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From: kanzurem@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 00:28
Subject: Fwd: When WW III Started - 1979
Just taking a look at the "Big Picture"......
THIS IS NOT A RED OR BLUE THING, NOT A RIGHT OR LEFT THING,
NOT A LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE THING, BUT AN AMERICAN THING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT
When WW III Started - 1979
This is 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, reset 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...
US 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, 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 25 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 down 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 ONLY six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily
laden down with over 25,000 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
SLUMBER1
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 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into
the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rheine-Main, 22 are killed
and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 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 1986that killed 4 and the
most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland
in 1988, killing 259.
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 alongside 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
official 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.
I think we have been in a war for the past 25 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.
If you believe in this please forward it to other people, 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.
If you don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.
