"MAY YOUR DAY REFLECT THE BEAUTY OF YOUR HEART"

     

MSG ROGER H. COOPER USA (RET)
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MG Vernon Chong,  USAFR,FORWARD:

 

               
               This  WAR is for REAL!

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through  it. Our country is
now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we  know it, that we
have faced in your lifetime and mine
(which includes  WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that  there are very
few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer  who realize
what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few  basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September  11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is
concerned is 1979, 22 years  prior to September 2001, with the following
attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy  Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine  Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
*  First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar  Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares  Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York  World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.
(Note that during the period  from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist
attacks worldwide).

2. Why  were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The  attacks happened
during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush  1, Clinton and
Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as  there were no
provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate  predecessors,
Presidents Ford or Carter.

3. Who were the attackers?
In  each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4. What is  the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion  peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that  the
predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the 
dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no  difference.
You either went along with the administration or you were  eliminated. There
were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for  political reasons
(including 7,000 Polish priests).  (see
http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm)

Thus, almost the same  number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the
six million holocaust Jews  who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of
anything other than the Jewish  atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world
focused on the Jews, he had no  hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way
of exterminating the Jews or  of taking over the world - German, Christian or
any others.

Same with the  Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill
all in the way --  their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The
point here is that  just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to
anyone from the Nazis,  no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they
are no protection for us  from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are
fanatically bent on doing --  by their own pronouncements -- killing all of us
"infidels." I don't blame the  peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the
choice was shut up or die?

6.  So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly respond that it is  anyone other than the
Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and  avoid verbalizing this
conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if  you don't clearly
recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with  that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this  war?
2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must  clearly answer these two pivotal questions.

We can definitely lose this  war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major
reason we can lose is that so  many of us simply do not fathom the answer to
the second question - What does  losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing  the war means
hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our  business, like
post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What  losing
really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the  world. The attacks will not
subside, but rather will steadily increase.  Remember, they want us dead, not
just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet,  they would not have produced
an increasing series of attacks against us, over  the past 18 years. The plan
was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we  were neutered and submissive
to them.
We would of course have no future  support from other nations, for fear of
reprisals and for the reason that they  would see, we are impotent and cannot
help them.

They will pick off the  other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be
increasingly easier for  them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't
matter whether it was right or  wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
Spain did it because the  Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them
to withdraw the troops.  Anything else they want Spain to do will be done.
Spain is finished.

The  next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might
see the  light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in
that they  can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already
be too  late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast!

If we lose  the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all
vanish as we  know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us, if they
were threatened  by the Muslims.

If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone  else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore  are
completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be  likewise
committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths  about the results of losing? Simple. Until we
recognize the costs of losing, we  cannot unite and really put 100% of our
thoughts and efforts into winning. And  it is going to take that 100% effort to
win.

So, how can we lose the  war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding."  That is,
defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their  purpose, and
really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we  are
united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided,  there is no
way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we  simply don't comprehend the life
and death seriousness of this  situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of  Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim  men between 17 and 40
years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling.  Does that sound
like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war! For the  duration, we are
going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have  become accustomed
to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights  temporarily or
we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And  don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil
rights  during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact
added  many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton  before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of  our Political
Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict and  have a clean,
lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them  out of
your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war  and/or the
Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see  us lose. I hasten to
add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is  because they just don't
recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct  gives the impression
to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns  our friends, and
it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent  vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media
regarding the treatment  of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I
am saying. We have  recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few
Muslim prisoners of war,  by a small group of our military police. These are the
type prisoners who just a  few months ago were throwing their own people off
buildings, cutting off their  hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise
murdering their own people just  for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same  type prisoners chemically killed 400,000
of their own people for the same  reason. They are also the same type enemy
fighters, who recently were burning  Americans, and dragging their charred
corpses through the streets of  Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type enemy that was and is  providing
videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of  American prisoners
they held.

Compare this with some of our press and  politicians, who for several days
have thought and talked about nothing else but  the "humiliating" of some Muslim
prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging  their charred corpses through
the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating"  them.

Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even  talked of impeachment of the Secretary
of Defense. If this doesn't show the  complete lack of comprehension and
understanding of the seriousness of the enemy  we are fighting, the life and death
struggle we are in and the disastrous  results of losing this war, nothing
can.

To bring our country to a  virtual political standstill over this prisoner
issue makes us look like Nero  playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally
oblivious to what is going on in  the real world. Neither we, nor any other
country, can survive this internal  strife. Again I say, this does not mean that
some of our politicians or media  people are disloyal. It simply means that they
are absolutely oblivious to the  magnitude, of the situation we are in and
into which the Muslim terrorists have  been pushing us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated  goal is to kill all infidels! That
translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just  in the United States, but
throughout the world.

We are the last bastion  of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.'  That charge is
valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe  that we are
so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of  all
those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can  defeat
anything bad in the world!

We can't!

If we don't recognize  this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and
no other free country in  the world will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim  countries throughout the world that allow
freedom of speech, freedom of thought,  freedom of religion, freedom of the press,
equal rights for anyone -- let alone  everyone, equal status or any status for
women, or that have been productive in  one single way that contributes to
the good of the world.

This has been a  long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we
will be equated in  the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman
Empire. If, that is,  the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be
written or read.

If we  don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take
over  France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the
Muslim  population of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the
 established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves,
 over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them
and  keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily  familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by  some external
military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away,  politically correct
piece by politically correct piece.

And they are  giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide,
that they abhor  freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves,
once they are in  power.

They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they  then start
brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the  masses.
Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the  "peaceful
Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said  above. If we are united,
there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the  election, the
factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical  situation we are in, and
will unite to save our country. It is your future we  are talking about! Do
whatever you can to preserve it.

After reading the  above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our
children, our  grandchildren, our country and the world.

Whether Democrat or Republican,  conservative or liberal and that includes
the Politicians and media of our  country and the free world!

Please forward this to any you feel may want,  or NEED to read it. Our
"leaders" in Congress ought to read it,  too.

There are those that find fault with our country, but it is obvious  to
anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must  UNITE!