Are Liberals too tired to read this?

Question

Read this and pass it to everyone you know, or you too can hit the snooze button and go back to sleep.


This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalog 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 -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; 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 Ame rica'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 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< /U>, 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 Keny a 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.

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! Ameri ca 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 quick to protest such a necessary military action. If you don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep

Lindsay, Bush was only the President for a very short time, BEFORE 9/11. Clinton held back the keys he needed to the offices of the FBI, and CIA from him 2 months prior to Mr. Bush taking office. Did you think Mr. Bush was psychic? He was ill-informed, the same way Condoleeza Rice, and Andrew Card were, due to Clinton's hatred of the Bush Family, and doing the right thing by you, as an American. If Clinton wanted to do the right thing, he would have accepted the free offer of bin Laden the 7 times, he was offered up to America, by Syria.

Answer 1

I taught him everything he knows.

Well, okay, not really, but I've been saying this for some time now.

Iran invaded the United States in 1979, that was an act of war, and not only have they not made peace, not apologized, they made a man who is believed to have been the leader of the attack their president.

We are at war. Time we noticed. We need to either surrender or fight back, but ignoring it hasn't worked, and doesn't show much promise.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

What is the common thread of your question. These terrorists have no national alliance. They are extremists that spring up here, then there. How do you declare war using the military without making matters worse? Everyone seems to know this but the Bush administration. Sure we have to fight them, but not by attacking countries one after the other. Its an impossible task. All we do is destroy their government and make matters worse.

Afghanistan's total government was ruthless and partly run by Al Qaida. That was a good place to attack terrorists because it is where they trained and was their base. Now it is falling back to the Taliban and Al Qaida and where are we? In Iraq refereeing a civil war. We dropped the ball again. Wake up Bush administration.

Answer 4

I read the whole thing. Clinton actually went after Osama. He said he was a threat. He TRIED to get him but Bush...Bush did nothing before 9/11 when HE was President. George W. Bush was in office the day 9/11 occurred. NOT CLINTON. Bush did absolutely NOTHING about terrorism pre-9/11 during his presidency. NOTHING! when he knew Osama was a threat. The War in Iraqis NOT protecting us from terrorism. It is a war built on deception, lies and misinformation...not truth. We let Al Qaeda get away! How is our military action defending our country in any way?

Answer 5

You say in the body of your post that "this isn't a political thing to be hashed over", but you made it that way by citing liberals
in your header. I think your post is quite appropriate, but you should think everyone should read it, conservatives and liberals alike. Not all conservatives are pro-war. I am living proof of that.

:-o

Answer 6

Ignoring these warnings is the result of either abject denial or selling out...the writing is on the walls and so many choose to ignore it.

Answer 7

That's why we have Team America! As long as they are policing the whole world, we can all sleep better at night.
"America, F#&k yeah!" should be our new national anthem. Let's do it to them before they do it to us!

Answer 8

Wow, what was Reagan doing when these attacks were happening?

Answer 9

That's very inspiring.Thank you.

Answer 10

too long, friend