Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $29,008
35%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 35%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: georgemcclellanbuff

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Soldier's widow voices opinion on war

    05/06/2004 11:32:19 PM PDT · by churchillbuff · 177 replies · 602+ views
    WMTV, News 8 ^ | May 6, 04 | Anya Huneke
    BURLINGTON, VT. -- "Infinitely honest," "selfless," "full of life" -- just a few of the words Lavinia Onitiu-Gelineau uses to describe her late husband, Chris. "I knew my husband was one in a million. I knew that," she says. Lavinia has had two weeks to digest the news of Sgt. Gelineau's death. What started out as immeasurable grief has turned to anger. Lavnia says, "I'm very proud of my husband, but I'm not proud of the reason he was there, and neither was he. A lot of people are not proud, but they have no choice. They can't say otherwise."...
  • George F. Will: America is learning it can’t spread democracy by force

    06/01/2004 11:22:37 PM PDT · by churchillbuff · 94 replies · 337+ views
    Manchester Union-Leader ^ | May 27, 04 | George Will
    <p>“If Jefferson provided the essential poetry of American political discourse, Hamilton established the prose of American statecraft.” — Ron Chernow “Alexander Hamilton”</p> <p>THIS WEEK the President, in an agreeably prosaic frame of mind, turned U.S. policy in Iraq in a direction for which Americans are ready.</p>