More Electoral Glurge

[Yamirskoonir]

In the spirit of this thread, here’s some more glurge I just received from a co-worker. Who wants to help me explain to her why you can’t exactly compare all the major wars of the past century to the war in Iraq?

Subject: FWD (ad infinitum): President Bush
CHECK THIS OUT!!!

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January…In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January.

That’s just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq. When some claim President Bush shouldn’t have started this war, state the following …

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.

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 18,334 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.

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.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us
President Bush has …
liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban,
crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya,
Iran and North Korea without firing a shot,
and captured a terrorist who slaughtered
300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but…
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.

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.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!

The Military morale is high!

The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.

PASS IT ON.

[Polerius]

@Yamirskoonir

In the spirit of this thread, here’s some more glurge I just received from a co-worker.

Why do all the stupid emails posted in the Pit seem to be coming from Bush supprters?

Can someone please post a stupid email from a Kerry supporter, just so we can feel good that there is a balance of stupidity on both sides?

[stpauler]

Clinton… went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent,
So now Republicans care about the French?

He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at hotel in Arlington, Virginia, on March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later.
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Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept Mr. bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.

This doesn’t make any sense:
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but…
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation…
We’ve taken Iraq? Really? No. One look at Fallujah will answer that.
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.
And we really haven’t found them.

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
Just because he got a gold star on his crayon project doesn’t mean anything.

The Military morale is high!
Really?Is that why people are suing the US Government to stay out? OR
Leadership turnover, coupled with manpower, training and morale problems, plagued the Rock Hill-based Army Reserve company that caused an international uproar when up to 18 soldiers refused convoy orders in Iraq Oct. 13, family members of soldiers say

The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
Ahh… It’s the media. So where did you get your facts here then? :rolleyes:

[Raygun99]

@Yamirskoonir

FDR… led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.

Yes, Germany was just sitting there all innocent and demure… until they declared war on the United States…

[Squink]

There were 2,404,598 deaths in the US from all causes in the year 2000. That’s an average of 6569.94 deaths per day, or 273.7 deaths per hour.

When Osama attacked America in 2001, he killed about 3000 people. That’s fewer people than die in 11 hours on an average day. What’s the big deal about that?

[mrunlucky]

The problem here is that people do this thing where they trot out a library full of facts and lies and half-truths, figuring that no one is going to be able to dispute them, because they have so much information to overwhelm people with. Ann Coulter is one of the current reigning champions of this tactic. The other problem is that as soon as you try to dispute just one of these facts or lies, you get caught up in their quagmire of eternal debate, which isn’t really a debate, but an excuse for them to reinforce their own smugness. So, really, while your co-worker may have a list of arguements for/against something (the Bush administration in this case), they aren’t open for debate or learning something that goes against their convictions, they’ve already made up their mind, and they’re just being a tiresome windbag. The best response is to just ignore them