<>When WW III Started ~~~ 1979 !
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 -AD) 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; part 1
2006-06-14
05:02:09
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asked by
Anonymous
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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
2006-06-14
05:03:35 ·
update #1
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.
2006-06-14
05:09:50 ·
update #2
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 in1988, 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 WorldTradeCenter 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.
2006-06-14
05:11:45 ·
update #3
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.
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
2006-06-14
05:13:28 ·
update #4
quick to protest such a necessary military action. If
you
don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.
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(Comments:
You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. So 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....?
2006-06-14
05:14:32 ·
update #5
quick to protest such a necessary military action. If
you
don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.
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(Comments:
You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. So 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....?
2006-06-14
05:14:46 ·
update #6
That's nice. What am I supposed to do about it?
2006-06-14 11:08:50
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answered by Strange Design 5
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All of the above would be null and void if we didn't use so much oil. The Middle East and Islam would be non-factor in all world affairs if you take away their money. We need to stop using oil as our major power source, that's the only solution to end this so-called World War 3.
2006-06-14 05:08:48
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answered by James 3
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You've got to be kidding me, right? This seems like blatant propaganda for yet *another* world war. Were two of them not enough for you?
Please think before you make such brutal statements. In today's society and for the sake of humanity, this is truly inappropriate and seemingly murderous.
2006-06-14 05:09:32
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answered by Anonymous
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You really know almost nothing about the first two world wars do you?
2006-06-14 05:06:12
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answered by sam21462 5
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you are so right time to get up and show the terrorist how we can make war when we need to
2006-06-14 05:10:53
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answered by Anonymous
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WE DO NEED TO WAKE UP AND QUIT LETTING OTHER NATIONS GET AWAY WITH THIS ALONG WITH OUR OWN GOVERNMENT...I KNOW WE ARE NOT PERFECT IN ANY WAY AND WE DO OUR OWN SCREW UPS,BUT WE NEED TO STOP ALL OF IT...THEM AND OUR OWN!!!
AND FOR THOSE AGAINST THE WAR,EVERYONES AGAINST IT BUT HEY,WE ARE THERE AND OUR TROOPS NEED US TO BE THERE FOR THEM...THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR US (YES I KNOW,FOR BIG BUSINESS AS WELL) AND AS I SEE IT YOU ARE WITH THEM OR AGAINST THEM...BUT WHEN SOMEONE COMES BLOWING UP YOUR FAMILY DONT YOU DARE CRY FOR THE MILITARY TO COME TO YOUR AID!!! ENOUGH SAID
2006-06-14 10:00:19
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answered by Anonymous
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i think some people have no idea what they're talking about
"it be chiilin all up in da hood foo!!! dat wut it b like cuzzzzz!!!
got sum duckets fo da petro blood???
wut up wit dat???"
2006-06-14 07:46:46
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answered by Anonymous
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