Question by KEITH C: Is America Asleep?
WWIII Started in 1979
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> This is 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
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> 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 -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.
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> 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
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still
> trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
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> The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in
> Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 .
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

Best answer:

Answer by rukidding
Now, you know nobody’s going to read all that.

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