I've noted here and there (with the word sic) the many grammatical errors in this supposedly "well-written" rant that is making its way around the web, courtesy of many good people, including some of my loved ones. But my quarrel is not with the author's weak knowledge of the English language. It is, instead, with the historical ignorance and hysteria that fuels his obviously sincere passion.
This is, simply, an anti-Islamic diatribe.
I wonder whether anyone who reads it has ever studied the Christian Crusades against Moslems? I wonder how many Americans know that "Christian" soldiers hunted down Moslem men, women and children for sport and ate them? If you require documentation for this allegation, let me know, and I will gladly supply it.
The saddest thing about this pathetic man's rant is he fails to recognize two key facts:
* The "War against Terror" is about retaining US hegemony over Middle East oil. Otherwise, there would be no war.
* An ignorant Christian fundamentalist named George W. Bush, declared a Second Crusade after 9/11, thereby triggering the events of the past six years.
Be clear: I am no fan of terrorists of any stripe. As a reporter, I exposed them when they were domestic left-wingers (the SLA and the Black Panthers) and got nothing but death threats as a result.
And I hate Osama bin-laden and the suicide bombers who continue to wreak havoc throughout the Middle East with so much passion that if the CIA asked me to help identify and destroy them (as a Dari* speaker) I would join up in a minute.
But I don't hate or fear Moslems, any more than I hate or fear Christians, Jews, Hindus, or Buddhists.
This man's hate-filled, fear-filled message, ironically, is exactly the type of thinking that led to the rise of one of the groups he denounces -- the Nazis.
We'll never win any war with hate. We might, however, just have a slim chance if we ever learn to love one another.
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From: Richard Booth [mailto:dbooth11@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:08 PM
To: dbooth11@sbcglobal.net
Subject: FW:
This is pretty long but everyone should read it and pass it on!
Friends,
Just wanted to put this out there for you to ponder....
This is the most cogent and powerful essay on the threat of Islamic
terrorism I have seen. Dr. Vernon 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 it a
fair evaluation. It's also eerily aplicable (sic)to other current issues
such as Iran 's nuclear program, immigration, NAFTA's impact on
American jobs, trade deficits, etc..
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 and past commander of Wilford Hall Medical
Center in San Antonio .
If you would like to see who this fellow is, go to this Air Force web
site and look him up:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5000
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Subject: Muslims, terrorist and the USA : A different spin on Iraq war.
This WAR is for REAL!
Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired
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
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;
* 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;
* A! den, 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 predecessor, President Ford.
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 material. 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 ad ministration (sic) 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)
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, British, 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 (sic)
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, (sic)
over the past 18 years. The plan was, clearly, for terrorists 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 (sic) France is already 20%
Muslim and fading fast!
Without our support Great Britain will go too. Recently I read that
there are more mosques in England than churches.
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
Muslim terrorists, how could anyone else?
The radical 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 ourselves 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. 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 think some actually do, 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 (sic) 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 they 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.
These people are a serious and dangerous liability to the war effort.
We must take note of who they are and get them out of office.
Remember, the Muslim terrorists (sic) stated goal is to kill all infidels!
That translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just 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. 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 (sic) 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.
Muslims have universally shown that when they have taken over, they
then start brutally killing each other over whom will be the few who
control the masses (sic)
What is happening in Iraq is a good example. 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 about! Do whatever you can to preserve
it. I reiterate. A national election is months away.
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 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!
Lastly, I wish to add: At the risk of offending someone, I sincerely
think that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or
doubts the seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without sending
it on, is part of the problem. Let's quit laughing at and forwarding
the jokes and cartoons which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this
war against terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well
being of the US and it's (sic) citizens. Best we support them.
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Trust me, dear reader, this awful piece of writing contains ten times as many errors in logic and fact as I have cited. I do not have enough time to deconstruct it for you. But please think on a higher level about life on earth. Learn how we monopolize global resources. Consider why we should be able to do this. Think about our grandchildren and the awful consequences that await them if we don’t realize the error of our ways and get down to work on the real issues facing us.
Humans, as animals, have always gotten excited by the appearance of apparent enemies.
It is time we got excited about the possibility of becoming friends. Our common future depends on it.
p.s. Death to Al-Qaeda!
* Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi.
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