BACK TO THE FUTURE

This is Islam’s 1427th year. I have already discussed the similarity of behavior of the 15th Century Church and the current fanatical Islam. Not surprisingly large areas of the world dominated by Islam are still primitive compared to the 21st Century.

Here is, however, a reminder of the primitive conditions in the 15th and 16th Century as reflected by sayings still used 500 years later and what the future may hold if Islam conquers the world.

“Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children - last of all the babies.
By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it-hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs cats and other small animals, mice, rats, and bugs lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof-hence the saying "It’s raining cats and dogs."

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entryway-hence, a "threshold."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up-hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England was old and small and they started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a” bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell".

How does this sound for a future in a new 15th Century world of Islam?

JUne 6 2006

When WW III Started **** 1979

This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us 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 year. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!

That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (when more than 3,000 Americans were killed -AD) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.

It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years.

America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then-President Carter had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.

America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.

Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.

In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into 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 down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.

Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.

The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.

Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.

Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.

The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in1988, killing 259.

Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.

The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.

The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.

Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.

A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.

They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.

The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.

And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.

In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.

I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.

This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.

June 21 2006

Some of you have difficulty determining if you are a LIBERAL or a CONSERVATIVE. Here are questions that will make it easier for you to decide who you are. If you answer YES to more than 5 questions (20%), you are a LIBERAL, admit it and stop pretending. On the other hand if you are saying NO, could you be a closet conservative?
1. I am against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. The threat posed by the internal combustion engine is not only the gravest peril mankind faces, but that defeating it is a moral imperative equal to stopping the Holocaust.
3. Underneath the facade of Christian religion are the workings of the radical religious right, mobilizing men against the rights of women, lesbians, and gays.
4. Conservatives are Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Imperialist, Bigoted, Intolerant.
Liberals are for: Peace, Fairness, Tolerance, The poor, The disenfranchised, The environment.
5. I believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
6. I believe that the same school system that can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
7. I believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
8. It is not fair to give tax cuts to people who pay taxes and not give them to people who pay no taxes.
9. I believe that the only reason socialism and communism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
10. I believe that notification from the Social Security Administration that your Social Security number has been used illegally is racist and discriminatory.
11. I believe announcing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops will reduce the insurgency and will cause terrorists to leave Iraq.
12. I believe you shall not take a stand on any issue without polls, focus groups and the lessons of past defeats.
13. I believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
14. I believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.
15. I believe that there cannot be any art without federal funding.
16. I believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by SUV's.
17. I believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
18. I believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
19. I believe that it is more important to save birds than millions of blacks dying from malaria.
20. I believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
21. I believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.
22. I believe the military-industrial complex is creating wars to make money for Bush and his cronies.
23. I believe criticizing the war effort is more patriotic than helping to achieve victory.
24. I believe every terrorist is a human being and is to be afforded protection under the Constitution.
25. I believe Bill Clinton should be allowed to run again for president.

July 14 2006

US Lack of Leadership may Result in a World War.

It is sad that I have to recall the past and point out how history repeats itself. In my last message I wrote:” The US is in the hands of impotent leadership preoccupied with the politics of power.” These are hard words and need to be backed up. I have supported George Bush because he was a principled, honorable person as opposed to John Kerry, a traitor and liar and amoral opportunist of the Clinton ilk.
I could barely forgive the president for trying to nominate Harriett Myers for the Supreme Court and for his continuous lack of courage to veto a single bill passed by a runaway Congress. But now the world is at the abyss of a World War, with all of its nuclear implications and where is George Bush when the country and the world needs him? This is the time for LEADERSHIP and TAKING CONTROL. When Franklin Roosevelt saw World War 2 coming he sent a simple message to Congress: Either do it my way or I do it by Presidential Fiat.
According to the Bush Doctrine we will send our military against any group that practices terror and any government that harbors terrorists. Two terrorist leaders of Iran and North Korea made it clear that with them there is nothing to negotiate. The Iranians are fanatics who believe that the world is headed for a final and decisive confrontation between the forces of Islam and the infidels and crusaders. They believe that the final days are at hand, and that they are the instruments of Divine power and glory. They have no doubt about their ultimate triumph, and everything they see in the reaction of Bush and West reinforces their confidence, and leads them to redouble their murderous efforts.
They are Islamo-fascists and they will employ terror to achieve their impossible ends, a worldwide fundamentalist Islamic regime.
So what do we do? We negotiate. So did Neville Chamberlain who negotiated with Hitler. Churchill put it well: Chamberlain, he said, had to choose between war and dishonor. Chamberlain chose dishonor, and he got war.
Radical Islam declared war on Western Civilization; they themselves have declared it many times. But President Bush is so politically correct today that he is afraid of actually pinpointing an enemy and calling them by their right name. What and who is he afraid of? Domestic politics – traitors who would rather let the US go down to defeat than allow the President succeed in his effort to win the war against terrorists.
We are at war, at least our enemies are, but we ignore everything taught by the military geniuses of Bismarck and Clausewitz and Sun Tzu.
Franklin Roosevelt needed two years to get in gear to enter World War 2 but did not have to worry about nuclear bombs in the hands of terrorists. He had a large ocean separating us from the enemy. We neither have the time nor distance to protect us.
The United States is on its way to final decline and eventual self-destruction unless we act now; act decisively and with the full exercise of our temporary military superiority. Russia is boasting that it is on its way to restore its nuclear capability. New ICBMs, super submarines and an upsurge in nationalist pride to prove that they are again a superpower are waiting around the corner. China is spending vast sums to build its intercontinental missile capability, improved by the technology sold to it by the Clinton administration. The communists are using their remote dummy to destabilize the Far East and Iran is using their remote dummies to do the same in the Middle East. Just as Spain was the training ground for Hitler before World War 2 to test the will of the West, so are events of today a test of the will of the United States.
George Bush is fighting the liberals and not the real enemy. He piously stands by while Israel is doing his dirty work. What a farce!
Perhaps it would be better for the Democrats to take over the Presidency and the Congress because the outlook for the survival of the nation would improve. At least the Republicans may remain patriotic and put the interests of the nation ahead of their political ambitions and allow the Democrats to start acting, hopefully as Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman would act.
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July 22 2006

GOOD NEWS

Just as I was getting really depressed about the survival of the Unite States I found good news from an unexpected source. The Liberal Left has started showing its real fangs and they are for the abandonment and extinction of Israel. As Hezbollah rockets are raining down on Haifa in the latest attempt by the Islamic jihad to destroy Israel, the only democracy and non-Muslim state in the Middle East, Israel came under attack in America. The producer of a talk show on a major Washington D.C. radio station declared that because the existence of Israel was bringing us to the brink of nuclear war, he could no longer support Israel's right to exist. This producer is a left-wing Jew.
The website Daily Kos, which is a power in the Democratic Party posted an item headed, "Imagine a world without Israel." The subhead read, "Or is that not allowed?" This kind of hate-Israel sentiment is common on the left, and the left’s influence is growing, especially in the Democratic Party.
The cover of The Washington Post's magazine Sunday was headlined, "Is the Israel Lobby Too Powerful?" The idea that Bush-Cheney-Rice and Rumsfeld are manipulated by a bunch of second and third tier Jews in the Administration is a modern-day version of the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion which provided a text for Hitler and claimed that Jews ruled the world. But today it is entering the mainstream of liberal thought at an alarming speed.
Part of the reason this kind of anti-Israel, anti-American propaganda has traction is that people are woefully in the dark when it comes to the nature of the enemy we face. It is Stupidity, Not Courage or Political Correctness, to Refuse to Recognize Danger When it is Close Upon You. The war against terrorism, just as the war against crime, never ends. But that's hardly an excuse for not fighting. If Israel does anything less than destroy the enemies it has been fighting since 1948, Israel will lose and its enemies will win. It's that simple. Lowering the price to be paid by aggressors virtually guarantees more aggression. We have a problem in this country. It's a good thing we have a "new media". Because the old one is fitting your daughter for her burqa.
The Islamic terror war against the United States mirrors its terror war against Israel, just as the left’s attack on Israel mirrors its attack on America.
Just as Islamists accuse America of being the root cause of 9/11, so the left accuses Israel, a victim of fifty years of Arab wars to destroy it, of being the aggressor in the Middle East.
Muslim and radical fanatics and haters of America and Israel operating in the universities and the press, along with their liberal fellow travelers, have been preaching the gospel that the Palestinians and the terrorists are actually victims of the imperialism of the West, and that their heinous acts against humanity are legitimate expressions of hopelessness and despair.
This war is the same war America is fighting in Iraq. The enemies are the same- Islamic terrorists backed by Syria and Iran- and the stakes are the same, whether Islamic totalitarianism or democracy will prevail. It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamo/fascists for signs of weakness.
Israel is capable of defending herself. But behind Syria and Iran are Russia and China, and therefore she has always depended on her ally, the United States. The Fifth Column leftist liberals and communists in this country have attempted to sabotage America’s war in Iraq, and now America’s support for Israel is being undermined in alarming ways by the same traitors.
My hope is that the American public is not as stupid as liberal Jews who are willing to abandon Israel and perhaps cause another Holocaust just to prove that they are more liberal than Jewish.
What I see in all this is a hope for the rise of indignation by the silent majority that will be motivated to throw rascals out and start acting with the courage and determination that America was always able to generate when the chips were down. Unless Dumb and Dumber dominates the public thinking in which case we are doomed.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A.A. Milne

Aug 3 2006

MEMORY LANE
You have been hearing a lot about the Katyusha rocket used by Hezbollah. Unfortunately I have personal acquaintance with this rocket so it behooves me to give you some background information. The Katyusha was originally a World War II-era Soviet rocket.

