This Viet Nam Vet remembers what it was like NOT to have the USA behind us.
Never again will our service men and women have to endure this kind of treatment!
Posted on 09/16/2001 8:31:49 PM PDT by mdittmar
I expect that the US intelligence community will eventually find some sort of aiding and abetting going on from Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Khadafy during the course of Osama bin Laden's anti-American terrorist career.
Anyone who conspires in the commission of any felony is guilty of murder when the eventual commission of the felony results in the death of any person. This is the essence of the "felony murder" statute that has been adopted in most of the states. It is punishable by life in prison.
Under the present circumstances, with over 5,300 dead or missing (and presumed dead) as a result of these felonies, I believe we should make an exception. This should be punishable by death. The sentence should be carried out immediately without benefit of trial. Any aid provided to Osama bin Laden after he declared "holy jihad" against America was an act of war, by the nations that knowingly provided aid and comfort to him and to his murderous thugs.
The last time anybody did anything like this to us, we spent the next four years drop-kicking them from one end of the Pacific to the other. Then we nuked them. Then we nuked them again.
I would like to remind any military, intelligence, diplomatic and political personnel reading this that we fire-bombed dozens of German and Japanese cities during World War II. Then we used nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We killed at least one million civilians -- men, women and children -- with firebombs and nuclear weapons.
We did this to destroy their means of making war -- the factories, railroad yards, shipyards and oil refineries. And we did it to destroy their will to fight. After we killed enough Japanese women and children, their soldiers lost the will to fight and they accepted surrender terms. Unlike Germany, we did not have to invade their homeland. The samurai spirit can be compared to the philosophy of these mujahedeen.
At the beginning, the Japanese warriors were eager to die. Even toward the end, they were eager to die -- recall the kamikazes, and how very few of their soldiers surrendered on the tiny islands we invaded. But when they received word of two atomic bombs being used on their cities, they lost the will to resist.
We must learn these lessons well. The mujahedeen is just as eager to die as the Japanese soldier, sailor or airman was in 1941. We must extract a price that they are not willing to pay.
My knees are completely shot lately!
Great idea!
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