Thread: e-mail: Why? Heres the answers.

e-mail I received. In no way do I support George Bush.....but I find the responces excellent and true.
Last one is great reason to make English our legal national language.


When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying,"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders.The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." It became very quiet in the room. ************************************************** ********** Then there was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?" Once again, dead silence. ************************************************** *********** A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?' Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German. You could have heard a pin drop.

BRAVO!

These are great! Thanks for sharing.

Dang right!!!! God Bless America. I have passed this along to everyone I know.

Thanks that was just what i needed today to perk me back up !

I am so proud of some of our people .

i use to hope that Colin Powell would be president ,but he has disapointed me lately . He too has seen the worst of war . he was compasionate about the fleeing iraqis in Gulf War One . He demanded we let them flee and stop shooting them while they did . Of course they did live to fight another day but I still ageed with his position .

I like generals like Patton ,Powell and Washington . I'm sure there are many like them .

We need to hear more possitive things about this last frontier of freedom and liberty left in the world .

These highlight the essense of American patriotism. We are a proud and generous people. We will not be brought down by those who mean to harm us. We stand united.

Hope that isn't too corny!

ourcountrynottheirs wrote:

These highlight the essense of American patriotism. We are a proud and generous people. We will not be brought down by those who mean to harm us. We stand united.

Hope that isn't too corny!

American patriotism and pride are never corny. Colin Powell's responce gave me chills..............

Yeah, isn't it truly amazing all of these people who claim we are attempting to gain world domination, although they NEVER have any evidence to back it up, and we have NEVER claimed Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other nation we came into to help (Vietnam, etc...) as ours or as land we controled.

We only occupied either Japan or a section or Berlin till each was stable on their own.

The absolute lies of these hateful, ignorant people.