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Right or wrong? I think right!
> Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe
> and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had
> sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between
> England and America for food and war materials.
>
> At that time the U.S. was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
> Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
> Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
> Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on
> Germany, which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had
> few allies.
>
> France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly
> aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not
> an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in
> Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning
> and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and Germany had
> long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to
> get into the United States over our northern and southern borders,
> after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe. America's
> only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia.
> That was about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia
> in the east, was already under the Nazi heel.
>
> America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically
> downgraded most of its military forces after WWI and throughout the
> depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training
> with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank"
> painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks. And a huge
> chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.
> Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600
> million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the
> property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
> when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,
> Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
> German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
> day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out
> for two years in the face of staggering shipping loses and the
> near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was
> saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the
> mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that
> could be dealt with later, and first turning his attention to Russia,
> at a time when England was on the verge of collapse, in the late
> summer of 1940.
> Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate
> fight for two years, until the U.S. got geared up to begin hammering
> away at Germany.
> Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of
> Stalingrad and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation,
> mostly civilians, but also more than a MILLION soldiers.
> Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his
> entire war effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis
> could possibly have won the war.
> All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
> dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
> moments in history.
> There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants
> and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological,
> or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.
> The Jihad's, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs
> -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi
> Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then
> the world. And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking
> should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the
> Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their
> mantra.
> There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most
> part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its
> Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not known yet which will
> win
> -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.
> If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
> the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian
> economies.
> The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an
> OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC
> dominated by the Jihad's.
> You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want
> the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the
> Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.
> If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
> believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live
> in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century
> into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually
> fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
> We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight
> the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and
> the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we
> can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the
> battle at a time and place of our choosing........in Iraq.
> Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where
> we are doing two important things.
> 1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
> involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been
> actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.
>
> Saddam was a weapon of mass destruction, who was responsible for the
> deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million
> Iranians.
>
> 2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
> terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad
> people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also
> have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will
> be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East,
> and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the
> Middle East for as long as it is needed.
> World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began
> with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor.
> It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for
> fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in
> 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed by another decade of U.S.
> occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed
> and running on their own again ... a 27 year war.
> World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a
> full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion
> dollars. WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and
> nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
> The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is
> roughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 3000 American
> lives, which is roughly the same as the lives that the Jihad snuffed
> on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have
> been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by German Nazism and
> Japanese Imperialism.
> Americans have a short attention span, conditioned by 30 second sound
> bites, 60 minute TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything comes
> out okay.
>
> The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain,and sometimes
> bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.
> The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism
> until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we
> ignore it.
> If the U.S. can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then
> we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can
> work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of
> the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and
> civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war
> is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. And
> now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear
> weapons. Unless somebody prevents them.
>
> We have four options:
> 1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
> 2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which
> may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is
> what Iran claims it is).
> 3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the
> Middle East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and
> ultimately in America.
>
> 4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the
> Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has
> dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe.
> It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much
> bloodier.
>
> If you oppose this war, seriously consider the idea that your
> children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the
> Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.
>
> The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes,
> cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society
> and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
> Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The
> pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
> Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too
> little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young
> American mind.
>
> The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall
> came down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of
> the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany.
> World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year
> occupation, and the U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan.
> World War II resulted in the death of more than 50 million people,
> maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you
> accept.
>
> The U.S. has taken more than 3,000 KIA in Iraq. The U.S. took more
> than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the day of
> the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazism. In WWII the US
> averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years. Most of the individual
> battles of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.
>
> But the stakes are at least as high ... A world dominated by
> representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and
> personal freedoms ...
> or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the
> Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).
>
> It's difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this.
> They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but
> evidently not for Iraqis.
>
> "Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America, where
> it's safe.
>
> Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq,
> Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the
> most?
>
> This is interesting History. Please take time to read and understand.
>
> The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights,
> democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins,
> wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights,
> democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. Americans who oppose the
> liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst
> enemy.
