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Ok, I recieved this from my husband, and I have never read anything more important than this.. I can not validate the true intention behind this, but I can say that everything in it is as true as honesty gets. I hope you all read it, and pass it on, because it's SOO Very Important. I hope that you can also see the importance. God Bless, whatever God you may believe in. NOTE: This is a long post, but WELL worth it.
This was written by a retired attorney, to his sons, May 19, 2004. Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted, As your father, I believe I owe it to you to share some thoughts on the present world situation. We have over the years discussed a lot of important things, like going to college, jobs and so forth. But this really takes precedence over any of those discussions. I hope this might give you a longer term perspective that fewer and fewer of my generation are left to speak to. To be sure you understand that this is not politically flavored, I will tell you that since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led us through pre and WWII (1933 - 1945) up to and including our present President, I have without exception, supported our presidents on all matters of international conflict. This would include just naming a few in addition to President Roosevelt - WWII: President Truman - Korean War 1950; President Kennedy - Bay of Pigs (1961); President Kennedy - Vietnam (1961); [1] eight presidents (5 Republican & 4 Democrat) during the cold war (1945 - 1991); President Clinton's strikes on Bosni! a (1995) and on Iraq (1998). [2] So be sure you read this as completely non-political or otherwise you will miss the point. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII). The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means. First, let's examine a few basics: 1. When did the threat to us start? Many will say September 11th, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us: Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988; First New York World Trade Center attack 1993; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996; Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; New York World Trade Center 2001; Pentagon 2001. (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide). [3] 2. Why were we attacked? Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter. 4. Who were the attackers? In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims. 5. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25% 6. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful? Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). ( http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm). Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German, ! Christian or any others. Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way - their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else.. [5] The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing - by their own pronouncements - killing all of us infidels. I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die? 6. So who are we at war with? There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting. So with that background, now to the two major questions: 1. Can we lose this war? 2. What does losing really mean? If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means is: We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly to terrorist attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them. We would of course have no future support from other nations for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see we are impotent and cannot help them. They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do, will be done. Spain is finished. The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast. See the attached article on the French condition by Tom Segel. [6] If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else? The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war and therefore are completely committed to winning at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost. Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to win. So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by imploding. That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win. Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation. - President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war. For the duration we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently. And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then. Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head! . - Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening, it concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause. - Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war by a small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently the same type enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of an American prisoner they held. Compare this with some of our pres! s and politicians who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners - not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them. Can this be for real? The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can. To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned - totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they abso! lutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us for many years. Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels. That translates into all non-Muslims - not just in the United States, but throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense. - We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant'. That charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world. We can't. If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the World will survive if we are defeated. And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the Press, equal rights for anyone - let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the World. This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read. If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar? Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"? I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about. Do whatever you can to preserve it. Love, Dad [1] By the way on Vietnam, the emotions are still so high that it is really not possible to discuss it. However, I think President Kennedy was correct. He felt there was a communist threat from China, Russia and North Vietnam to take over that whole area. Also remember that we were in a 'cold war' with Russia. I frankly think Kennedy's plan worked and kept that total communist control out, but try telling that to anyone now. It just isn't politically correct to say so. Historians will answer this after cool headed research, when the people closest to it are all gone. [2] As you know, I am a strong President Bush supporter and will vote for him. However, if Senator Kerry is elected, I will fully support him on all matters of international conflict, just as I have supported all presidents in the past. [3] Source for statistics in Par. 1 is http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html [4] The Institute of Islamic Information and Education. http://www.iiie.net/Intl/PopStats.html [5] Note the attached article by Tom Segel referred to in footnote 6 infra, the terrorist Muslim have already begun the havoc in France. (The note was not attached to the E-mail I received. Gene) [6] I checked this article with two sources - Hoax Busters and Urban Myths. It does not come up as a Hoax on either. I also then E-mailed Mr. Segel and he confirmed the article was his. [7] "I don't think the Army or any branch of service runs any type of war any more. It's done by senators and congressmen. There are too many civilians involved." Returning Iraq veteran, Sgt. 1st Class Greg Klees as quoted in the Cedar Rapids, IA Gazette on May 13th, 2004. [8] There are 64 Muslim countries. This does not count countries like Spain that are controlled by the Muslim terrorists.
