WWIIIIn 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
ofpeaceful 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
thatheld 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 U.S. soil continued.
In April of 1983, a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven
into the U.S. Embassy compound in Beirut. When it exploded, it killed 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 2,500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the U.S. Marine
Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 U.S. 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 U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her
slumber.
The following year, in September, 1984, another van was driven into the
gate of the U.S. 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 U.S. 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, 2
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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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.(That might have killed a camel)
The U.S.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. soil or in
America. How wrong they are.
America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit theSnooze Alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from many 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.
The President is right on when he 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.
Time To Wake Up !!