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WHY MUST WE= WIN THIS WAR?

Whether Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or 'neutral,' I would highly recommend you read this entire message. I am posting it to you just as I re= ceived it without further comment.

The following was written by someone unknown = to me. Whoever forwarded it, many generations ago, cut out the sender's (author's?) name -- unfortunate for n= ot getting credit for the insights? I think you'll agree, after reading it, the author could-- maybe should -- be= a major contributor to our Foreign Policy thinking please read it. You may not agree with the conclusi= ons drawn, but the premise is too real. Let’s take the spin off.

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To get out of a difficulty, one usually must = go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII!). The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possi= bly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1.&n= bsp; When did the threat to us start?

Many will say September 11th, 2001. The an= swer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:

Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;

Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;

Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;

Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar = Towers Military complex 1996;

Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy = 19 98;

Dares Salaam,= Tanzania US Embassy 1998;

Pentagon 2001.<= /p>

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2.&n= bsp; Why were we attacked?

Envy of our positio= n, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, B= ush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We can= not fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocation's by= any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carte= r.

3.&n= bsp; Who were the attackers?

In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4.&n= bsp; What is the Muslim population of the World?

25%

5.&n= bsp; Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?

Hopefully, but that is really not material. <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> There is no doubt that the predomin= ately Christian population of Germany<= /ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (seehttp://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk= /7-a.htm).<= /p>

Thus, almost the same num= ber of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews= who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler k= ept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who= got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the w= orld on the US, = but kill all in the way -their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else= . The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter = how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims.= What would you do if the choice was= shut up or die?

6.&n= bsp; So who are we at war with?

There is no way we can honestly respond that = it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct a= nd avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reaso= n we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war me= ans hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam.

This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means= is: We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but r= ather will steadily increase. Remem= ber, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, t= hey would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we were neutered and submissive = to them.

We would of course have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see= , we are impotent and cannot help them. <= /span>They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier for = them. They already hold Spain hostage.

It doesn't matter whether it was right or wro= ng for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything= else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> However, it may already be too late= for France.

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France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast! If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish, as we know it. After losing, who would trade or de= al with us, if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how = could anyone else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the resu= lts of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs = of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to t= ake that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That i= s, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, a= nd really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way t= hat we can lose. If we continue to b= e divided, there is no way that we can win! Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and d= eath seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secre= tary of Transportation. Although a= ll of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years = of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking = this thing seriously?

This is war! For the duration, we are going to h= ave to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose s= ome of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently. And don't worry = that it is a slippery slope.

We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then. Do I blame Presid= ent Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assumin= g we can maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words applies to war.= Get them out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of t= he war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally lik= e to see us lose. I hasten to add = that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recog= nize what losing means.

Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impressi= on to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, an= d it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by = the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, per= haps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving= the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police.

These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people j= ust for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed400, 000 of their own people for the same reason= . They are also the same type enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type enemy = that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held. Compa= re this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days have thou= ght and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through t= he streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them. Can this be = for real? The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense.

If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results = of losing this war, nothing can. To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world.

Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absol= utely oblivious to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years. Remember, the Muslim terrorists sta= ted goal is to kill all infidels!

That translates into all non-Muslims -- not j= ust in the United States, but throughout the world. We = are the last bastion of defense. = We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge is valid in at least one respect.

We are arrogant in that we believe that we ar= e so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those= who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back we can defeat anyt= hing bad in the world! We can't! <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> If we don't recognize this, our nat= ion as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the World will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throug= hout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyo= ne, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we mu= st be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, th= e Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read. <= /span>

If we don't win this war right now, keep a cl= ose eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. = They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions.

The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them = and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?= Democracies don't have their freedo= ms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms a= way, politically correct piece by politically correct piece. <= /p>

And they are giving those freedoms away to th= ose who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to= you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have universally shown that wh= en they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who = will be the few who control the masses.

Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united,= there is no way that we can lose. I= hope now after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on = the critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking ab= out! Do whatever you can to preserve it.=

After reading the above, we all must do this = not only for ourselves, but our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world. Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians and m= edia of our country and the free world!

Please forward this to any one you feel may want, or NEED to read it. <= /span>

Our "leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too.

There are those who find fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE!

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