This is a good read and a eye opener.
THE WAR
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>Please take the time to read the attached essay by Dr. Chong. It is
>without a doubt the most articulate and convincing writing I have
>read regarding the War in Iraq. If you have any doubts please open
>your mind to his essay and give a fair evaluation.
>
>I had no idea who Dr. Chong is or the source of these thoughts… so
>when I received them, I almost deleted them - as well-written as
>they are. But then I did a “Google search” on the Doctor and found
>him to be a retired Air Force Surgeon of all things and past
>Commander of Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. So he is
>real, is connected to Veterans
>affairs in California, and these are his thoughts. They are worth
>reading and thinking about!(the same Google search will direct you
>to some of his other thought-provoking writings.)
>
>Subject: Muslims, terrorist and the USA. A different spin on Iraq war.
>
>This WAR is for REAL! Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired
>Tuesday, July 12, 2005.
>
>
>
>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 possibly lose this war and even
>fewer who realize what losing really means.
>
>First, let’s examine a few basics:
>
>1. When did the threat to us start?
>Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United
>State s 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;
>* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
>* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
>* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
>* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
>* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
>* New York World Trade Center 2001;
>* Pentagon 2001.
>
>(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581
>terrorist attacks worldwide).
>
>2. Why were we attacked?
>
>Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks
>happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan,
>Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans
>or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents
>or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
>
>3. Who were the attackers?
>In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.
>
>4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.
>
>5. Isn’t the Muslim Religion peaceful?
>Hopefully, but that is really not m aterial. There is no doubt that
>the predominately Christian population of Germany 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). (see
><http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm>http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm
>)
>
>Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis,
>as the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we
>seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although
>Hitler kept 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 world 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. 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 and 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 reason 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
>means 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 rather will steadily increase. Remember, they
>want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they
>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.
>
>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 wrong 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. However, it may already be too late for France. 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 deal
>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 results 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 take 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 is, defeating o urselves by refusing to recognize the enemy
>and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to
>the war effort If we are united, there is no way that we can lose.
>If we continue to be 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 death seriousness of this situation.
>
>President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of
>Transportation. Although all 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 have to give up some of the civil rights we have become
>accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some 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 President Bush or President Clinton before him?
>
>No, I blame us for blithely assuming 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 apply to war. Get them out of your head.
>
>Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the
>Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see
>us lose. I hasten to add that this isn’t because they are disloyal.
>It is because they just don’t recognize what losing means.
>Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we
>are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and 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, perhaps
>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 just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.
>
>And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
>400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the
>same type of enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans,
>and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.
>
>And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is
>providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the
>beheading of American prisoners they held.
>
>Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several
>days have thought and talked about nothing else but the
>“humiliating” of some Muslim prisoners – not burning them, not
>dragging their charred corpses through the 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 absolutely
>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 stated goal is to kill all infidels!
>That translates into ALL non-Muslims – not just in the United
>State, 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 are 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 anything bad in the world!
>
>We can’t!
>
>If we don’t recognize this, our nation 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 throughout the world that
>allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion,
>freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone – let alone everyone,
>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 must 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, the Muslim leaders will
>allow history books to be written or read.
>
>If we don’t win this war right now, keep a close 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 freedoms taken away from them by some
>external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away,
>politically correct piece by politically correct piece.
>
>And they are giving those freedoms away to those 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 when 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 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
>about! 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
>include the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!
>
>Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it.
>Our “leaders” in Congress ought to read it, too. There are those
>that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who
>truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE , share our concerns
>and hold the blind accountable for misleading the masses!
>
>If you would like to see who this fellow is go to this Air Force web
>sight and look him up.
><http://www.af.mil/bios/alpha.asp?alpha=C>http://www.af.mil/bios/alpha.asp?alpha=C