The Katyusha, or Little Kate, was a rocket launcher mounted on a heavy truck that fired volleys of up to 48 rockets nearly four miles. The rockets had a terrifying scream and we called the Katyusha “Stalin’s Organ.” Perhaps you old timers remember old newsreels of WW2 with Stalin's Organ providing the sound effects. Believe me listening to them over your head was a terrifying experience.

The word Katyusha is the tender diminutive of the female name Ekatherina (Katherine). Katyusha was a popular Russian song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. I used to play it on the mandolin and even knew the words to the song. The last time I had the opportunity to sing it was at the Old Heidelberg Restaurant back in the 70s.

The Katyusha is a missile on a smaller scale and with a smaller quantity of explosive material. Like any missile, a rocket consists of a warhead containing the explosive material, a body containing the fuel powering the rocket's flight, and a tail in which the engine is located, which also stabilizes the rocket during its flight. Rockets can be launched by operators who are near the rocket launcher when it is fired, or by means of a delayed timer (which doesn't require an operator being near the position when it is fired). The devices are easy to move and to conceal, and can be assembled on the back of a vehicle in order to make it quicker to move them to the launch site and take them away after firing.

In todays world Katyusha mean not just one type of rocket, but a whole range of different artillery rockets, whether from old Soviet or other-nation stock, most frequently the 122mm rocket. The Katyusha rockets have little guidance and are not lethal enough to defeat Israel militarily, but are used by terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, operating out of Lebanon, to cause terror among the Israeli population. Since they are mobile on back of trucks they are hard to detect and Hezbollah developed strategies to make detection even more difficult by firing them from different locations simultaneously to confuse radar. Because Israeli forces are able to locate the source of fire and return fire, the terrorist organizations have developed special methods of action to avoid injury. They fire towards a target from a number of positions and constantly using new positions. It is widely reported that Hizballah possesses over 5,000 Katyusha rockets. Based on the current rate of firing and destruction of supply depots it is expected that the firing will soon diminish. Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Israel had destroyed more than 70% of Hezbollah’s long-range and mid-range rockets and 20% of their short-range rockets, as well as at least 1,000 buildings used by the terrorist group.

U.S. Army and the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD) use the Mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser (MTHEL) that can shoot down Katyushas, both singly and in salvos. Artillery shells generate far less heat than rockets do and are more difficult to track. Katyusha rockets are pressurized, they are easier to blow up than artillery shells.

Iran spent more than six months training and planning Hezbollah to prepare for its current war with Israel. Western intelligence sources said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps held a series of exercises with Hezbollah on the use of new weapons and techniques. The sources said IRGC also prepared arsenals of medium-range rockets and missiles in the Bekaa Valley and Syria to sustain any war with Israel. All this was observed by UN peacekeepers who in order to keep the peace never reported it.

Just picked up this little item. Israeli troops operating in south Lebanon captured a Hezbollah safe house, and found the usual weapons and other equipment, as well as a supply of Israeli Defense Force uniforms. This indicated plans to stage a major "atrocity." committed, as the evidence would clearly show, by Israeli troops. But perhaps this will never happen, for Israeli raids into southern Lebanon have captured many Hizbollah documents, as well as some live Hizbollah members. These, combined with Israeli electronic eavesdropping, reports from agents inside Lebanon, give the Israelis a pretty good idea of what Hezbollah is up to. Without much fanfare, Israeli commandos and aircraft will respond to Hizbollah plans.

The current war in Lebanon involves keeping secrets to survive, and win. Take, for example, casualties. Hizbollah is a totalitarian organization, and does not have to release any casualty figures. In fact, Hizbollah has an interest in not letting the Israelis know how many Hizbollah operatives are being killed. That way, the Israelis won't know how badly they are hurting Hizbollah, nor how effective the Israeli tactics are. In addition to saying nothing, Hizbollah can also get away with lying. Since Hizbollah fighters don't wear uniforms, many of the Hizbollah dead can be reported as civilians. This makes sense in terms of propaganda, as Hizbollah wants to portray Israeli attacks as unwarranted attacks on innocent civilians.

When pressed, Israeli officials said that they believed they had killed about 200 Hizbollah fighters during the first two weeks of the fighting. But now Western journalists in Lebanon are reporting seeing dead civilians who were apparently Hizbollah members. The Israelis probably do have a better idea of Hizbollah losses than they are admitting, because Israel maintains a network of agents inside Lebanon. They know that the military wing of Hizbollah is not large, with only a few thousand trained fighters. Once that crew takes serious losses, Hizbollah will have to rely more on less effective part-timers. Israel really wants to know when that point is reached, for at that point new tactics can be applied, that will speed up the destruction of Hizbollah. So, for Hizbollah, secrecy is a matter of life and death.

Good Night.
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Aug 6 2006

errorism is the weapon of the weak. It is, however, a new weapon system against which the US, Russia and the orthodox major military powers have not found an effective solution. Expecting the Pentagon to change its ways to confront this new weapon system is almost hopeless. They are still fighting the idea that Radio Shack is selling better radio equipment than what military air controllers use, but the Pentagon rather suffer unnecessary casualties than allow our military to pick up better equipment at Radio Shack. Terrorists are a bunch of weaklings, willing to gamble all for the cause. It is a lot cheaper operation than delivering three hot meals a day to soldiers and treat their wounds in top notch hospitals.

"After four decades of anti-Israeli terrorism, there is nothing to show for it but a long string of failures, and an Israel that is more powerful than ever. Since the media has to report news (exciting stuff, real or imagined), rather than what really happened (which is what history books are for, most of the time), you don't hear much about this development. Kind of boring. Terrorists keep trying, playing the media with great effectiveness, but consistently failing in their stated objective. Committing terrorist acts was always cheap, newsworthy as long as the Israelis didn't get too mad.

But going to war with Israel, as any historian of Arab-Israeli relations can tell you, is a losing proposition. The Israelis are famously not stupid, and take any attack on them as a threat to their very existence. These are not the kind of people you want to fight a war with. But Hizbollah thought they had no other choice (there weren't even many options), and now has to stick it out and hope for the best. Hope won't do them much good. While the Hizbollah rocket arsenal is a new touch, it's not like the Israelis have not dealt with new terrorist tricks before. More rockets fell on Haifa in one day than the rockets fired by the Germans at London. Guess who won? Israeli counter-terror innovations only work if they are kept under wraps for as long as possible.
But if you pay close attention, you can figure out who is going to win, and how they are going to do it. The Israelis are hitting Hizbollah where they are vulnerable, but are not broadcasting the target list ahead of time, for obvious reasons. Just like a few years ago, months of seemingly ineffective efforts will suddenly produce results. That has happened before, terrorist victories have not. The terrorist leadership is now hiding, incommunicado even with their friendly reporters. This is their moment of truth. Its coming.
BTW The larger rockets hitting Haifa are fired from Syria. The Syrain military has been expecting an attack by Israel now for 3 days in a row. They are on alert, alert, alert. Maybe they ought to shut down the airlift of weapons from Iran. They are not getting to Lebanon any way. Will let you know when the real war is about to start.
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Aug 9 2006

THE PAST IS PROLOGUE

Previously I included a cryptic suggestion that you should not believe everything you hear and see, because the game is played behind the scenes. Here is the dilemma. In order to get rid of Iran's nutty and disliked leaders we must overthrow them from within. Attacking Iran may not accomplish that. Reacting to an Iranian action brought about by Iran's misjudgment of the situation may create a window of opportunity. If Iran believes that Israel is losing to Hezbollah and that Aug 22nd is Allah's chosen date to light up the ski over Israel we may suddenly see the real game unfold. As an illustration of what can happen and why you would not even know about it here is a true story.
For those of you who are too young, or who were too high in the 60s to pay attention, I will now recount for you a true story stranger than fiction. This is just an illustration what really happens and what is never revealed.

