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late deal greek cruises for the older single people?

Q) being a single female pensioner and a lover of greece and the greek people i wish to find out about any cruises or holidays that would be suitable for a elderly woman travelling alone.

A) I think that almost every cruise is suitable for traveling alone. Check on this site http://www.idealcruising.co.uk, they have offers for late deal cruises. Greece is a wonderful place for a cruise...

I heard that booking a cruise last minute can save you lots of money?

Q) I need to book a cruise in late June and they are pretty pricey around that time. Should I wait to book closer to the date to get the best possible deal?

A) For a June cruise, you should book now. It is high season and most ships are already sold out. Carnival has a 24 hour price guarantee. If you find a lower price on-line within 24 hours of booking with Carnival, they will refund the difference to you. Check out www.vacationstogo.com for a one-stop shop to compare cruise prices.

Cigarette prices in cruise ports?

Q) Has anybody recently cruised to Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman or Cozumel that happens to know the price of cigarettes in each of those countries? I'd hate to pass up a great deal in one place because I'm holding out for a later port and then find the prices aren't as good.

A) try asking in cruisecritics.com that is a forum with people who go on all the cruises. you can even go to roll call room and hook up with folks on your cruise sailing . i do know that they are cheap in Puerto Rico. I would guess of the ports you list mexico would be best. things are expensive in grand cayman / and our money exchange is low there. ask your cruise director / you can walk up and ask them questions ... or try asking your table waiter / drink waiters / where the best places are . these folks are there every week and can tell you where to get. also find out how many you can bring back // ask in customs before you leave. you can bring back a few duty free. over that you have to declare or they can confiscate. they are a good deal. i think each person in your party can bring back limit so long as they are of age. have a great trip.

IF YOU WERE HIM? what's the deal with this guy? i can't fingure him out!?

Q) -he (steve) liked me for 3 yrs. -then i started liking him back. -my friends got MAD because they think he's a loser. -EVERYBODY at school was saying he didn't deserve me. they said he was too "fat and ugly" for me because i'm "pretty / hot / nicest girl in class". -we danced at pretty much every party but i didn't feel like the connection was always there. -he gave me a note saying he didn't like me. -a couple months later we freak-danced on a cruise ship. -his friends told me he liked me. they told my friends he was using me. -he accidently found a note in which i was talking about another guy (in the note i talked about how another guy said he liked my boobs but then i found out he had a gf). -2 of my friends asked steve if he liked me. he said "no". any explanations????????? thanks a ton! we're both 13 (going into 8th grade)

A) Before I can answer, I have to know. Are you retarded or just really young?

whats the deal?

Q) Does he like me and is it hard to talk because we live far away? 6 months after my cruise my friend contacts him cause we are going to be in town auditioning for dance. he says of course lets hang out and invites us over. we spent time there and hung out but nothing happened between the two of us. we talked alone for about an hour and a half. he asked me if i was mad that he doesnt talk to me all the time, and i said no..its normal..we cant talk everyday. he told me to text him when i got back to the hotel, but within 10 minutes he texted me saying " thanks for coming, cant wait to see you again." we continued our convo and i eventually said goodnight have fun..and he said "all my fun left already"..then he commented me that night on myspace, and two nights later he texted me again..we talked for awhile and he explained how when i came to surprise him for a 10 minute visit it was like giving him a puppy and he was saying "can i keep it..is it mine?"..and then it got taken away from him. he told me it didnt matter what we did just as long as he got to see me. now its been about a week and we havent really been talking..i assume it might be because its hard to talk..and i will definitely be going to college where he lives.. however, we havent spoken in 2 weeks..is it just hard for us to talk because we live far away? and do you think he likes me a lot?

A) i deffinately think he likes u a lot. u said u r going to college where he lives, so my suggestion to u is that u wait a lil longer, tho try not to get too attached, because in the worst escenario, by the time u go there to study, he might have another girlfriend. so my suggestion is to wait till then, but dont over think bout him, cuz u ll get more and more attached. i wuld recommend u to go out with a guy who lives near u, but if u do, then when u leave to college, u ll be too attached to him. well i hope everything works out for u. take care.

Tom and Katie...what's the deal?

Q) are they still together or is it still a bunch of rumors? not that i care, i mean geez they did marry several months later. you know what also bugs me? when katie said that she always wanted to marry tom cruise...who didn't want to marry him? I did! Do any of you remember that? Plus when they aired or published that quote alot of people were like, "Awww!" C'mon!!!

