IRAN - 10,000 SUICIDE BOMBERS AGAINST THE U.S.

According to reports Iran's Mullahs are giving sanction to radical Islamists within their borders who held a conference last week to discuss the future war against the west. According to reports as many as 10,000 jihadists were recruited to become suicide bombers for terror acts to be carried out against Israel, The United States, and other key targets in Europe and across the globe. And according to the Jerusalem Post, Iran has greater capacity with nuclear weapons and that "Tehran is intimately associated with" the plans and operations of Hiz-bollah.

"You seem to believe that when this undeclared, border-less, endless war is "over", that we will magically return to some sylvan republic that only exists in the history books no longer taught in public schools."

Well, I don't recall harking back to any sylvan republics, although we really did have one once.

I'll tell you when you will know this "undeclared, borderless, endless war is over," though. A while back the media clowns were fond of asking "How will we know when (if) we have won?" I was shocked but not surprised at the ahistorical quality to the question.

The answer is, When I can drive up to the airport, check in at the counter, walk with my carry-on to the departure gate with my family, and not have to go through a security checkpoint or a metal detector or answer any stupid questions by federal schmucks.

It really used to be that way, and not so long ago--I flew like that, as did many others here I'm sure. And although I may never see it again, that's the way to know the war has been won.

"Why else do you think this would be going on, anyway? Inquiring minds want to know more..."

Next time I visit my friend I intend to drive to where these camps are claimed to be. That they're being built doesn't surprise me. Prison construction is a big growth industry in America, so somebody has plans to lock up a lot of Americans in the future.

Why else? The way PATRIOT I was rushed into law 45 days after 9-11. 342 finely crafted pages of legislation which noone bothered to read before voting on it; that tells me the bill was sitting there waiting to be introduced as soon as the proper 'event' happened. All the reports of innocent Americans getting yanked out of line and searched while the ones who actually fit the 'terrorist' profile breeze through without a second glance. (Ann Coulter wrote a column about just that.) Another huge bureaucracy -- Homeland Security -- created and busy snooping on all of us.

'Terrorism' is the biggest shot-in-the-arm big government ever got in this country. The government needed another bogeyman after the demise of the Soviet Union.

Most chilling of all: the full 5-minute video of Bush on the morning of 9-11 in the Florida classroom. Chief of staff Andy Card walks over to Bush, whispers that the second plane has hit the tower and America is now under attack, then turns and calmly walks away, while Bush resumes reading the kids a nursery tale. They knew.

Ever since then, this inquiring mind has been saying, 'Uncle Sam, you're spying on, threatening and harassing the wrong people. We're not terrorists. We're not the enemy.' Or are we?

"I flew like that, as did many others here I'm sure. And although I may never see it again, that's the way to know the war has been won."

I remember those times too. I remember when you could smoke on planes and trains, before we came under the fist of hysterical over-reactors who want to dictate every facet of public and private life.

A government so concerned with my personal safety that it will arrest and heavily fine me for not wearing a seatbelt, but was asleep at the wheel the day kamikazi jetliners slammed into New York and Washington undetected and unopposed.

Sorry, it just boggles the mind.

Last but not least: here's a story on a stun gun designed to be used on crowds being developed for use by the Department of Defense and police forces across the fruited plain.

Now, what are DoD and the police planning for? A charge down Main Street by a phalanx of bedraggled and turbanned Islamic terrorists? Hell no! To control American citizens.

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