viper39
18.07.06, 15:07
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Regardless of your politics, this is extremely well written.
An Important History Lesson
Why we are in IRAQ.
Here is a post from Raymond S. Kraft, a California lawyer, that sheds light
on the Big Picture!
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.
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, 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, Canada, Australia, and Russia,
and that was about it.
All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was all ready
under the Nazi heel.
America was not prepared for war. America had stood down most of it's
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 has 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
Brits 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 butt 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 in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow, 90%
of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but 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 Brits, then America, and the Nazis would have won the
war.
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.
The Jihadis, 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, -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 Jihads, 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 Jihadis.
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 and 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, the Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Islamic
terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We cannot do it
nowhere. And we cannot do it everywhere at once. 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 a terrorist.
Saddam is, or was, 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 anywhere
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.
World War II, the war with the German and 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 $160 billion (U.S. GDP in 2006 =
13.04 trillion dollars, which means that the IRAQ war has cost the U.S.
approximately 12.5% of a full years GDP), which is roughly what 9/11 cost New
York. It has also cost about 2,200 American lives, which is roughly 2/3 of
the 3,000 lives that the Jihad 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 Japa
