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Title: Wake up, Americans: We're at war!
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URL Source: http://www.philly.com/dailynews/loc ... __Americans__Were_at_war_.html
Published: May 10, 2007
Author: Stu Bykofsky
Post Date: 2007-05-10 14:01:40 by BeAChooser
Keywords: None
Views: 197
Comments: 16

Wake up, Americans: We're at war!

ALONG WITH several thousand soldiers at Fort Dix, I was a potential target of the murderous plot allegedly hatched by six Islamofascists living in America - in the Delaware Valley.

In addition to Fort Dix and other military bases, the Navy Yard and the Army-Navy game were targeted, according to the government's criminal complaint. I attend that game every year, with 68,000 other fans.

Government allegations are not convictions, but for the pointy-headed intellectuals and TV talking heads who scoff about the "global war on terror," this is another wake-up call. (The "global war on terror" was really a default name. What we really have is a "war on Islamic fundamentalists," but using the "I-word" in any form might freak out Politically Correct Americans and some hypersensitive Muslims who are hungry to accuse us of a "Crusade.")

9/11 wasn't enough for some people, who seem to think it was a one-act play, despite massive physical evidence to the contrary and ceaseless calls for "death to America" from individuals such as Osama bin Laden and states such as Iran.

Is America ready to wake up yet?

Name it as you will, but we are at war. That is not an invention of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton and the neo-cons. If it makes you happy to think this is all Bush's doing, you'll have to explain the attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa and the U.S.S. Cole carried out on Bill Clinton's watch.

Terrorism is an American problem in America today.

We are at war not against a specific country and not against a specific religion. We are fighting a different kind of war that will last for generations against Islamic jihadists.

The plotters are quoted by the government - which tape-recorded them day and night - as saying they needed a fatwa, which is religious approval, before they could launch their plot. This is not the first alleged Islamic terror cell uncovered in America and it won't be the last. We don't have to wait for them "to follow us home" from Iraq. They are already here.

The government has already gotten convictions in Brooklyn, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Lodi, Calif.

That the Fort Dix Six didn't raise suspicions of their neighbors is creepy and chilling. They seemed like "normal people," by most accounts.

The unsung hero is the Circuit City clerk who found the plotters' jihad training film disturbing and called cops. His name has been kept private to protect him.

The guy ought to get a medal, but the government fears to name him. It's believed he'd be a target of other jihadists - and I hope no reporter outs the clerk for the sake of a cheap scoop. This is America today. Meanwhile, peaceful U.S. Muslims fear a backlash against them because of home-grown Islamic terrorists.

Here's what the alleged plotters had in common: Male, 20s, Muslim. Just like the 9/11 mass murderers.

No amount of Political Correctness can disguise the most likely face of the most likely enemy.

The question is: How do we go about rooting out the jihadists without terrorizing peaceful Muslims?

The first step is to be far more careful about whom we let into this country in the first place. Yes, I mean intense scrutiny of incoming Muslims. Caution isn't racism. Three of the Fort Dix Six were here illegally.

The second step is to round up illegals and ship them home, starting with Muslim illegals. It will take time. It will cost money.

Think of what a successful attack on Fort Dix would have cost, financially and emotionally.

We are at war. We have to act like it.

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#4. To: BeAChooser (#0)

I don't think you are going to milk these six incompetent kooks any more than you were able to milk the pack of winos that were planning to blow up the Sears tower last year, or the pack of kooks with the liquid hair die on the airliner last December. There will always be nuts who dream of going down in a blaze of glory.

Taking your tape to a public facility for processing says either K-O-O-K or g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t c-o-m-p-l-i-c-i-t-y.

It doesn't say we need to push Bush's failure in Iraq over onto the next administration. It also doesn't say that we need to give up anymore of our classic American freedoms or cease investigating the Republican sleaze over the past six years.

It does say that the GOP should perhaps spend a little more time protecting Americans from kooks with guns and a little less time jerking off in Iraq. Closing the border would be a nice first step. As would be catching Bin Laden.

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#6. To: ... (#4)

Taking your tape to a public facility for processing says either K-O-O-K or g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t c-o-m-p-l-i-c-i-t-y.

This simple truth cannot be posted too much, yet some still appear not to understand.

robin  posted on  2007-05-10 14:24:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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As would be catching Bin Laden.

For what purpose? He has always performed well as an intel operative.

He may well be dead anyhow, even if he no longer works for Western intel, but if he is still alive, chances are he still does and so will never be "caught" nor is there ever a need to "catch" him.

I remember telling everyone I saw right after 9/11 that bin Laden would never be "caught." I didn't tell them why I thought that, just that he wouldn't be. They all gave me the same incredulous look. Of COURSE the mighty U.S. forces would CAPTURE and/or KILL ObL posthaste! Here we are nearly six years later and they are still waiting.

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-05-10 14:31:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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I don't think you are going to milk these six incompetent kooks

The public has become more afraid of bush and company than of a terrorist attack, hence the threats don't work anymore.

Sodie Pop  posted on  2007-05-10 14:41:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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