In the 1960s the Soviet Union was a real trouble maker in the middle East. Not only did it supply weapons to Syria and Egypt, but instigated a war against Israel. The US had no influence with Syria and Egypt and tried to reduce or eliminate Soviet encroachment in the area, primarily to protect our investment and relationship with the Saudis and their oil. Egypt's president Nasser took the Soviet bait and ordered the UN peacekeepers out of the Sinai, massed 1000 tanks on the Israeli border preparing for an attack. He first used his military to install a communist regime in Yemen and was ready to start against Israel. He shut down Israel's access to the Red Sea. Israel had 600 tanks. The combined attacking force of Syria, Jordan and Egypt had 2,000. Apparently the US was doing nothing. Not so.
A few weeks before Israel's decision to pre-empt Nasser's attack, the White House and the CIA were informed about the plans. Israel did not want to repeat the mistake of the 1956 war which was stopped by President Eisenhower who did not agree to it in advance.
President Johnson approved of the planned war as long as it was restricted to Syria and Egypt. When his oil friends worried about the Saudi reaction, he agreed to lend the Arabs a little hand by providing them limited intelligence to prove he was neutral. Unfortunately the limited intelligence got out of hand. On June 4th the CIA informed King Hussein that the Israeli Air Force would attack Egypt the next morning. Hussein called Nasser who had no reason to trust the Americans and literally laughed at Hussein so obvious was the attempt by the US to gain favors with him. Next morning Israel did attack and destroyed the Egyptian Air Force.
President Johnson then removed the spy ship USS Liberty from the Navy and put it under NSA control. The ship then stopped in Spain to pick up two Hebrew speaking non-Jewish translators and proceeded to be be near the Sinai action. The US 6th fleet was moved away from the Eastern Mediterranian to avoid any accusation by the Arabs that they were to help Israel. No Navy ship was within hundreds of miles of Israel and the British fleet was a 1000 miles away for the same reason. Yet no Arab state ever complained about the American ship, the USS Liberty being 12 miles off shore at Gaza. Why?
Because the SS Liberty was listening to communications by Israeli pilots, tank commanders and command posts. It was able to create a battle map so accurate that the Israeli's themselves did not have a similar capability. The ship used the forerunner of the current NSA technology and it was the best equipped spy ship in the world at that time. The problem developed when the ship sent all the information, on the perhaps misunderstood order of the White House, through the British to the Saudis to be conveyed to Nasser.
When the Israeli Cabinet heard the transcriptions of the communications sent by the USS Liberty and realized it was betrayed by the US, emergency meetings were held and they could not agree to destroy the USS Liberty, which was identified by Israeli intelligence as an American ship. A single bomb could destroy the ship, but it could result in the loss of close to 300 lives aboard. It was decided to try to destroy the communication and radar antennas by machine gun fire. The order was given to the Israeli Air Force to find volunteers to strafe the ship and many pilots refused because they did not want to fire on an American ship.
As soon as the strafing begun a large American flag was displayed by the crew to make sure the pilots knew the ship was American. Neither the pilots nor the crew of the Liberty knew the reasons why the attack happened and the reasons behind it. Not even the Captain of the Liberty knew what the NSA was doing in their secret section of the ship.
After the strafing stopped, communications from the ship continued to be sent and the Cabinet had to reach a new, more effective decision to destroy the aerials still without sinking the ship and killing the crew now hiding below deck in watertight compartments. Intelligence proposed that napalm should used because it would burn the aluminum magnesium alloy aerials without harming the ship. Napalm did the job and the USS Liberty suffered relatively minimum casualties. The Israeli Navy also had to torpedo the secret watertight compartment housing the communication center operated by NSA. It is interesting to note that the 6th Fleet was watching and listening to the whole affair and launched aircraft to protect the ship but aborted on orders from the CIA. How was this incident explained by the White House and the Israeli Cabinet? A tragic case of mistaken identity both agreed. BS. Many books have been written about the incident. Most about what happened and not why it happened. My detailed information comes from a book by John Loftus: THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS. A vary scary book to read while watching the mIdeast today and hoping the past is not prologue.
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Next. How did Israel ever got approved by the UN? It was not romantic, it was not justice triumphed. You will not believe why the world powers agreed to create Israel.

Aug 24 2006

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

As I warned you before, wait until the true story can be told. When the war started Israel discovered that its electronic warfare system was breached in a manner similar to the SS Liberty incident in 1967. You must realize that the Israeli EW system is on par and parallel to the US and it was quite a shock to discover the following:
Israel was unable to block communications between the Lebanese Hizbollah operations and the the Iranian HQ of operations located in Syria.
Communications within the Israeli military commands and between Israeli soldiers within Lebanon were listened into and acted on.
Electronic interference jammed the anti-missile system of the Israeli corvette Hanith that was hit by a cruise missile . Israel was unable to block communications originating from the bunker below the Iranian Embassy in Beirut from which Hassan Nassrallah was operating.
Remembering 1967 this caused considerable confusion and trepidation and it took a long time to discover that the interference came from Iran using Russian and Chinese technology. (This has prompted the US to send an emergency investigative team to Israel for good reasons.)
Until the Hizballah triggered the Lebanon War, Israel was assumed to be an important world power in the development of electronic warfare systems – so much so that a symbiotic relationship evolved for the research and development of many US and Israeli electronic warfare systems, in which a mix of complementary American and Israeli devices and methods were invested.

In combat against Hizballah, both were not only found wanting, but had been actively neutralized, so that none performed the functions for which they were designed. This poses both the US and Israel with a serious problem in a further round of the Lebanon war and any military clash with Iran.
Both the Us and Israeli intelligence services underestimated the tremendous effort Iran invested in state of the art electronic warfare gadgetry from Russia and China designed to disable American military operations in Iraq and IDF functions in Israel and Lebanon. Israel’s electronic warfare units were taken by surprise by the sophisticated protective mechanisms attached to Hizballah’s communications networks, which were discovered to be connected by optical fibers which are not susceptible to electronic jamming.

American and Israeli experts realize now that they overlooked the key feature of the naval exercise Iran staged in the Persian Gulf last April: Iran’s leap ahead in electronic warfare. They dismissed most the weapons systems as old-fashioned. But among them were the C-802 cruise missile and several electronic warfare systems, both of which turned up in the Lebanon war with deadly effect.

The comparison to the Spanish War is becoming more real. Testing the new weapons of the coming World War in a localized skirmish. As I said, wait for the real war to start.

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED From 8/22?

When I first discovered the significance of the month starting on 8/22, weeks before the rest of the "experts" chimed in, I did not realize that the explosion over Jerusalem was supposed to be locally generated and not by a missile attack. For this reason Israel ignored the threat, except for having its planes standing by to commit the "insane acts" Iran predicted and buying two additional modern submarines from Germany. More significant, however, is your reaction to this threat of an outbreak of nuclear war. What did you do in your own life facing this threat? Did you establish a shelter with supplies? Did you get a "survival ranch"? Did you get on the waiting list for a NBC bomb shelter? Did you bring your family to potential war footing? Did you just wring your hands? If you did anything I would like to hear about it.
8/22 was the beginning of the month of the deity of desirable dominion who enforces peace by using his weapons. Iran's problem right now is how to reconcile the upcoming US election with their own religiously motivated acts. I think they are smarter. The may just want to wait till November to get aggressive. Not so with Israel. They need an aroused US electorate. Keep watching.

Aug 31 2006

Before it became difficult to read I have purchased three interesting books. I am using them trying to understand the Israeli situation a little better by looking at the recent past.
1. THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS
Having been involved in intelligence work early in my life and having kept watching intel shenanigans, a book about the secret war against the Jews got my attention and I had an opportunity to read and research much of its contents. I found answers to questions I had not found since the creation of Israel. Why would such a widely divergent group of political leaders suddenly see eye to eye and approve something as controversial and futile as creating a Jewish State surrounded by masses of Arabs seeking their destruction? It is amazing how the founders of Israel were able to use the weaknesses of these world leaders to effectively blackmail them. In view of the current situation in Lebanon, Syria and Iran it was very educational to learn about the USS Liberty betrayal and subsequent conspiracy to hide the facts.
This is a disturbing yet revealing book that makes you wonder about how much you really know about the machinations and motivations of world leaders as compared to their public pronouncements and soundbites. If you are a serious reader blessed, or cursed, with sufficient cynical curiosity, you should read the book and judge its accuracy for yourself. I am warning you, however, you may have sleepless nights realizing how we have been and are being misled by a cynical shadow intel establishment.

2. THE UNHOLY TRINITY -THE VATICAN, THE NAZIS AND THE SWISS BANKS.
Written in rivetings fashion Unholy Trinity tells one of the darkest tales of World War II. After the war had ended, fearing a surge of Soviet growth, the Papacy entered into an espionage alliance with British and American intelligence agents. Exploring the Vatican's role in aiding Nazi criminals to escape punishment for their crimes, this book, originally published in 1991, first revealed the Vatican--Swiss bank connection to Nazi gold and documented the hidden links to Western investors in Nazi Germany. Since 1991, major revelations about the role of Swiss banks have confirmed Unholy Trinity's expose of the flight of the Nazi's stolen treasures; the new introduction and new final chapters, , bring the book completely up to date and show how the media have missed the vital Vatican connection in the Swiss-bank story. Among other things, the authors demonstrate that U.S. and British code-breakers were fully aware of the Holocaust as early as 1941 but lied to the Western press; that the code-breakers bugged the Swiss banks and then buried secrets of Nazi gold transfers to protect U.S. intelligence chief Allen Dulles; and that the Australian, Brisih, and Canadian governments are still waging a campaign to keep their citizens ignorant about the Nazi war criminals living among them.
Covers all these topics and more, Unholy Trinity is the definitive history of a series of profoundly disturbing cover-ups involing the Holy See, Allen Dulles, the Swiss banks, and the remnants of the Third Reich.

