Letter to Obama

[jerryrlitton]

I saw this online and thought I should pass it along..

95 Year Old WWII Veteran Tells Obama To “Shape up and start acting like an American” at Ironic Surrealism v3.0

[jrd22]

Great letter by Mr. Estes, unfortunately I think it will fall on deaf ears with the current administration.

[ssneade]

can't pick up the link.........

[soulofmine]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I am sure he has a just cause for his, but laying blame generates nothing positive.

[blt2ski]

I seem to recall a similar letter to bush a few years back. So the question in my mind, is whom really wrote these letters?

[2Gringos]

Originally Posted by blt2ski

I seem to recall a similar letter to bush a few years back. So the question in my mind, is whom really wrote these letters?

Well I can help you there. In THIS case, Harold Estes wrote that letter.

snopes.com: Letter to President Obama - Harold Estes

[jrd22]

Originally Posted by soulofmine

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I am sure he has a just cause for his, but laying blame generates nothing positive.

I guess that explains the lack of much being accomplished in the last year, other than blaming Pres. Bush for everything.

[kootenay]

I did read the letter and I have to take a bit of issue with it as to facts. First of all I have to take issue with the statement "in this final battle". What the West has been experiencing the past few years isn't by any standard a "final battle" but having that kind of Fundamentalist perspective colours your opinions to a great degree. In fact most of the actions taken by the Bush regime probably made the terrorists very happy. I am sure the invasion of Iraq was like an Al Qaeda wet dream.

As to the statement that "America hasn't lived up to her ideals", I believe that that was made in reference to Gitmo and Torture issues. And yes America didn't live up to its ideals on that issue and most of the other western countries did not either. I know as we age we tend to view the world differently simply because we see that we will depart this earth at an increasingly closer time. Good letter but flawed in those two points at least.

And any country that doesn't question its military's requests is foolish. For a leader to simply acquiesce to a military commanders request for 40k troops isn't exhibiting leadership at all. As a veteran of our Canadian Navy and having been TD'ed to the USS Coral Sea I have to say your senior officers are just as fallible as ours are and if you want the real truth talk to any CPO not the CO.