Posted on 11/10/2006 12:46:13 PM PST by Screamname
This WAR is for REAL !
To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).
The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.
First, let's examine a few basics:
1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:
(Excerpt) Read more at snopes.com ...
I did a little research and found out from Snopes (which has a full copy of this email which is why I am using them as a link) that Maj. Gen. Dr. Chong (who is a real person by the way) didn`t write it, but came across it from a lawyer who did and passed it on, and somehow Dr. Chongs name was attached to it as the author. Either way, I`m sending this to every freggin` liberal I know, especially my lib neighbor who wouldn`t stop shoving DimoRat propaganda stuff under my door before the election just to get on my nerves.
Here`s some interesting article titles posted on Drudge:
AL QAEDA IN IRAQ MOCKS 'LAME DUCK' BUSH...
VOWS TO 'BLOW UP WHITE HOUSE'...
Claims It's Winning War...
Just lovely. May every person who voted DimoRat this election read that Chong letter.
Oh, the DimoRats will change their tune quite quickly.
The 'war' propaganda was just that, propaganda to get power.
Nothing more.
Don't worry, the war will continue.
MG Chong was the commander at Wilford Hall Medical Center when I was there as the medical law consultant. He's a no-nonsense type who, though he didn't, could very well have written that piece. One of a handful of no-sh*t military officers who also happen to be physicians. We're getting more of them these days, but he was pretty leading-edge back in 1990.
Incredible letter either way, may be because of his no nonsense attitude why he was believed to be the author. Wow, pretty wild you knew him. Now millions more do and know of this letter because it was read and talked about today around 1pm on the air. Hopefully it will wake some people up, especially with this current boasting by Al-Qaeda and this nonsense of Germany wanting to bring charges against Rummy. Man, I am so sick to death of this crap, constant constant constant bashing of of all the wrong people, everyone from Bush to Rummy to the troops, everyone but these Islamic scum mutts.
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
Yeah, propping up various Middle Eastern governments has nothing to do with the attacks against the U.S. These attacks aren't a response to the American policy of cozying up to whatever democracy or dictatorship will carry our tune, the terrorists just hate mom, apple pie, and the star spangled banner.
I got a letter the other day from another General. I revere him more than 'General Chong'.
"The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
I'm sure U.S. policy in the Middle East has nothing to do with terrorism....
Hitler was not a Christian. Read here:
Hitler's war on Christ: Joel Miller explores Nazi plan to eradicate the Church
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/606793/posts
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