Very Important Read

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I hope I do not offend anyone! This is serious business and maybe the most important times for our nation ever! Simple and easy to understand. Just the fact IMHO......
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No matter your politics, you owe it to yourself to read and pass on so we

all are informed of what's going on in our world!



Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle East

problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the nuclear

trigger for three years as head of our defense and response complex buried

under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs . He was the only person who

could initiate a nuclear attack after advising the sitting president of a

missile launch by our enemies and our need to respond. No political or

civilian type in the US had more knowledge about day to day military actions

around the world. Everyone should find quiet time to read this. As far as I

am concerned, it is exactly the direction we should go and the consequences

of not doing so are well thought out.



John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)



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Middle East Imperative



BY: JIM CASH, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.



I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against radical

Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put this conflict in

proper perspective.



Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger than just

Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country and how our

kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and beyond. Radical Islam

has been attacking the West since the seventh century. They have been

defeated in the past and decimated to the point of taking hundreds of years

to recover. But they can never be totally defeated. Their birth rates are

so far beyond civilized world rates that in time they recover and attempt to

dominate again.



There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand threat to

the West. Two , Saudi Arabia and Pakistan , just need firm pressure from

the West to make major reforms. They need to decide who they are really

going to support and commit to that support. That answer is simple. They

both will support who they think will hang in there until the end, and win.

We are not sending very good signals in that direction right now, thanks to

the Democrats.



The other six, Afghanistan , Iraq , Iran , Syria , North Korea and Libya

will require regime change or a major policy shift. Now, let's look more

closely.



Afghanistan and Iraq have both had regime changes, but are being fueled by

outsiders from Syria and Iran . We have scared Gaddafi's pants off, and he

has given up his quest for nuclear weapons, so I don't think Libya is now a

threat.



North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically by buying

them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran. Syria is like a

frightened puppy. Without the support of Iran they will join the stronger

side. So where does that leave us? Sooner, or later, we are going to be

forced to confront Iran , and it better be before they gain nuclear

capability.



In 1989 I served as a Command Director inside the Cheyenne Mountain complex

located in Colorado Springs , Colorado for almost three years. My job there

was to observe (through classified means) every missile shot anywhere in the

world and assess if it was a threat to the US or Canada . If any shot was

threatening to either nation I had only minutes to advise the President, as

he had only minutes to respond. I watched Iran and Iraq shoot missiles at

each other every day, and all day long, for months. They killed hundreds of

thousand of their people. Know why? They were fighting for control of the

Middle East and that enormous oil supply.



At that time, they were preoccupied with their internal problems and could

care less about toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly stable and we

could not see an immediate threat. Well, the worst part of what we have

done as a nation in Iraq is to do away with the military capability of one

of those nations. Now, Iran has a clear field to dominate the Middle East,

since Iraq is no longer a threat to them. They have turned their attention

to the only other threat to their dominance, they are convinced they will

win, because the US is so divided, and the Democrats (who now control

Congress and may control the Presidency in 2008) have openly said we are

pulling out.



Do you have any idea what will happen if the entire Middle East turns their

support to Iran , which they will obviously do if we pull out? It is not

the price of oil we will have to worry about. Oil WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE to

this country at any price. I personally would vote for any presidential

candidate who did what JFK did with the space program---declare a goal to

bring this country to total energy independence in a decade.



Yes, it is about oil. The economy in this country will totally die if that

Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a recession. It

will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the 'good-old-days'. The

bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to fall in line, the fighting

in Iraq will end over night, and the nightmare will be over.



One way or another, Iran must be forced to join modern times and the global

community. It may mean a real war---if so, now is the time, before we face

a nuclear Iran with the capacity to destroy Israel and begin a new ice age.

I urge you to read the book 'END GAME' by two of our best Middle East

experts, true American patriots and retired military generals, Paul Vallely

and Tom McInerney. They are our finest, and totally honest in their

assessment of why victory in the Middle East is so important, and how it can

be won. Proceeds for the book go directly to memorial fund for our fallen

soldiers who served the country during the war on terror. You can find that

book by going to the internet through Stand-up America at



On the other hand, we have several very angry retired generals today, who

evidently have not achieved their lofty goals, and insist on ranting and

raving about the war. They are wrong, and doing the country great harm by

giving a certain political party reason to use them as experts to back their

anti-war claims.



You may be one of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible enough to

support our going to war. If that is the case I should stop here, as that

level of thinking approaches mental disability in this day and age. It is

right up there with alien abductions and high altitude seeding through

government aircraft contrails. I helped produced those contrails for almost

30 years, and I can assure you we were not seeding the atmosphere. The

human race is a war-like population, and if a country is not willing to

protect itself, it deserves the consequences. Nuff-said!!!