3. SADDAM'S SECRETS
A credible first hand account of Saddam's regime. Full of irrefutable facts, it proves beyond any shadow of doubt the existence of WMDs in Saddam's arsenal. After reading this book you will question the sanity of those who try to deny facts at all costs, even at the cost of the defense of this nation. Perhaps this highest ranking air marshall of Iraq's military should not be believed just because he is a Christian? Dont read it if you don't want to get angry at our suicidal politicians and their cohorts.
Regarding Iraq: "[I]t is incontestable that on the day I left office there were unaccounted-for-stocks of biological and chemical weapons." So said Bill Clinton in July of 2003 (on CNN). Why weren't they found then? Iraqi General Georges Sada offers an explannation in this book of his. On June 4, 2002, a three-mile-long irrigation dam collapsed n Syria. "Flood waters covered an area of nearly forty square miles." When "Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked for help from Jordan and Iraq, Saddam knew what he would do. For him, the disaster in Syria was a gift, and there, posing as shipments of supplies and equipment sent from Iraq to aid the relief effort, were Iraq's WMDs. Weapons and equipment were transferred both by land and air." Of the latter, General Sada, former air vice marshall in Saddam Hussein's military, says there were 56 flights of commercial Iraqi passenger aircraft from Iraq to Syria. They were "quickly reconfigured" "transforming the passenger planes into cargo planes" that were then used to transport "hundreds of tons of chemicals, armaments, and other paraphernalia into Syria under the cover of a mission of mercy to help a stricken nation." General Sada says the Syrian through whom the above was coordinated was General Abu Ali, a cousin of Bashar al-Assad. "For once in the long history of belligerence between Iraq and Syria, there was complete agreement between them." "They arranged for the operation to be conducted like a regular business deal, & everything was paid for, up-front and in cash." Sada knew Saddam; was brought out of retirement by Saddam after the Kuwaiti War. (A war during which Sada, albeit briefly, was arrested after refusing an order by Saddam's son Qusay.) Sada was regularly consulted thereafter. Sada remarks herein too how "Saddam had spread the idea that we didn't have to worry because nobody was going to attack us." Sada "had heard him say it many times." Sada telling Tariq Aziz (from London, where Sada had been sent as an emissary of Iraq) that the UK was going to hit Iraq, thus fell on deaf ears. Sada once also cautioned Saddam that trying to launch an air attack against an American aircraft carrier was hopeless. Moreover, Saddam wasn't aware of the capabiltities of cruise missiles until after Baghdad was struck by them during the 1991 Gulf War; having asked his air force commander: "tell me how it's possible that we were struck so hard without warnings of any kind. The air-raid sirens didn't even go off. How could his happen?" Saddam, of course, wasn't running a government, but a big crime family, a regime, in Sada's words, "not built on the basis of skill and efficiency," but "on the basis of blind loyalty to Saddam" wherein 2+2 was 9, or whatever subordinates thought Saddam wanted to think it was. Sada, by his own admission, however, "had a bad habit of saying that 2 plus 2 is four." Sada thinks he was able to get away with divulging unpleasant realities to Saddam owing to the fact that Sada was not a Muslim. As an Assyrian Christian Sada could never be a power broker, or threat. Sada also details how Saddam was not at all hurt by sanctions; nor his loyalists, thanks to "the gift of the president," a bonus progam of Saddam's paid to Baathist Party members (4-5 million folks). Where did Saddam get the cash to buy this loyalty? Oil sales. The full story: US naval forces in the Gulf, to police Iraqi sanctions against smuggling would test oil cargo to see if it betrayed the tell-tale properties that would suggest if it was Iraqi in origin. But what "the specialists & other officials didn't realize was that Iraqi smugglers had made a deal with Iranian smugglers." Contraband Iraqi oil thus was smuggled to Iran in exchange for the Iranian variety, which was then exported. Plus, "Saddam's agents were selling oil to Iran at very low prices, & Iran was shipping the same oil in the same ships from their ports, but under the Iranian flag" (to pass unmolested through the Gulf). An interesting book.

9/11 2006

I need to tell you how I feel before I decide that it isn't worth the effort. The 9/11 hoopla and the speech by the president left me sad and disappointed. We seem to be getting better at mourning, crying and "feeling" than reacting with vigor and energy to inspire our people and military to stand up and be counted. Where was a call to arms and to sacrifice? It was all hand wringing; they are coming, they are already here, the sky is falling and there is nothing we can do about it. Where is our Churchill to inspire us and lift up the national spirit, steel the national will? The answer my friends is simply this: We have not yet suffered the consequences of a war, none of our cities were destroyed, our sacrifices are a joke. The death of 3,000 equals to the death of one person in a stadium 100,000 spectators. This nation's survival depends on how we would react if 10 would be killed or even a hundred. Will we have the leaders to motivate us to fight even if it would conflict with the rap culture, the dumbed down masses and the useful idiots who still don't get it? Politics combined with incompetence has become a national trademark. Money speaks. National pride no longer counts. We can not even pass a law to prevent terrorists from buying ammonium nitrate to blow things up but we are eager to try to get guns away from our citizens who see the day coming when the enemy comes over the hill. Sedition, treason are unknown words and concepts. A federal judge rules that terrorists must have the ability to communicate with their counterparts by phone without allowing our people to listen to them. Lawyers get permission to communicate with their terrorist clients, pass along information and orders. The government finances lawsuits against itself to help the terrorists. Unfortunately I could go on and on for pages and pages of insanity. I hope tomorrow I 'll see a better day. Pray for a leader to emerge to get us out of this wilderness.
TWW
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THIS WAS SENT TO MY FRIENDS 2 WEEKS AFTER 9/11, FIVE YEARS AGO.

How people throughout the world view the events of 9/11/01 is a reflection of their own personal looking glass. The image is distorted by their own personal experiences, traditions, education, intellectual ability and opinion habits. Most people in these kinds of situations will follow the herd instinct and join fellow citizens in mass behavior, dictated or suggested by their leaders and the mass media.
In my looking glass the picture is also distorted but perhaps others can benefit from my view of the September 11th tragedy. There are valid reasons why my viewpoint is worth others’ consideration.
As it happens, by pure coincidence, my autobiography (THE VISION; A Candid
Autobiography of a Survivor of Nazi and Communist Oppression) has just recently been published. I had only just distributed some copies to friends and acquaintances and anyone reading the volume can understand how my own personal experiences have given me a unique perspective on this recent horrific occurrence.

THERE IS NO COLLECTIVE EVIL - JUST AS THERE IS NO COLLECTIVE GOODNESS.
If we look back at the Holocaust, I know from my own observation, that millions of Germans did not really know the dark secrets of the Holocaust murders; the tortures, the bestiality. Of those who knew there were many who helped save victims even at the risk of their own life. Theirs was an act of conscience and not personal approval of the victims’ own deeds, personal faith or political philosophy. Today, millions of Muslims are appalled by the September 11th carnage and yet this does not mean that they approve of the West nor believe it to be collectively good. It also does not mean that they themselves are collectively evil, either by religious association, cultural heritage,language or skin color.

CONTEMPLATING 5,000 DEATHS IN ONE DAY.
Just imagine a stadium filled with 60,000 fans watching a sports event - when a terrorist attack kills one of them. It is a tragedy but easily overcome if the rest of the crowd chooses to ignore the danger. Winston Churchill talked about how a crocodile can kill people one by one because those not affected would ignore the obvious danger.
The September attack can put a new perspective on the Holocaust. In June and July, 1944 12,000 Hungarian Jews, men, women and children were brutally herded every 24hours into gas chambers. These deaths would last an agonizing fifteen minutes and on busy days the sick and the children were burned alive in open pits. In the New York attack, 1 person out of every 60,000 was lost. During the Holocaust, my own community lost 3400 individuals out of 3525.

GUERILLA WARFARE CANNOT BE EASILY DEFEATED.
I was a fighter in the Hungarian resistance movement. The streets of Budapest were the battlefield. We operated in small and independent groups. We changed uniforms, as the situation required. We were the little fish in the murky waters of war, supported by the people around us. The mighty German military machine with their Panzers and highly trained soldiers, could not win our war. We fought for freedom against oppressors.
Today, there is a multi-national radical Islamic network with fighters and sympathizers all across the world. Made up of a variety of Islamic terrorist groups, they are connected and overtly financed by governments and private individuals. They are also the little fish hiding in the waters of local community support. But they must be fought in the name of freedom.
The battle they wage is extinction of religious freedom and oppression of their own minorities, especially women. Our fight should also be a war of liberation for Muslim women - liberation from their slavery, mutilation and degradation. Let us enlist Muslim women to join together and rise to overthrow their own oppressors.

INTELLIGENCE VERSUS ESPIONAGE.
Innumerable times in those years I had to outsmart the Russian GPU and Hungarian AVO secret police. Later, when working with the US Army CIC I understood again the vital difference between intelligence and espionage. Intelligence relies on documentation and long memories. It is a bureaucracy thriving on records. They are the reason for its existence. As a bureaucracy it sometimes becomes a blustering bully, lead-footed, but with gargantuan conceit. Counterintelligence in today's electronic world can defeat such bureaucratic bumbling. Espionage counts on the basic Popperian philosophy that no human endeavor is ever perfect. Financier George Soros, himself a survivor of the Budapest ghetto, became a billionaire by understanding this. Since the days of the Old Testament, spies have done likewise.
It took years of planning to carry out the New York bombing. That complex operation required funding for a wide range of needs: counter-intelligence professionals, logisticians, training experts, smugglers, forgers, recruiters and diplomatic covers. Activities had to be kept isolated from one another so that no individual activity was compromised. Anyone foolish enough to judge this action as that of wild-eyed fanatics, should think again. Neither bin-Laden nor his network, alone provided that complex network of support that likely originated from a variety of sources.
Lack of efficient espionage prevented the U.S. from predicting or forestalling this massive action. Historically, espionage has always defeated Intelligence. Spies uncovered recently in the Intelligence establishment of the FBI and CIA, have proved this yet again. The multi-national radical Islamic network cannot be defeated without espionage and I mean the kind of secrecy and covert activity perfected by Britain and Russia.
U.S. Intelligence must learn the art of patience and tempered zealousness It must penetrate domestic Arab communities and enlist their support in uncovering "moles" and "sleepers". This nation must be ready to increase Intelligence funding, allow it more freedom of action and be ready to accept the occasional, if regrettable, mistakes that will occur.

THE NATION OF ISLAM.
A political entity called The Nation Of Islam does not exist as such today. Instead, there are Muslims and there are Muslim countries. Osama bin Laden would like to be the leader of a world-wide Nation Of Islam. He stands ready to be the new spiritual leader who can incite the entire Muslim world to wage a Holy War which will defeat the West and restore an all-powerful Islamic nation. He hopes to ignite a billion soldiers ready to die for this cause.
Bin-Laden is not the first to carry this dream. Such holy wars have been declared numerous times in the past thousand years. However, previous wars were a battle between a more primitive and a more advanced civilization, whereas today’s access to modern technology has changed the odds.
Osama bin Laden is today creating the spiritual foundation for a Holy War in the name of Allah, that could restore the ancient Islamic empires. Not just the young and, or willingly suicidal, but the well-educated and highly motivated Muslims will be drawn to this challenge. Thousands more would rise if bin-Laden himself joined the suicides who many believe are enjoying their just rewards in Paradise, each surrounded by 70 vestal virgins.
The deliberate planting of evidence incriminating bin-Laden, such as leaving his photograph in one of the cars used by suicide bombers, indicates a deliberate attempt to give him credit and plant the seeds of his potential martyrdom. His death or would make him an international legend and any trial held under U.S. law, would provide propaganda resulting in increased funding and recruitment. Then the 21 century will see the continuation of centuries of "Jihads" between Islam and the West. The glory and collapse of the Ottoman Empire is not forgotten in much of the world. Willingness to offer one’s life for Allah is still well-embedded in many Muslim cultures and combined with the great leveling force of modern technology, it will create an Intelligence nightmare for Western civilization.

