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I have heard it it said in the last 45 hours that the US prepared for everything in the Pacific Theater except the kamikazes...The Japanese vowed to fight to the last man. My fellow Americans, WW II was ended because the US government agreed to Japans term's. We took them up on their pledge and made it clear that we would claim their "last man"....at our convenience...War has been declared in September, 2001.....Our enemy today is prepared to fight to the last man, woman, and child...Is it time to take them up on it?????A Nuclear response ended WW II. Is ...

Can We Win This War? September 11, 2001 Can We Win This War? Was This Attack Unprovoked? What About Turning the Other Cheek? When we find ourselves in a war we can't win, we must either capitulate or change it to the kind of war we can win. If we find and destroy the perpetrators, we only make them martyrs and guarantee that others will attack us again. But if we absolutely defeat their goals and punish those who support and protect them, we can put an end to this sort of thing once and for all. Those who ...

Freedonia's going to War!

Freedonia's going to War!

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Protesters withdrew from the headgates of the Klamath Project irrigation system on Wednesday, saying they did not want to cause more problems for the federal government in the wake of terrorist attacks on the East Coast. We made an agreement with them that in light of our national emergency, we'd call a truce on this thing for right now," said Bill Ransom, a local businessman and member of the protest group known as the Klamath Relief Fund. The government first shut off the flow of irrigation water to more than 1,000 parched farms in the Klamath ...

WASHINGTON -- Authorities searching nationwide for terrorists behind the deadly airliner attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center have identified a team of as many as 50 infiltrators who supported or carried out the strikes, a source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday

  Dear Friends: At this moment of tragedy in New York and America, we are joined in prayer for the many thousands of victims and their families. We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the courageous men and women who are risking their lives and devoting their talents to the rescue and treatment of the survivors. Not since Pearl Harbor has our nation come under such a direct and horrific attack. I am sure America will respond to this crime against humanity in a way that has always characterized our country: with unity and strength. As a nation, ...

WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities have identified more than a dozen hijackers of Middle Eastern descent in Tuesday's bombings and gathered evidence linking them to Osama bin Laden and other terrorist networks, law enforcement officials said. In all, perhaps 50 people were involved in the plot, government officials say The massive investigation stretched from the Canadian border, where officials suspect some of the hijackers entered the country, to Florida, where some of the participants are believed to have learned how to fly commercial jetliners before the attacks. Locations in Massachusetts and Florida were searched for evidence The names of two men ...

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Just before United Flight 93 crashed, some of the passengers learned of the attacks on the World Trade Center and may have tried to overpower their hijackers and keep the jetliner from hitting another landmark. Authorities have not disclosed whether there was a struggle aboard the plane, and have not said what caused the airliner carrying 45 people to plunge into a Pennsylvania field. But some of the victims telephoned relatives from the plane and said that they had resolved to wrest control of the flight back from their captors. Passenger Jeremy Glick, 31, telephoned his ...

   China increased security around US diplomatic buildings on Wednesday as state-run media and ordinary Chinese reeled with shock at the aircraft attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. At least one Chinese national was injured in the terror attacks against the World Trade Centre in New York and the fate of roughly 30 others was unknown on Wednesday morning, China's Foreign Trade Ministry said. China had 14 companies with offices in the building at the heart of the global financial centre which was hit by two aircraft on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement on ...

Its been almost two days since I watched an airplane slam into the WTC. And like everyone else I've spent the better part of those two days glued to my television set watching the events in New York unfold. I've shed more than a few tears at the images and stories I've seen and heard but (and I thank GOD for this) none of my loved ones live in New York and somehow the real emotional impact had yet to hit me. Then a few minutes ago, a little past midnight my time, my phone rang."Hello"The woman on the line ...

What if Ronald Reagan were President? There may be bets that his action would be severe, and would already have come, but we have yet to see what Bush will do, and we can be sure it will be a justified "orgy of death." We can also be sure that Reagan would never have acted without full planning and knowledge of the outcome. No, if Ronald Reagan were President, the retaliation would not have already come, and it probably wouldn't be worse than what Bush will launch. Still, when Ronald Reagan was President, not everyone liked us, but everyone feared ...

