Memo To Howard Dean

[Annie]

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg121305.asp

Paul Greenberg

A brief history of Western valor: From time immemorial to Howard Dean

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | "Be strong and of good courage . . ." — Joshua, 1:6


"Stranger, go tell the Spartans that here we are buried, obedient to their orders." — Herodotus, quoting the epitaph for the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae, 480 B.C.E.


"Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens, as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action . . . . For the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. For you now it remains to rival what they have done and knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset." — Pericles' Funeral Oration, 431 B.C.E.


"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma and Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm." — Elizabeth I on the approach of the Spanish Armada, 1588


"England expects every man will do his duty." — Admiral Nelson at Trafalgar, 1805


"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. . . . We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in." — Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis," 1776-1777


"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." — Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862


"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." — U.S. Grant, May 11, 1864


"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, Sept. 11, 1941


"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never . . . ." — Winston Churchill, Oct. 29, 1941


"With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounded determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us G-d." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941


"I shall return." — Douglas MacArthur, Corregidor, March 11, 1942


"We can do it!" — Rosie the Riveter, pictured in a World War II poster


"OK, we'll go." — Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 5, 1944, D-Day minus one


"In war there is no substitute for victory." — Douglas MacArthur, April 19, 1951


"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."— John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961


"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." — Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1981


"Remember, George: This is no time to go wobbly." — Margaret Thatcher to George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, shortly before the first Persian Gulf War of 1991


"But in my political lifetime I believe that it is fortitude or courage that we've most needed and often, I fear, most lacked." — Margaret Thatcher, Dec. 10, 1997


"Inspired by all the courage that has come before, we will meet our moment and we will prevail." — George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, Oct. 11, 2001


"The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong." — Howard Dean, chairman, Democratic National Committee, Dec. 5, 2005



JWR contributor Paul Greenberg, editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, has won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.

 

[dmp]

Shorter Memo:

TO: Howard Dean
From: People with Common Sense
Subject: STFU

Dear Howard, please shut the fuck up.


Sincerely,

Everyone.

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Shorter Memo:

TO: Howard Dean
From: People with Common Sense
Subject: STFU

Dear Howard, please shut the fuck up.


Sincerely,

Everyone.

Hey, leave my main man alone.

 

[LuvRPgrl]

I want him to continue. He helps our party every time he speaks. And the left accuses PRESIDENT Bush of being stupid, hahahhaha



Pics of my wife and my car.

 

[dmp]

I want him to continue. He helps our party every time he speaks. And the left accuses PRESIDENT Bush of being stupid, hahahhaha

what's with the attachments?? lol..

 

[Hobbit]

I have a few non-quotes to add to this whole thing.

At the Battle of the Bulge, in Bastonne, during the harsh winter of 1945, the 82nd airborne was hit hard by a surprise attack from the German Army. Despite being completely surrounded and cut off from all lines of supply, not to mention sick from the cold, the 82nd airborne manned their posts and held off the Germans until George S. Patton broke the German lines and relieved them. To this day, the men of the 82nd airborne contend that they didn't need resuing. When offered a pretty good surrender deal, the commander sent back the reply "bullsh*t!" but the translator sent it back as "nuts!"

In Vietnam, a forward unit commanded by a Capt. Ripley was in the task force charged with slowing the advance of 2 divisions of the NVA in 1972. They found a bridge the division had to cross, but could get no air support due to the low cloud ceiling. As such, Capt. Ripley (now a Colonel (ret.)) climbed, hand over hand, all over the I-beams of the bridge laying explosives, while under enemy fire. The process took several hours, and when he was done, he was barely able to move, but was able to crawl out of the valley while getting covering fire from a fired up South Vietnamese unit yelling (in Vietnamese) "Captain Crazy!"

When grossly outgunned by a British frigate, Admiral John Paul Jones, rather than run or surrender, pulled right up alongside the enemy ship and attempted a boarding action. Shortly into the battle, his colors were knocked right off the mast. His first mate suggested surrender and the ships were so close that the British captain heard this and offered to accept a surrender, to which Jones replied "Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!" Jones' ship was sunk, but he sailed the British one home. Oh, and did I mention this took place in the North Sea after Jones had conducted raids on the areas surrounding York and Liverpool?

In February of 1836, General Antonio López de Santa Anna marched his army of several thousand to take San Antonio, but a team of only 200 defenders held out for thirteen days at the Alamo mission. They fought to the very end and were killed down to the last man, but their courage became a battle cry and greatly weakened the Mexican Army.

You see, our history is full of people who defend this country, even when people think they're f-ing nuts. Now is not the time to cut and run and shame the people who only afforded our rights to say this by giving their lives when they could have simply run away.

 

[LuvRPgrl]

what's with the attachments?? lol..

Oh, I've been settling in at this forum and learning how to navigate it. I was unsucessful in avatar attempts in spite of help from some members. I was also unsucessful in my attmepts to post attatchments, files too big.

I figured out a way to reduce the file size on my photos on my pc. I was checking to see if they worked.

First pic is obviously one of my cars. I wanted to post it when there was another thread about jap cars.

The second pic is my wife. Im thinking of somehow having it in all my posts, and stated she is MY WIFE, as often, some think Im a female, due to my nic. My nic actually means (I)LuvRPgrl RP is Republic of the Philippines, grl is girl hence, I luv RP grl. It worked welll in my fil am forums, but in other forums its caused me to often be mistaken as a female.

 

[Gunny]

what's with the attachments?? lol..

He's got a point. Dean does more for the Republicans than they do for themselves just by opening his big, fat mouth. No critically thinking human being is going to align his/herself with an out of touch moron like that.

Maybe I'm onto something?

 

[dilloduck]

He's got a point. Dean does more for the Republicans than they do for themselves just by opening his big, fat mouth. No critically thinking human being is going to align his/herself with an out of touch moron like that.

Maybe I'm onto something?

You mean there still are some critical thinkers out there? Sometimes listening to some people ya really gotta wonder.