THE ARABCOMMUNITY.
Among the millions of loyal U.S. citizens of Arab ancestry, are concealed hundreds, if not thousands, of potential fighters ready to give up their lives to defeat the United States. Without the help of other members of the Arab community, these individuals cannot be located. Also, when leading Islamic clerics participate in mass demonstrations near the White House, calling the President a "Jew-Dog", one questions the sincerity of the sorrow expressed after the September incident.
New leaders must emerge who can proudly proclaim their allegiance to the United States and their opposition to Muslim terror organizations wherever they are found in the world. Muslim communities need to be made to understand that with or without their consent, guerrilla criminals are being hidden and offered protection in their midst. The lives of all in their community, as well as the lives of all others - are diminished as long as the
terrorist threat exists.
The day before the World Trade Center attacks, approximately 300 protesters in Houston demonstrated hysterically with signs proclaiming "Death to Rushtie". They were following the directives of a Muslim cleric who had issued his infamous death sentence, half-way around the globe. Were there any potential suicide bombers among this group? Loyally following the orders of a bin-Laden? The world will not be safe for ourselves, for our children or our grandchildren, unless we can find out.

CONCLUSION.

As a Holocaust survivor, I would make the recommendation that we adapt to our new circumstances as water takes the shape of the vessel into which it is poured. Let’s forget the old rules of combat and prepare for the formerly unthinkable. We can be certain this is how our enemies are thinking, behaving and planning. It is not necessary to give up our way of life, to compromise our freedoms or become as prisoners in our own land. BUT - we must put a stop to the abuse of our freedom, of our tolerance, our generosity, our goodwill, and especially, our trust. We must stop the distortion of our history; the erosion of the moral and ethical fiber of our citizens. We must cease to accept lies, fraud, graft and blatant corruption as "business as usual". We must rise from the ruins of the World Trade Center as a better people with higher standards and clear consciences if we want to retain our place as the leaders of the Free World.


October 11 2006

WAKE UP AND ACT BEFOR IT IS TOO LATE.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."

Do you have any idea who said this?

It was Omar Ahmad, the chairman of the board of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is a Saudi funded organization which is constantly getting media attention when it is complaining about the treatment of Muslims and giving us the message that "Muslims are part of the fabric of this great country and are working to build a better America."

But when speaking to a Muslim audience, as Omar Ahmad was, the message is different. Here is the back ground of who these people are.
Since its founding in 1994, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and its employees have combined, conspired,
and agreed with third parties, including, but not limited to, the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (“HLF”), the Global Relief Foundation (“GRF”), and foreign
nationals hostile to the interests of the United States, to provide material support to known terrorist organizations,
to advance the Hamas agenda, and to propagate radical Islam. The Council on American-Islamic Relations,
and certain of its officers, directors, and employees, have acted in support of, and in furtherance of, this conspiracy.

Senior CAIR employee Randall Todd Royer, a/k/a “Ismail” Royer, pled guilty and was sentenced to twenty years in prison
for participating in a network of militant jihadists centered in Northern Virginia. He admitted to aiding and abetting three persons
who sought training in a terrorist camp in Pakistan for the purpose of waging jihad against American troops in Afghanistan.
Royer’s illegal actions occurred while he was employed with CAIR.

CAIR's Director of Community Relations, Bassem Khafagi , was arrested by the United States due to his ties with a
terror-financing front group. Khafagi pled guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud, and agreed to be deported to Egypt.
Khafagi’s illegal actions occurred while he was employed by CAIR.

On December 18, 2002, Ghassan Elashi, founding board member of CAIR-Texas, a founder of the Holy Land Foundation,
and a brother-in-law of Musa Abu Marzook , was arrested by the United States and charged with, among other things,
making false statements on export declarations, dealing in the property of a designated terrorist organization, conspiracy
and money laundering. Ghassan Elashi committed his crimes while working at CAIR, and was found Guilty.

CAIR Board Member Imam Siraj Wahaj, an un-indicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center bombing,
has called for replacing the American government with an Islamic caliphate, and warned that America will crumble
unless it accepts Islam.

Rabih Haddad served as a CAIR Fundraiser. Haddad was co-founder of the Global Relief Foundation (“GRF”).
GRF was designated by the US Treasury Department for financing the Al Qaida and other terrorist organizations
and its assets were frozen by the US Government on December 14, 2001.

I am sending you this information because you will not find it in the media.

Liberals are so afraid of offending Muslims that they are denying these facts which are staring us in the face:

• Radical Muslims the world over are engaged in an openly declared Holy War or Jihad against the West.
• This Jihad is a grave danger to our nation and to all of Western civilization.
• The Jihad challenges every facet of American life. Its agenda includes the purposeful and systematic dismantling of all aspects of our culture. It hopes ultimately to impose Sharia law on the U.S., replacing our law with provisions such as the stoning of adulterous women and cutting off thieves' hands.
• The extent of the threat is not being effectively and truthfully communicated to the American public.

IT IS UP TO YOU TO COMMUNICATE AND START AN AVALANCHE!

October 12 2006

CAN A TRUE MUSLIM BE A GOOD AMERICAN CITIZEN?

"Any Muslim that still practices his religion, no matter what he says, could NOT be a good American citizen. Even if they took the oath to become a citizen, have lived here for over 30 years, no matter what they say or do, they will never be “true” American citizens. The reason? Islam itself. Consider the following; a true believer in Islam and the teachings of the Koran cannot be an American citizen on theological grounds because as an adherent to the faith, they cannot swear any allegiance because the adherent has sworn an oath to Allah. Any other oath given voluntarily or forced has no value because of this sworn allegiance to their god Allah.

Theologically a Muslim cannot be a true American because the religion they believe in denies any other name for God or the worship of any other god. This non-acceptance of other religions flies in the face of the Bill of Rights and the Koran has validity; the Bill of Rights does not. The Koran declares that it is a sin to accept any other religion as valid accept for Islam. (Sura 2: 256)

The proper Muslim cannot be an American citizen scripturally because the adherent of Islam because his allegiance is to the “Five Pillars of Islam” and the Koran, their holy book. The issue of allegiance once again rears its ugly head. The true devotee to Islam can only have one allegiance otherwise; they are in apostasy and have no part in paradise.

The true adherent cannot accept America as his home because his heart is always toward Mecca, one of three of their holy cities. Medina and Jerusalem are the other two. Of course, within each Muslim country, a specific city will have a special place in their heart. As an example, in Iran, the city of Qom is important, in Iraq, Fallujah is a “holy” city. Once again, the issue of allegiance is raised.

Socially, a true adherent cannot make friends with a Jew or a Christian because the Koran forbids this action. They may do business with them; in fact, they are encouraged to do so, but to do so in a way that takes the money from the Jew or Christian by hook or by crook. It is no sin to cheat, lie or steal from a Jew or Christian according to the teachings of the Koran because they are not worthy of honesty from a true believer. Those who claim to be Muslim and go against the teachings of the Koran in this regard are considered apostate by the religion and worthy of death.

Politically, a Muslim cannot be an American citizen because he must submit to his Mullah or Imam and these religious leaders all with one voice are calling for the destruction of Israel, America’s only friend in the Middle East, and they call for the destruction of the “Great Satan,” their euphemism for the United States. Many Muslims vote in this country but only for those that will work with them to advance their cause, which is our eventual destruction. (It is hard to believe that there are those within our government who are actually working either unwittingly or knowingly with Muslims to bring America down)

A Muslim cannot be a good American citizen because he would have to violate our laws regarding marriage and the treatment of their wife. (Or wives; Muslims are allowed four wives) According to the Koran, a good Muslim husband will beat or scourge his wife (or wives) if she is disobedient. (Sura 4:34) Right now, in Canada, Muslims have been granted the right to punish Muslims who violate religious laws by applying Shari’a Law. Muslims in America want the same right and in some localities, this is already allowed as long as it is not a capital offense requiring a death sentence.

On an intellectual level, a Muslim cannot be a good American because they would have to accept our Constitution, something they cannot do because it is based on Judeo-Christian principles. (It is strange that Muslims sees this but liberals both Jew and Christian do not) Since our Constitution is based on the Bible, and they believe the Bible to be a false record of God, they reject it. Since they see the Bible as corrupt, they see the Constitution the same way and they will not swear any allegiance to anything that is Biblically based.

Philosophically, a Muslim cannot be an American citizen because the religion of Islam, the teachings of the Haddith, Mohammad, the Koran, and other Islamic leaders have declared that there is no such thing as “freedom of religion.” In addition, the concept of a “democracy” is the antithesis of everything Islam teaches. Islam and social, political, and religious freedoms cannot exist side by side. Many point to Turkey as an example that they can and do co-exist but in reality, Turkey is not viewed by the Islamic world as an Islamic state. They see it as a secular state and the Muslims there as apostate since they have ties to Israel.

Spiritually a Muslim cannot be a true American because we declare this country to be “One nation under God.” Since our God is the one true God, and He is a God of love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness. Muslims reject this concept of God. In fact, in the Koran there are ninety-nine “excellent names” for Allah, not even one can be translated as “love.” In Islam, there is love but it is a one way street. The true adherent to the religion loves his god, his religion, and the teachings of the Mullahs and Imams. They will go and do as they are told, regardless of the cost, even the cost of their own lives. In fact, the idea of Jihad demands that they give up their life for Allah and if they do, they are guaranteed 72 virgins and wine for their efforts.

