Wednesday, May, 30, 2007 9:38 AM
willibeaux
writes:
Yo Peppermint
I apologize for posting this e-mail and it's length that I received from a fellow vet because it is off the topic. I didn't hear the speech, but I thought it should be shared with my fellow vets and the other true patriotic Americans who are gravely concerned about the survival of our nation and Western Civilization. Unfortunately, most of the Dems and some of the Pubbies have their horse blinders on or are suffering from cranial rectilitus and are failing to hear or see what Newt is trying to convey.
"Sobering Words
We better start talking about the shape of the table now because this country doesn't have the stomach to face what is coming!
Gingrich Speech in New Hampshire. Apparently it is causing a firestorm.
NEWT GINGRICH: The third thing I want to talk about very briefly is the genuine danger of terrorism, in particular terrorists using weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and biological weapons. And I want to suggest to you that right now we should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of supervision that we would never dream of if it weren't for the scale of threat.
Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in order to hide the bomb as baby milk.
Now, if I come to you tonight and say that there are people on the planet who hate you, and they are 15-25 year old males who are willing to die as long as they get to kill you, I've simply described the warrior culture which has been true historically for 6 or 7 thousand years.
But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you so much that they will kill their six month old baby in order to kill you, I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of savagery beyond anything we have tried to deal with.
And, what is truly frightening about the British experience is they are arresting British citizens, born in Britain, speaking English, who went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good jobs.
This is a serious long term war, and it will inevitably lead us to want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country, that will lead us to learn how to close down every website that is dangerous, and it will lead us to a very severe approach to people who advocate the killing of Americans and advocate the use of nuclear or biological weapons.
And, my prediction to you is that either before we lose a city, or if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to pro actively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement.
And, I further think that we should propose a Geneva convention for fighting terrorism which makes very clear that those who would fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much strength that it is truly horrendous.
This is a sober topic, but I think it is a topic we need a national dialogue about , and we need to get ahead of the curve rather than wait until actually we literary lose a city which could literally happen within the next decade if we are unfortunate. So
This is a very sober description of the Islamic terrorist threat we are faced with. We are NOW at war with a culture that wants, not to take over our land, but to KILL us, all-non Muslims, esp. Americans and Britons, and eventually ELIMINATE WESTERN CIVILIZATION
We must not put our heads in the sand and hope this is not true. It is true and we can not allow it to happen.
May be this is why Pres. Bush is so bull headed about the the War?
Could it be so many people see Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan as the trees but miss seeing the Islamic Movement as the forest?
In a way I hope Bush is wrong, but I'm afraid he is right."
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but perhaps some of the "fence sitters" who post here will begin to see what this war is all about.
An ole Korean War vet