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This is exactly my point behind posting this. You obviously are ignorant to the real facts behind this situation. You have too much blind faith. If you think the world trade center was the last attack, you'll be sadly mistaken. As for not being at war with anyone, Clinton ordered CONSTANT bombs to be dropped on afghanistan, or are you too young to remember all that.. or maybe it's because I'm actually apart of the military that I know this information, but if you really want to get technical this has been going on since before BOTH of us were born. And a BUDGET!! What a joke, are you like 12? ( I dont mean it as an insult more as an observation of your ignorance of the situation) These terrorists are funded by those billionaires from the Oil rich countries, Like Iraq, who are more than happy to send millions of dollars their way if they can promise to make a difference. They're aren't typically funded by governments, they are funded by individuals, and to someone who makes a billion dollars a year or more a few million is pocket change. If you want to "babble" at least make sure you know what you're talking about, because you just made your self look like a fool. Just about everything in your post was ignorant and blindly false. Look, I personally am not a fan of Bush, but being so close to the military and having friends who have come back from Afghanistan and Iraq I know the REAL threat. and if you're going to believe everything the media tells you, then by all means, Ignorance is bliss, but I'd rather KNOW what I'm involved in. FYI their ARMY was previously TRAINED by OUR ARMY.. or did you not know that either? Perhaps you should do some research of your own and stop buying the BS that you hear from the TV.
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Blessed Be~God Bless, WaterLillyFairy "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."~"You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. "~ Desiderata by Max Ehrmann |
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Ok LADY, you honestly think they'd attack us and actually risk getting their country totally demolished. You're just another stoner woman who really has nothing better to do then post pointless information none of us really give a shit about, and yea, IM SO 12,
name calling not allowed .
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Again you're talking countries, it has NOTHING to do with a country... and just so you know, I haven't smoked in about 4 months, look if you're only defence is to attack me personally, instead of posting intelligent retorts about provided information then obviously you really have nothing useful to say. You have hurt feelings and the only way to get back at me is to make jabs about me being a "dumb broad...who really has nothing better to do then post pointless information none of us really give a shit about" How sad. you could have at least come up with a better insult than that! And if no one cared (you forinstance) why respond? there have been plenty of other people who have read the post and moved on, whatever they took of it or left of it didn't matter, so obviously you thought you could say something to make yourself look good and perhaps get people impressed with you're insight and ability to call someone out to make them look foolish, and it backfired, making YOU look foolish. And Yes, THEY WILL attack us again. Mark my words this is not the end. Hopefully you're next post will be a little more interesting to read.. how about you sit down witha pen and paper and think up some decent insults, something we can all have a good laugh at, and then get back to me. Dont hurt yourself though.
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I'm sorry I can't take this seriously. Whether or not it's 'political' it oversimplifies things far too much. I take particular umbridge with this passage:
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In all honesty, there are a few parts of this that are not compleatly true, the reasons given for instance. The Muslim terrorists dont hate us because we're free.. there are lots of other countries that are free they hate us for one main reason, Isreal. We're their bulldog, Blindly doing as our master says. I hate to think of America as blind, ignorant and following orders, but we are. Isreal recieves millions of dollars a year from us to support their occupateion of palistine, their nuclear research, and other friendly, fun-loving adventures. *http://www.refuseandresist.org/newwa...palestine.html AND http://www.bullatomsci.org/research/...ns/israel.html
Also, it is not uncommon for us to go into battle against Isralie enemies, even though they dont really pose much threat to anyone else. Which means those previously stated enemies of Isreal now have to defend agains us as well... In fact When the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993 by Ramsi Yousef, U.S. investigators openly admitted that the purpose was to punish the United States for its support of Israel http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/08/yousef/ A video tape released in May 2002 repeats identical sentiments. In it, bin Laden directly states that "The war is between us and the Jews... Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only herself to blame." The cause of Middle Eastern terrorism against the United States is a direct result of supporting Israel and could be immediately stopped if we stopped supporting Israel. Even Mullah Omar offered benevolent advice when he said "There were reasons behind these great deeds. America should seek to remove these reasons -- and it knows them well -- so that such accidents do not reoccur." The alternative is to let the United States become a battleground for Middle Eastern conflicts while continuing to fund Israeli interests. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pa...?itemNo=165110 I put the original post up not so much for the informatin contained, because I personally feel some of it is just propaganda, but more for the message, that there is a possibility that we may loose, and what could happen if we did. perhaps, in hindsight, I should have edited the post to include only what I felt was important, and relevent. Oh well.
