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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 97665" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>The reason that I started this Thread, I was surprised to see this in the Media, it was soon glossed over using terms like "degraded old Weapons that were no longer dangerous. BS. I have a friend of mine who has a daughter in a Marine detachment that has been handling some of these as far back as two years ago. Yes, these 500 mortar and artillery shells were pre '91, and a lot of them were in bad shape being stored in bad environmental conditions like 100+ degree desert heat. But some of them weren't, some were used by insurgents in their "improvised explosive devices". I know a lot of military folks, and it is strongly believed that <em>1000 tons </em>of two different types of nerve gas were moved into Syria by Russian technicians while the U.S. wasted time trying to go through the United Nations before the invasion.</p><p>Old Chemical Weapons aren't dangerous? You have got to be kidding. I live downwind of the U.S. Army's Chemical Weapons School in Anniston Alabama. There was a big stink raised around here when they started incinerating <em>WW 11 </em>era weapons three years ago. A lot of Chemical Weapons are binary, meaning they don't work until two different parts are mixed together. Our country produced vast quantities of these things for years, but now the shell and bomb casings are so old they leak and are being destroyed at several sites over the country as per international treaty.</p><p>The real point that I would like people to think about is this: Why is it that the Radical Muslims hate our Society? When did this start?</p><p>The reason I think they hate us is because of the way we are perceived overseas in a completely different culture. They have never had the freedom we have, they don't have a clue about electing their own government. Women are considered property, meaning half their population has no right to contribute their ideas and talents. You have conflict between different tribes and religious factions. A big part of the problem is the garbage we export overseas in our music, cinema, TV, and now the internet. Their society is really still in the dark ages.</p><p>When did this start? I think in 1979 when the Shaw of Iran was overthrown by the radicals there. I have a man I deliver to by the name of Col. Charles Scott. He was in the US Embassy in Tehran as an Army advisor, and was held captive along with 65 others the last 444 days of Jimmy Carter's Presidency. The US has been attacked many times since, the following speech somebody sent me in an e-mail pretty much says it all:</p><p><strong>World War III Began In 1979</strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This is not very long, but very informative You have to read the</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">troops home from Iraq, sit back reset the snooze alarm, go back to</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">for years. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">trouble today and why this action is so necessary. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">more than 3,000 Americans were killed, and maybe it was, but I think it</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">then. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">follow for the next 25 years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">mission that was doomed from the start. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">US soil continued. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Button once more. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">continues her slumber. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">interests are continually attacked. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">of the passenger list and executed. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">1988, killing 259. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Langley, Virginia. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">New York</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Riyadh Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">19 and injuring over 500 The terrorists are getting braver and</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">attacks and goes back to sleep. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">back to sleep. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And of course you know the events of </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">11 September </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">and go back to sleep. In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">that has been developing since 1979.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively! now. America has been changed</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">forever.. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">of our children in years to come.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span>Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, I am going to spend with a new friend of mine. He is a Gulf War One Veteran, a US Army Major who has been to Iraq twice. Last Sunday in my Methodist Church, We gave a standing ovation to a couple of our members who have made it back. I hope that all of you will remember to thank these guys and gals in uniform, our Freedom we take for granted has been paid for with a dear price.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 97665, member: 1674"] The reason that I started this Thread, I was surprised to see this in the Media, it was soon glossed over using terms like "degraded old Weapons that were no longer dangerous. BS. I have a friend of mine who has a daughter in a Marine detachment that has been handling some of these as far back as two years ago. Yes, these 500 mortar and artillery shells were pre '91, and a lot of them were in bad shape being stored in bad environmental conditions like 100+ degree desert heat. But some of them weren't, some were used by insurgents in their "improvised explosive devices". I know a lot of military folks, and it is strongly believed that [I]1000 tons [/I]of two different types of nerve gas were moved into Syria by Russian technicians while the U.S. wasted time trying to go through the United Nations before the invasion. Old Chemical Weapons aren't dangerous? You have got to be kidding. I live downwind of the U.S. Army's Chemical Weapons School in Anniston Alabama. There was a big stink raised around here when they started incinerating [I]WW 11 [/I]era weapons three years ago. A lot of Chemical Weapons are binary, meaning they don't work until two different parts are mixed together. Our country produced vast quantities of these things for years, but now the shell and bomb casings are so old they leak and are being destroyed at several sites over the country as per international treaty. The real point that I would like people to think about is this: Why is it that the Radical Muslims hate our Society? When did this start? The reason I think they hate us is because of the way we are perceived overseas in a completely different culture. They have never had the freedom we have, they don't have a clue about electing their own government. Women are considered property, meaning half their population has no right to contribute their ideas and talents. You have conflict between different tribes and religious factions. A big part of the problem is the garbage we export overseas in our music, cinema, TV, and now the internet. Their society is really still in the dark ages. When did this start? I think in 1979 when the Shaw of Iran was overthrown by the radicals there. I have a man I deliver to by the name of Col. Charles Scott. He was in the US Embassy in Tehran as an Army advisor, and was held captive along with 65 others the last 444 days of Jimmy Carter's Presidency. The US has been attacked many times since, the following speech somebody sent me in an e-mail pretty much says it all: [B]World War III Began In 1979[/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This is not very long, but very informative You have to read the catalogue 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 spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes 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 [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]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 [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]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 officials 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. 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 we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world. This is not a political 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. [/FONT][/SIZE]Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, I am going to spend with a new friend of mine. He is a Gulf War One Veteran, a US Army Major who has been to Iraq twice. Last Sunday in my Methodist Church, We gave a standing ovation to a couple of our members who have made it back. I hope that all of you will remember to thank these guys and gals in uniform, our Freedom we take for granted has been paid for with a dear price. [/QUOTE]
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