The main problem is allegiance. Any Muslim who swore the oath to become a citizen of this great land, lied through his teeth and did it with a straight face. So what are we to do? Is it right to profile the Muslim population of America? And what of the secular Muslim? (In reality, according to their religion if one is secular than one is in apostasy and worthy of destruction along with the Jews and Christians) How do we protect them from their own fellow Muslims?

The problems are complex and not easily dealt with because of the nature of the false god and false religion they follow. Personally, I think we do need to profile; after all, since the take over of our embassy in Iran under Jimmy Carter’s watch, every terrorist act has been committed by a Muslim with the exception of the Oklahoma bombing. (There are those who believe that McVeigh was used by a Muslim extremist group to do the bombing) This does not mean that all Muslims are terrorists; it just means that all terrorists are Muslim. Right now, in our country, there are thousands of Muslims who might, at the word from their Imams or Mullahs, begin to attack us from within.

Our government has done a great job of protecting us from attacks from outside our country, but because of liberal laws that were passed during the Carter and Clinton Administrations; we are in danger from within. So what are we, the average American citizen to do?

For myself, I have become well armed. I truly believe that this country is in mortal danger from within and it is going to take a well armed citizenry to stop this threat. I do not advocate the breaking of any law on either a state or federal level; I do advocate that every American, every TRUE American exercise their rights under the second amendment to the Constitution. You remember the Constitution don’t you? It is the document a true adherent of Islam cannot support because…well you now know."

October 12 2006

THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE E-COLI OUTBREAK THAT YOU WON'T READ IN THE MEDIA.



In the 60s, “Popeye the Sailor Man” guzzled spinach from a can in order to battle the bad guys. He became an icon of good health for those who ate vegetables and exercised.

As of this week across America, you don’t want to eat spinach nor any vegetables grown and picked by America’s newest slave class. Restaurants called for a ban on serving spinach salads. I’ll bet most Americans shy away from lettuce, cabbage and other leafy vegetables in the coming weeks. They’re all grown and harvested under the same conditions and same people.

Why? As of Wednesday, 146 citizens in 23 states suffered E. Coli infection and one died.

How do you think this disease outbreak occurred? To bring it into sobering focus, please understand that 20 million illegal aliens crossed into America in the past 20 years without any kind of health screening. They work picking our food, washing our dishes in restaurants and, as is the norm in Third World countries, rarely if ever wash their hands after using the toilet. Additionally, most of them suffer functional illiteracy. They do not practice personal hygiene or health habits most Americans assume as a normal aspect of living.

While on my 21st Century Paul Revere Ride this summer through 48 states, I saw thousands of illegal aliens working in fields the length of California. I rode through Salinas Valley where illegals cultivated crops. I noticed porta-potties sometimes and none at other times. I never saw hand washing facilities. Pause for a moment, and consider cleanliness habits of Third World people with a fifth grade education. Why does disease affect millions in the Third World? What happens when millions migrate illegally to our country? Might dozens or more do their morning constitutional amongst the crops for lack of a porta-potty? Might the contamination be spread across the fields by the common practice of “flood irrigation?” Would flooding spread the contamination further?

You never ‘hear’ the major TV networks address or experts talk about this aspect of the contamination of our foods. It’s a cover-up, plain and simple. They only report it when it breaks out beyond their ability to squelch it.

Remember Chi Chi’s Restaurants in Pennsylvania that killed several customers because the work staff suffered hepatitis infections? Remember the Center for Disease Control stating they thought the source originated in Mexican fields irrigated with sewage water?

Have you heard about the latest multi drug resistant tuberculosis outbreaks in Philadelphia, Atlanta and near Cleveland this summer? We’ve imported at least 16,000 cases of TB in the past five years according to latest reports. Before that, TB was virtually extinct in America.

Tuberculosis kills 2,000,000 people world wide annually. Where? In the Third World! Why? Illiteracy, contaminated water, limited food and lack of hospital care! We’ve imported 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past three years. It’s endemic to the northeast of the United States for the first time ever. Have you heard about it by the major networks? Not a chance!

In an April 25, 2004 front page story of the Santa Barbara News Press, “Anatomy of an Outbreak”, one illegal alien infected 56 others with tuberculosis. After he avoided police for months, they finally captured him and placed him in quarantine. In September, 2005, a school child in Fort Morgan, Colorado contracted tuberculosis while attending school. How? An illegal alien student suffered from the disease, but was not screened before attending school. Our national media silences these outbreaks.

Do you see a pattern here? It’s called Third World Momentum. All the consequences affecting the Third World now manifest in our country.

As millions of illegals import themselves into the United States, they bring diseases. They rarely change their sanitation habits or lack thereof. They work in our meat and chicken processing plants at $6.00 an hour. Do you think they bring any responsibility and pride to their work? As more corrupt CEOs bribe health inspectors and OSHA officials, our food sources suffer degraded standards.

Illegal aliens by the millions work in our restaurants. Last spring, a reader of this column from New York City reported, “Our manager last night ran cursing out the back door of the restaurant with a hand towel box in his hand…illegals had been using the toilet and threw their used toilet paper into the box because that’s what they do in Mexico because sewage systems can’t take tissue paper. The illegals had been throwing their used toilet paper into the hand towel box!” I traveled through Mexico and saw it myself. This story represents the tip of an ugly disease epidemic growing in America.

As a nation, what we’re facing is like a 50 car pile up on a foggy morning on an expressway in Pennsylvania. Everyone speeding into the blinding fog bank begins slowing down too late. Someone brakes hard when another car slows down abruptly. The cars behind can’t stop; the chain reaction pile-up begins.

Doesn’t anyone see what’s happening to America? Apparently not! Sixty-two of your 100 senators voted S.B. 2611. That bill assures our growth by 100 million in the next 34 years. However, that’s 100 million people mostly from Third World countries. That ensures pockets of poverty and disease already ravaging millions in those countries to be transplanted into America.

For all Americans, this E. Coli outbreak stands as a harbinger of things to come. When you degrade health standards, hire illegal aliens carrying multiple of diseases or disease provoking habits, you’ve got a national crisis in the making.

Ironically, even our U.S. Senators stand at risk as well as their families. Even if they live in gated communities, at some point in time, with these illegal aliens invading every nook and cranny of our society—everyone becomes vulnerable to disease, terror, death and fraud wrought by this invasion.

With this E. Coli outbreak, even Popeye may find himself headed for the emergency room. However, he’ll be forced to wait in line behind countless illegal aliens given free access ahead of him. Not only that, he’ll be paying for their doctor visits with his hard earned tax dollars. This time, at the end of the cartoon, he won’t be chortling with Olive Oil.


October 18 2006

LESSONS FROM THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION

For months, if not years, Radio Free Europe sponsored by the USA was asking Hungarians to revolt and overthrow the Russian occupation. Finally in October of 1956 the Hungarians responded. The following article describes what happened. President Eisenhower pursuant to the advice of Sec. State John Foster Dulles betrayed the revolution. The timing of the uprising was just too embarrassing just a few days before the elections. In order to be reelected he chose to abandon the Hungarians, a shameful betrayal so typical of politicians who would always abandon principle, honor, justice to gain or stay in power. Does this sound familiar?

"In October we commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of history's most momentous events. With hindsight, we can now see that the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 started the unraveling of Soviet communism that finally came to pass in 1991.

The revolution started Oct. 23, 1956, as a peaceful student protest, but after Russian soldiers fired on the students, it escalated into a full-scale revolution against the tyranny of the Soviet Union. By Oct. 28, the freedom fighters had chased out their Russian oppressors.

For the next five days, there was a political and military stalemate. The fate of a nation hung in the balance.

Some in the United States believed then (and still do) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower should have immediately granted diplomatic recognition to the newly formed free Hungarian government in order to warn Russia against returning, but he didn't. Instead, the Eisenhower administration sent a message to the communists that was and is still an embarrassment to Americans.

On Nov. 2, 1956, the U.S. State Department sent this cable to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia that sealed Hungary's fate: "The government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet Union." That gave the Soviet Union the green light to return with full military force, secure in the knowledge that the United States would do nothing to save the free Hungarian government.

At 4 a.m. Nov. 4, the Russians roared back into Budapest with 200,000 soldiers (including trigger-happy troops from Mongolia), 5,000 tanks, and masses of heavy artillery. They were directed by Nikita Khrushchev, known forever after as "the butcher of Budapest."

Radio Budapest appealed to the United States and the United Nations: "We ask you to help us, to support us. Time is short. Help Hungary, help us, help us ..." But nobody answered their desperate cries for help.

The Hungarians fought bravely against overwhelming odds with homemade weapons like Molotov cocktails that destroyed 320 Soviet tanks. They fought in the tradition of Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death."

The odds against Hungary were too massive. In a terrible blood bath that shocked the world, freedom was crushed and the Hungarians faced more decades of cruel communist slavery.

But the valor of the Hungarians who fought in the streets gave courage to other countries. The dream was rekindled all over Eastern Europe that the day would come when they, too, might have the opportunity to throw off their captors. The effect of the Hungarian revolution in the United States was dramatic: It changed the debate about communism and punctured the communist lie of peaceful coexistence. Americans stopped believing that the Soviet empire was a permanent fact of life.

Grass-roots Americans got off the defensive and began to be pro-active.

Congress soon passed a resolution calling on our president to proclaim the third week of July as Captive Nations Week, manifesting our national belief that communist tyranny was not permanent or inevitable, and that we should keep alive the hope of freedom among the peoples in communist captivity.

Every July, Americans held public ceremonies and parades to show our solidarity with the captive nations. People everywhere began to hope - and to believe - that some day the captive nations would be free.

Then in 1980 we elected a president who had told his radio audience in 1978 of his hope to free the "millions of people in bondage," and that America did not have to accept a future of coexistence with the evil empire. Ronald Reagan believed that we must work for victory over communism so that "The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history."

