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I don't know who the author is but he makes some very good
points......
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism.
But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq. Bush's
mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father
fought for in WWII. It is not. Back then, they had just come out of a
vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that
depression. But they still believed fervently in this country. They knew
that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the people's duty to
back those leaders.
Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together,
rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for
them or not or whether the war was going badly or not. And war was just as
distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is today. Often there
were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq
war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because
it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences in WWII
and worked together to win that war. Everyone from every strata of society,
from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to
gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their
pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.
Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or
condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work
to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline
to soap, to butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.
You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the
President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors
and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile
countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made
upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops' morale. And a
bunch even enlisted. And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started
the day off with a pledge of allegiance, and with prayers for our country
and our troops!
Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain
weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum
damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to
catch spies. A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had
complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being "tortured" by being
forced to wear women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman,
or being scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning.
There were a lot of things different back then. We were not
subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and
promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crackheads,
dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets.
No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of
terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage
and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country
that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve. It is not the same country.
It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz. We even
have the wicked witch of the west as the new Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
We did unite for a short while after 911, but our attitude
changed when we found out that defending our country would require some
sacrifices.
NOW HEAR THIS! We are in great danger. The terrorists are
fanatical Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill
anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one
third or over three hundred million Muslims are sympathetic to the
terrorists' cause
Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many
potential recruits.
We either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like losing.
I don't know who the author is but he makes some very good
points......
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism.
But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq. Bush's
mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father
fought for in WWII. It is not. Back then, they had just come out of a
vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that
depression. But they still believed fervently in this country. They knew
that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the people's duty to
back those leaders.
Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together,
rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for
them or not or whether the war was going badly or not. And war was just as
distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is today. Often there
were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq
war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because
it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences in WWII
and worked together to win that war. Everyone from every strata of society,
from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to
gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their
pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.
Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or
condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work
to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline
to soap, to butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.
You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the
President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors
and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile
countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made
upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops' morale. And a
bunch even enlisted. And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started
the day off with a pledge of allegiance, and with prayers for our country
and our troops!
Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain
weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum
damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to
catch spies. A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had
complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being "tortured" by being
forced to wear women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman,
or being scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning.
There were a lot of things different back then. We were not
subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and
promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crackheads,
dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets.
No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of
terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage
and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country
that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve. It is not the same country.
It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz. We even
have the wicked witch of the west as the new Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
We did unite for a short while after 911, but our attitude
changed when we found out that defending our country would require some
sacrifices.
NOW HEAR THIS! We are in great danger. The terrorists are
fanatical Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill
anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one
third or over three hundred million Muslims are sympathetic to the
terrorists' cause
Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many
potential recruits.
We either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like losing.
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