Patriots! Star if you like!?
At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country's prior actions, here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country. These are good JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded "does that include those who are buried here? DeGaulle did not respond. You could have heard a pin drop When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return.' You could have heard a pin drop ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do? Bomb them?' A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear p owered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several hundred thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?' You could have heard a pin drop ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?' Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, 'Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.' You could have heard a pin drop ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE... Robert Whiting , an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchman to show a passport to." You could have heard a pin drop The country is turning into socialism, and the puppets in D.C. don't realize it. Corrupt fools. I smell a liberal. Democrats often talk with emotion, not facts. And when confronted with facts they either try to insult you and intimidate you or insult you and try to intimidate you. If you honestly don't realize that all of these stimulus packages are just a ploy to get America to go bankrupt and that Health Care will not only turn America into socialism, but it will ruin the economy. It will force people to spend money on Health Care, or they get penalized. This is not what America needs right now, they need to get a job, make money, and make it so you have to own property to vote. That'd mean Obama's votes would be non-existant, almost. If you don't realize this, then your truly an imbecile and believe what the media is telling you.
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Very good quotes. But not questions, just rant. Social security and unemployment is socialism. I suppose you want to do away with them too? If you read up on it, instead of just listening to others talk, you may not be so scared.
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Very good, the last one gave me goosebumps, and the other poster is right, social security is a form of socialism, and yes I am for getting rid of it because like all other social programs they are highly abused. Social Security was presented to the American people as a retirement plan for when they get older, but it was presented to congress as a tax. Now we are being told that we have to retire later, we will not recieve as much, and the money is being used to float other programs, defeating the purpose of Social Security. America has some social programs in place that I believe are good and very benificial, but that does not mean all of them are, and you can't justify a whole change in government because your town has a good library.
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EXCELLENT post! Rather long but it kept me reading. This needs to be posted on every refrigerator in the country. I lived in the times when America took no crap from anyone. You, my friend, shows a true Patriot
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