This was sent on to me by my captain, I hope it will all fit in one post, it's incredible.
>
> Who's Smarter? by Cindy Osborne
>
>
> Good morning from the Heartland Today's quote from the Left Coast
>
> "George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll
> pardon the expression."
>
> Martin Sheen
>
> Instead of making a 'smartass' comment on the above quote, I ask you to
> take 5 minutes and read the following article:
>
> Who's Smarter? by Cindy Osborne
>
>
>
> The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming
> about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming
> the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone and
> everyone who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them names
> like "stupid" , "morons", and "idiots". Jessica Lange went so far as
> to tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is embarrassed
> to be an American.
>
>
>
> So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the country? Let's
> look at the biographies of these "stupid", "ignorant" , "moronic"
> leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating them: President
> George W. Bush: Received a Bachelors Degree from Yale University and an
> MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the
> Texas Air National Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas business
> in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986. He was
> elected Governor on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a
> historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas Governor to be
> elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998 winning 68.6
> percent of the vote. In 1998 Governor Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic
> vote, 27 percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and
> 65 percent of women. He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any
> modern Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first
> Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and
> Democratic border counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began
> circulating a false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other
> President. If you believed it, you might want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM
> and see the truth.
>
>
>
> Vice President #### Cheney: Earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966, both
> in political science. Two years later, he won an American Political
> Science Association congressional fellowship. One of Vice President
> Cheney's primary duties is to share with individuals, members of Congress
> and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to strengthen our economy,
> secure our homeland and win the War on Terrorism. In his official role as
> President of the Senate, Vice President Cheney regularly goes to Capital
> Hill to meet with Senators and members of the House of Representatives to
> work on the Administration's legislative goals. In his travels as Vice
> President, he has seen first hand the great demands the war on terrorism
> is placing on the men and women of our military, and he is proud of the
> tremendous job they are doing for the United States of America.
>
>
>
> Secretary of State Colin Powell: Educated in the New York City public
> schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he
> earned a Bachelor's Degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC at
> CCNY and received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon
> graduation in June 1958. His further academic achievements include a
> Master of Business Administration Degree from George Washington
> University. Secretary Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign
> military awards and decorations. Secretary Powell's civilian awards
> include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens
> Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished
> Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal.
> Several schools and other institutions have been named in his honor and he
> holds honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the country.
> (Note: He retired as Four Star General in the United States Army)
>
>
>
> Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: Attended Princeton University on
> Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval
> aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59;
> U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the President,
> Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of the Cost of
> Living Council, 1969-74; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of
> Presidential Transition Team, 1974; Assistant to the President, Director
> of White House Office of Operations, White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77;
> Secretary of Defense, 1975-77.
>
>
>
> Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge: Raised in a working class family
> in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to Harvard,
> graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at The Dickinson
> School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an
> infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor.
> After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his Law Degree and was in
> private practice before becoming Assistant District Attorney in Erie
> County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the first enlisted
> Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was overwhelmingly
> re-elected six times.
>
>
>
> National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: Earned her Bachelor's Degree
> in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of
> Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in
>
> 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at
> the University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at the University
> of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in
> Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a Master's Degree at the
> University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's
> Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are
> also in Political Science.) She is a Fellow of the American Academy of
> Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse
> College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of
> Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for
> International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute
> for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover
> Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
> (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era
>
> (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union
> and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles
> on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed
> audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in
> Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National
> Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German
> reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the
> Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and
> East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special
> Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while
> an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she
> served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
> In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender --
> Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of the boards of
> directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the
> William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the
> International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco
> Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center
> for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo
> Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys
> and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has
> encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett
> Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International
> Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East
> European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public
> broadcasting for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Al
> abama, she resides in Washington, D.C.
>
>
>
> So who are these celebrities? What is their education? What is their
> experience in affairs of State or in National Security? While I will
> defend to the death their right to express their opinions, I think that if
> they are going to call into question the intelligence of our leaders, we
> should also have all the facts on their educations and background:
>
>
>
> Barbra Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting
>
>
>
> Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting
>
>
>
> Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career:
> Acting
>
>
>
> Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in
> Washington, D.C. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Ed Asner; Completed High school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career:
> Movie Director
>
>
>
> Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne
>
>
>
> Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we
> should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed
> daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security. They
> are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the Middle
> East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
> terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication with
> the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own military,
> and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply believe that we
> have full knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot
> believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders.
>
>
>
> These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact-finding
> groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country.
> They only have a deep seated hatred for President Bush. By nature,
> and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative
> views and anything that supports or uplifts the United States of America.
