Posted on 06/28/2005 7:52:25 PM PDT by Destro
"It requires a bomb on American soil to awaken our citizens"
Mary Mostert
June 18, 2005
The title of this article, which was a comment in an e-mail from a reader I'm afraid,is true. We Americans are incredibly fortunate and unbelievably gullible. We have lived remarkably sheltered lives and most Americans alive today have never experienced or witnessed any real cruelty, much less actual torture. We have people, some of them in politics and the media, who actually believe that embarrassing men who have been arrested for terrorist acts is a form of "torture!"
Then, we have those such as Rep. John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan, trying to convince the American people and the world in general that the only really big problem and war criminal we have in the world that we need to get rid of is in none other than our own president - George W. Bush. They want to impeach him for liberating Iraq from a murderous butcher named Saddam Hussein. Of course, Conyers and his friends don't exactly phrase it that way. Their latest ploy is what they call the "Downing Street Memo" which is touted as a "secret" memo of a meeting of British government officials (no Americans) that Conyers claims "proves" President Bush "planned" to attack Iraq without cause. Only - there is not one single solitary quote in the memo of ANY comment by even the British that were supposed to be at the meeting and it doesn't even PRETEND to quote anything said by President Bush.
And, Conyers, of course, has a long history of using his position in Congress to defend people the FBI believed were tied to terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda. His effort for the past two years to whip up support to impeach President Bush is based largely on the President's determination to put an end to the al-Qaeda network.
What this all seems to me to indicate is that we are watching the same kind of well planned disinformation campaign in the USA today that took place in the break-up of Yugoslavia when the media and President Clinton either through ignorance or deliberate action simply did not tell the American people the truth about what was going on. Clinton unilaterally raised the UN arms boycott in order allow Bosnian Muslims to receive weapons from Iran and Osama bin Laden.
According to the last census taken in Yugoslavia before it disintegrated in the 1990s the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina had a population of 37,211 people. The population figures were 72.9% (27,126) Muslim, 25.2% (9,377) Serbs, .1% (37) Croatian and the rest were "others." Gorazde, that also had a population of 37,505 in 1991, is a few miles southwest of Srebrenica. It, like Srebrenica, was over 70% Muslim and 26% Serb. Most Americans have heard about Srebrenica, where, we have been told, the Serbs committed "genocide" against the Muslims, killing 8000 of them. That would have been about 25% of the 1991 population of Muslims. Very few Americans have ever heard of Gorazde, however. They have heard a LOT about the "siege of Srebrenica" which took place in July 1995 when, according to the Muslims and reports on BBC:
"Survivors from Srebrenica fled to Muslim-held territory.
"They were under the protection of about 600 lightly armed Dutch infantry forces. Fuel was running out and no fresh food had been brought into the enclave since May.
"Serb forces began shelling Srebrenica. Bosnian Muslim fighters in the town asked for the return of weapons they had surrendered to the peacekeepers but their request was refused."
This is a direct contradiction of an e-mail sent to me by Almir Radic, a Bosnian Muslim who claims to have been a UN Employee in Srebrenica in before and during the "siege."
So, what does the town of Gorazde have to do with this story? An Associated Press report filed September 12, 1992 began
"Charred human skeletons, decomposing corpses and burned-out cars are the grim remnants of a Muslim assault on a column of Serb refugees fleeing war-ravaged Gorazde." The brief article described the situation: "Muslims and Croats have also come under increasing international criticism for crimes and human rights abuses, including "ethnic cleansing" of territories under their control. "Ethnic cleansing" is the term used to describe the expulsion of people to create ethnically homogeneous areas.
"After the Serb forces left their positions on the hills above Gorazde, Muslim residents, 70 percent of the town's prewar population of 40,000, looted and torched the houses of fleeing Serbs, witnesses said.
"Almost every building, including Serb Orthodox churches, has been torched in the Serb quarter on the southeastern bank of the Drina River that divides Gorazde, a trading center about 35 miles southeast of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
"The move to loosen the siege on Gorazde coincided with an international London peace conference in which all warring groups participated. The decision by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic angered local Serb warlords - and those who had to flee.
"Muslims have abused our peace gesture by launching attacks on innocent civilians. We may have to counterattack to regain the territory," Dusan Kornjaca, the commander of Serb forces, said in an interview."
And who was the Serb who made the peace gesture that led to the Muslims slaughtering Serbs in Gorazde? None other than the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who, according to the United Nations, has "killed at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica in July 1995 as part of a campaign to terrorize and demoralize the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population."
Also, according to Almir Ramic, the UN Bosnian Muslim who claims he was in Srebrenica at the time, the Srebrenica Muslims who outnumbered the Serbs 3 to 1, were armed with weapons given to them by the United Nations!
A lot of people died in the Bosnian civil war. According to 1995 figures published by the Stockholm Peace Research Center, 10,000 Serb soldiers died, (plus an uncounted number of civilians) out of a Serb population of 1.4 million in Bosnia. That compares with 1,700 American soldiers dying in the Iraq war out of a population of 293 million.
