Sooner or later, however, these folks were [and still are] coming after us anyway, no matter what Israel or the U.S. does. It's not as if we "made" them like us any less. It's always been death to the "American Satan" for these folks. Look at 9-11. It happened and we weren't invading anyone. Turning your back on your enemy will only get you killed faster. These folks have no honor.
Therefore, I stand by my President. Fight them at their end of the field and try not to let them get inside your 20 yard line. If they make it past our troopers overseas, and make it past our homeland defenses, they will meet us: a rifle or shotgun behind every blade of grass. No we can not protect ourselves against a suicide bomber, but after another attack here, I think Americans can [and I think will] preempt further action by acting on the islamonazi evil wholesale. By their silence, they have all accepted responsibility for 9-11 and all the other innocents they have killed. In other words, there will no longer be any "innocent" Muslims, except for children. I am threatening nobody...my lock and load was just defensive. But I fear a small percentage of Americans will indeed begin to take them all out over here by virtue of their religious association alone.
As far as overseas action, avoidance and inaction will not bring peace, although it's a nice thought.
I share your concern. I share your prayers. I pray every night that my children can grow up in a world void of violence and hatred. But Jesus said that satan is the ruler of this world. This world is evil. No matter what happens, we must remain faithful to Him until the end, and accept His salvation through grace, so that we will be at peace in the knowledge of our everlasting life with Him. God is in control. "These things must happen...but the end is not yet."
If it comes to a fight on our soil, not all need fight. Everyone has certain gifts, medical, pastoral, even just being good parents!
I honestly do not know the answers. Even I am ambivalent sometimes and don't even want to think about the evil in the world. I want to pretend it is not there. But in order to shield my children from it, I have to face it. I have to be knowledgeable about the threat so I can be armed with all the information possible to mitigate the threat against my sons. No I can't guarantee no harm will come to us, but if I am in a mall [carrying my twin Sigma 9mm with my CHP] and a terrorist is about to act, just like with any felony in the act, they may get me, but I'll be sure and take them with me in order to save others. It's all I can do...Besides watch, pray and be prepared to "stand."
This evil that is Islam is too big for man to fight alone. And the evil of Islam is not just men. It is "powers and principalities" that we fight as well. And only God can win this one...and He will, as it is written in the Holy Bible...but not before we undergo tribulation...and if we die in Christ, we are saved.
God bless us all texkat...all here are in my prayers always. Let us pray for this:
24 "The Lord bless you and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
26 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace."'
~~NUM 6:24
Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen killed two policemen and wounded two others early Tuesday in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi authorities said.
West of Baghdad, Iraqi police fired shots to disperse a violent protest over the Israeli killing of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
The slain policemen - twin brothers - were shot by assailants in a car, Kirkuk police Capt. Abdul-Salam Zangana said. He identified them as Ahmed and Mohammed Kadhim. The attack occurred as they parked their car in a main square and worshippers left a nearby mosque.
Rebels often target police and other Iraqis who work with the U.S.-led coalition that is governing Iraq.
In Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province, Iraqi police fired in the air after protesters burned two police cars and two grenades were thrown at the governor's office, witnesses said. Television footage showed U.S. soldiers remaining behind at the building, protected by concrete blast barriers, as police with assault rifles moved down the street to disperse the crowd. At least two police and three protesters were injured.
Muslim clerics in Ramadi, where support for the anti-U.S. insurgency is strong, had urged followers to protest Monday's targeted killing of Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in Gaza City.
At Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, the U.S. military released 272 detainees who had been picked up in security sweeps. The men, many of them bearded and wearing Arab robes or track suits, appeared to be in good health.
Two days ago, 168 prisoners were also released, said Lt. Col. Craig Essick of the 16th Military Police Brigade out of Fort Bragg, N.C. He estimated there were between 5,500 to 6,000 security detainees at the prison, and the average prisoner spends three to six months in jail. A military panel meets daily to review cases.
On Monday, gunmen killed two Finnish businessmen as they drove in Baghdad, and 14 British troops were wounded in two explosions during a demonstration in the southern city of Basra.
British soldiers fired tear gas at about 500 unemployed Iraqi civilians protesting a failure to get jobs with the local customs police, said Col. Zafer Abdel-Nabi, chief of Basra customs. The crowd threw rocks, petrol bombs and a grenade at troops; six civilians were injured, he said.
The British Ministry of Defense said the soldiers - three of whom were seriously wounded - were evacuated to a nearby British military hospital.
British TV showed demonstrators throwing rocks at soldiers riding tanks and standing behind plastic shields. Two Associated Press photographs showed a British soldier running down a street with his head and shoulders on fire.
Some demonstrators shouted slogans in support of Saddam Hussein and condemned Yassin's killing, witnesses said. "We are all sons of Yassin," they shouted.
The two Finns were killed near a highway underpass in west Baghdad, according to Iraqi witnesses. The victims' Iraqi driver was unhurt.
The Finns were part of a nine-member technological delegation visiting the Iraqi capital, said Markus Lyra, a Foreign Ministry official in Helsinki. "The men were on their way to the Ministry of Electricity to make business contacts as part of a larger group," he said.
The assailants fled.
The victims were Seppo Haapanen, an employee of Entso, a Finnish company that specializes in electricity and power networks; and Jorma Toronen, of Air-Ix, which builds railways, the Foreign Ministry said.
Also Monday, the office of Iraq's most influential Shiite Muslim cleric said he had told the United Nations that the country's U.S.-backed interim constitution was a recipe for the breakup of Iraq.
Grand Ayatollah al-Husseini al-Sistani, in a letter sent March 19 to U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, criticized the constitution for its three-part presidency shared by Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiite Arabs. The plan "enshrines sectarianism and ethnicity," he wrote, adding that it "puts the country in an unstable situation and could lead to partition and division."