THIS IS WAR ( Ann Coulter tells it like it is ) ***A Must Read***

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[TLBSHOW]

THIS IS WAR

By Ann Coulter

Barbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed him that he had better call the FBI (news - web sites) -- the plane had been hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon (news - web sites).

Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end.

This is not to engage in the media's typical hallucinatory overstatement about anyone who is the victim of a horrible tragedy. The furtive cell phone call was an act of incredible daring and panache. If it were not, we'd be hearing reports of a hundred more cell phone calls. (Even people who swear to hate cell phones carry them for commercial air travel.)

The last time I saw Barbara in person was about three weeks ago. She generously praised one of my recent columns and told me I had really found my niche. Ted, she said, had taken to reading my columns aloud to her over breakfast.

I mention that to say three things about Barbara. First, she was really nice. A lot of people on TV seem nice, but aren't. (And some who don't seem nice, are.) But Barbara was always her charming, graceful, ebullient self. "Nice" is an amazingly rare quality among writers. In the opinion business, bitter, jealous hatred is the norm. Barbara had reason to be secure.

Second, it was actually easy to imagine Ted reading political columns aloud to Barbara at the breakfast table. Theirs was a relationship that could only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary -- the latter being a subject of Barbara's appropriately biting best seller, "Hell to Pay."

Hillary claimed preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy with Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara really did talk politics -- and really did have breakfast together.

It's "Ted and Barbara" just like it's Fred and Ginger, and George and Gracie. They were so perfect together, so obvious, that their friends were as happy they were on their wedding day. This is more than the death of a great person and patriotic American. It's a human amputation.

Third, since Barbara's compliment, I've been writing my columns for Ted and Barbara. I'm always writing to someone in my head. Now I don't know who to write to. Ted and Barbara were a good muse.

Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were dropping in Afghanistan (news - web sites) -- and then updated the report to say they weren't our bombs.

They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.

This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.

We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution condemning the attack this week.

The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory racial or "religious" profiling.

People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from Idaho. This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and work for our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so bloodthirsty.

"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV. Every single time there is a terrorist attack -- or a plane crashes because of pilot error -- Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no purpose whatsoever.

The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about whether passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen mesomorphs ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed hijackers to board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody Tuesday. (Did those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker anyplace in America that day?)

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

[UncleSam]

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of your post,  #67.  You have displayed a keen knowledge of the FAA's inability to function in the citizens behalf rather than the political good.

But isn't this government agency populated with white, Christian, American born and educated functionaries whom mostly look just like us? Are they not kin and kindred with the incredibly unselfish men and women who with personal spirit rushed forward to aid ? How can this be?

The grey ash of evil intent will mark the heads of our political leaders who have betrayed the people's trust. So help me GOD!

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[mattflogel.com]

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

AMEN

[YaYa123]

I hope this book, FINAL DAYS, and the paperback version of HELL TO PAY, become best sellers for Barbara.

God Bless Ted Olson.

[SKYDRIFTER]

I would hope that this affair is appropriately brought under the spotlight and a microscopic view of the Clinton Legacy. Examining the Clintons from the events surrounding the Mena Arkansas Airport mess onward is mandatory. It is naive to think that the Clinton power base has done more than multiplied since he left office. Hitlery is to be the most feared.

[Aliska]

I also disagree with converting others by force to Christianity. A forced conversion is no conversion. Ann sounds like Charlemagne and the Saxons.

Agreed!!! Been there. Done that. No one ever anywhere should be forced to convert to anything. Behavior modification? Yes! Forced conversion? Not even God almighty can do that. It's a little thing called free will.

[WolfgangSL]

This is my first post on Free Republic, after irritating other users by reading and talking over-the-shoulder. We have already recieved promises of support from our NATO allies, and I propose that instead of running a 'police action' or other new executive prerogative, we should have Congress declare war upon those responsible, after a serious and prompt investigation. Even if those responsible are a non-governmental organization, a decision by Congress to this effect would indicate that our republic is capable of understanding and dealing with the new threats posed by the less savory elements of the changing global landscape. Congress should then, and only then, declare war on the specific persons and organizations responsible. This process of rational and constitutional deliberation would show the rest of the world our dedication to the American way of life and Constitution, and prevent the executive from making politically motivated attacks like the Sudan asprin-factory bombing. I have decided to sign a petition to this effect at SIGN THE NATIONAL PETITION - Urge the Congress to Declare War

[neutrino]

Thank you for the flag! She is so right....and she says everything I'd like to say; but she does it far better than I could!

[oldvike]

Good ping. Thanks. Coulter tells it like it is, as usual.

I particularly like this line: "Hillary claimed preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy with Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara really did talk politics -- and really did have breakfast together."

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

[WalterSkinner]

Bump and Amen

[nicknack]

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

Hear, hear! This planet's too small for two bloodthirsty cults! LET'S KILL THEM ALL! CHILDREN TOO! IN THE NAME OF OUR SAVIOR, JESUS H. CHRIST!!!

Gosh, what a peaceful world it would be if only the atheists were in it -- people who didn't believe they were the "chosen" ones, who didn't believe if they murdered innocent secretaries (or goat farmers) they would spend a blissfull eternity with Allah (or God).

Some of the posters in here are just as sick as the fanatics who hijacked those planes. Ditto for Ann Coulter.

You people disgust me. Keep on spewing your cowardly, bigoted hatred anonymously over the net. I'm sure it's enriching your lives tremendously. As for me, I renounce my FR membership.

You may commence with the "Don't let the door hit you on the way out" comments.

[TLBSHOW]

Her book "Hell to Pay" has been in great demand across the nation since Tuesday.

Wait till the sheeples read the truth about Hillary over the next few months. Thanks to this patriot's words.

The moment in history has come for us and our great country.

We will WIN! Won't we fellow FReepers?

[TLBSHOW]

Where do you get off saying that?

[WillRain]

The difference is, WE won't be converting them at gunpoint, just pulling back the drapes and leting a little sun shine in on the dark ages.
ANY forced conversion by ANY person is a henius sin against God, and I'm quite sure ann knows that.

For the record, I denounce any killing done by Christians in the name of Christianity with equal vigor as I do the lunacy of Islamic "jihads". (Are you listening Northern Ireland?)