Perhaps, if you think that appeasing terrorists will bring peace you need to go talk to a Serb – perhaps the so-called architect of the Srebrenica “genocide” against Muslims – Radovan Karadzic.
Mary Mostert is a nationally-respected political writer. She was one of the first female political commentators to be published in a major metropolitan newspaper in the 1960s. After working in President Lyndon Johnson's failed War on Poverty programs in New York state, she became a Republican. She ran, unsuccessfully, for the New York State Senate and became campaign manager for a number of candidates. She once served as the secretary of "Positive Action NOW!"--a South African women's group that sought to reduce the hostility among South Africa's various racial, religious, and political groups.
In recent years, Mary has researched, written, and edited articles for national talk show host Michael Reagan's Information Interchange on the Internet, and for The REAGAN MONITOR, a monthly newsletter that provides in-depth information on key issues. Her book, COMING HOME - Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America," was published in 1996 by Gold Leaf Press. Mary maintains a political media site, Banner of Liberty. She can be contacted at mary@bannerofliberty.com.
For awhile. Than the media and democRATS will start their anti-war drumbeat when they feel it is safe to do so.
Thanks for posting. Interesting.
>> It requires a bomb on American soil to awaken our citizens"
Yes it will.
I been scribbling this since I hit the FR. A mushroom cloud on US territory will run for about a week on CNN, and be forgotten in a year.
My money is on Phoenix or Dallas.
It is going to be a quick sting, just north of the southern boarder.
This commentator is right on the mark. The current Democrat Party is out to destroy America as we know it. If the American voter falls for the Democrat "line" OBL and his boys will have a field day in the slaughter of Americans right here on our own turf!!! Be warned Americans, your lives are at stake. Vote Democrat and you are voting for your own destruction!!!
It requires a bomb on American soil to awaken the traitors called liberals, then they will prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding to our attackers
If that happens, it is open season and I will perform my civic duty!!
I'm confused, does OBL stand for Osama Bin Laden or Open Borders Lobby?
Nothing will change. Oh for a couple of weeks the liberals will pretend to be angry at the terrorists, then they'll reverse back to there old ways....'the US had it coming.'
Please stop mentioning that he's from Michigan. It's so embarrassing. It's bad enough we are a blue state and that Carl Levin {freakin' POS} hails from here, do we have to be reminded that a majority of pinheads also voted in this traitor.
I believe a west coast city will be nuked so as to spread radiation over the maximum width of the U.S.
It is possible a nuke on American soil will cause the apathetic, the morons, and the radical liberals to wake up. It is "possible".
But in the end, one can never underestiamte the stupidity of the masses in America. Our Constitution has been trashed by the RATs and SCOTUS, and the Republican'ts have stood by and winked at each other. The American people basically ignore that (the apathetic), or cheer it (the RATs and the extremists in Hollyweird, the MSM, and the universities), or just "chat about it", (like the members at Free Republic). Too bad there are no million man marches on Washington about the trashing of our Constitution and the raping of taxpayers. Too bad there is no outrage. Too bad there is no 2nd American Revolution.
For some reason, there are no more patriots in America, and nationalism is a forgotten ideal. The 1st American Revolution will not be repeated as a 2nd American Revolution. Those brave Founding Fathers have cowards as descendants.
Sheep to slaughter remains the best concise summary.
It won't awaken the liberals .. they will just continue to scream, "it's all Bush's fault".
It might however, awaken the "not paying attention crowd" - and that might really be dangerous for the dems - because they are losing support fast and I think another attack just might finish them.
No doubt, especially if they try to blame Bush or try to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding to the terrorists. :D
Unfortunately I wasn't that politically aware at the time. I know better now. I believed what the msm fed me. A sad time in American history and not good for our security.
If a nuclear device enters through the Southern border it will be by truck at an official official border crossing point or by cargo plane or by shipping container at a port.
Migrant laborers trying to trek across deserts for days, climb mountains and swim rivers die daily because they can't carry enough water to make the trip. Do you really think they could carry a three ton nuclear device?
"It requires a bomb on American soil to awaken the traitors called liberals."
I fear you may be wrong.
I fear, after the initial shock wears off, our America-hating liberals will default to the same baseline they did after 9/11: What did we do to invite this?
I believe, even if they lose their near and dear ones, they will wail and moan and flail and whimper, Haven't we lost enough, haven't enough lives been spent in our pursuit of world hegemony? Should'nt we stop using the world's resources all out of proportion to our numbers? Shouldn't we be more...fair?
Why do you think the extreme liberal side of the political spectrum pisses and moans about sharing and peace so much? Because the thought of having to literally and physically defend their homes, their land and their loved ones makes them shit so much in their drawers they can barely trudge into Starbucks.
They don't care about the downtrodden. They just use them to try to make the big wide middle of this country feel bad. To manipulate them. They only want to control. The only time they would feel not-all-that-squeamish about the use of force would be if it were used against fellow Americans--say, if they were blocking an abortion clinic, or refused to surrender arms, or insisted on praying in the public square.
And even then, they'd have others do the actual dirty work.
In a word, Cowards.
yep, your correct.
Yea, well, the Clintoon is gone and we still are not being told the truth. Time to ask why, in hell, not.
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