A) Tom was adorable in the "olden" days, now he is just weird. Katie should leave him now while she still has a normal mind.

Can anyone make an intelligent, educated counter argument to this?

Q) Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials. Bushido Japan had overrun most of Asia, beginning in 1928, killing millions of civilians throughout China, and impressing millions more as slave labor. The US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans and Congress wanted nothing to do with the European war or the Asian war. Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which had not attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had few allies. France was not an ally (Are they ever? General Patton once said, "I'd rather have a battalion of Germans in front of me, than a battalion of French behind me!") the Vichy government of France aligned with its German occupiers. Germany was not an ally, it was an enemy, and Hitler intended to set up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, it was intent on owning and controlling all of Asia. Japan and Germany had long-term ideas of invading Canada and Mexico, and then the United States over the north and south borders, after they had settled control of Asia and Europe. America's allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia, and that was about it. There were no other countries of any size or military significance with the will and ability to contribute much or anything to the effort to defeat Hitler's Germany and Japan, and prevent the global dominance of Nazism. And we had to send millions of tons of arms, munitions, and war supplies to Russia, England, and the Canadians, Aussie's, Irish, and Scots, because none of them could produce all they needed for themselves. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was already under the Nazi heel. America was not prepared for war. America had stood down most of its military after WWI and throughout the depression, at the outbreak of WWII there were army units training with broomsticks over their shoulders because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have tanks. And a big chunk of our navy had just been sunk and damaged at Pearl Harbor. Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England that was the property of Belgium and was given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler. (Actually, Belgium surrendered in one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day anyway just to prove they could.) Britain had been holding out for two years already in the face of staggering shipping losses and the near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brit's were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later and turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse in the late summer of 1940. Russia SAVED America's ass by putting up a desperate fight for two years until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany. Russia lost something like 24 million people (24 MILLION) in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow, 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a million soldiers. More than a million. Had Russia surrendered then, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire campaign against the Brit's, then America, and the Nazis would have won that war. Had Hitler not made that mistake and invaded England in 1940 or 1941, instead, there would have been no England for the US and the Brit's to use as a staging ground to prepare an assault on Nazi Europe, England would not have been able to run its North African campaign to help take a little pressure off Russia while America geared up for battle, and today Europe would very probably be run by the Nazis, the Third Reich. Isolated and without any allies (not even the Brit's), the US would very probably have had to cede Asia to the Japanese, who were basically Nazis by another name and the world we live in today would be very different and much worse. I say this to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. AND we are at another one. There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world, unless they are prevented from doing so. France, Germany, and Russia, have been selling them weapons technology as recently as 2002, as have North Korea, Syria, and Pakistan, paid for with billions of dollars Saddam Hussein skimmed from the "Oil For Food" program administered by the UN with the complicity of Kofi Annan and his son. The Jihadi's, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs - they believe that Islam, a radically conservative (definitely not liberal!) form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world, and that all who do not bow to Allah should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel and purge the world of Jews. This is what they say. There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East - for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation today, but it is not yet known which will win - the Inquisition, or the Reformation. If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadi's, will control the Middle East, and the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies, the techno-industrial economies, will be at the mercy of OPEC - not an OPEC dominated by the well-educated and rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadi's. You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want jobs? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins. If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge. We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We cannot do it everywhere at once so we have created a focal point for the battle now, at the time and place of our choosing, in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris, or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we did and are doing two very important things. (1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is or was a terrorist, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians. (2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad guys there and the ones we get there we won't have to get here, or somewhere else. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed. The Europeans could have done this, but they didn't, and they won't. We now know that rather than opposing the rise of the Jihadist, the French, Germans, and Russians were selling them arms - we have found more than a million tons of weapons and munitions in Iraq. If Iraq was not a threat to anyone, why did Saddam need a million tons of weapons? And Iraq was paying for much of these French, German, and Russian arms with money skimmed from the UN Oil For Food Program that was supposed to pay for food, medicine, and education, for Iraqi children. World War II, the war with the German and the Japanese Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 - a 17 year war - and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again . . a 27 year war. World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP - adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars, WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action. The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $180 billion, which is roughly what 9/11 cost New York. (What will the next hit cost in $ & lives if we wait until the Jahadist have nuclear weapons???) It has also cost over 2,000 American lives, which is roughly 2/3 of the lives that the Jihadist snuffed on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have been unimaginably greater - a world now dominated by German and Japanese Nazism. Americans have a short attention span, conditioned I suppose by 60 minute TV shows and 2-hour movies in which everything comes out okay. The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be. If we do this thing in Iraq successfully, it is probable that the Reformation will ultimately prevail. Many Muslims in the Middle East hope it will. We will be there to support it. It has begun in some countries, e. g. Libya, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. If we fail, the Inquisition will probably prevail, and terrorism from Islam will be with us for all the foreseeable future, because the Inquisition, the Jihadist, believe they are called by Allah to kill all the Infidels, and that death in Jihad is glorious. The bottom line here is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it (or are defeated by it), whenever that is. It will not go away on its own. It WILL NOT go away if we ignore it. If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons unless WE prevent them. The Iraq war is expensive, and uncertain, yes. But the consequences of not fighting and winning it will be horrifically greater. We have four options: 1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons. 2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is). 3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America. 4. Or we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany, which is well underway, and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier then. Yes, the Jihadist say that they look forward to an Islamic America. If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law as dictated by the Qur'an), an America that resembles Iran today. We can be defeatist peace-activists as anti-war types seem to be, and concede, surrender, to Jihad, or we can do whatever it takes to win this war against it. The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes -cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like (usually dominated by religious dogma), and the most determined always win. Those who are willing to be the most ruthless win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them. In the 20th century, it was Western democracy vs. communism, and before that Western democracy vs. Nazism, and before that Western democracy vs. German Imperialism. Western democracy won, three times, but it wasn't cheap, fun, nice, easy, or quick. Indeed, the wars against German imperialism (WWI), Nazi imperialism (WWII), and communist imperialism (the 40-year Cold War that included the Vietnam War, itself a major battle in a larger war) covered almost the entire century. The first major war of the 21st Century is the war between Western Judeo/Christian Civilization and Wahhabi Islam. It may last a few more years, or most of this century. It will last until the Wahhabi branch of Islam fades away, or gives up its ambitions for regional and global dominance through Jihad, or until Western Civilization gives in to the Jihad. Some say we went to Iraq without the needed troop numbers. Indeed, one senior general was forcibly retired because he claimed we needed more troops. We went with the troop levels General Tommy Franks asked for. We deposed Saddam in 30 days with light casualties, much lighter than we expected. The real problem in Iraq is that we are trying to be nice - we are trying to fight a minority of the population that is Jihadi, and trying to avoid killing the large majority that is not. We could flatten Fallujah in minutes with a flight of B52s, or seconds with one nuclear cruise missile - but we don't. We're trying to do brain surgery, not amputate the patient's head. The Jihadis amputate heads. That we went to Iraq with too little planning is a specious argument. It supposes that if we had just had the right plan the war would have been easy, cheap, quick and clean. That is not an option. It is a guerrilla war against a determined enemy and no such war ever has been or ever will be easy, cheap, quick, and clean. This is not TV. That we proved ourselves incapable of governing and providing security is also a specious argument. It was never our intention to govern and provide security. It was our intention from the beginning to do just enough to enable the Iraqis to develop a representative government and their own military and police forces to provide their own security, and that is happening. The US and the Brit's and other countries there have trained over 100,000 Iraqi police and military, now, and will have trained more than 200,000 by the end of next year. We are in the process of transitioning operational control for security back to Iraq. It will take time. It will not go with no hitches. Again, this is not TV. Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind. The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany. World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II resulted in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you accept. The US has taken a little more than 2,000 KIA in Iraq. The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism. In WWII the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most of the individual battles of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far. But the stakes are at least as high . . . a world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms . . . or a world dominated by the radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihadist under the Mullahs and the Sharia. I do not understand why America does not grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis. In America, absolutely, but nowhere else. 300,000 Iraqi bodies in mass graves in Iraq are not our problem. The U.S. population is about twelve times that of Iraq, so let's multiply 300,000 by twelve. What would you think if there were 3,600,000 American bodies in mass graves in America because of George Bush? Would you hope for another country to help liberate America? "Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate where it's safe - in America. For this privilege, they should thank U.S. veterans. Why don't we see Peace Activists demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, in the places in the world that really need peace activism the most? The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy. If the Jihad wins, it will be the death of Liberalism. HEY ESKIMO...I DID ENLIST, US ARMY 2002, WHERE HAVE YOU SERVED???