Reagan dared to demand freedom for the captive nations on June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, when he flung down the gauntlet to the Soviet dictator and said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!" When the Berlin Wall started to crumble in 1989, the most exciting images Americans saw on television were the young people running to freedom through Hungary.

The Hungarian freedom fighters stood up in 1956 against a superpower, cracked the Soviet empire, lit the lamp of freedom, and gave us an example of courage that will live forever in the history of free men.

Monuments are good reminders of history's heroes. In September 2006, Americans at last broke ground for a monument in Washington, D.C., to the victims of communism. Also in September, the Hungarian people erected a statue of their friend, Ronald Reagan, in Budapest City Park."

HUNGARIAN REFUGEES ARRIVED HERE LATE IN 1956 AND EARLY 1957. MOST BECAME VALUED MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY AND ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS GOOD AMERICANS. VOTING BALLOTS DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRINTED IN HUNGARIAN FOR THEM. I HAD THE HONOR TO ASSIST THEM AS MEMBER OF THE HUNGARIAN REHABILITATION BOARD. HERE IS AN IMPORTANT PARALLEL TO IRAQ.
When Hungarians first arrived we told them "You are free!" They could not understand the concept. Their lives were so regulated in Hungary that freedom was a difficult concept to comprehend. Few of us tried to explain the issue of responsibility that goes with freedom. Unfortunately we had a few old time Hungarians who encouraged them to ignore responsibility that goes with freedom. The results were in some instances tragic.
The best demonstration of freedom was the usage of credit and credit cards. Many Hungarians went on a spending spree by using credit cards and created obligations that they could not support. Bankruptcies, suicides and tearful returns to communist Hungary were the results. The inability to comprehend that freedom also creates responsibility is typical of countries where freedom is introduced. The Palestinian elections, the Iraqi quagmire are just a few examples. Our desire to push democracy, when we ourselves are not a democracy, seems to be illogical. People who have lived for centuries in various forms dictatorships will not be able to handle freedom if given to them.

If you want to help people it has to be done responsibly and slowly. When the concentration camps were liberated in Germany, the starving inmates were fed rich foods by the British and they died because their body could not digest the food. I have seen this first hand. It made the British feel good to feed them all that SPAM and to the victims it tasted good, but they did not realize the consequences.
Gen. Patton understood this and fed liberated prisoners weak soups to allow their body to slowly adjust to normal food. He was criticized as being inhuman for doing this but he saved thousands of lives. Over 30,000 former inmates died in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation mostly from food provided by the British that they could not digest.
Somehow I see a great lesson in all of this. Government is almost always dealing with a heavy hand, out of sync with logic and understanding of human nature. You can not create freedom with a fiat or it will not promote responsibility. Handouts, whether is food or freedom breed contempt, dependency and a demand for more of the same without paying the price. Freedom is not free and it is not a form of welfare.

October 20 2006

THE UPCOMING ELECTION

"A realist once observed that the history of mankind is little more than the triumph of the heartless over the mindless.
The Democrats are obviously heartless. Conservatives must guard against falling into the category of the mindless. Ignore your heartfelt peevements, use your brains and vote.
No thanks, we're stupid."Tony Blankley

There is nothing new under the sun.

From the 1886 October edition of the Fayette Citizen Observer:
"Last year we elected a sheriff as well as a council of elders to oversee the well-being of our community, and attend to matters of importance, such as the exigencies of criminal action and the odd brawl or chafe that occurs in our taverns. The new sheriff proved sensible to the needs of the vicinity, though mauger this he was not without error and often butted up against the wishes of the people, who then felt angry and perchance a bit overreached, while all the while losing sight of the sensibility and rectitude for which they elected the man in the first place. As one might expect, the wanton elements of our population, those whose presence necessitated the election our sheriff, raised up agitations against him, spouting palaver and bile that they expect will ring true with some of the community. Another election is quick in coming, and now these scoundrels have found themselves a candidate, a petty and conniving fellow who shares their exploitive aims and yet is politic enough to gull a good number of voters their support. With him as law there will be none, but such is the community's disillusionment with the current administration that we may remain in our houses on election day, thus complaisant with the goals of those scoundrels who would see this neighborhood run without the morality we claim to hold so dear. I must wonder, are we the people so vexed with our current leadership as to allow, by simple apathy, our community fall into the gripe of those we despise most? Could we really be so foolish? Granted the current sheriff is hardly without errance or failure, but I must posit, what leader is? It is my feeling on the matter that now, in the pinch of the game, we should not withhold our votes from him as some form of petty punishment, for in doing so, we will punish only ourselves. We must lend him our support, else instead we will one day wish to God that we had."


October 24 2006

Gulf of Tonkin Aug. 1964- Persian Gulf 2006

When democrat president Lyndon Johnson outright lied about an "attack" in the Gulf of Tonkin on the destroyer Maddox, it led to the Vietnam War and its 50,000 war dead. We now know that the US was involved in daily attacks on the North Vietnamese shores and there was no attack on the Maddox. It was all fiction and a lie. Most people today know nothing about this and it is a reminder how the Congress and the public can be manipulated by an unscrupulous White House.

We have a different world now. The Press simply does not believe anything the White House and the Pentagon is telling them. We are currently involved in a major demonstration of naval power in the Persian Gulf. The naval exercises the US is holding right now with Bahrain, Kuwait, France and Britain now consist of three strike groups now positioned in the Gulf less than 1 minute flying time from Iran. The Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group steamed into the Persian Gulf to join the US naval, air and marine concentration piling up opposite Iran’s shores. It consists of the amphibious transport dock USS Nashville, the guided-missile destroyers USS Cole and USS Bulkeley, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the attack submarine USS Albuquerque, and the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island.
The Iwo Jima group is now cruising 60 km from Kuwait off Iran’s coast. The other two are the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the USS Enterprise Strike Group. Enormous power.

Here is what the Democrats say about all this:
This build-up of naval power around the coast of Iran, according to some military sources, is in preparation for an air attack on Iran that would target not just Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, but its entire military command and control system.

While such an attack could be expected to unleash a wave of military violence all over Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere against American forces and interests and against oil wells, pipelines and loading vacilities, as well as a mining of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, with a resulting skyrocketing of global oil prices, the real goal of this new war by the U.S. would be ensuring Republican control of the House and Senate.

It seems increasingly clear that the Republican Party is going to lose its grip on the House of Representatives, and that it may even lose control of the Senate, barring some dramatic October Surprise by the president. So far, the surprises have been working against Republicans, with the Foley sex scandal, the evidence that Abramoff's bribery reached right into the inner sanctum of the White House, and the deteriorating U.S. position in Iraq.

This means that the worse things look for Republican chances in November, the greater the likelihood that a desperate President Bush will order a disastrous attack on Iran--one that would have the country enter into a third, even worse, war even as it is currently busy losing two others. But Bush and his gang of cronies don't care about initiating a disaster. They're focussed on the disaster that will hit them if they don't turn around the November election. Sacrificing the country or its young men and women in uniform, or the lives of innocent Iranians, is not a concern, any more than it was when Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.

Clearly such a war would be an act of madness, and yet we know that the plans, already drawn up, are being updated and fine-tuned now by generals and admirals whose twisted sense of patriotism has them giving primary loyalty to a demented commander in chief instead of to the Constitutional and the people of the United States, to both of which they swore an oath to protect.


November 6 2006

MIDDLE EAST INTELLIGENCE-This is what George Bush has seen in yesterdays briefings.
No need to read between the lines. Just read the lines.
I once saw a cartoon where a large pile of excrement was next to a large fan and someone was about to plug in the fan.

THE USS Boxer is heading for the Persian Gulf. There would be four US air carriers with task forces parked opposite Iranian shores, including the USS Enterprise Strike Group, the USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group and the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, which are already in place. According to the intelligence reaching Iran, the Boxer and its escorts carry 850 Marines who have just spent months in special training for operations on offshore oil rigs and platforms. #

Scores of surface missiles – a record for any war games anywhere - were tested simultaneously at a desert testing site some two hours drive from Tehran Thursday, Nov. 2. Precisely planned, the testing went smoothly.
A senior American missile expert declared that the Iranians demonstrated up-to-date missile-launching technology which the West had not known them to possess. They also displayed unfamiliar warheads. But their most startling feat was the successful first test-fire of the long-range Shehab-3 with its cluster of tens of small bomblets, as DEBKAfile revealed Oct. 31. The entire range bore the imprint of new purchases from China.

This Shehab-3, whose 2,000-km range brings Israel, the Middle East and Europe within reach - may be more than a match for any anti-missile missile system in American, Israeli or European arsenals – depending critically on the point of its fragmentation. Some of its features are still an enigma in the West.

If the Shehab-3’s cluster separates close to target, the Israel-US Arrow has a chance to intercept it, but the Americans and Israelis have no defense against the multiple warhead if it separates at a distance.

The spectacular missile show may have been designed for European consumption as much as to impress the US and Israel. Rather than making a secret of the display, General Rahim Safavi, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, which staged the exercise, bragged that Iran had proved its ability to strike targets outside the Middle East. Europe, which Tehran sees as susceptible to such threats, was being warned that it would be first in line for a backlash from a US or Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.#

Turkish and Iranian air units as well as armored, paratroop, special operations and artillery forces are poised for an imminent coordinated invasion of the northern Iraqi autonomous province of Kurdistan.

The target of the combined Iranian-Turkish offensive as the Quandil Mountains where some 5,000 Kurdish rebels from Turkey and Iran, members of the PKK and PJAK respectively, are holed up. Iranian and Turkish assault troops are already deployed 7-8 km deep inside Iraqi territory.

Turkey to the northwest and Iran to the east both have Kurdish minorities which have been radicalized by the emergence of Iraqi Kurdistan in the last three years. The three contiguous Kurdish regions form a strategic world hub.