> The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill Clinton bombed a
> pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he attacked the
> Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobodan
> Milosevic out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our
> Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives were lost,
> not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now, after our nation has been
> attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed, by
> freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their routine lives, they
> want to hold rallies against the war. Why the change? Because an honest,
> God-fearing George Bush sits in the White House.
>
>
>
> Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the
> Hollywood group aligned themselves with disarmament groups like SANE,
> FREEZE and PEACE ACTION, urging our own government to disarm and freeze
> the manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to promote
> world peace. It is curious that now, even after we have heard all the
> evidence that Saddam Hussein has chemical, biological and is very close to
> obtaining nuclear weapons, their is no cry from this group for HIM to
> disarm. They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for these
> weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain that these deadly
> weapons will eventually be used against us in our own cities.
>
>
>
> So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities believe that
> since they draw such astronomical salaries, they are entitled to also
> determine the course of our Nation? That they can make viable decisions
> concerning war and peace? Did Michael Moore have the backing of the
> Nation when he recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a "good
> enough friend to tell us we were wrong"? I know for certain he was not
> speaking for me. Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to
> Iraq when we are just weeks away from war? Does he believe that his High
> School Diploma gives him the knowledge (and the right) to go to a country
> that is controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak on behalf of the
> American people? Or is it the fact that he pulls in more money per year
> than the average American worker will see in a lifetime? Does his bank
> account give him clout?
>
>
>
> The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a shambles
> of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous marriages and
> divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How
> dare they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What is
> even more bizarre is how many people in this country will listen and
> accept their views, simply because they liked them in a certain movie, or
> have fond memories of an old television sitcom!
>
>
>
> It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate ourselves
> about the world around us. If future generations are going to enjoy the
> freedoms that our forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever to know
> peace in their own country and their world, to live without fear of
> terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that this nation
> remains strong. We must make certain that those who would destroy us are
> made aware of the severe consequences that will befall them.
>
>
>
> Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and terrorists and
> join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of world peace. But it is not
> real. We did not stop Adolf Hitler from taking over the entire
> continent of Europe by simply talking to him. Franklin Roosevelt sent our best and
> brightest, with the strength and determination that this Country is known
> for, and defeated the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy did not
> stop the Soviet ships from unloading their nuclear missiles in Cuba in
>
> 1962 with mere words. He stopped them with action, and threat of immediate
> war if the ships did not turn around. We did not end the Cold War with
> conferences. It ended with the strong belief of President Ronald
> Reagan... PEACE through STRENGTH.
>
>
>
>
> Who's Smarter? by Cindy Osborne
>
>
> Good morning from the Heartland Today's quote from the Left Coast
>
> "George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll
> pardon the expression."
>
> Martin Sheen
>
> Instead of making a 'smartass' comment on the above quote, I ask you to
> take 5 minutes and read the following article:
>
> Who's Smarter? by Cindy Osborne
>
>
>
> The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming
> about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming
> the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone and
> everyone who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them names
> like "stupid" , "morons", and "idiots". Jessica Lange went so far as
> to tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is embarrassed
> to be an American.
>
>
>
> So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the country? Let's
> look at the biographies of these "stupid", "ignorant" , "moronic"
> leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating them: President
> George W. Bush: Received a Bachelors Degree from Yale University and an
> MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the
> Texas Air National Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas business
> in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986. He was
> elected Governor on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a
> historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas Governor to be
> elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998 winning 68.6
> percent of the vote. In 1998 Governor Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic
> vote, 27 percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and
> 65 percent of women. He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any
> modern Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first
> Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and
> Democratic border counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began
> circulating a false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other
> President. If you believed it, you might want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM
> and see the truth.
>
>
>
> Vice President #### Cheney: Earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966, both
> in political science. Two years later, he won an American Political
> Science Association congressional fellowship. One of Vice President
> Cheney's primary duties is to share with individuals, members of Congress
> and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to strengthen our economy,
> secure our homeland and win the War on Terrorism. In his official role as
> President of the Senate, Vice President Cheney regularly goes to Capital
> Hill to meet with Senators and members of the House of Representatives to
> work on the Administration's legislative goals. In his travels as Vice
> President, he has seen first hand the great demands the war on terrorism
> is placing on the men and women of our military, and he is proud of the
> tremendous job they are doing for the United States of America.
>
>
>
> Secretary of State Colin Powell: Educated in the New York City public
> schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he
> earned a Bachelor's Degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC at
> CCNY and received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon
> graduation in June 1958. His further academic achievements include a
> Master of Business Administration Degree from George Washington
> University. Secretary Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign
> military awards and decorations. Secretary Powell's civilian awards
> include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens
> Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished
> Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal.
> Several schools and other institutions have been named in his honor and he
> holds honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the country.
