Maybe the liberals should take this to heart.
08-08-2005, 10:59 AM
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Maybe the liberals should take this to heart.
Subject: President Bush inherited a war that started in 1979
This is very informative. You have to read the litany of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again.
In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.
US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.
America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people.
The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.
Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed.
America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spread to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb exploded in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid. Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4, and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.
Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.
Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women. A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high official in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.
The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.
We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all wehave done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.
Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage, politically or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn't have the backbone to do, both Democrat and Republican. This is not apolitical thing to be hashed over in an election year. This is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.
If you believe in this please forward it to as many people as you can especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action.
If you don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.
This is very informative. You have to read the litany of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again.
In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.
US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.
America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people.
The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.
Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed.
America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spread to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb exploded in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid. Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4, and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.
Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.
Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women. A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high official in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.
The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.
We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all wehave done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.
Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage, politically or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn't have the backbone to do, both Democrat and Republican. This is not apolitical thing to be hashed over in an election year. This is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.
If you believe in this please forward it to as many people as you can especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action.
If you don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.
08-08-2005, 03:17 PM
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Sounds like we should have stopped hitting the snooze on 9/12/2001? But................ We, Didn't,
Actually, our fearless leader waited until March of the following year to act. Now, we are in the wrong country, with NO (zero, zilch, nada) Weapons of Mass Destruction and a dethroned "Evil Dictator". Okay, Sadam is caught,... game over right? Oh, No, not quite yet.
I'm real proud of our Commander too, now what about an EXIT STRATEGY??
Come on November '08, America has learned it's lesson at this point. We are heading for ATLEAST a solid 8 years of Democratic rule in America. Besides, it'll give people like you something to complian about, right?
Actually, our fearless leader waited until March of the following year to act. Now, we are in the wrong country, with NO (zero, zilch, nada) Weapons of Mass Destruction and a dethroned "Evil Dictator". Okay, Sadam is caught,... game over right? Oh, No, not quite yet.
I'm real proud of our Commander too, now what about an EXIT STRATEGY??
Come on November '08, America has learned it's lesson at this point. We are heading for ATLEAST a solid 8 years of Democratic rule in America. Besides, it'll give people like you something to complian about, right?
08-08-2005, 03:36 PM
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No, its time to stop playing with the minimal destructrion bombs were using and break out the big boys. And then we'll take their oil rather than watching them burn it off!
08-08-2005, 03:44 PM
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No, its time to stop playing with the minimal destructrion bombs were using and break out the big boys. And then we'll take their oil rather than watching them burn it off!
No, its time to stop playing with the minimal destructrion bombs were using and break out the big boys. And then we'll take their oil rather than watching them burn it off!
Take their Oil, you might be on to something here..............
Do you work for the Bush administration? (How about for Jeb, I see you’re from down that way)?
Next time Osama Bin Laden attacks us we should bomb Australia, that'll teach em!
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08-08-2005, 03:53 PM
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P.J Calm down everyones entitled to an opinion...People don't want you jumping down your throat about their opinions and you dont want people to jump down your throat about your opinion...I suggest you stop replying to this fourm..Unless you rather severly tick off some people...
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Originally posted by P.J
HMMMMMM,
Take their Oil, you might be on to something here..............
Do you work for the Bush administration? (How about for Jeb, I see you’re from down that way)?
Next time Osama Bin Laden attacks us we should bomb Australia, that'll teach em!
HMMMMMM,
Take their Oil, you might be on to something here..............
Do you work for the Bush administration? (How about for Jeb, I see you’re from down that way)?
Next time Osama Bin Laden attacks us we should bomb Australia, that'll teach em!
perfect King George rational !!!
08-08-2005, 03:58 PM
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Originally posted by iker42
P.J Calm down everyones entitled to an opinion...You dont want someone to jump down your throat about your opinion...I suggest you stop replying to this fourm..Inless you rather severly tick off some people...
P.J Calm down everyones entitled to an opinion...You dont want someone to jump down your throat about your opinion...I suggest you stop replying to this fourm..Inless you rather severly tick off some people...
08-08-2005, 04:10 PM
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It's just that soemtimes I feel like The president could smack some peoples kids and they would still love him??
I was originally feeling like Ds1rider was not very "American" by suggesting that we should take property that doesn't belong to us, just because we can. (OIL)
But, I guess thats part of what this counrty is based on.
Done for now, seems I'm making enemies again.................
Sorry my opinion isn't that of 51% of Americans.
I was originally feeling like Ds1rider was not very "American" by suggesting that we should take property that doesn't belong to us, just because we can. (OIL)
But, I guess thats part of what this counrty is based on.
Done for now, seems I'm making enemies again.................
Sorry my opinion isn't that of 51% of Americans.
08-08-2005, 04:13 PM
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No Its kool...I agree with you about Ds1rider...I just got alittle ticked off that you had to make a sarcastic remark about his opinion...Were a family here on DTR and a fight would be bad for this family..
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Kudos PJ I respectfully agree 100 % !!!! These are the worst fiscal years our country has seen in years ,you can blame it on whoever you want but look at the facts before you judge. I WAS a REPUBLICAN until the puppetmasters got ahold of our country and are absolutely destroying it from the top down !!! I see smiling Dick gets to add a bit more to his vault since UPS is buying up Overnite .........hope he has room after the latest Haliburton payment . I still don't understand why the Bush admin fought tooth and nail to block the 911 committee's findings and omitted over 30 pages .............looking out for our interests ........... 
YA RIGHT !!! The whole system of checks and balances that our country was founded on is being dismantled by the secretive Bush admin that doesn't think they have to answer to anyone . What happened to seperation of religion and state ? Still can't believe these goons told American citizens the bible would be illegal if a Democrat was elected as president..........West Virginia I believe is where that story was told . I think we need to get off the political side you are on and LOOK at the BEST MAN FOR THE JOB !!!!!! I would vote Republican again if they had a stand up guy ...........ie John McCain he knows first hand the horrors of war and is a very intelligent person !!!! Unlike our current convicted coke head {first felon in office no less } and poor businessman who could never make it on his own without DADDY to bail him out continuously. Don't forget who created the monster Bin Laden ...........REAGAN !!!!!!
YA RIGHT !!! The whole system of checks and balances that our country was founded on is being dismantled by the secretive Bush admin that doesn't think they have to answer to anyone . What happened to seperation of religion and state ? Still can't believe these goons told American citizens the bible would be illegal if a Democrat was elected as president..........West Virginia I believe is where that story was told . I think we need to get off the political side you are on and LOOK at the BEST MAN FOR THE JOB !!!!!! I would vote Republican again if they had a stand up guy ...........ie John McCain he knows first hand the horrors of war and is a very intelligent person !!!! Unlike our current convicted coke head {first felon in office no less } and poor businessman who could never make it on his own without DADDY to bail him out continuously. Don't forget who created the monster Bin Laden ...........REAGAN !!!!!!