A jittery Washington foresees a Turkish-Iranian military thrust quickly flaring into a comprehensive conflict and igniting flames that would envelop the whole of Iraqi Kurdistan as well as southern Turkey and Armenia.

Tehran is quite capable of using the opening for its expeditionary force to grab extensive parts of Kurdistan and strike a strategic foothold in northern Iraq.

Informed US officials would not be surprised if Turkey took the chance of seizing northern Iraqi oil fields centered on the oil-rich town of Kirkuk, the source of 40 percent of Iraq’s oil output. #

Russia breaks pledge and delivers deadly missiles to Syria.
Last January, when the deal was first broached for Russia to sell the worlds most advanced missiles to Syria, the Bush administration stepped in and obtained a promise from president Vladimir Putin to call off the sale, as did Israel’s Ariel Sharon during the Russian president’s visit in May.

Putin has broken those pledges.

The United States and NATO have code-named the Iskander SS-26 “Stone.” They have nothing in their missile arsenal to match its unique attributes.

With a 400-km range and a 480-kilo warhead composed of 54 elements, the missile hits a target within a 20-meter radius. Two missiles with a range of 280km are mounted on each launch pad. The system can be used against small and large targets alike, easily overcoming air defenses. It is almost impossible for existing electronic weapons systems to prevent the Iskander’s launch because of its speed and high flexibility. Its targets are found in mid-flight by satellites, accompanying airplanes, conventional intelligence centers or a lone soldier directing artillery fire. Targets may also be found by feeding photos into the missile’s computer by means of a scanner.

The self-direction device functions even in fog, darkness or storms. The name Iskander is Alexander (the Great) in the Turkoman language. Weighing 3,800 kilos it is operated by a crew of three. It comes in two versions: the 500-kilo version provided the Russian Army and the 280-kilo missile sold to Syria.

So impressive is the Russian “Stone”, that in 2004, the Americans sought to include it in various treaties signed with Russia for precluding the manufacture and sale of certain weapons. Moscow balked. A Western missile expert says: “Even a small quantity of these missiles is capable of radically changing the balance of strength in local conflicts.” It is a strategic weapon for countries with a small area like Syria.

Nine months ago, on January 12, 2005, Moscow “leaked” the news of a big new arms deal with Syria that included the following missiles: the Iskander SS-26, SA-10 Grumble ground-to-air, and SA-18 Grouse (Igla 9K38) shoulder-launched anti-air missiles capable of hitting objects at an altitude of 3,600 meters and range of 5,200 meters.

After weeks of palaver and pressure, president Vladimir Putin and defense minister Sergei Ivanov relented and promised Washington and Jerusalem to withhold the Iskander SS-26 from Syria. The other items would have their aggressive options “neutered” and rendered fit for defensive use alone.

It is now clear that Putin’s promise to the Americans and Israelis to withhold the missile’s sale was no more than a time-winning ploy until an opportunity presented itself to go through with the transaction.

Putin’s motivation in breaking his promises to Bush and Sharon is his fundamental urge to show Washington and Paris they are not the only players in the Middle East and Syrian-Lebanese arena. He hopes by the missile sale to prevent the Assad regime from collapsing.

The Bush administration refrained from interceding in the deal this because, the White House has not yet decided finally whether to finally topple Assad or let him survive. Washington’s silence on the missile sale points to the latter option. #

The rebuilding of Hezbollah' military capability is continuing on a massive scale with the protection of UN observers. Confrontation between French, German forces and Israeli forces continues on a daily basis. Germany and France threatened to shoot down Israeli aircraft observing the flagrant co-operation between UN forces and the Hezbollah and Hamas. It is now clear that the assembled naval might of the European powers is there to protect Arab interests and in the event of hostilities Israel would be fighting UN forces in addition to the Syria, Iran and other Arab forces.#

Syrian Foreign Minister M Walid Mualem threatens to start “countdown to war” with Israel.
At a joint news conference in Damascus with Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Steore Monday, Nov. 6, as an explicit threat of war to be launched against Israel at a time of Syria’s choosing was announced. #

November 8 2006

Election Post Mortem

I had the opportunity to express my reaction to the elections at a meeting of my Breakfast Club Wednesday morning. I was not prepared to make such a presentation but the opportunity suddenly arose and here are some of the thoughts that may interest you.

We know that when politicians are in office too long, the public gets disgusted by their ineptitude, corruption and their tendency to forget who brung them to the dance. This happens usually in the last mid term election of an 8-year presidency and it is expected. This is the nature of politics. A politicians makes promises, gets elected and forgets his promises as soon as he discovers that the cesspool in Washington that he promised to clean up before the election is really a hot tub he wants to enjoy.

It was amazing to watch how the Democrats moved to the right to get elected and the Republicans moved to the left. As you may have noticed the election on social issues resulted in an overwhelming victory for conservative ideals throughout the nation. You may also have noticed that many Democrats ran on a more conservative platform than their Republican opponents. The Republican party, starting with the inept leader in the White House chose to abandon their conservative principles and tried to outdo the Democrats by taking away the issues of Democrats by outflanking them on the left. This is one of the reasons people trust politicians less than used car salesmen. It used to be my criteria to listen to a politician and ask myself: Would I buy a used car from this man?

Now for the positive news. The victory by the Democrats may result in the election of Republican President in 2008. If the electorate was disgusted with the non-performance and ineptitude of the Republicans, imagine how disgusted they will be in two years after watching the shenanigans and ineptitude of the Democrats now in power. These are people who had no plans to handle the issues confronting us other than “hate Bush.” The cleverest of all the Democrats is Hillary who has positioned herself on the right wing of the party. She learned from Bill that you couldn’t be elected if you mouth liberal principles and reveal who you really are.

Unfortunately for her, Boris Yeltsin’s memoirs are being translated and will reveal that a year before the Monica scandal broke out in the open, Hillary was fully aware of what was going on because the Russian were recording the phone sex telephone conversations between Monica and Bill. Bill even mentioned it to Monica in one of the transcribed conversation recorded by Linda Tripp. How Hillary was informed and how she and Bill put pressure on the IMF to provide a 1.5 Billion dollar bailout for Yeltsin’s broke government is a story that will rock Washington just in time for her run for the presidency. It only cost us 1.5 Billion to keep the Monica story quiet and if it wasn’t for Linda Tripp and the blue dress, nobody would have ever found out.

George Bush is now at a strategic fork in the road. He could build a proud legacy if he would develop a taste for retuning to conservative principles. I am not talking about being a born again Christian. That does not make you a conservative. He is a born again Christian, a Sunday school teacher and a true believer. None of the above, however, makes Jimmy Carter a conservative. Neither are, by the same yardstick, hundreds of other born again Christian lawyers. Unlike Islam, Christianity is a philosophy of life, but it is not also a philosophy of government.

You can not be a conservative and use a single veto in 6 years on stem cell research while ignoring reckless spending, obnoxious pork, destruction of our sovereignty by unprotected borders, the dumbing down of our children, the disappearance of our manufacturing capability. You cannot be a conservative by condoning criminal activity by former and current friends and foes, even if they are former presidents and their cronies. You cannot allow antagonistic holdovers to remain in critical and sensitive positions in the intelligence community and throughout the State and Justice Departments because they will sabotage your efforts and destroy national security by leaking to the media. You cannot be a conservative unless you rediscover the meaning of important wartime words: treason, sedition, and insubordination.

By exercising veto power George Bush could stop any liberal legislation from passing because the Democrats will not be able to override the veto. In the event of death or resignation of Justices Bryer and Ginsburg, the President cannot be forced to submit liberal nominees. The Court would function beautifully without the two liberal Judges and if the Democrats cause too much delay in approving conservative nominees, President Bush could always appoint Judge Bork as a recess appointment to serve until the Democrats approve someone else. Wouldn’t it be fun to watch the speed by which they would approve someone just to get rid of the one they Borked?

This assumes that George Bush is a conservative and not of his father’s ilk. For six years he was the great compromiser and never had a fighting word against Democrats. He even let Ted Kennedy write the education bill and then watched Kennedy attack him. If George Bush has not learned that the liberal establishment is not his friend and appeasing them will not accomplish anything except destroy whatever little faith in him still remains in the conservative community.

This bring us to the Middle East where the largest concentration of aircraft carriers since WW2 and their strike force is assembled in the Persian Gulf. Aboard are thousands of Marines trained to occupy offshore drilling platforms. Iran can be brought to its knees by simply occupying their offshore oil resources. They would hesitate to destroy their only source of income that keeps the ayatollah’s regime afloat. Will George Bush have the courage or will he listen to the impotent advise of Jim Baker, an avowed enemy of Israel and betray the Israelis as we have betrayed the Hungarians, the Lebanese and now perhaps the Iraqis? Will Israel have to fight Iran, Syria, the UN and the US at the same time before it is destroyed? Remember Churchill's great judgment on Chamberlain at Munich: He had a choice between war and dishonor; he chose dishonor, and got war. Bush should not want those terrible words to define his second term, but he is certainly moving in that direction right now.

The Republican party is in its death throws unless it rediscovers that the electorate supported it assuming they were conservatives. The Republican Party in Washington is in trouble not because it's overrun by crooks, but because it's packed with cowards — and has degenerated into a caricature of the party that swept to power 12 years ago promising to take on the federal bureaucracy and put an end to the corrupt ways of doing business. If they continue in their listless, leaderless and shiftless behavior, watch for a new party emerging with many of the Republican legislators declaring themselves independent under a new leader. It may even be called the REVOLT PARTY. Rouse Enraged Voters Oust Legislative Traitors.

Nothing said above is really new. I have written about it for years. See http://tibbyweston.blogspot.com  ¶ 9:51 AM