Posted on 09/12/2001 4:33:54 AM PDT by jordan8
REVENGE.
Hold on to that thought.
Go to bed thinking it. Wake up chanting it.
Because nothing less than revenge is called for today.
Give this to our enemies: it was a brilliant, coordinated attack. The targets were icons of America's might: the World Trade Center, which sits in the financial heart of the United States, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of our military. The weapons used were our airliners, filled with our fellow countrymen who, at knife point, were made part of the payload.
The image of United Flight 175 slamming into the World Trade Center will stay in our nightmares and the nightmares of our children. The knowledge that our fellow citizens jumped to their deaths rather than burn in the twin towers will haunt us. The smell of the fires from the Pentagon will linger long after the smoke clears. And the grief for our dead will be deep and enduring.
But give this to us, the people of the United States: We will recover. We will bury our dead and then, with unwavering resolve, we will go after the villains.
We will demand nothing less than a full and deadly response. We have been merciful in the past with the terrorist thugs who have attacked this country. We have condemned them and imposed economic sanctions, but we have not hunted them down with murder in our eyes.
Yesterday's attacks, however, amount to a declaration of war against the United States, a sneak attack even more devastating than the one on Pearl Harbor 50 years ago. At least the Japanese were honorable enough to attack a military target. This time, our enemies went after civilians, among them children.
In war, there are casualties. We had our number yesterday. It is time to inflict casualties of our own. And it shouldn't be "proportional" or just enough to send a "message." Our response should be the final word.
To the cowardly zealots responsible, know this: Do not judge our commitment to your destruction by the strangely careful and neutral tone of President Bush's speech last night. His speech did not begin to capture the righteous anger American citizens are feeling right now.
In the days that are coming, as the dead are finally counted, our rage will only build. And everytime we look at the skyline of New York City, or step into an airplane, or turn our calendars to nine, one-one, we will remember your actions, and crave only one thing: blood for blood.
Yesterday belonged to you. You hurt us the way you had hoped.
But tomorrow will belong to us. *
From an old soldier.
But they didn't hit the true symbol of America - our churches.
"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." -- Alexis deTocqueville
I can't find words foul enough to express what I'm feeling. Why is it that we have to get permission from the rest of the world to take care of our problems? Screw the UN, and the rest of the world, let's test out our new Nukes on these countries. Let's show those people the real meaning of holy war, and what genocide is.
I've predicted that this is the tip of the iceberg. I'd wager that this is being staged as a precursor to a real war. Afghanistan is being bombed by someone, and nobody knows who it is. Call me crazy, but what good is intelligence when nobody knows the answers? Surely someone knows. I think we'll retaliate swift, and mighty. Then around Christmas, we'll get another attack in rebuttal.
How do I know this? This morning I looked up at the sky. Saw the moon, and the planet Venus in close proximity. Then I thought about the old Nostradamus prediction about the 3rd world war and the middle eastern anti-christ. Yeah, it's coming, unless we decimate the entire region.
Nonsense. By all means do judge us by the President's tone. In fact, carry on with business as usual.
I am sooooo PISSED OFF! Kill them all - now - fast - make a statement!
THE ROARING, EARTH-SHATTERING, OVER-WHELMINGLY final word!!
Where.
It is very likely that in addition to the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, the White House and the Capitol could have been hit. In that scenario, would the fact we didn't know the exact culprit be in any way an acceptable excuse for delaying a devasting military strike somewhere? Is it an acceptable excuse now?
Every country on the face of the globe is pledging their support to us now (including Russia and Cuba, for example). No matter what we do now, if we do it quickly, it seems likely to be acceptable to the world community. The longer we wait the quicker that world support is likely to diminish.
With all due apologies to peace-loving Muslims (who should have done something about this problem before now), I still say a strike on Mecca or Medina is called for, with advance warning, unless the Muslim world is able to turn over an extremely comprehensive list of Islamic terrorist sites around the globe.
I probably don't know what the Hell I'm talking about, but it never stopped anybody else in this forum.
Let's all pray that Bush and our military leaders have wisdom.
Get your tinfoil out, down a few grains of salt and surf on over: Nostradamus and the Antichrist. An interesting read, though. How they manage to tie in Atlantis, ETs, AI, and WWIII is really something.
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