We Are At War! Since Sept. 11, 2001

This was the "opening gun" in the "Third World War." Just as the Japanese attack on our bases at Pearl Harbor began the Second World War. So this attack began the "Third World War." This is what way too many people just don't, or won't understand. Even some good people who are otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable on what's going on in the world. I fully understand the purposeful inability of the liberals in both major political parties to understand that we are at war with the Islamic terrorists. But I don't understand it when my friends -- people who should know better -- start saying the same things.

President Bush promised them that we would search them out, wherever they were hiding, and kill them. That we would do our best to take away all the money they have to use in planning and executing their murderous attacks. That we would go after any nation that harbored them, financed them, trained them, or helped them in any way.

In other words, he recognized that their act was a "declaration of war" and promised retribution of the kind they haven't seen in their long and murderous history -- and he has, so far, kept that promise.

The major problem we have in this war is that there are no "fronts" where soldiers of all kinds can fight "eyeball-to-eyeball." Islamic terrorists are in many different countries and are working, independently of each other, taking their direction from the top Islamic mullahs. Our enemy is the Islamic extremist who thinks anybody who doesn't believe the way he does is the enemy and is "fair game" to be murdered "in the name of Allah." One thread that goes through all the terrorist activity in the world (with the possible exception of that in Ireland) is Islam. More particularly, Wahabe Islam. The Wahabe sect of Islam is the most "far out there" bunch there is -- and their major base of operations is Saudi Arabia, where Wahabeism is the "national religion."

This is where all children are taught to hate the "infidel," (which is any "unbeliever") from the earliest age. The Saudis claim that Wahabeism is only a very small percentage of the Islamic religion in their country, but people who have lived there say otherwise. The non-violent Muslims are the ones who are in a distinct minority, but are afraid to speak up for fear of being murdered by the Wahabis. Furthermore, the are in the minority worldwide. The largest percentage of Muslims all over the world hate America and all other civilization because it has surpassed their own in a little over 250 years. The Arab world has been there for thousands of years, but our freedom and capitalism have outstripped them in every way in just a short time. Their "top dogs" can't let this be known. They have to teach that our way of life is "against Allah" and to live as we do will cause them to lose their immortal soul. So even after coming here to live, and observing for themselves that the "American Dream" is a real one, their early training still keeps them in a "hate" mode toward us.

The Bush administration found, through improved intelligence (improved because Bill Clinton and his cronies are no longer in charge of it), that the World Trade Center attack, as well as many others in many different countries, was masterminded by an international conspiracy run by Wahabe Muslims. It found that it was centered in a small number of countries run by Islamics. That those countries were actively helping the Islamic terrorists all over the world. Afghanistan was the first, because that was the place where the most activity was taking place and where they had the most overt support. So the Taliban had to go. So, as part of the war, we "took them out" as a government. I know they still exist and are still making trouble for us. But they are no longer a government and cannot still offer the terrorists "safe harbor" and financing. But it is a fact that we will never get rid of them completely because they don't normally come together as a group to give us a target.

Next on the list was Iraq, where Saddam Hussein was actively helping them as well, as the intelligence will ultimately prove, whenever we are able to release it to the public. He did openly announce that he was going to give $25,000 (a "King's Ransom" to the poverty-stricken Arabs) to the family of each person who blew him/herself up and killed Israelis in Israel (Yes, Israel. The Palestinian terrorists are also Muslim).

There are other countries out there that are still actively assisting the terrorists. But they've learned a bitter truth: they can no longer be blatant about it because Bill Clinton is no longer in charge. There is a man in charge now with the gonads to go after them in their own nests, as soon as we find where they're hiding -- and it doesn't matter if they're in a "sovereign nation" run by an Islamic terrorist who has somehow become a dictator of someone's country.

What amazes me is that people who love freedom and are otherwise knowledgeable about the world have bought the myth that attacking Iraq was a "diversion" from the war on terrorism and has "diverted resources" from that war. It is not. It is yet another battle in that war, and it is not the last one. That war will be going on for many years to come because it is not an "easy war" like World War II was. In that war, we could easily identify our enemy and find him. In this one, the enemy hides behind many facades and in many holes, coming out only to "bite us" once more, time and time again. They're hard to kill off en masse because they don't "mass" as a rule. So we're just going to have to kill them off as we find them, as long as it takes.

WHAT ABOUT ASHCROFT?

Some people (myself included) are incensed about Attorney General Ashcroft's activities that threaten our rights as Americans in the name of "fighting terrorism."

[Karl Note:  Generally I agree with this article, but the subject of "rights" is a slippery one.  The only REAL rights we have are contained in the Constitution.  More "rights" have been created by activist Federal Courts and particularly the Supreme Court.  The real political battle in the US, just now, is over those few judicial nominations which President Bush has proposed and the liberals are filibustering.  The liberals know this all too well.  Most Americans seem unaware of the importance of this issue.  I, personally, believe that the elections in 2004 will send some 60 Republicans to the Senate so they can override the filibuster!]

 Additionally, others (including me) are upset because Bush's misguided attempts to appease liberals in this country are actively helping the liberal power seekers to advance their agenda, albeit more slowly than they'd like. I agree these are bad things, and I will do everything I can to turn this around -- everything that is, except "throw out the baby with the bath water" and turn completely against Bush.

[Karl Note: This is a very pragmatic position.  I, too, would like to see Bush being even more conservative, but I, too, am a pragmatist and don't think he could win reelection based on the low state of morals in society.  The liberals want things for nothing -- hence welfare in grand measure!]

If there were just another name out there that had a chance of beating Bush and instituting the kind of administration we thought we were going to get with Bush, I'd support him/her in a minute. But there isn't. And until there is, I am not going to work to get Bush out of office because I know if I do, and it works, the replacement will be worse, and we will continue our march toward collectivism/socialism that began when the Democrats took over almost 50 years ago.

We managed to get them out in the last election, but this administration, with a few small exceptions, is acting like a Democrat administration with such as pregnant girl-friend killer Teddy Kennedy writing an education bill and telling his constituents "this is just the beginning." I don't like that, and I'm doing everything I can to stop it and get the Republicans to start acting like Republicans, to stop thinking they can make the Democrats like them by giving them "a little" of what they want. That strategy will not work. It doesn't matter what they give them, they'll always want more. To the Democrats, the Republicans are "the enemy" and will do anything to gain, and retain power. The fact that the Democrats better fit this description is lost on them -- mostly because they will not admit it.

In any case, you show me someone who has a chance of replacing Bush with an administration who will do what we want him or her to do, I'll do everything I can to support him/her, but not until. We're at war, and we will continue to be at war until the last Islamic terrorist has "assumed room temperature." Those who haven't become cinders, that is.

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