WASHINGTON -- At 9:03 a.m. Tuesday, as Vice President Dick Cheney was staring at the TV screen, the second hijacked airliner exploded against the Twin Towers. At that moment his Secret Service detail grabbed him and hurried him down to "PEOC." The President's Emergency Operations Center is an underground facility hardened to withstand blast overpressure from a nuclear detonation. On the way to the tubular structure, Cheney was told that another plane, or a helicopter loaded with explosives, was headed for the White House. Cheney promptly called the president in Florida, who had just boarded Air Force One, and urged ...

September 12, 2001 FINAL MOMENTS Solicitor General Got 2 Calls From Wife on Doomed Plane By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — In the final moments before a hijacked American Airlines jetliner crashed into the Pentagon, Theodore B. Olson, the solicitor general of the United States, was sitting at his desk in the Justice Department this morning when an aide rushed in to tell him his wife, Barbara, was on the telephone. Mrs. Olson, a well-known conservative television commentator, was in the rear of the airliner, telling her husband that the pilot and passengers of the plane had been ...

Our community held a community - wide prayer service this evening. . . . .One of the featured passages of scripture was 2 Chronicles - Chapter 7. Usually everyone concentrates on verse 14 of this passage; however the pastor read the whole chapter.(See below.) After hearing the verses, my thoughts immediately turned to our nation's response to this tragedy. . .and then I remembered the US Congress singing "God Bless America." (I believe on the steps of the capitol.) This same Congress in which members vote to kill innocent little unborn babies. . . . singing God Bless America? Is ...

ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: President Pervez Musharraf early on Thursday assured US President George Bush of Pakistan's "unstinted cooperation" in the fight against terrorism. "We regard terrorism as an evil that threatens the world community," Musharraf said in a statement following urgent talks with his key aides following Tuesday's kamikaze bombings in the US. Musharraf presided over a three-hour meeting at his official residence in Rawalpindi. The talks ended well after midnight Wednesday. Musharraf reiterated that concerted international efforts were needed to fight terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. "All countries must join hands in this common cause," he said. ...

I live in the Soho section of Manhattan, about 1/2 to 1 mile away from what was the World Trade Center. I left this morning on my bicycle at 7 am (there are no subways in lower manhattan) to see what services were available and correct the broken items at my office in Midtown. No matter how difficult it was to restore my company's communications, it pales in comparison to the man I met tonight. Once I had set a game plan with my Atlanta office for restoration of network services for our national company that were destroyed by the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Striking a macabre note, a new album cover by hip-hop band The Coup -- whose music has a strong anti-capitalist bent -- had until recently depicted the World Trade Center exploding, the band's label said on Wednesday. ``We changed the artwork as soon as we saw what had happened,'' said Daria Kelly, director of sales for 75 Ark, the band's label. Kelly said the picture, which eerily shows group member ''Boots'' Riley holding a detonator in front of the exploding towers, was yanked from the San Francisco-based company's Web site at (http://www.75ark.com) by 9:30 a.m. PDT ...

DO NOT POST ANY MILITARY INFORMATION YOU HAVEIt is imperative during this time period that no one and I mean no one post any information they have about our military except to report on the crash of the plane at the Pentagon. There have been several postings tonight giving information about bases near where they live -- please do not discuss your local bases on the open forum. Use freeper mail to people you know. Our men and women of the Armed Forces will most likely be put in harm's way soon enough without our telling people what is going ...

Rescuers combed mountains of rubble at what had been the World Trade Center yesterday in a grim search for survivors among the thousands presumed dead in its collapse. Investigators meantime cast a worldwide net for those behind the hijackers who slammed jetliners into the twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia in the worst terrorist attack in American history. The first clues to the identity of those responsible pointed toward five suspects whose movements appear to have taken them to Boston, Canada and Florida, and suggested that the hijackers had Middle Eastern and Islamic connections. ...