Right or wrong? I think right!
> Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe
> and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had
> sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between
> England and America for food and war materials.
>
> At that time the U.S. was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
> Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
> Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
> Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on
> Germany, which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had
> few allies.
>
> France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly
> aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not
> an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in
> Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning
> and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and Germany had
> long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to
> get into the United States over our northern and southern borders,
> after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe. America's
> only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia.
> That was about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia
> in the east, was already under the Nazi heel.
>
> America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically
> downgraded most of its military forces after WWI and throughout the
> depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training
> with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank"
> painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks. And a huge
> chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.
> Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600
> million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the
> property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
> when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,
> Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
> German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
> day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out
> for two years in the face of staggering shipping loses and the
> near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was
> saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the
> mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that
> could be dealt with later, and first turning his attention to Russia,
> at a time when England was on the verge of collapse, in the late
> summer of 1940.
> Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate
> fight for two years, until the U.S. got geared up to begin hammering
> away at Germany.
> Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of
> Stalingrad and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation,
> mostly civilians, but also more than a MILLION soldiers.
> Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his
> entire war effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis
> could possibly have won the war.
> All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
> dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
> moments in history.
> There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants
> and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological,
> or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.
> The Jihad's, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs
> -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi
> Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then
> the world. And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking
> should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the
> Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their
> mantra.
> There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most
> part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its
> Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not known yet which will
> win
> -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.
> If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
> the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian
> economies.
> The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an
> OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC
> dominated by the Jihad's.
> You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want
> the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the
> Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.
> If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
> believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live
> in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century
> into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually
> fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
> We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight
> the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and
> the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we
> can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the
> battle at a time and place of our choosing........in Iraq.
> Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where
> we are doing two important things.
> 1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
> involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been
> actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.
>
> Saddam was a weapon of mass destruction, who was responsible for the
> deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million
> Iranians.
>
> 2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
> terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad
> people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also
> have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will
> be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East,
> and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the
> Middle East for as long as it is needed.
> World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began
> with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor.
> It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for
> fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in
> 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed by another decade of U.S.
> occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed
> and running on their own again ... a 27 year war.
> World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a
> full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion
> dollars. WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and
> nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
> The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is
> roughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 3000 American
> lives, which is roughly the same as the lives that the Jihad snuffed
> on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have
> been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by German Nazism and
> Japanese Imperialism.
> Americans have a short attention span, conditioned by 30 second sound
> bites, 60 minute TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything comes
> out okay.
>
> The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain,and sometimes
> bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.
> The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism
> until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we
> ignore it.
> If the U.S. can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then
> we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can
> work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of
> the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and
> civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war
> is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. And
> now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear
> weapons. Unless somebody prevents them.
>
> We have four options:
> 1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
> 2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which
> may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is
> what Iran claims it is).
> 3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the
> Middle East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and
> ultimately in America.
>
> 4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the
> Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has
> dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe.
> It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much
> bloodier.
>
> If you oppose this war, seriously consider the idea that your
> children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the
> Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.
>
> The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes,
> cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society
> and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
> Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The
> pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
> Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too
> little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young
> American mind.
>
> The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall
> came down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of
> the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany.
> World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year
> occupation, and the U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan.
> World War II resulted in the death of more than 50 million people,
> maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you
> accept.
>
> The U.S. has taken more than 3,000 KIA in Iraq. The U.S. took more
> than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the day of
> the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazism. In WWII the US
> averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years. Most of the individual
> battles of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.
>
> But the stakes are at least as high ... A world dominated by
> representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and
> personal freedoms ...
> or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the
> Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).
>
> It's difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this.
> They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but
> evidently not for Iraqis.
>
> "Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America, where
> it's safe.
>
> Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq,
> Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the
> most?
>
> This is interesting History. Please take time to read and understand.
>
> The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights,
> democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins,
> wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights,
> democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. Americans who oppose the
> liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst
> enemy.
