A warning the whole world has to heed

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 11/20/03 | Trevor Kavanaugh

[Pokey78]

IT’S a shame George Bush’s speech could not be heard by anti-war protesters marching in Whitehall yesterday.

Some would have turned a deaf ear whatever he had to say, but the fair-minded might have given him a hearing.

This was a speech that matched his searing address to the United Nations last year.

In both, he spelled out the stark reality facing an alarmingly complacent Western world — that extremists are out to destroy it at any cost.

He hammered home every point like a staple gun.

The September 11 massacre was only the start of a war against America and its allies.

The United Nations is failing in its duty to act instead of talking.

Smug Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder must offer repressed people the same freedoms their countries were handed by the allies in two world wars.

“The evil is in plain sight,” he said. “The danger increases with denial.”

It is astonishing that such obvious truths are unacceptable to so many.

They have presumably forgotten that the four hijacked aircraft which were used to bomb US targets were only part of the plan to paralyse the USA.

At least a dozen other airliners were targeted by suicide squads to attack nuclear power plants and the White House.

They were stopped only by the emergency decision to ground all flights.

Nor was Europe immune.

Suicide bombings were planned but averted in Paris and in Germany.

The public’s fear of mass murder has receded since that horrific day, but perhaps only because other atrocities have been prevented by action in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Far from warmongering, America’s response is that of a powerful but peaceable nation and we should all be truly grateful.

The coalition war on terror is the only possible course of action for those world leaders ready to do their duty and protect their people.

Mr Bush rightly warned the fanatics are ready to do more than kill a mere 3,500 in the Twin Towers.

Given the chance, they would slaughter millions.

The threat of smallpox, which could decimate families, has not gone away.

Nor has the fear of a nuclear blast or a radioactive “dirty bomb”.

Security services across the globe are alarmed by the disappearance of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of nuclear warheads from former Soviet bases.

As the IRA once said: “We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky all the time.”

It is madness to assume this is some sort of bluff.

Or that extremists led by Osama Bin Laden might be appeased.

They want to impose a Taliban-style tyranny on the world.

Imagine the impact of a nuclear explosion in Washington or New York, or a smallpox epidemic which would kill millions within weeks.

Such acts would paralyse the world’s largest industrial economy and throw its people into panic.

They would not be limited to the American mainland.

To adapt wartime leader Winston Churchill’s famous phrase, the USA would be plunged into a new dark age.

But the lights would go out all over Europe.

[ysoitanly]

I am tired of our, and the foreign press, referring to these groups as 'anti-war'. At least this article says 'extremists' at one point.

[ntnychik]

He hammered home every point like a staple gun.

Did he ever! Way to go President Bush!Glad you posted this. Broadcast network coverage of today's events was pitiful. Brokaw led with the story of the President's state visit, but the other two nets led with Michael Jackson. Brokaw said the protesters are building to where they expect 100,000 tomorrow. "Nevertheless, the Queen raised her glass to him."

[LiteKeeper]

Declare this message far and wide...from the rooftops, if need be!

[TomGuy]

At least a dozen other airliners were targeted by suicide squads to attack nuclear power plants and the White House.

They were stopped only by the emergency decision to ground all flights.

I know there was a lot of speculation about other planes, but a dozen others being targeted? If that is true, the plot was much, much larger than the public ever knew. Where are the other conspirators?

[ysoitanly]

That's just it - speculation, but apparently based on some interrogations with prisoners after the fact.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Brokaw said the protesters are building to where they expect 100,000 tomorrow. "Nevertheless, the Queen raised her glass to him."

Whether it's 100 or 100,000 or 1,000,000, they are dumbass nincompoops!

Nice to see that the unemployment rate is so low in Europe that they can only muster 100,000 or less.

[Inyo-Mono]

It is amazing to me how many people that I converse with on a day-to-day basis find it hard to believe that terrorists are still targeting us. They truly belive with all their hearts that 9/11 was a fluke, that it couldn't happen again.

I will show some of them this article, but I fear that it will do no good. They are too comfortable and feel that Bush is just blowing smoke. And these folks are conservatives.

[spookycc]

I read the background on the groups hosting the protests, on another thread here. Marxists, radical Islamists, communists. Really nice crowd. ;-P

[July 4th]

Fantastic speech, nice editorial...it's good to know that some people get it.

[dirtbiker]

They were stopped only by the emergency decision to ground all flights.

Do I ever remember that? Spent an hour in a chemical plant lock-down on 9-11 cuz some poor soul in a single-engine plane with no radio couldn't land...airports were closed. Now ex-wife could only worry if her damned boyfriend would be able to DRIVE home from a business meeting, not if husband would die in a chemical plant attack!!!!! I hear she spends her nights alone now.........

[dirtbiker]

Whether it's 100 or 100,000 or 1,000,000, they are dumbass nincompoops!

No, they are, as the Communist called them, "Useful Idiots". Fools, like the poor, will be with us, always!

[dirtbiker]

I pray that they don't wake up one morning and discover that Atlanta, or Chicago, or L.A., has disappeared beneath a mushroom cloud............

By then, it would be too late, and they would still be wrong...........

By taking the fight to the terrorist and keeping these "sandmonkeys" running for their lives, they don't have time for planning another "big hit". President Bush is the right man, in the right place, and at the right time, doing the right things in the war on terror. May God continue to guide him!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[Krodg]

It is amazing to me how many people that I converse with on a day-to-day basis find it hard to believe that terrorists are still targeting us. They truly belive with all their hearts that 9/11 was a fluke, that it couldn't happen again.

I will show some of them this article, but I fear that it will do no good. They are too comfortable and feel that Bush is just blowing smoke. And these folks are conservatives.

Are you planning on posting this on all FR threads? Not a bad idea...

[Ramius]

Nice to hear that somebody over there gets it.

THEODEN: I must think of my people. I will not risk open war.

ARAGORN: Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.

[blam]

"At least a dozen other airliners were targeted by suicide squads to attack nuclear power plants and the White House."

"They were stopped only by the emergency decision to ground all flights."

Do we know this for sure?

[MHGinTN]

It is the pernicious arrogance of the French (that has infected the democrat party leadership, BTW) that prevents them from admitting that the Islamic fundamentalist terroist assault on the World looms as the French doom as well if not stopped. That infectious arrogance now acute int he democrat party leadership is what makes those seditious bastards so dangerous to our nation's survival. To assert that the Iraqi association with the terrorist world is no threat to US is insane denial of the facts and the implications of the known realities. ONE suicide murderer can kill millions witht he bio weaponry Saddam sought and likely has produced. The democrat fools argued 'no delivery system' for weapons of mass destruction. What a farsical assertion! Our borders and Europe's vulnerability are as porous as ever. Time to kill the Islamofascists wherever they are found, even in France, even in the Northeastern U.S. Rule one of warfare, 'Kill the enemy and disarm the survivors.' Rule two, 'Finsh rule one, then think about what to do next.