No, It's in many text books. I can read and I do. This is an opinion not history.

MOST OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY
EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS   GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WWII.
MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF   MEAT, SHOES,
GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A   
SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD.  NOT TO MENTION,
NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE
WOULD REACT TO BEING  TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN 2007.

The world has changed so too has the way people will react and deal with crisis. We are already being taken over by foreigners!

This is an EXCELLENT essay. Well thought out and presented.

BULLSHIT ! This is pure neo-con propaganda!


Historical Significance

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.

At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.

Maybe there was a good reason for this?

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 yet attacked us.  It was a dicey thing.  We had
few allies.

A lie was perpetrated by the president. Roosevelt wanted the U.S. to get into the war and "allowed" Pearl Harbor to be attacked. There are a multitude of reasons that most all lead to economic profit for big business. It is well documented. Hmmmm.......Did he pick up that idea from Hitler after he manipulated Germany into a dictatorship with the Reichstag bombing? It also is well documented. The government manipulates public opinion through Helgian dialectic. This refers to thesis, anti-thesis and solution all contrived before hand to manipulate the populace.

Are there any similarity to the events of September 11, 2001? Was the World Trade Center bombings and eventual destruction used to rally the American people to allow another bid for world domination to begin? Did our current president "allow" things to happen? Heaven forbid anyone should question the President!

France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly
aligned itself with its German occupiers.  Germany was certainly not an
ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in
Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and
controlling all of Asia.  Together, Japan and Germany had long-range
plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the
United States over our northern and southern borders, after they
finished gaining control of Asia and Europe. America's only allies then
were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia. That
was about it.  All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in
the East, was already under the Nazi heel.

Hmmmm....Wasn't the mantra of WWI "The war to end all wars"?

America was certainly not prepared for war.  America had drastically
downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and throughout the
depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2,  army units were training
with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank"
painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks.  And a huge
chunk of our navy had just been sunk or 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 actually the
property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).  Actually,
Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
day just to prove they could.  Britain had already been holding out for
two years in the face of staggering 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 first turning his
attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse,
in the late summer of 1940.

Ironically, 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 was desperately trying to save it's own butt. The historical evidence indicates that they cared little about other countries like the U.S. or Britain. The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of
Stalingrad and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation,
mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.

It was a terrible price to pay. It is where this county is heading if people do not wake up.

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire
war effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could
possibly have won the war.

All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
dicey things.  And  now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
moments in history.

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.

Where is the evidence? Cite the proof? How will they deliver it? How will they spread these weapons of mass destruction? Where is the tip of the sword? Osama Ben Laden? HA! What a joke!

This is pure fear mongering crap. A weapon of mass delusion. 

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs --
they believe that Islam, a radically conservative 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 their will of thinking should
be killed, enslaved, or subjugated.  They want to finish the Holocaust,
destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra.

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, but it is not  known yet which will
win -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.

They have been fighting each other for more than two thousand years. We are not included or invited.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
the Middle East, 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 educated, 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 the dollar to
be worth anything?

This is another fear mongering load of crap. Yes, they could cut off oil but we allowed ourselves to become dependent on their oil. The greedy fascist-corporate multinational oil monopolies that have our country by the balls orchestrated this on purpose. We have the independent technological and natural resources to become completely energy independent in a few years if the people of this country decide to make it so.

Our economy is in jeopardy because we no longer back the dollar by a gold standard. We lost control of our economy when We The People allowed the government to turn over the banking industry to the Federal Reserve. We have been living on a false dollar for generations now perched on the brink of crashing whenever the wind blows. This is used to control us.

You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the
Islamic Reformation wins.

This is the same as saying if all the people who declare themselves to be Christians should denounce their faith and become neutral in a secular non-religious world. Hmmm... Looking around it seems that we have already done that.

