self | 08/06/2004 | Chris Davis
Posted on 08/06/2004 7:43:31 PM PDT by writer33
Freedom isn’t cheap. It’s the most expensive asset in America. Without freedom, all other assets would become negligible. If we take a look at a balance sheet, freedom would be listed as a Long Term Asset, the kind of asset that takes years and years to pay off.
Who pays it off? The United States Armed Forces. The men and women in the military make that payment on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Over the years, those sacrifices made have been an installment to freedom. Each deployment and death have made life in America all the more perfect. Those in uniform have provided us with a balance sheet of long term assets like no other country in the world.
We have become a superpower through the use of our U.S. Armed Forces. Each entity of those forces-Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard-provide us with ample protection against enemies, foreign and domestic. Their blood has allowed the pursuit of excellence, in business, in politics, and around the world.
The freedom to make those daily choices in our lives is provided by strangers at home and in far and distant lands. Every stranger stood at a podium and took an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Within the Constitution lie our inherent daily freedoms and rights. The rights the media loves to wave their flag at.
The media loves to tout their freedom of speech. Oh, yes, their freedom of speech, the First Amendment to the Constitution. The one they cherish so closely. The one they champion vigorously, even if it means putting our soldiers in harm’s way. No matter what it takes, the story must go forth, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. That is their belief. That is their sentiment. It is those principles that drive them, day after day, without any regard for those that bear the responsibility for allowing that very freedom.
Liberalism and the liberal media have done more to endanger our soldiers lives than any war. Over the last ten years-Bosnia, Kosovo, and Mogadishu-are examples of bright, shining liberal causes, placing our troops in danger. All of these deployments were to foreign countries on liberal humanitarian missions. These causes were pushed heavily by the U.S. and World media. President Bill Clinton, the most liberal President since Jimmy Carter, governed all of these exercises after “The Big Media” insisted we intervene for the cause of humanity.
Recently, with the release of pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the liberal media has chastised Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, and our soldiers. Quickly, they chant fond remembrances of John Kerry’s testimony and atrocities of Vietnam.
Single-handedly, they make the likeness to the “murder of innocent women and children,” as testified by John Kerry in 1971. In their push to blame the sons and daughters of America, they point out the First Amendment to the Constitution. They identify their freedom of speech as their “cause.” The right of the American people to know. They press the story, harder and harder, making it seem as if it broke only a few short days ago. In truth, the story has been circulating since January, when the silence in the media could be compared to a small town library on Sunday afternoon.
They sit on their lofty chairs, as if they were kings, pointing their fingers at a few bad apples, and stating, “See this is what are military does. They are to blame for everything wrong in Iraq. We told you so.” In their haste, they scold the personnel responsible for giving them an opportunity to sit on their thrones.
With a few exceptions-Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Free Republic, etc…-they jeer at them in their hypocrisy. There are few media personnel and liberals today that can really appreciate the plights of our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and mothers and fathers. In their heyday, they spit upon my father’s generation. Now, they attempt to spit upon mine. I will not bow my head in shame.
They scream their vitriol, attempting to once again relive the Vietnam War, and forgetting that Mogadishu harmed the reputation of the U.S. Military far more than these pictures in Iraq. Liberals, and the media elite, seem to become absent-minded in their rage. They seem to misplace the demoralizing stain Mogadishu left on are Armed Forces and Special Forces. The U.S. Special Forces, among the best to serve in our military, were handcuffed like prisoners going to trial in Mogadishu. President Bill Clinton branded our military as “cowards” that cut and run, making it near impossible to earn the fear and respect of terrorists.
Now, as we approach Labor Day, a new president sits in office. President George W. Bush, a fine example of moral integrity, leads our troops in Iraq. Today, he roots out terrorism, as if it were termites invading the foundation of American homes. He sends our men and women into battle on a cause for freedom, liberating the Iraqi people from dictatorship and establishing a democracy. He apologizes for the actions of a few, but keeps his faith in our military.
Never have I felt more patriotic than on this day. Never have I been reminded of what it meant to have served this fine country. This America, the beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. And never have I been so lucky to have those individuals make sacrifices for the price of freedom.
There hasn’t been a president, like George W. Bush, since President Ronald Reagan brought us from our liberal slumber. He (Reagan) made us feel patriotic again. He made us proud to brandish the title, American. President Reagan brought excellence to business, to culture, and to our spirituality as Americans. He made us whole again. President George W. Bush follows that same legacy. He took a broken country away from President Bill Clinton and is attempting to piece it together.
President George Bush has taken a once defeated military and made them confident and strong again. He has made the price of freedom all the more worth it in the 21st Century. Today, I am a prouder American, a thriving American, and a more patriotic American than five years ago.
Despite the claims of the liberal media, I am thankful for the sons and daughters, brothers and sister, and mothers and fathers serving in our military. I am forever grateful of their sacrifices for the price of freedom. Despite a few bad apples from Abu Ghraib prison, I remain filled with honor. I have served with some of the finest individuals I’ll ever know, those that knew the price of freedom.
The NAM and medal stuff was just to get their attention. The After Ban stuff is so well documented Kerry can't dodge this with surrogates and shipmates.
A couple of months ago, a guy was released from prison (or at least had his sentenced overturned) after video of him attending a baseball game surfaced that proved he was at the game at the time of the crime that was committed, so obviously he couldn't have committed the crime.
Imagine if his lawyer told a Judge, "I have proof my client couldn't have committed the crime he was convicted of", but then didn't produce the proof.
Would the Judge just take it a face value or would he say, "Well, where's the proof? What do you have?"
Isn't that sort of the game Kerry is playing?
Yes. This is an excellent time to start collecting clips and passages illustrating media bias for later letters to the editor, etc. The mainstream media is resorting to blatant and undisguised twists because they are so riled up right now.
I like this. Hope to hear some guests use it, "That's not spin, it's deception!"
Despite not being able to find many witnesses to his service, GWB did not have anyone who served with him come out & say he was unfit for the presidency.
The vast majority of those who served with Kerry have come out and said he is unfit. This is unprecedented and very telling.
When the Swiftvets lose we all lose. We will see tomorrow what the postimesjournal has to say to debase the Swiftvets. From what I can tell it is going to be that the Swiftvets and Kerry both where wrong. They will attempt to undermine the Swiftvet's facts with unsubstantiated hersay and never point it out. Then of course they will point out that Bush and Rove are personally calling each and everyone of the Swiftvets and telling them what to say. The end result is the sheeple will fall back into their slumber.
A viewer would have to have their head in the sand to not notice that Bush has been attacked repeatedly and the media was complicit in the attack, but now that Kerry's been attacked, they're trying to dig up excuses to support him.
It's so transparent and blatant, that it's laughable.
Kerry supporters are happy, but the "average Joe" will know there's a huge differential in the way the press condemns Bush and defends Kerry.
RELEASE THE RECORDS....this is WAR, and the ONLY way to stop the bloodbath is to get the truth out.
Sometimes Honesty takes prisoners and gives them a good roughing up, followed by Time in the Corner to see if the lesson took, before releasing them back into society. If reformed, Honesty and the former POW don't tangle again.
Excellent article!
All the L.A. talkshows were talking about the SBV today in Los Angeles. They were all repeating the DNC blastfax that the SBV work for Bush, Texas, blah , bah, blah, none of them dared to refute the charges the SBV have brought against Kerry. Kerry is toast.
