"They're Coming!": Wussy Terrorists VS. The Heroes Of Flight 93

DADI ^ | 4/8/2002 | Alan W. Dowd

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

Good article, thanks for posting it.

[The Great Satan]

Excellent montage.

[anapikoros]

"Sword of Gideon" is a Hollywood creation.

It was a pure Mossad operation and they got 9 of the 11 targets plus a wrong'n.

A case study of the operation can be found HERE

[a_Turk]

I have great respect for those passengers. You should be proud. I consider them martyrs. The world needs more of their sort.

[Alamo-Girl]

Welcome to Free Republic, The Giant Apricots!!!

Thank you so much for the heads up, Tonk! Hugs!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you sooo much! Hugs!!!

[JSteff]

Thanks, I sort of thought that was the case and it was how I remembered it. That is also why I wanted a link to read about it. Trust but verify.

[Stallone]

Wow!

[BlueLancer]

200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.

I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea .. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.

[weikel]

Unfortunately the plane was probably shot down and the passenger revolt was a cover story.

[weikel]

Where is that quote I love it.

[inquest]

You know, comments like that really cheapen the lives of those who died on Sept. 11. You want to kill terrorists, I'm with you. If you say that loss of innocent life is inevitable, that's reasonable enough. But when you actually rejoice at the loss of civilian lives, that's just plain sick.

[BlueLancer]

You are entitled to your opinion.

However, I am of the school that believes you don't win a war by dying for your country ... you win it by making the other poor dumb b@st@rd die for his. (Kudos to Georgie Patton)

I'm not sure that I agree with you that I am "rejoicing" at the inevitable result of civilian casualties. I firmly believe that what it will take to end the war and destroy the terrorists and their sympathizers (who, in this case, loosely hold the identification of "civilian") is carnage and destruction on par with that inflicted on the Germans and on the Japanese to cause them to give in. And remember ... the Japanese didn't give up until two nukes were dropped on them; the fire-raids and strangulation by blockade didn't do it ... fire and brimstone did.

[inquest]

I'm not sure that I agree with you that I am "rejoicing" at the inevitable result of civilian casualties.

Well this comment certainly comes across as saying that you wish to deliberately inflict suffering on innocents:

"I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky."

And remember ... the Japanese didn't give up until two nukes were dropped on them; the fire-raids and strangulation by blockade didn't do it ... fire and brimstone did.

That's a judgement about necessary tactics (and is debatable at that), not about whether it's a good inspiration for neo-pagan poetic bloodlust such as what you wrote in your #51.

Kudos to Georgie Patton

Glad you like him. You should also know that he routinely condemned the strategic bombing of civilian targets.

[4TheFlag]

A LET'S KICK SOME TERRORIST A$$ BUMP....

We WILL NOT Tire

We WILL NOT Falter

And WE WILL NOT Fail....

LET'S ROLL!!!