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01-24-2007, 08:35 AM
*Some of you may be offended after reading this. You have been warned, You know who you are*
This is an EXCELLENT essay, well thought out and presented by Raymond
S. Kraft.
Some of you may not believe it; some may think it to be a
conservative's view on the war, some of you may think it cannot
happen; but think as you may; it is all based on facts in our history.
Something that our education system seems not to teach anymore.
Jerry
THIS IS HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF OUR TEXTBOOKS. MOST OF YOU
ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS
GROSSLY
AFFECTED BY WWII. MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT,
SHOES,
GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF
35
MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD. NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ
THIS
AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN
2007.
Historical Significance
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all
of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat,
and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys
between England and America for food and war materials.
At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day
on Germany, which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing.
We had few allies.
France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France
quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was
certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand
Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its
way to owning and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and
Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as
launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and
southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia
and Europe. America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland,
Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it. All of Europe, from
Norway to Italy, except Russia in the East, was already under the Nazi
heel.
America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically
downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and throughout the
depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training
with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank"
painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks. And a huge
chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.
Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600
million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the
property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,
Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out
for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation
of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being
overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking
the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later,
and first turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was
on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of 1940.
Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight
for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at
Germany.
Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad
and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly
civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.
Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire
war effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could possibly
have won the war.
All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
moments in history.
There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants
and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological,
or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.
The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs --
they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam,
should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the
world.
And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed,
enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy
Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra.
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part
not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and
its
Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win -- the Inquisitors,
or the Reformationists.
If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
the
Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies.
The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an
OPEC
dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC
dominated
by the Jihadis. You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next
winter?
You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad,
the
Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.
If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
believe
that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace
with
the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st,
then
the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a
moderate
and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the
Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the
Islamic
terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we can't do it
everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a
time
and place of our choosing........in Iraq.
Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where
we
are doing two important things.
(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
involved
in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively
supporting the
terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.
Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for
the
deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.
(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad
people,
and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a
good
shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst
for
democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a
stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as
it is needed.
This is an EXCELLENT essay, well thought out and presented by Raymond
S. Kraft.
Some of you may not believe it; some may think it to be a
conservative's view on the war, some of you may think it cannot
happen; but think as you may; it is all based on facts in our history.
Something that our education system seems not to teach anymore.
Jerry
THIS IS HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF OUR TEXTBOOKS. MOST OF YOU
ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS
GROSSLY
AFFECTED BY WWII. MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT,
SHOES,
GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF
35
MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD. NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ
THIS
AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN
2007.
Historical Significance
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all
of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat,
and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys
between England and America for food and war materials.
At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day
on Germany, which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing.
We had few allies.
France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France
quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was
certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand
Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its
way to owning and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and
Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as
launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and
southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia
and Europe. America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland,
Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it. All of Europe, from
Norway to Italy, except Russia in the East, was already under the Nazi
heel.
America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically
downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and throughout the
depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training
with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank"
painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks. And a huge
chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.
Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600
million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the
property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,
Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out
for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation
of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being
overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking
the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later,
and first turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was
on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of 1940.
Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight
for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at
Germany.
Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad
and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly
civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.
Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire
war effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could possibly
have won the war.
All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
moments in history.
There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants
and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological,
or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.
The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs --
they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam,
should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the
world.
And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed,
enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy
Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra.
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part
not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and
its
Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win -- the Inquisitors,
or the Reformationists.
If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
the
Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies.
The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an
OPEC
dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC
dominated
by the Jihadis. You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next
winter?
You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad,
the
Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.
If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
believe
that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace
with
the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st,
then
the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a
moderate
and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the
Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the
Islamic
terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we can't do it
everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a
time
and place of our choosing........in Iraq.
Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where
we
are doing two important things.
(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
involved
in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively
supporting the
terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.
Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for
the
deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.
(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad
people,
and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a
good
shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst
for
democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a
stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as
it is needed.