Posted on 09/27/2001 10:08:40 AM PDT by Impeach98
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:38:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
THE DAY AFTER the carnage, California Peace Action warned that, "To act with disregard for the lives of those who are not directly responsible for the attacks on the United States lowers us to the same level as those who perpetrated the barbarity of Tuesday's attacks."
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This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'
Replace pro-facist with pro-Arab Mass Murderers and you have Orwell updated to describe Clymers like Barbara Lee and Ramsey Clark and their hatred of America/Americans and their love of America's Enemy's, like the Arab Mass Murderers of 9/11!
Barbara Lee is the real terrorist in America with what she has done since 9/11!
Oakland/Berkeley: Heroe Free Zone
She might be in serious trouble (because she stood for her "convictions" - always blame America...)
Terrorists attack U.S. embassies in Africa and (on the same day Monica Lewinsky testifies, of course) Klinton tells Congressional leaders "we are at war" and "retaliates" by actually launching cruise missiles into Afghanistan and the Sudan. There are no anti-war protests.
On the eve of the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives, Klinton again launches cruise missles against Iraq. There are no anti-war protests.
Suicide bombers attack the Cole. Klinton's term is all but up. There is no response, and there are no anti-war protests.
Suicide bombers on three commercial airliners obliterate the World Trade Center and seriously damage the Pentagon. Heroic passengers on a fourth airliner sacrifice their own lives to thwart efforts by hijackers. Nearly 7,000 completely innocent civilian men, women, and children from nearly 80 countries are killed; most are incinerated, their particulate matter "remains" mixed with the cloud of dust and debris that clogged the streets of lower Manhattan and the gapping maw at the Foggy Bottom. President Bush does not launch an immediate retaliatory strike but instead moves "slowly" and deliberately to "bring them to justice, or bring justice to them." Nevertheless, anti-war editorials, teach-ins, and high-profile student protests appear on college campuses nationwide.
I pray that most Americans will finally wake up and realize that this is a two-front war, and that America's enemies are both foreign and DOMESTIC.
Thank God some of the passengers on Flight 93 didn't feel that way.
One of the things that has disgusted me most has been to watch Barbara Lee's handful of defenders quote the same 1 or 2 family members out of 7,000 victims as saying "please do not retaliate in our son's name etc..."
It is so disengenous to try and posture that those who suffered and their familes don't overwhelmingly support retaliation for this event... and more than that, efforts to make terrorists unable to do this to innocent people again!
I've been thinking about that lately, and she's right, one is not enough. Vlad the Impaler (a Serb BTW) put THOUSANDS of Turks on pikes to drive the Muslims from Europe. Worked too.
Or we could send 1,000 Barbara Lee's after the Taliban too! (1,000 less treasonous America-haters in the country would be fine with me).
They can throw the rice, bread and fruit at the Taliban that they said the bombers should use instead of bombs.
See how long it takes for the Taliban to use Russian-made mortars to thank them for the food, grab it and then blow their heads off.
Grampa Dave, I agree with you, but why not call Bin Laden what he really is, a fascist?
Bin Laden uses the Crusades as an example how the west has denied the Arabs rightful greatness.
Hitler used the Treaty of Versailles to rally the Germans.
Bin Laden wants to return lost lands to his people & conquer even more for "Islam".
Hitler wanted to return lost lands to his people, & add some "Liberstaum" in the east for good measure.
Bin Laudin has intrigued to pervert Islam as a vehicle for despotic control.
Hitler used the National Socialist German Workers Party as a vehicle for despotic control.
And they both blame everything on the Western Democracies & the Jews.
In my opinion, Bin Laudin passes the "Duck Test" for Fascism.
I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you, but I'm using your comments to illustrate that the President wasn't just being rhetorical about Bin Laudin & the perurveyors of tyranny. Bin Laudin is no different than Hitler, Stalin, Tojo, or any other despot in history.
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