Subject: The "War" ... Please Read OR not.....but think about what this says
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:05:59 EDT




THE  WAR

Please take the time to read the attached essay by Dr.   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 a fair evaluation.

I had no idea who  Dr.  Chong was 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 of  all things and past Commander of Wilford Hall Medical
Center in San  Antonio.  So he is real, is connected to Veterans affairs in
California,  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.)

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

This WAR is for REAL!  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;
* 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%of the  total.

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_  (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'd 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 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 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 for
our children, our grandchildren, our country and the  world.

Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, and that  includes
all the Politicians and media of our country and the free world, we  must unite
to defeat this scourge upon the earth!


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!

Go to the following Air Force websight and read about Dr.   Vernon Chong,
Major General, USAF, Retired .   _http://www.af.mil/bios/alpha.asp?alpha=C_
(http://www.af.mil/bios/alpha.asp?alpha=C)

(Rather ironic isn't  it!  Millions of illegals, who illegally crossed the
American border for a  better life, will end up with the VERY same life they ran
away from.  That  is, IF we lose the  war.)