Sep 03 2010
Never Gonna Stand For This
“Never Gonna Stand For This”
By Teachenor Clark.
Archive for the 'Inspirational' Category
Aug 27 2010
Thanks To Our Men & Women in Uniform
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a new web video highlighting progress in Iraq, and thanking our men and women in uniform for the courage and sacrifice they’ve shown in helping bring about progress there. The video, entitled “Victory is the Only Option,” underscores the success of the surge strategy that was opposed by then-Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid and other Democrats when it was announced by General David Petraeus and President George W. Bush. While the Obama Administration today is seeking to take credit for “ending the combat mission” in Iraq, the video credits our troops and their families, whose hard work, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication have helped transform Iraq from a once volatile threat to a nascent democracy and a key ally of the United States. Following is the video and script:
SCRIPT: “VICTORY IS THE ONLY OPTION” (2:26)
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH): “Who doesn’t believe that if we withdraw and leave that chaos in the Middle East, that the terrorists won’t follow us here to the United States? Victory is the only option.”
TEXT: Victory
TEXT: Only Option
TEXT: Only Option?
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID (D-NV): “I believe that this war is lost.”
TEXT: “This war is lost”
THEN-SENATOR JOE BIDEN (D-DE): “This Administration’s policy and the surge are a failure.”
TEXT: Surge is a “failure”
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): “Democrats are saying to the President this is not the way to go. It has failed over and over.”
TEXT: “It has failed”
THEN-SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL): “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
TEXT: “Do the reverse”
NBC NEWS’ RICHARD ENGEL: “Troops here say they are increasingly frustrated by American criticism of the war. Many take it personally, believing it is also criticism of what they’ve been fighting for.”
U.S. SOLDIER: “One thing I don’t like is when people back home say they support the troops but they don’t support the war. If they’re going to support us, support us all the way.”
ABC NEWS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT ANCHOR CHARLIE GIBSON: “One item from Baghdad today. The news is that there is no news. There were no major acts of violence.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSCAST: “The transfer marks a dramatic milestone in America’s plan to eventually hand over all 18 Iraqi provinces.”
CBS EVENING NEWS ANCHOR KATIE COURIC: “Numbers do indicate that Iraq became much safer during the surge.”
ABC’S TERRY MORAN: “But the surge of U.S. troops, combined with ordinary Iraqis’ rejection of both al-Qaeda and Shiite extremists, has transformed the country.”
THEN-SENATOR OBAMA: “I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated.”
TEXT: “Succeeded in ways nobody anticipated”
TEXT: Nobody?
REP. MIKE PENCE (R-IN): “Our brave men and women in uniform need to know that those who send them into battle will stand by them until the battle is won.”
REP. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R-FL): “Let us not just support our troops, let’s support their mission.”
REP. PETER KING (R-NY): “It is time for members of this body to show at least a small percentage of the courage shown every day by our troops in Iraq.”
REP. SAM JOHNSON (R-TX): “We must stick by them, we must support them all the way. And to our troops, we must remain, always faithful.”
TEXT: To our men and women in uniform and their families
TEXT: Thank you.
May 22 2010
WOW !! WOW !! AND WOW AGAIN !!
| WOW !! WOW !! AND WOW AGAIN !! 95 year old hero!Letter To Obama at White house Sent from 95 year Old Pearl Harbor Survivor !! Fantastic!! WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out ! This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president. Dear President Obama, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor , allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.. One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes. I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish. I can’t figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: ” We’re no longer a Christian nation” ” America is arrogant” – (Your wife even announced to the world,” America is mean- spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.) I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House. After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.” Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom. I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected. Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man. Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves. And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists. One more thing.. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of. You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president. You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle… Sincerely, Harold B. Estes Snopes confirms as true: |