This is a quote from a letter to the editor published in the Peoria Journal Star on 10/16/05. “But this was never about freedom; it’s an occupation in an oil-rich region where we have installed a government that is arguably more repressive than the one it replaced.” This was part of my response on my 10/17/05 post. “The one ridiculous claim that infuriates me most is this: ‘we have installed a government that is arguably more repressive than the one it replaced.’” This is a quote from Zell Miller’s book A Deficit of Decency. “And nothing infuriates this Marine more than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.” (A Deficit of Decency; Zell Miller; Stroud & Hall Publishers; Macon, Georgia; 2005; p. 256.)
I am a life long Democrat and democrat. As I have said before, the Democrat Party has been taken over by libertines, in my opinion. The first Republican I ever voted for in a general election was George W. Bush in 2000. Zell Miller according to his book is also a life long Democrat. He was the Democratic Governor of Georgia and a Democratic Senator in the U.S. Senate.
In 2004, he gave the Keynote Address at the Republican National Convention for the nomination of George W. Bush for President of the United States. Today, I finished reading his book. In the book, he printed in the appendix his first draft of that speech. The above quote from him comes from that draft.
I wasn’t going to do this tonight for my post but some of that address relates well to the letter to the editor quoted above particularly in relation to her reference of “it’s an occupation.” I’m posting a section of that speech. The point: the U.S. is not an occupier but a liberator for Iraq.
“But not today, motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today’s Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, some kind of Darth Vader military empire trying to colonize people.”
“And nothing infuriates this Marine more than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt led an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the lower half of the Korean Peninsula that is free because Dwight Eisenhower commanded an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the half a billion men, women, and children who are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from Poland to Siberia, because Ronald Reagan rebuilt a military of liberators, not occupiers.”
“There those ‘occupiers’ lie, silent sentinels of sacrifice not for plunder or territory, but for freedom for others.
U.S. soldiers liberate, they don’t occupy. Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protestor the freedom to accuse, abuse, and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the commander in chief of this country if they don’t believe with all their heart, soul, and mind that our soldiers have, are, and always will be liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don’t waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party (Democrat Party—my addition) today. In their warped way of thinking, America is the problem, not the solution. America is what’s wrong with the world.
They don’t believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy. They believe America creates our enemies, be they communists or terrorists.
For every world problem, this crowd always blames America first. They see despotic regimes as nuisances not as threats. Dictators are always given every benefit of the doubt.
They’ve never seen a threat great enough to require military action. They don’t believe that military force has ever solved anything, and that if it did, it shouldn’t have.
In their rise to prominence, these head-in-the-sand Democratic leaders have been on the wrong side of history and freedom during the last three decades. It is not their patriotism—it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking.”
“President Bush sees the world as it really is, with terrorists who are determined but allies who are timid.”
“George Bush makes it unmistakably plain when he tells terrorists that he will act decisively to defend America….”
“… Take not the advice of the timid. Step not back but forward.” (A Deficit of Decency; Zell Miller; Stroud & Hall Publishers; Macon, Georgia; 2005; pages 256-261.)
I am a life long Democrat and democrat. As I have said before, the Democrat Party has been taken over by libertines, in my opinion. The first Republican I ever voted for in a general election was George W. Bush in 2000. Zell Miller according to his book is also a life long Democrat. He was the Democratic Governor of Georgia and a Democratic Senator in the U.S. Senate.
In 2004, he gave the Keynote Address at the Republican National Convention for the nomination of George W. Bush for President of the United States. Today, I finished reading his book. In the book, he printed in the appendix his first draft of that speech. The above quote from him comes from that draft.
I wasn’t going to do this tonight for my post but some of that address relates well to the letter to the editor quoted above particularly in relation to her reference of “it’s an occupation.” I’m posting a section of that speech. The point: the U.S. is not an occupier but a liberator for Iraq.
“But not today, motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today’s Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, some kind of Darth Vader military empire trying to colonize people.”
“And nothing infuriates this Marine more than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt led an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the lower half of the Korean Peninsula that is free because Dwight Eisenhower commanded an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the half a billion men, women, and children who are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from Poland to Siberia, because Ronald Reagan rebuilt a military of liberators, not occupiers.”
“There those ‘occupiers’ lie, silent sentinels of sacrifice not for plunder or territory, but for freedom for others.
U.S. soldiers liberate, they don’t occupy. Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protestor the freedom to accuse, abuse, and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the commander in chief of this country if they don’t believe with all their heart, soul, and mind that our soldiers have, are, and always will be liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don’t waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party (Democrat Party—my addition) today. In their warped way of thinking, America is the problem, not the solution. America is what’s wrong with the world.
They don’t believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy. They believe America creates our enemies, be they communists or terrorists.
For every world problem, this crowd always blames America first. They see despotic regimes as nuisances not as threats. Dictators are always given every benefit of the doubt.
They’ve never seen a threat great enough to require military action. They don’t believe that military force has ever solved anything, and that if it did, it shouldn’t have.
In their rise to prominence, these head-in-the-sand Democratic leaders have been on the wrong side of history and freedom during the last three decades. It is not their patriotism—it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking.”
“President Bush sees the world as it really is, with terrorists who are determined but allies who are timid.”
“George Bush makes it unmistakably plain when he tells terrorists that he will act decisively to defend America….”
“… Take not the advice of the timid. Step not back but forward.” (A Deficit of Decency; Zell Miller; Stroud & Hall Publishers; Macon, Georgia; 2005; pages 256-261.)
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