WAR When WWIII Started - 1979

Here's something to make you think...

This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalog 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, 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...

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!
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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, 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 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 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.

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This doesn't list the Ft Hood killer, the Christmas underwear bomber, or any of the others.

It shocked me to see the list. When we hear of these things one at a time, and it's glossed over so that we forget it. Putting the list in your face really makes you see the big picture. We have been under attack for a long time.

We have the ability to know who is doing this shit. It's WAY past time we take names and kick ass! I guess deep down inside, I'm a vindictive person, I want to not only get even, but get ahead. Teach them that they will suffer 10 times more than we do, and if that doesn't work, then 100 times, or 1000 times, whatever it takes to end the attacks.

A small voice in the back of my head makes me ask if they are doing this in retaliation for things our leaders have done to them, things that we don't even know about. They've had plenty of time to groom several of their own to move into high places in our government. That would be one way they could assure that our gov would not do anything to harm them in the future.

Thank you for posting this, Kitty. Hopefully you'll get a lot of readers.

Mo

Very good listing. I remember them all. Formed my view of islam long ago.

Good info for those who didn't know it. You can really take it back much further than '79. I would put it around November of '63 at least.

Another important point is that we need to remember where this terrorism is coming from. Starting with '63 again, there is no real good way of putting the finger upon any group of perpetrators let alone a single one.

There is no question that the US has been under attack for a long time from all sides including terrorism, military battle, crime elements, corporate raiders and ultimately totalitarian elements with a global agenda.

There is only so much American's can take and hitting the snooze alarm is a way of coping and avoiding the issues rather than taking control of the situation. It is a passive defense system that has pretty much always been a detriment to our society. We have a great burden to bare and generally feel a great responsibility towards helping the world but we've had it too easy for too long, relying upon our government to "take care of it" and not realizing that their goals have not been the same as our goals for many many years.

Our government does a good job of making many feel as though business is indeed being taken care of but in reality it's just a big dog and pony show which is the REAL issue that America needs to stop hitting the snooze alarm on.

You have been borrowing to fight the war in Iraq. Are you that keen to get further into debt? The Russians are just waiting until you are totally broke and have used up a lot of your military hardware.



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You all know I am no Muzzie lover, but I hate to hear someone totally ignore "the rest of the story". In the OP there was in NOTHING mentioned about what outrageous mischief the USA had COVERTLY been doing in Iran FOR YEARS, and why it had made that people so fiercely angry.

LOOK IT UP.
You have to deal with full knowledge of the truth to understand anything about your enemy and prevail over him. (unless you are a peon that just goes where you are told, hates whom you are told to hate, kills whom you are told to kill, and never really decides or understands anything for himself. )

ainitfunny said:

You all know I am no Muzzie lover, but I hate to hear someone totally ignore "the rest of the story". In the OP there was in NOTHING mentioned about what outrageous mischief the USA had COVERTLY been doing in Iran FOR YEARS, and why it had made that people so fiercely angry.

LOOK IT UP.
You have to deal with full knowledge of the truth to understand anything about your enemy and prevail over him. (unless you are a peon that just goes where you are told, hates whom you are told to hate, kills whom you are told to kill, and never really decides or understands anything for himself. )

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Not just Iran, all over the world.