Rich
McClellan wrote:
Subject: My latest Nightmare!
I woke up on the morning of November 3,
2004 to find:
John Kerry - President
John Edwards - Vice-President
Jane Fonda - Secretary of Defense
Michael Moore - Foreign Secretary
Whoopi Goldberg - Secretary of Interior
Jessie Jackson & Bill Clinton - Chaplain & Moral Advisor
to the White House
Al Gore - Head of FBI, CIA & Homeland Security
Tom Daschle - Senate Majority Leader
Howard Dean - First Speech Writer & No. 1 Advisor to the
White House
Hillary Clinton - No. 1 Queen of Everything
Don't laugh, it could happen
unless you get out there and vote!!!
I sat in a movie theater watching
"Schindler's List," asked myself, "Why didn't
the Jews fight back?" Now I know why. I sat in a movie
theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself,
"Why weren't we prepared?"
Now I know why. Civilized people
cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people.
On September 11, dozens of capable
airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by
a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not
comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.
On September 11, thousands of
innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively
reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the
dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and
media personnel want us to forget the carnage. They say we
must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice
of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation
of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced
they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating
footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.
I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend to understand.
I will not forget.
I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of
the press to kick our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.
I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President
Bush's address to the nation with the snide remark, "No
matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."
I will not forget that ABC TV
anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives
for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented,
"We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."
And I will not forget that ABC's
Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every
little detail of this war, they aren't "likely -- nor
should they be expected -- to show deference."
I will not isolate myself from
my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole
in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.
I will not forget the Clinton
administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters
with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment
and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's
ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines,
faxes and modem communications.
I will not be appeased with
pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected
by the previous administration.
I will not be comforted by "feel-good,
do nothing" regulations like the silly, "Have your
bags been under your control?" question at the airport.
I will not be influenced by
so called,"antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the
right of expression to chant anti-American obscenities.
I will not forget the moral
victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters
who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen,
sailors and marines.
I will not be softened by the
wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.
I will embrace the wise words
of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told the Labor Party conference,
"They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the
innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000,
does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in
it?
There is no compromise possible
with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding
with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated
by it. And! defeat it we must!"
I will force myself to:
-hear the weeping
-feel the helplessness
-imagine the terror
-sense the panic
-smell the burning flesh
-experience the loss
-remember the hatred.
I sat in a movie theater, watching
"Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did
they find the courage?"
Now I know.
We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.
-- Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean, But still a Marine.
The whole TRUTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's about time we stop the Media from running this country!!
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
This is 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
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 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 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 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.
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 we have 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, political or militarily,
to address what so many who preceded him didn't have the backbone
to do both Democrat and Republican. 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.
Rich McClellan |