Now, my last comments will get to the nerve. They will be on politics. I am

not a Republican. And, George Bush has made enough mistakes as President to

insure my feelings about that for the rest of my life. However, the

Democratic Party has moved so far left, they have made me support those

farther to the right. I am a conservative who totally supports the

Constitution of this country. The only difference between the United States

and the South American, third world, dictator infested and ever-changing

South American governments, is our US Constitution.



This Republic (note I did not say Democracy) is the longest standing the

world has ever known, but it is vulnerable. It would take so little to

change it through economic upheaval. There was a time when politicians

could disagree, but still work together. We are past that time, and that is

the initial step toward the downfall of our form of government.



I think that many view Bush-hating as payback time. The Republicans hated

the Clinton 's and now the Democrats hate Bush. So, both parties are

putting their hate toward willingness to do anything for political dominance

to include lying and always taking the opposite stand just for the sake of

being opposed. JUST HOW GOOD IS THAT FOR OUR COUNTRY?



In my lifetime, after serving in uniform for President's Kennedy, Johnson,

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I have a pretty good feel for which

party supported our military, and what military life was like under each of

their terms. And, let me assure you that times were best under the

Republicans.



Service under Jimmy Carter was devastating for all branches of the military.

And, Ronald Regan was truly a salvation. You can choose to listen to

enriched newscasters, and foolish people like John Murtha (he is no war

hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, Jane Fonda , Harry Reid,

Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and on-and-on to include the

true fools in Hollywood if you like. If you do, your conclusions will be

totally wrong.



The reason that I write, appear on radio talk shows, and do everything I can

to denounce those people is simple. THEY ARE PUTTING THEIR THIRST FOR

POLITICAL POWER AND QUEST FOR VICTORY IN 2008 ABOVE WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS

COUNTRY. I cannot abide that. Pelosi clearly defied the Logan Act by going

to Syria , which should have lead to imprisonment of three years and a heavy

fine. Jane Fonda did more to prolong the Vietnam war longer than any other

human being (as acknowledged by Ho Chi Minh in his writing before he died).

She truly should have been indicted for treason, along with her radical

husband, Tom Hayden, and forced to pay the consequences.



This country has started to soften by not enforcing its laws, which is

another indication of a Republic about to fall. All Democrats, along with

the Hollywood elite, are sending us headlong into a total defeat in the

Middle East, which will finally give Iran total dominance in the region. A

lack of oil in the near future will be the final straw that dooms this

Republic. However, if we refuse to let this happen and really get serious

about an energy self-sufficiency program, this can be avoided. I am afraid,

however, that we are going in the opposite direction. If we elect Hillary

Clinton and a Democrat controlled congress, and they carry through with

allowing Iran to take control of the Middle East, continue to refuse

development of nuclear energy, refuse to allow drilling for new oil, and

continue to do nothing but oppose everything Bush, it will be over in terms

of what we view as the good life in the USA .



Now, do I think that all who do not support the war are un-American -- of

course not. They just do not understand the importance of total victory in

that region.



Another failure of George Bush is his inability to explain to the American

people why we are there, and why we MUST win. By the way, it is not a war.

The war was won four years ago. It is martial law that is under attack by

Iranian and Syrian outside influences, and there is a difference.



So, what do I believe? What is the bottom line? I will simply say that the

Democratic Party has fielded the foulest, power hungry, anti-country, self

absorbed group of individuals that I have observed in my lifetime. Our

educational system is partially to blame for allowing the mass of America to

be taken in by this group. George Bush has done the best he can with the

disabilities that he possesses.



A President must communicate with the people.And, I would tell you that

Desert Storm spoiled the people. Bush Senior's 100-hour war convinced the

people that technology has progressed to the point that wars could be fought

with no casualties and won in very short periods of time. I remember

feeling at the time, that this was a tragedy for the US military. To win

wars, you must put boots on the ground. When you put boots on the ground,

soldiers are going to die. A President must make the war decision wisely,

and insure that the cause is right before using his last political option.

However, CONTROLLING IRAN AND DEMOCRATIZING THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE ONLY

CHOICE IF WE ARE HELL-BENT ON DEPENDING ON THEM FOR OUR FUTURE ENERGY NEEDS.



Jimmy L. Cash, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.

Lakeside , Montana 59922



'I'll tell you what war is all about, you've got to kill people, and when

you've killed enough they stop fighting.' Gen. Curtis LeMay



Message forwarded by:

Bill Wright
 
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Wow, that was heavy. Seems like Republicans always saying "it's not about the oil" when they should be saying, "yes its about the oil, and here is why its a worthy cause and important to you as an American to support it" But noooo..
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Nothing on snopes. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

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