Interesting reading...

[Headhunter]

My pay clerk sent this to me...

An Absolute Must Read. Some things to mull over!!


This is for everyone to read regardless of your
political affiliation.

I had no idea who General 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 General
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, 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.)

If you would like information on General Chong, go
to Google and type
in his name (Major General Vernon Chong). All of the
following is
something that everyone should read.


*This WAR is for REAL!

*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 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
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 )

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 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 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 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.

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 s,
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 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.

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!

[Woodmonkey]

I don't know how I missed this, HH. Very interesting.