Posted on 05/11/2004 8:13:57 PM PDT by redrock
We're a little different....we Americans. Full of hope and life...wanting nothing more than to live a good,decent life...and pass on to our children the Freedom and chance to betterment that we ourselves have had.
We don't want to conquer the world...we don't want to even own the idiot thing. We watch dumb t.v. shows...and ,sometimes, even dumber movies. All with the expectation of trying to enjoy a couple of hours of leisure..and,really,doing nothing important.
And yet...we also aspire to goodness...and ,maybe, just a little greatness (always with the small 'g'). We TRY to do good the world over. We TRY to help our fellow man...to Free him...to show him that there IS a better way of life. We TRY to show our fellow dwellers on this rock that Freedom...the power to choose for oneself...is so priceless that it is worth fighting for.
Oh,for sure, we DO have our share of 'bad' people. Those who will commit acts of savagry or abuse against other Americans....or Iraqi's for that matter. We DO have people here who will commit all sorts of crime.....BUT...we also have the knowledge that when they are caught...MOST,if not all, will be punished.
But,most Americans, are just normal average people who go to work...pay their bills....raise their children.
Never forget....we are the 'Good Guys'.
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I have watched for the last year....the reporting of Americans being killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. (doing nothing more than trying to help fellow human beings). I have watched the burnt out vehicles along the roadside...I have seen the burnt and dismembered bodies of Americans being dragged thru the streets and hung from a bridge...all to the tune of dancing men and children chanting about how Allah is great.
I've watched for the last week...the unending circus about the abuses ,done by some, at a prison in Iraq. I have NOT liked what happened there...I have liked even less watching all the newspeople and politicians making asses of themselves in some sort of weird game of 'one-upmanship'. (after all...to BECOME a politician...you have to an ass anyway...and newspeople aren't much further up the ladder)
...and today, I have watched the moving pictures of a young American being beheaded.
I watched the Islamic Terrorists raise his head towards the camera...to try and instill fear in my heart. In the hearts of my friends. In the hearts of my children.
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I got news for them.
I don't scare that easy.
WE don't scare that easy.
I have written before....there is a cancer in the world today. Eating away at basic human decency. Eating away at Freedom...trying to return us to those glorious days of yesterday...where the Rulers of Islam could decide your life and death on a whim.
I have also said that UNLESS the so-called moderate Islam stands up and helps us fight those who do such savagry as I witnessed today...then they are no better than those who beheaded that young American.
Moderate Islam has a choice.
Life or death.
Choose life...and the rewards will be great. But it WILL take you getting invovled in actually fighting the Islamic Terrorists. It WILL take you standing up on your hindlegs and actually voicing your opposition to the Osama's of the world. It WILL take you discovering your testicles.
There is a cancer among us...and it is Islamic Terrorism.
...and if moderate Islam wants to just sit on the sideline then we will consider that you have chosen death.
...and we will help you get there.
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God Bless the United States of America....and God Bless the Soldiers who are protecting her.
redrock
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I believe it is far past time to start thinking about how to protect America...instead of worrying about offending anyone.
redrock
Islam is the anti-Christ....imho
redrock
Been away a bit--just got your note.
Could not have said it better myself.
The silence from the non jihadis in Islam is deafening.
People don't want to believe it--but we are heading for a major cultural war over whose values will survive in the West. To Islam, the defeat at Vienna in 1673 was a just a temporary setback.
As far as I'm concerned any religion that says it's OK, in fact, it's admirable to kill Jews and Americans is, in fact, not a religion, but a death cult to be treated like Nazism, Communism, amd other failed ideologies.
Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of submission, that spreads by brute force, not by the power of persuasion or changed lives.
Allah is not the God of the Bible, as the God of the Bible holds the Jew in a special place in His love. Allah is the moon god, just another false god similar to those of the Romans,Greeks, and ancient Babylonians.
I wish it were not so, but I can come to no other conclusion. Their hatred for us Americans and for the Jews is inhuman and unnatural, because we have not harmed them. Their hatred is their religion, and they can keep it. If it comes here, like it did on 9/11/01, we are gonna dropkick it back to the Middle East.
...and it IS deafening.
redrock
Right on! - BUMP!
redrock...(another cheap attempt at a BUMP!!)
redrock---I'M STILL waiting for the 'moderate' Islamic world to speak up...
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