This a classic example, case in point, toward the source of this propaganda and the agenda behind it. Where did this "Reformationists" idea come from? Has it already been decided that the  "reformation" will win because they can be controlled by the world government?

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.

This is a fantasy. If what the writer is purporting to be true about the Whabbi movement, their jihad will not permit them to do anything other than kill every non-believer. Oh! And remember they will have nuclear weapons to destroy us with!

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 and
the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we
can't do it everywhere at once.  We have created a focal point for the
battle at a time and place of our choosing........in Iraq.

More twisted false logic to plant the seed that we have to do it this way or that. A complete Psy-Op manipulation.

Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where
we are doing two 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.

Still no facts. No evidence. Saddam Hussein hates the "Al Queda" movement and did not intend to allow them to take power or support away from him. No doubt he needed to go but we had no business invading and occupying a sovereign country. If they want a democratic, socialist, communist or totalitarian form of government then they should decide. A moron could figure out that by removing the current government that there would be a time of chaos and strife until the people can come together and decide what it is they want. What was Bush's plan to deal with the vacuum being created there? He had NO PLAN. He is making it up as he goes along. 

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.

Yes and who enabled him to do that? It is well documented that the U.S. supplied him with weapons and chemical weapons he used on the Kurds. Now we are continuing to fuel their war machine with our economy based on profits from making weapons to sell to most anyone who wants them. Ever heard of Halliburton?

(2)  We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
terrorism in Iraq.  We have focused the battle.  We are killing bad
people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here.  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.

Wrong. This is pure imperialism. We have no business establishing permanent bases in the middle east. If this logic was to be followed then why are we not systematically killing all radical Muslims there now?

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.

Bush stated himself that this will be a 100 year war or longer. I expect that this conflict will rage on regardless of whether we participate or not.

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. W.W.II 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, 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 W.W.II would have been
unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by German and Japanese
Nazism.

I don't understand the point the author is trying to make here. Cost is always relative. When it's personal, and it always is if it is your son or daughter, the cost is always too high.

This is not 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.

I can accept this as the only believable statement in this.

The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism
until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore it.

True. We cannot ignore it. Where did the author form the idea that the American People want to ignore it? Yes, we are guilty as a people in this country of being dead heads and apathetic. I agree with that but regardless of how it came about, I think the American People as a whole are well aware of Islamic terrorism.

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.  

Where does the author get this idea that the U.S. needs to create another "England" in the Middle East? This is totally unrealistic and reveals that the writer has no concept or understanding of the culture and religious beliefs there. 

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. 

Yes, they must be savage barbarians and need to be wiped out so they can become like what we did to the American Indian? These are the people who came from the cradle of civilization?

 And now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear
weapons.  Unless somebody prevents them.

They already have them you moron. Has anyone heard of Pakistan and India? Just because Iran wants to become a nuclear power doesn't make them any different. I would surmise from their point of view they are struggling to hang on to their own destiny by having a large enough bargaining chip to prevent exactly what the writer is suggesting.

We have four options:

1.  We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

To do this the government will have to re-instate the draft and call up all reserves. Then, when the bodies start piling up, they will have to raise and lower the age ranges of conscriptees so the only ones left are the too old and too young and a few disabled. Hmmmmm ......... Might be a good idea. We can get a fresh start on reducing global warming. Geeze! We DO NOT WANT WORLD WAR III !

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)

Oh yes! Let's do this. Then we can unleash all of our nuclear weapons on them and reduce the entire planet into radioactive slag. We have already contaminated vast areas of Iraq and Afghanistan with radioactive waste by using Depleted Uranium. What about the danger of that? We haven't even addressed that issue. What a load of crap! 

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.

More fear mongering crap. This won't happen without the U.S. getting into it because we are committed to a free Europe as N.A.T.O. members. This paves the way for continued conflict ad nauseam for the military industrial complex to churn out more and more war machines. War is big business and the Neo-Con Fascists love it. So now we can drag our feet backing out of this phase of the conflict to allow the American People to go back to their Jeopardy and tail-gate parties while the war machine cranks up to get Europe into the fray. Ch-Ching! I hear the money rolling in as we eat our apple pie and say what a good boy am I!

