jimmyf

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life
and death seriousness of this situation.

- President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between
17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does
that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war. For the
duration we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have
become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil
rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.
And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil
rights during WWII and immediately restored them after the victory and in
fact added many more since then. Do I blame President Bush or President
Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain
all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this
conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply
to war. Get them out of your head.

- Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration
that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to
add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't
recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression
to the enemy that we are divided and weakening, it concerns our friends, and
it does great damage to our cause.

- Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and
media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies
best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue involving the treatment
of a few Muslim prisoners of war by a small group of our military police.

These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their
own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues
and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam
Hussein. And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type
enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and dragging their charred
corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently the same type
enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally,
of the beheading of an American prisoner they held. Compare this with some
of our press and politicians who for several days have thought and talked
about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners - not
burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not
beheading them, but "humiliating" them. Can this be for real? The politicians
and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If
this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of
the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we
are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can. To bring
our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes
us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned - totally oblivious to
what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can
survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of
our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they
absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in and into
which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us for many years. Remember,
the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels.

That translates into all non-Muslims - not just in the United States,
but throughout the
world. We are the last bastion of defense.

- We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant'. That charge
is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that
we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of
all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we
can defeat anything bad in the world. We can't. If we don't recognize this,
our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the
World will survive if we are defeated. And finally, name any Muslim
countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of
thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the Press, equal rights for
anyone - let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that
have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the
World.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we
will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman
Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be
written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take
over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the
Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little on the
established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves
over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them
and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external
military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct
piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away
to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not
apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have
universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally
killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we
ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united,
there is no way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the
factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are
in and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking
about. Do whatever you can to preserve it.

Love, Dad
{1] By the way on Vietnam, the emotions are still so high that it is really
not possible to discuss it. However, I think President Kennedy was correct.
He felt there was a communist threat from China, Russia and North Vietnam to
take over that whole area. Also remember that we were in a 'cold war' with
Russia. I frankly think Kennedy's plan worked and kept that total communist
control out, but try telling that to anyone now. It just isn't politically
correct to say so. Historians will answer this after cool headed research,
when the people closest to it are all gone.

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