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I had no idea who General Chong is or the source of these thoughts... so
> when I received them, I almost deleted them - as well-written as they
> are. But then I did a "Google search" on the General and found him to be
> a retired Air Force Surgeon of all things and past Commander of Wilford
> Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. So he is real, is connected to
> Veterans affairs, and these are his thoughts. They are worth reading and
> thinking about!! (the same Google search will direct you to some of his
> other thought-provoking writings.)
>
> MG Vernon Chong, USAFR, forwarded:
> This WAR is for REAL!
>
> To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country
> is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it,
> that we have faced in your lifetime and mine
> (which includes WWII).
>
> The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are
> very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer
> who realize what losing really means.
>
> First, let's examine a few basics:
>
> 1. When did the threat to us start?
> Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States
> is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the
> following attacks on us:
>
> * Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
> * Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
> * Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
> * Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
> * First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
> * Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
> * Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
> * Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
> * Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
> * New York World Trade Center 2001;
> * Pentagon 2001.
> (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581
> terrorist attacks worldwide).
>
> 2. Why were we attacked?
> Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks
> happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush
> 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or
> Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or
> their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
>
> 3. Who were the attackers?
> In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.
>
> 4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.
>
> 5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
> Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the
> predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under
> the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made
> no difference. You either went along with the administration or you were
> eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for
> political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see
>
http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm)
>
> Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as
> the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom
> heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept
> the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone
> who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world
> - German, Christian or any others.
>
> Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but
> kill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone
> else. The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no
> protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims
> there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim
> leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own
> pronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the
> peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?
>
> 6. So who are we at war with?
> There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the
> Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid
> verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if
> you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.
>
> So with that background, now to the two major questions:
>
> 1. Can we lose this war?
> 2. What does losing really mean?
>
> If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions.
>
> We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the
> major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the
> answer to the second question - What does losing mean?
>
> It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means
> hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our
> business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can
> get. What losing really means is:
>
> We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will
> not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us
> dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not
> have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past
> 18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we
> were neutered and submissive to them.
> We would of course have no future support from other nations, for fear
> of reprisals and for the reason that they would see, we are impotent and
> cannot help them.
>
> They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will
> be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It
> doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its
> troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed
> their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they
> want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.
>
> The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they
> might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished
> too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us.
> However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20%
> Muslim and fading fast!
>
> If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will
> all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us,
> if they were threatened by the Muslims.
>
> If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?
>
> The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are
> completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and
> be likewise committed to winning at any cost.
>
> Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple.
> Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put
> 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take
> that 100% effort to win.
>
> So, how can we lose the war?
>
> Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That
> is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their
> purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war
> effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we
> continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win!
>
> Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the
> life and death seriousness of this situation.
>
> President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
> Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men
> between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow
> profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This
> is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the
> civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to
> lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose
> all of them permanently.
>
> And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil
> rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and
> in fact added many more since then.
>
> Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?
>
> No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our
> Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict
> and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to
> war. Get them out of your head.
>
> Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the
> Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us
> lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is
> because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that
> conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and
> weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our
> cause.
>
> Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media
> regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies
> best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the
> treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our
> military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago
> were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands,
> cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just
> for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.
>
> And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
> 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same
> type enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging
> their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.
>
> And still more recently, the same type enemy that was and is providing
> videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American
> prisoners they held.
>
> Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several
> days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of
> some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred
> corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.
>
> Can this be for real?
>
> The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the
> Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of
> comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are
> fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous
> results of losing this war, nothing can.
>
> To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this
> prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned
> -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we,
> nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say,
> this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are
> disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the
> magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim
> terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.
>
> Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels!
> That translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United States,
> but throughout the world.
>
> We are the last bastion of defense.
>
> We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge
> is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe
> that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and
> minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind
> our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world!
>
> We can't!
>
> If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive,
> and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated.
>
> And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow
> freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of
> the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status
> or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way
> that contributes to the good of the world.
>
> This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or
> we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of
> the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history
> books to be written or read.
>
> If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims
> take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to
> increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little
> by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be
> fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which
> will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve.
> Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?
>
> Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some
> external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away,
> politically correct piece by politically correct piece.
>
> And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown,
> worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even
> to themselves, once they are in power.
>
> They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then
> start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control
> the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct,
> about the "peaceful Muslims"?
>
> I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are
> united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the election,
> the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical
> situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your
> future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it.
>
> After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but
> our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world.
>
> Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that
> includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!
>
> Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it. Our
> "leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too.
>
> There are those that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to
> anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE!
