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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:52 AM
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Someone sent the following e-mail to my husband. He sent it to me and suggested a response. Anybody got anything handy to send back?

Worst president in history?
>
> (The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to
> the editor.
> Please forward to all on your list as this will put things in
> perspective:)
>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> In the two years since terrorists attacked us,
> President Bush has liberated two countries,
> crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida,
> put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a
> shot,
> captured a terrorist who slaughtered 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.
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> Worst president in history? Come on!
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> The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...
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> It took less time to take Iraq
> than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound.
> That was a 51 day operation.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> It took less time to take Iraq
> than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
>
> Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON.


Note how it brings up all the usual liberal boogey-men/women. Ugh. Pathetic.

Julie
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