[StBernard] WW III

[Westley Annis]

	   This makes seance if you think about it ! Read on before you
delete


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, sit
back, 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...
That  alarm has been ringing for years

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, 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 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/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  in 1983 a large truck heavily  laden down
with over 25 00 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 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 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
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 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.  If
you
don't believe it, just delete it and go back  to  sleep.