Posted on 09/14/2001 2:02:00 PM PDT by truther
I urge you in the strongest of all possible terms to vote in support of H.J. Res. 62 IH Declaring a state of war between the United States and international terrorists and their sponsors. Please let me know how you voted on this joint resolution.
I urge all FReepers to do the same.
I think the issue should be pushed and let the Dems come out publically against it...if they have the guts.
This is backwards, it makes it seem as if the people are secondary to the military and economic symbols. What BS, this clause would be properly stated as:
(5) declares that these premeditated attacks struck not only at the symbols and structures of our economic and military strength, but also at the people of America, and that the United States is entitled to respond under international law;
An Act Declaring that war exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, First. That war be, and the same is hereby, declared to exist, and that war has existed since the twenty-first day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, including said day, between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain.
Second. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States, to such extent as may be necessary to carry this Act into effect.
Approved, April 25, 1898.
BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES:
H. C. CORBIN,
Adjutant General.
This after 252 Officers and men were killed in the explosion of the Maine.
Apparently American life comes much cheaper to our Government now.
It’s almost a certainty that our reprisal for Terrible Tuesday will be to return portions of the middle east to sand dunes. While I’m not saying that such action is NOT fully justified, we’d better be prepared for the list of “Those Who Hate America” to lengthen. For every madman we take out, there will be a dozen in line behind him ready to take his place. That means there will certainly be MORE such attacks HERE!
Which brings me to say that if the NJ/NY Ports Authority rebuilds the WTC on the same scale as the one now spread over much of Manhattan, the new design should incorporate large BULLSEYES on the sides.
I’ve spent my career designing steel structures and told my son before the SECOND plane hit the second tower that the FIRST building was “toast.” There was NO WAY those heat weakened columns would hold. And when the second plane hit the second tower, taking out the columns on one side, I knew IT was history. I cried as the second tower struck crumpled in the direction of the sliced columns and, shortly after, the upper 20 floors of the first tower pan-caked into the lower 90 after THOSE columns buckled.
I’m not some anti-techno Luddite: Even BEFORE the events of 9/11, I was growing weary of watching bodies fall from burning high-rise buildings as rescue workers stood helplessly in the street below, poised to clean up the carnage. I wonder how many high-rise dwellers are today looking for farms in Kansas?
The evidence is growing that we need to seriously rethink our compulsion to concentrate populations in taller and taller, easy-to-hit targets which are also built to be efficient chimneys.
The loss of life in the WTC will be staggering. Compare that number to the final body count at the Pentagon. Then think about the differences in those two buildings.
I rest my case!
The worst 8 years in the country's history.
We must come out of our tailspin and save the nation now.
Other practical lessons from this catastrophe:
We need a modern (not necessarily super-high-speed) train system, supported directly or indirectly (by tax breaks) by the US government, AS A MEANS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. If we had one now, we would have unimpeded travel within the United States. Look at how stymied we are now.
Sky marshals.
Deport all noncitizens whose presence here is not needed, especially those from the east. Shut up all liberals and whiners about this point. It is an emergency, and we can't spend our time proving this or that about some foreigner.
Just send 'em all home.
Reinstitute the draft.
Attack and occupy Afghanistan.
The most vocal arab nation to protest Afghanistan's invasion -- that's the next one we invade. And so forth.
Domino effect.
Make sure we capture one place that has tons of oil, so that we can have 15 cent-a-gallon gas and magnificent chrome covered cars with fins again.
The primary thing the DemonRATs are thinking about now is how combat W's one-week transition from a one-termer to a shoo-in two-termer.
They could give two sh*ts about any of the dead in NY and DC.
Remember how they, for years, decried any attempt to close borders or increase security against foreigners as mere racism.
Never forget, Peter Jennings and his worthless ilk hate the USA as much as the Taliban does.
This phony crying by Democrats is just calculated. Wait for a month to pass, and they will pull out the "John Wayne" diatribes again.
They are upset at this event because it weakens their grip on the country, and for no other reason.
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