> (Note: He retired as Four Star General in the United States Army)
>
>
>
> Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: Attended Princeton University on
> Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval
> aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59;
> U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the President,
> Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of the Cost of
> Living Council, 1969-74; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of
> Presidential Transition Team, 1974; Assistant to the President, Director
> of White House Office of Operations, White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77;
> Secretary of Defense, 1975-77.
>
>
>
> Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge: Raised in a working class family
> in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to Harvard,
> graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at The Dickinson
> School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an
> infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor.
> After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his Law Degree and was in
> private practice before becoming Assistant District Attorney in Erie
> County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the first enlisted
> Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was overwhelmingly
> re-elected six times.
>
>
>
> National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: Earned her Bachelor's Degree
> in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of
> Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in
>
> 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at
> the University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at the University
> of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in
> Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a Master's Degree at the
> University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's
> Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are
> also in Political Science.) She is a Fellow of the American Academy of
> Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse
> College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of
> Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for
> International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute
> for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover
> Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
> (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era
>
> (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union
> and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles
> on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed
> audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in
> Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National
> Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German
> reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the
> Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and
> East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special
> Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while
> an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she
> served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
> In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender --
> Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of the boards of
> directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the
> William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the
> International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco
> Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center
> for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo
> Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys
> and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has
> encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett
> Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International
> Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East
> European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public
> broadcasting for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Al
> abama, she resides in Washington, D.C.
>
>
>
> So who are these celebrities? What is their education? What is their
> experience in affairs of State or in National Security? While I will
> defend to the death their right to express their opinions, I think that if
> they are going to call into question the intelligence of our leaders, we
> should also have all the facts on their educations and background:
>
>
>
> Barbra Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting
>
>
>
> Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting
>
>
>
> Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career:
> Acting
>
>
>
> Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in
> Washington, D.C. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Ed Asner; Completed High school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career:
> Movie Director
>
>
>
> Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne
>
>
>
> Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting
>
>
>
> While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we
> should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed
> daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security. They
> are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the Middle
> East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
> terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication with
> the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own military,
> and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply believe that we
> have full knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot
> believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders.
>
>
>
> These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact-finding
> groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country.
> They only have a deep seated hatred for President Bush. By nature,
> and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative
> views and anything that supports or uplifts the United States of America.
> The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill Clinton bombed a
> pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he attacked the
> Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobodan
> Milosevic out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our
> Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives were lost,
> not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now, after our nation has been
> attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed, by
> freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their routine lives, they
> want to hold rallies against the war. Why the change? Because an honest,
> God-fearing George Bush sits in the White House.
>
>
>
> Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the
> Hollywood group aligned themselves with disarmament groups like SANE,
> FREEZE and PEACE ACTION, urging our own government to disarm and freeze
> the manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to promote
> world peace. It is curious that now, even after we have heard all the
> evidence that Saddam Hussein has chemical, biological and is very close to
> obtaining nuclear weapons, their is no cry from this group for HIM to
> disarm. They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for these
> weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain that these deadly
> weapons will eventually be used against us in our own cities.
>
>
>
> So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities believe that
> since they draw such astronomical salaries, they are entitled to also
> determine the course of our Nation? That they can make viable decisions
> concerning war and peace? Did Michael Moore have the backing of the
> Nation when he recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a "good
> enough friend to tell us we were wrong"? I know for certain he was not
> speaking for me. Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to
> Iraq when we are just weeks away from war? Does he believe that his High
> School Diploma gives him the knowledge (and the right) to go to a country
> that is controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak on behalf of the
> American people? Or is it the fact that he pulls in more money per year
> than the average American worker will see in a lifetime? Does his bank
> account give him clout?
>
>
>
> The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a shambles
> of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous marriages and
> divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How
> dare they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What is
> even more bizarre is how many people in this country will listen and
> accept their views, simply because they liked them in a certain movie, or
> have fond memories of an old television sitcom!
>
>
>
> It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate ourselves
> about the world around us. If future generations are going to enjoy the
> freedoms that our forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever to know
> peace in their own country and their world, to live without fear of
> terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that this nation
> remains strong. We must make certain that those who would destroy us are
> made aware of the severe consequences that will befall them.
>
>
>
> Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and terrorists and
> join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of world peace. But it is not
> real. We did not stop Adolf Hitler from taking over the entire
> continent of Europe by simply talking to him. Franklin Roosevelt sent our best and
> brightest, with the strength and determination that this Country is known
> for, and defeated the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy did not
> stop the Soviet ships from unloading their nuclear missiles in Cuba in
>
> 1962 with mere words. He stopped them with action, and threat of immediate
> war if the ships did not turn around. We did not end the Cold War with
> conferences. It ended with the strong belief of President Ronald
> Reagan... PEACE through STRENGTH.
>
>
>