Time to wake UP!

[MarineAO]

Not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalogue of
events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the
position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit
back, re-set the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever
bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November
1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.

U.S. Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is
an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this
action is so necessary.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! That's what we think we heard on the 11th of
September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it
was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the
alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the
snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since
then.

It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a
religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked
and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright
attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most
powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this
sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 23
years.

America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and
had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had
to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The
ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's
inability to deal with terrorism.

America's military had been decimated and downsized/right sized since the
end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly
organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was
doomed from the start.

Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and
killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her
citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.

In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into
the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63 people.

The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.

Then just six short months later a large truck heavily laden down with over
2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps
headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her
dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.

Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is
driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.

The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate
of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.

Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a
restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main
gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze
alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.

Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we
watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list
and executed.

The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when
they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic
bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.

Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying
to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.

The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.

The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two
CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley,
Virginia.

The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after
a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking
garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and
over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war?

The Snooze alarm is depressed again.

Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.

A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35
yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys
the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over
500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America
does not respond decisively.

They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision.

They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to
sleep.

The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12
October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded
killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we
sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.

And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think
this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are.
America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the
snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.

In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high
officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But
if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see
exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the
National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since
1979.

Our Government is right on when it says we are engaged in a war. I think we
have been in a war for the past 23 years and it will continue until we as a
people decide enough is enough.

America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been
changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice
to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep
hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to
sleep.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "...it seems all we
have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to
disseminate to terrorists around the world.

This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is
an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children
in years to come.

Feel free to forward this (or ignore it) to as many people as you can,
especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class
and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action.

I believe it may just be time to wake up !!


This was sent to me by a friend. Thought I'd post it here for your consideration and comment.

[darrels joy]

Read and retransmitted. Most concise list of the attacks I've read. Thank you.
Joy

[reconeil]

Thanks for passing such a well documented eye-opener along,...even though making my disgust with naive' and impotent leaders even more so. Hope The Speech opened some eyes of those alluded to also,...if only so WE ALL and America might survive.

Neil

[Boats]

Ditto,

Great job putting into perspective. Now if you could just get the politicians to read it and then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Thanks

[Seascamp]

I?m looking at a political cartoon from an English language Asian newspaper dated last Thursday. Depicted is a spindly Kerry in boxing attire, dancing around and pretending to be good to go. Behind him, just entering the ring is a huge person with a beard, terrorist headgear, a scimitar, a few dozen severed heads tied at his belt and a huge, huge grin on his face.

Seems as how the Editors in South East Asia see something, are not being edited to nonsense by the New York/L.A PC mavens and see a history/future that we are not. Seems as if they read this post content or are already are well acquainted with the long term obvious. Interesting.

Scamp

[Boats]

God lets hope not for all of us.

[SEATJERKER]

...such is a list that proves beyond ANY shadow of a ANY doubt WHAT HAS ACTUALLY HAS HAPPENED as a CONTINUES PATTERN since 1979,....

...AO, another thanks, and heads up on the issues that are the most important,...


...maybe if these FACTS were to be drawn up on 11X17, and posted to every corner light post, or bus stop as in years past, we might see some unified action,...

...I've got this gut feeling that sometime before November, the scum will float to the top, and try something else, and America better wake up is right on the money, no harm in watching everyone,... got nothing to hide, nothing to worry about then,...

..."shoot the ones that run", (just wing um), ,...

...

[Stick]

Couldn't be a better post or more timely.
I received e-mail this morning from the left side of the aisle.
I copied and pasted Captain Ouimette's speech in reply.
Sooner or later America is going to have to pull it's collective head out of it's collective a$$.
How many does the world need to loose during its slumber?
America must lead because no other nation is willing to.

[SuperScout]

Took the liberty, and probably violated copyright laws, but copied the original message in word format, pasted it to a new email thingie, and sent it to many on my Outlook list. Thanks, MarineAO for bring this to our attention, andmore importantly, thanks to the good squid for writing this timely piece!

Scouts Out!!
Brice