I was sent this, so I don't know the author. Yes it's long, but it has some good points.
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 IQ being lower
than any other President. If you believed it, you might want to go
to URBANLEGENDS.COM and see the truth.)
Vice President Dick Cheney: Earned a BA in 1965 and a MA 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 Capitol 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 US 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 US Navy
(1954-57) as a Naval aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep.
Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59; US Representative, Illinois, 1962
-69; Assistant to the President, Director of the Office of Economic
Opportunity, Director of the Cost of Living Council, 1969-74; US
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
US 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 US House, and
was overwhelmingly reelected 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 US
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, Alabama, she resides in Washington, DC.
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
education's and background:
Barbara 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, DC
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 comedian
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 all things Republican. 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 Republican 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
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 Kumbaya and talking of world
peace. But it is not real. We did not stop Adolph Hitler from taking
over the entire continent of Europe by simply talking to him. We
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.
Tetris Champion!
THANK YOU for posting that! 
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