UN-REWRITTEN HISTORY

Let's start by making it clear: For the first time in recent history, The United States of America was attacked on its own soil...the Twin Towers on 9/11.

Contrary to what some would have you believe, we were not attacked because we had a greater or lesser presence in some Middle Eastern country.

We were not attacked because we had engaged in some military action on foreign soil.

We were attacked because a large segment of a very vile and hate-filled religious belief system saw us as "The Great Satan," and believed that they were scoring points with the Moon God (whom they call Allah, and whom they try to make us believe is "just another way of expressing the God we all serve.")

We went to battle these vile types in their county (Afghanistan), for the expressed purpose of keeping them from doing it again.

They were driven from their country and given safe-haven in another land, and they were rendered basically ineffective, at least for the time being.

While driving them from their country we got word from what should have been trusted sources, sources that were trusted by former President Clinton, Presidential hopeful, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and many other Democrat leaders as well as many Republican leaders, that Iraq was planning or helping to plan similar attacks against us with WMDs (weapons of mass distruction).

That it turned out not to be the case (according, at least to some) is irrelevant, in that everybody thought it WAS the case.

So we launched a preventive strike.

It, so far, has worked.

Now we are not the bad guys here.

In fact, seven times we Americans have taken arms and sacrificed the blood of our troops, in the defense of Muslims ( Bosnia , Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait , etc.), who had not really done anything to deserve our defense.

In the course of war, things are sometimes done that should not be done.

A reading of the Bible reveals that sometimes when Israel faught and/or won battles they disobeyed God and took spoils they should not have taken.

When you are dealing with such huge numbers of human beings, things happen.

That does not excuse them, it just recognizes that not everything is perfectly controlled all the time, precicely because we are human.

And so there are sometimes atrocities committed by segments of armies.

Some armies cut off the fingers of prisoners.

Others apply high voltage to inappropriate portions of anatomy.

Women prisoners are routinely raped, beaten and tortured.

But not by our troops.

There are no documented cases of that kind of torture committed by US military personnel.

There is "waterboarding," about which there is political argument as to whether it is an appropriate form of interrogation, but that does not even come close to the horrible things mentioned above.

How does our treatment of prisoners fare overall?

We give them three meals a day, sanitation facilities, exercise time, and time to exercise their religious belief system, by devotional time, prayer time, and even by providing them with free copies of their religion's sacred book.

How terrible of us!

Do we subject them to interrogation?

You betcha!

And well we should.

These are not nice, reasonable people. They are people who will do their best to kill anyone, including you, who subscribes to the American Dream, thinking that by killing us they will gain favor with their God.

Here are some facts to consider:

We were attacked by Islamic Arabs.

Most Arabs and Muslims have to live under savage dictatorships.

The majority of them are poor, because their governments take all they have.

Their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.

The U.S.A. is the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs, while wealthy Arabs blame the U.S. for all of their problems.

Some Arab governments pay the families of suicide bombers who sacrifice themselves trying to rid the world of "The Great Satan."

The governments that encourage suicide bombers think babies, pregnant mothers, the elderly and a vast aray of citizens are fair game.

Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group, including the U.S.A.

Terrorists take refuge in "holy sites," knowing that Americans respect those sites so much that we are reluctant to persue them there, yet those same terrorists are gleeful when one of our holy sites is damaged or destroyed (think: Sait Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in NYC).

Now we have people who think we should withdraw from our war on terror by withdrawing troops from Iraq.

"We're turning it into another Viet Nam," they say.

They are insane.

They, in fact, would be guilty of turning the war into another Viet Nam by doing what their kind do...quitting before the job is done.

Not one of them is any better on any level than the terrorists.