When WWIII Started... {Insp}

"When WWIII 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, 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 2500 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 Rhein-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 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic
bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland in1988, 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, 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.

Wake up, America!
Received on Sun Aug 20 13:08:03 2006