Five years ago, this country was told that the Iraqi government possessed weapons of mass destruction and had connections to al-Qaeda and 9/11. And five years ago, President Bush went on the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared “Mission Accomplished”, saying that major combat operations in Iraq were over. Five years later, we’re still there. No weapons of mass destructions, no connections to al-Qaeda or 9/11, 4,000 American soldiers dead and over 1 million Iraqis dead. And this President STILL wants to claim that this war is a “success”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Delta Gents Speech (given February 20, 2008)
On December 23, 1776, Thomas Paine wrote in The American Crisis:
“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Obviously, the times Thomas Paine talked about are different from today but his words capture the essence of the emergency this nation is in today. Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, this nation, through fear, has been led down a dangerous path that could erode the most sacred principles on which it was built. Read the rest of this entry »
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