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 and maybe most of the rest of Europe.  It
   will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier

Sounds like the plan to me. They are counting on it!

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, an America that resembles Iran today.

Oh yeah, nothing like a little slapping your head on the ground facing east to get your circulation going in the morning. Get real. NOT! They would have to exterminate nearly the entire population to get them to comply. The hearts and minds of the majority of the people in the U.S. are so full of deceit and corruption that they would eventually have to cut everybody's head off. Yes, I am a cynical and angry man.

I have lost my faith in the majority of people in this country. There are still a lot of good people in this country but they have allowed the powers and principalities to cloud their judgment and minds with crap like this. Considering where the morals and values of the majority in this nation seem to be heading, it may be better they get slapped by the prayer police from time to time. I am sure the rest of the world see Americans as fat stupid and lazy. And, they will rejoice to see our country brought down to it's knees.

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, and the most determined always win.

Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win.  The
pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.

Remember, perspective is every thing, and America's schools teach
too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young
American mind.

Of course! They wouldn't want them to know the real truth. History is always written by the victor.

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 more than 2,000 killed in action in Iraq.
 
This may give a clue as to when this began to be circulated. We are at nearly 3,000 dead now. They are not just faceless soldiers either. Each and every one of them has a family and loved ones left behind wondering why.

 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 W.W.II
the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years.  Most of the individual
battles of W.W.II lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so
far.

Is this supposed to somehow minimize the value or justify the loss we have suffered from this war?

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 a radical Islamic Wahhabi
movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).

It's difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this.
They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but
evidently not for Iraqis.

There is no left and right. That is another dialectic tool used to manipulate the masses. This is just another load of opinionated crap. The Iraqis will have to fight for their freedom just like we will have to again.

"Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America, where
it's safe.

Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq,
Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the
most?

Do you think the news would entertain us with it? Real news, journalism, is hard to find anymore. The infotainment industry is just like the military-industrial complex. Out of control! Look at the all the psychological mind control in North Korea today. The people there are under so much mind control they are like zombies and have no free thought of their own in public least they be imprisoned or murdered.

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.

This is the summation of all the previous crap. Either you are with us or against us. What kind of simple minded blithering idiots really believe that if you disagree with this war or any war that you are the enemy? This really pisses me off and I am sorry if it offends you for me to say so. It is totally absurd!

Epilog:

Please don't send this kind of stuff to me anymore unless you have read it, researched it and can demonstrate to me how they are right and I am wrong. Send me what you think and how you feel about it. I am interested in what you have to say not what some gutless mind raper is trying to feed you.

I love you and would lay down my life for you, even for you to be free to say that you believe this kind of drivel is true. But, don't throw me into the same sack of shit that this kind of propaganda comes from.

If you want to worry about an immediate threat to our country look to our southern border. There is virtually no stopping the illegal immigration from the hordes of Mexicans and many other nationalities flowing into this country. Why are they coming here if it is so bad? And why don't we close the border? Why are we suddenly up to our eyeballs in Hispanics? Why is there any question to what our national language is supposed to be?  I don't hate Hispanics, Blacks, Yellows or anybody else except those subversive bastards that are selling our country out from under us. We have a legal way to immigrate in to this country and become Americans. I just can hardly wait for when they replace the dollar with the Amero  and we are no longer just the United States but the North American Union like the European Union.  Our government has failed us. We need to hold it accountable and fix it.

Our government no longer represents the people. The government thinks the people are here to serve them. We have many local and national issues we need to be dealing directly with as a nation here on North American continent. We don't need to be feeding the fires in the Middle East with the blood of our sons and daughters for a people who don't want to fight for their own freedom themselves. Did we as a people in this country learn anything from Vietnam?