A bugs life: June 2008

This is an email my grandfather sent me. I have read it before and like to continue to read it. It truly makes you think!...I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have!...

This is the most cogent and powerful essay on the threat of Islamic
terrorism I have seen by Dr. Vernon Chong. It is without a doubt the most
articulate and convincing writing I have read regarding the War in Iraq . If
you have any doubts, please open your mind to his essay and give it a fair
evaluation. It's also eerily applicable to other current issues such as
Iran's nuclear program, immigration, NAFTA's impact on American jobs, trade
deficits, etc. I had no idea who Dr. 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 Doctor and found him to be
a retired Air Force surgeon and past commander of Wilford Hall Medical
Center in San Antonio .

If you would like to see who this fellow is, go to this Air Force web site
and look him up: http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5000

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Subject: Muslims, terrorists and the USA: A different spin on Iraq war.

This WAR is for REAL!
by Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired

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;
* Alden, 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 predecessor,
President Ford.

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% and growing.

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, British, 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 terrorists 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!

Without our support Great Britain will go too. Recently I read that there
are more mosques in England than churches.

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 Muslim terrorists, how
could anyone else?

The radical 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 th is 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. 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 think some actually do, 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 of
enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their
charred corpses through the streets of Iraq . And still more recently, the
same type of 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 they 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.
These people are a serious and dangerous liability to the war effort. We
must take note of who they are and get them out of office. 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. 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.

Muslims have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then
start brutally killing each other over whom will be the few who control the
masses.

What is happening in Iraq is a good example. 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. I reiterate. A
national election is months away.

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
th is, that we must UNITE!

Lastly, I wish to add: At the risk of offending someone, I sincerely think
that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or doubts the
seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without sending it on, is part
of the problem. Let's quit laughing at and forwarding the jokes and
cartoons which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war against
terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well being of the US
and it's citizens.

Best we support them.

So far the past few weeks have been crazy... and this is what you missed...

About 31/2 weeks ago now, my dad had asked me to come fly up to South Carolina and see him and my sister for their birthdays, since they are just 2 days apart I said that I would and this is where the plane story comes in...

Now I love to fly, I always have and when my sweet daddy asked me to come fly up I was more than excited. So 2 days before I get to the airport I had called a family friend and asked her to take care of the dog, among other things. I get all packed excited to get on a plane then I get in my car and drive to my uncles house so he can drop me off at the airport.

The next day I get up and go with my uncle to the airport give him hugs and thank him for letting me stay the night and all that good stuff. I get on the airplane a plane that will connect in Houston, and do what I always do, pray! So I say my prayer that went something like this "Most gracious heavenly father I thank you for this day and just ask that you put your guardian angels around not only me but everyone here and the plane. Help the pilots have a great and smooth flight. It is in Jesus wonderful and most precious name I pray. Amen"

So we get to Houston (a great and pretty smooth flight) and I rush to my terminal knowing I only have about an hour to get there might I add! What happens next I get on the plane after having maybe an hour of terminal sitting time. Everyone gets on the plane (now I have to add this now I always sit next to the window and the wing) I get in my seat and do what I always do pray again! Pretty much the same prayer.

We all wait a few minutes and this is what everyone hears "Hello folks this is your captain speaking...Sorry for the inconvenience but air traffic control has said that we can not take off because of bad weather in North Carolina. They are having major rain storms there. So we are going to let you off the plane and wait in the terminal instead of having to sit in this hot plane. Please make sure you stay there in case we hear something that way we can let you know. Thank you and sorry again folks."

I call my momma and let her know that way she, daddy and the siblings can grab something to eat instead of having to drive up and get me and be hungry. Sweet Huh? Just kidding! Anyways I get out of the plane and go sit back down in the terminal. I was waiting for about an hour and a half when we finally get back on the plane.

I get my seat belt back on and again look up in the sky and say "Thanks Lord for pilots that care please bless them and this flight!" After about 30 min. waiting to take off we are in the air! Yeah! Everyone is excited we are going to get to our destination! So the stewardess goes through her thing and I have to add I NEVER pay attention to it just because I ALWAYS pray over the plane and go to sleep so why should I? (just keep that in mind as you read the rest of this blog!)

We are now about 45 min away to our destination and I am asleep when we hit turbulence and I wake up and notice that the picture perfect sky turns pitch black! No worries I prayed I'm fine! RIGHT??? WRONG!! We are in terrible turbulence and I look out the window to see lightning almost hit the plane! Then the plane suddenly drops about 5 feet and the pilots try to level it off. In the midst of that everyone shrieks the man next to me wakes up from his nap and says something like "Wow that was a little scary!" I just nod my head and smile.

Well as the pilots level off I just smile and silently thank the Lord for his protection and the next thing I know the plane drops again! This time about 50 to 75 feet and in the midst of all of that, I hear something. Something I do not like to hear might I add! It was Satan and he was just being nasty to me! As I said I do not get scared and I was terrified! Because this is what he said to me with his evil laugh"HAHA! You get on this plane to see your dad on his birthday and I'm bringing it down! You will not be able to even wish him a happy birthday tomorrow! The plane is going to land and then burst into flames and your family will see it! HAHA! It's going down"

I started to cry and thought to myself "I didn't even listen to the stewardess! If we go down I wont know what to do!" I was trying so hard not to listen to Satan but when he said "it's going down!" A light bulb went off and I remembered something, I am a child of the most high GOD and then I said to him "Get behind me Satan! Even if you take this plane down I am not going down I'd be going up because I am a child of the most high GOD! SO just leave me alone!" and that is when I did it the biggest it a Christian could do (as the plane was dropping) I lifted my hands up and started to pray in tongues over every ones screaming and started quoting the Bible "2 Timothy 1:7 says...
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." and just screamed it over everyone else with my eyes shut real tight might I add!

Then it happened the pilots level us off I opened my eyes and saw that picture perfect sky again and smiled! Then I heard (because where I was sitting was pretty close to the back) "Stewardess this is Captain _______ we were pretty close to a mayday there!" When I heard that all I could do was laugh to myself! Then we got off the plane and as I walked towards the pilots cabin I looked up and said "Thanks guys you did a great job!" I am sure they knew it was me who was praying but I really did not care!

Now the reason I shared this story is because I am sure there are folks out there who think "GOD does not care." But let me tell you He always cares! Or folks that say "My faith is not as strong as yours!" But let me tell ya all it takes is the faith of a mustard seed! So I end this story with something I heard on the radio the other day...

Think about the disciples in the boat with Jesus. A boat that was in the middle of a hurricane. Those silly disciples had 1 of 2 choices. They could wake Jesus up and have him calm the storm or they could have done it themselves. It always is a measure of your faith. But either way Jesus will always get you out of those storms safe and sound! Be blessed and just remember that!

A bugs life

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