A) who do you think is gonna read your novel?

What would you do if you knew where Bin Laden was?

Q) If we had actionable intelligence about the location of Osama Bin Laden do you think we should ask Pakistan's permission to take action, tell them and see if they do anything, or do you think we should just launch every cruise missile we have in his vicinity, and deal with the consequences later? Killing Bin Laden might not destroy al Qaeda, but I think Americans would like to see it happen. We still have not had justice done for 9-11. I think destroying the leadership would be better than letting them run free. Oh, and let me know if you think it would be a good idea to capture him alive, let the CIA interrogate the living hell out of him, and then drop him off in downtown New York and see what happens.

A) I would go spend every peny I have on obtaining an illegal russian aircraft. Fly into pakistani airspace i meen common we all know he is there. then drop a carpet bomb all over the place like im laying your mother flat out on your daddys bed. Also i would go to pilot school.

An e-mail sent to me on terrorism. What is your opinion?

Q) When WWIII 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 be en ringing for years US Navy Captain Ouimette the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida . Here is a copy of the speech he gave in 2003. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary. 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 ofAmerica'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 ove r 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the USMarine 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 n ot 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 For ce 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 USembassies in Kenyaand 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 a nd 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 govern ment 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 CIAor 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 wil l 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 Yamamotosaid "... it seems all we have done is awakened 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. If you believe in this please forward it to as many people as you can-- especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action.If you don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep! > “Ranger” Bill Thiel .

A) My opinion is that first of all, "Ranger" Bill Thiel was correct in what he said - America is at war with terrorism. The problem is, unfortunately, I don't think there can ever be a democracy, or even complete freedom, in places like Iraq where at the very start of their new government they established an official national religion, one that calls for jihad even moreso. The American government is still trying to grasp what to do against terrorists, being that when America attacks bastions of militant terrorists it is rebuked by the U.N. and many European countries, and leaves her standing alone in the fight against terrorism but for a handful of loyal allies. If the U.S. does not attack, her own citizens will die at the terrorists very hands. The former choice was chosen, and we as a country have to back up that choice, whether we agree to fervently seek down terrorists instead of just retaliating after attacks, enough of which have already been waged against the country. I think we should stay in Iraq, but I also believe that our presense must slowly be drawn from the country because almost all opposition and terrorists, at least that we will ever find, are dead or in custody. This new warfare, this new type of cowardly attack against others cannot be ignored, even if it can never be abolished, as those who believe in the world's fastest growing religion are ordered by the book which Allah had inspired to kill those who would not give in to his divine power. We must wake up, and never think for a moment that this war doesn't exist - just as the Cold War loomed over our heads less than 2 decades ago, the war against terrorism possesses no rules, no restrictions, and no leeway, on either side. We must strike first, because as all of us experienced on Sept. 11 there is no perfect defense against terrorism.

What does everyone think after reading this?

Q) >> WWIII STARTED IN 1979 >> >> If you understand and believe we are at a crucial point in our history > please forward this to as many people as you can-- especially to the young > people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick > to > protest such a necessary military action. If you don't believe it, just > delete it and go back to sleep and learn to pray in Arabic! >> >> 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 month. It is > an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this > action is so necessary. >> >> 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 > official 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 awakened 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. >> >> Remember, Freedom is not free. There was a price to obtain it and a > bigger price to maintain it. The enemy will not negotiate. The enemy is > bent > on killing every American they can �???? all of us if possible. The enemy > is > seeking world domination. The enemy will behead you, your children and > your > neighbors. You cannot negotiate or ignore a rabid dog you have to put it > down.

A) Nice cut-and-paste. Which forum did you swipe that from? That's what I think after reading this.

Is America Asleep?

Q) WWIII Started in 1979 > > > > This is 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 month. It > is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this > action is so necessary. > 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 > 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. > > 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 awakened 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.

A) WRONG! Someone did just read that...I did! And I know where you're coming from. But do I think that America is still asleep? Not after 9-11; we got a real wake-up call that morning. We got another in 1993 with the first WTC bombing; but Clinton hit the "snooze button" on that one, too! And now, just recently, the terrorists captured in England. How loud does the alarm have to be, America!!!??? Buddy, you are right on the mark!