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I understand your seniments but I have to disagree, a grave conflict can still be avoided, but it seems to me that the people in power on all sides of the conflict are only trying to escalate things. The muslim people who are being opressed need to rise up for themselves and we need to keep a tight leash on our own leaders to stop wars that only bolster the message of terrorists.
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The muslim people who are being opressed need to rise up for themselves and we need to keep a tight leash on our own leaders to stop wars that only bolster the message of terrorists. [/quote] Again, I agree, but somehow I dont see the muslims doing that.. and we haven't been able to even GET a leash on our leaders.... I have little faith, but lots of hope...
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You made a MISTAKE, CONDESENDING
First of all, do you work for any type organization? Do you have any type of direct information from any type of agent or authority of the government? Of course not.
IT IS A "RIGHTEOUS" OPINION OF YOURS JUST LIKE EYERYONE ELSE HAS AN OPINION..... You PATERNIZE and act like your the SUPREME GOODESS BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT ALL..... Calm down, it will be alright. WELL, DO YOU GO TO CHURCH OR EVEN BELIEVE IN A RELIGION BECAUSE YOUR DAY WILL EVENTUALLY COME, ARE YOU READY? That is the most important part of life.... I hope you do, if you do!!! I hope you are blessed with part of his being because a SEPERATION will occur in the end/rapture with the two entities of the spirits conflictioning with conviction. HE WILL JUDGE YOU JUST LIKE ME. SO CALM DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUDGE NOT LEAST YE BE JUDGED! PEACE AND HUMILITY.... JOHN
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the united states is not Batman, and muslums arent some kind of super villain. everything is not so black and white. the terrorists are MUCH more powerful than many of us seem to realize, and we are not nearly as strong as many of us would like to think.
its going to be interesting, albiet somewhat scary to see how things turn out. Im just hoping we can keep the death count to a minimum.
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I agree... Alot of people seem to think it can't happen again, and they forget that was the same thought process that we had before 9/11... we have rediscovered our invincability, and I pray that our egotism doesn't cost more lives. All we can do is sit back, wait and pray that someone in charge knows what they are doing... of course the chances of that are about as good as everyone on this list winning the lottery, even that's not a good option... We should all just revolt! yeah.. that'll happen!
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"or maybe it's because I'm actually apart of the military that I know this information" so which is it?!?! I'll agree with the fact that mineta refusing to allow profiling is complete bulshit! I mean for god's sakes we know who were looking for!! We are not looking for 60 yr old black men or 60 yr old white men why the fuck do they bother them at the airport!?!? But WHY are we in iraq fairy?!?! Osama and saddam hated eachother!!! Saddam did not fund the terrorist attacks on 9/11! It's extremely controvercial at some point you have to weigh out how much is a muslims life worth...how many muslims are worth 1 americans life?!? If you say they are worth the same...the present course of action would remain because we have saved a lot of muslims from saddam, while losing almost a 1000 americans. But if you were to say an americans life is worth more than a muslims we would either not be over there or we would do what the russians did during the world war 2 occupation of germany.. for every 1 russian soldier killed 100 germans were lined up and shot! I believe that the most important thing is to seal up our borders tighter...and I don't care what anyone says losing my civil rights should not be a part of war!!! |
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