Wake Up America

This was a forward from a person whom I consider to be a reliable source, I chose to post this as it opened my eyes to how closed our eyes have been. Perhaps this is due in part to our media's own prerogatives which govern the information they Choose to let come back to us. If it doesn't promote them, if it doesn't make them sound good frequently we never hear about it. A lot of this I was too young to know about, or remember, but it's good to have certain things brought to your attention, even if only to think about...

When WW III Started****1979This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalogueof events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take theposition that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sitback, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever botherus again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979...That alarm has been ringing for years.US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station,Pensacola , Florida . Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It isan accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why thisaction is so necessary.AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should havebeen 'Get Out of Bed!' In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzingsince 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over fora few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through areligious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attackedand seized the American Embassy in Tehran . This seizure was an outrightattack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's mostpowerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency.. The attack on thissovereign U. S. Embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25years.America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience andhad a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, hadto do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. Theill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America'sinability to deal with terrorism.America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since theend of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorlyorganized military was called on to execute a complex mission that wasdoomed from the start.Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped andkilled throughout the Middle East . America could do little to protect hercitizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driveninto the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people.The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden downwith over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US MarineCorps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. Americamourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives isdriven into the US Embassy in Kuwait , and America continues her slumber.The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gateof the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe . In April 1985 a bomb explodes in arestaurant frequented by US soldiers in MadridThen in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into themain gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and thesnooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continuallyattacked.Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijackedand we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of thepassenger list and executed.The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners whenthey bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragicbombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland in 1988 , killing 259.The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America . In January 1993 , twoCIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley ,VirginiaThe following month, February 1993 , a group of terrorists are arrestedafter a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the undergroundparking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City . Six people arekilled and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act ofwar? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in RiyadhSaudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.A few months later in June of 1996 , another truck bomb explodes only 35yards from the US military compound in Dhahran , Saudi Arabia . It destroysthe Khobar Towers , a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that Americadoes not respond decisively.They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two USembassies in Kenya and Tanzania .. These attacks were planned withprecision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks andgoes back to sleep.The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12October 2000 , when a small craft pulled along side the ship and explodedkilling 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but wesent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans thinkthis was the first attack against US soil or in America . How wrong theyare. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hitthe snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every highofficials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. Butif you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can seeexactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on theNational Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since1979.I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continueuntil we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to 'Get out ofBed' and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.. We have tobe ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of lifecontinues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again andagain and roll over and go back to sleep.After the attack on Pearl Harbor , Admiral Yamamoto said '... it seems allwe have done is awakened a sleeping giant.' This is the message we need todisseminate to terrorists around the world.This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year, this isan AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our childrenin years to come.If you believe in this please forward it to as many people as you canespecially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history classand who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action. If youdon't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.