AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE-UP.

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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 -AD) 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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
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.

Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage,
political or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn't
have the backbone to do, both Democrat and Republican. 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.
Please forward this 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.

[VAhuntr]

Very good post.

[PABuck_HNTR]

BTT

[Christine B]

Good Post!! Kerry appears... however thinly veiled it is that many of us are still complacent and perhaps some are.... Those I know( and I know many people) are more aware now, then they have ever been in their lives.

[Bushman/hun]

Yes good post!

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.

Yes thats what he said all right , The war mongers would not lisin to reason in ***an . The prez had every right to declare war then & now.
You dont poke the bear & wound him- now you become the hunted.

Some on here i wont name names*(Ga) think its only notable when the attacks come home& ARE BIG& became unegnorable..... otherwise its all in the far far far away lands & has nothing to do with him or US.So it seems

I have heard his reasoning before on here about 9/11& the terrorists " it would all go away like nothing happned if we just leave them alone& egnore them , to do anything would only inflame there anger even more- so what can we do?....with that kind of reasoning nothing i guess. Nothing is what incourages them/ But Im sure they where being mercyfull on 9/11 holding back right Ga? but now that our current leader did SOMETHING that has all changed eh? [&:]REALITY - shows otherwise.

Im so glad those back in ww2 & our current leader in the white house today dont think like this man is all i can say.