{"article":{"id":30667,"heading":"warisgood","author":"someone who cares about our country","created":"2003-02-21 22:16:44","modified":"2003-02-21 23:31:59","last_modified":"Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:31:59","article":"<p>People, <br><br>      I recently received the chain e-mail below.  <br>  <br> Though I am fairly certain the individuals propagating <br>  <br> this are well-intentioned, so was an individual named <br>  <br> Nevel Chamberlin, who also believed in \"peace in our <br>  <br> time.\"  Nevel looked at Hitler as a man who could be <br>  <br> reasoned with.  Nevel never even began to see the true <br>  <br> evil of Hitler's plans.  Within a decade of <br>  <br> Chamberlin's policy of appeasement, over 6,000,000 <br>  <br> Jews and other \"unclean\" people had been put to death <br>  <br> by the Nazi regime.  Ironically, Chamberlin had no <br>  <br> idea that Hitler would use gas on his victims.  <br>  <br> However, this time, we are dealing with a mad man, who <br>  <br> not only rules by terror and tyranny, but he has in <br>  <br> fact used chemical gas on both his enemies (the <br>  <br> Iranians) and his own people (the Kurds). <br><br>      So, as you yellow-bellied self-sanctified <br>  <br> liberals type away on your computers in reasonable <br>  <br> safety, remember that it wouldn't take much for a <br>  <br> \"dirty bomb\" or other chemical disbursement delivery <br>  <br> device to be set off in the parking lot of a major <br>  <br> sporting event or other large crowd gathering.  If you <br>  <br> think what happened with the twin towers has horrific, <br>  <br> then wait until you hear the horrendous cries of <br>  <br> innocent people suffering from nerve gas exposure.  <br>  <br> Wait until you see the results of human skin coming in <br>  <br> contact with blister agents.  Wait until terrorists <br>  <br> start blowing themselves up on American soil.  Most of <br>  <br> this will probably be captured by our faithful media <br>  <br> in full living (so to speak) color.  Maybe, just <br>  <br> maybe, you will understand that there are times when <br>  <br> war is justified. <br><br>      There is an old saying that &ldquo;those who do not <br>  <br> study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.&rdquo;  If <br>  <br> you have never heard, or understood, the story of <br>  <br> Nevel Chamberlin and Adolph Hitler, I urge you to <br>  <br> search the internet and do some investigating.  The <br>  <br> situation unfolding today is very similar to what <br>  <br> happened so many years ago.  However, this time we are <br>  <br> much more prepared to deal effectively with the <br>  <br> threat.   <br><br>      On a personal note, as a veteran with over 18 <br>  <br> years of military service, I can&rsquo;t say that I am eager <br>  <br> to see people die.  Military people always prepare for <br>  <br> war and pray for peace.  That said, if I am called, I <br>  <br> will answer.  I have taken an oath, a sacred vow to <br>  <br> defend my country against all enemies, both foreign <br>  <br> and domestic.  Most of you, who have never had the <br>  <br> honor to serve your country will never fully <br>  <br> understand this concept.  Again, I hope that you can <br>  <br> continue to live your lives in relative peace and <br>  <br> security.  In the mean time, you can take all your <br>  <br> petty little war protests and shove them where the sun <br>  <br> doesn&rsquo;t shine!  Go join the French for all I care.  <br>  <br> They have been stomped twice by evil forces.  And <br>  <br> twice we have had to save their buts.  I really <br>  <br> wouldn&rsquo;t mind seeing them get trashed again just to <br>  <br> snap them out of their arrogance.  At the very least, <br>  <br> maybe they should tour the graves of the thousands of <br>  <br> Americans who gave their lives to liberate that <br>  <br> country.   <br><br>      If military action is taken, I don&rsquo;t expect to <br>  <br> see &ldquo;thousands of Americans coming back in body bags&rdquo; <br>  <br> as Sadam Hussein has threatened.  I expect that you <br>  <br> will see the surgical precision of the previous Gulf <br>  <br> War, with many improvements (as we have had over a <br>  <br> decade to improve our technology).  We are not going <br>  <br> after civilians (like Sadam Hussein has), we are going <br>  <br> to neutralize his fighting capability&hellip; by whatever <br>  <br> means it takes.  Get a clue, get a life!  Study <br>  <br> history and learn something.  I will leave you with <br>  <br> the words of our last 5-star general, Douglas <br>  <br> MacArthur&hellip;  \"For history teaches with unmistakable <br>  <br> emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier <br>  <br> war. It points to no single instance where the end has <br>  <br> justified that means-where appeasement has led to more <br>  <br> than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis <br>  <br> for new and successively greater demands, until, as in <br>  <br> blackmail, violence becomes the only alternative.\" - <br>  <br> General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur <br>  <br> &gt;  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Regarding all of these anti-war protestors. They do not have a clue what is coming.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/02\/30667.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":30673,"heading":"Hitler","article":"Hitler had a whole country behind him - he did not do that alone - the people really thought he was doing &quot;good&quot; for his country Could he have convinced millions to go along with evil by saying it outright? They believed him just as you believe Bush is doing &quot;good&quot; for our country. ","author":"Carla","parent_id":30667,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-02-21 22:57:50","modified":"2003-02-21 22:57:50","fileurl":""},{"id":30683,"heading":"One more thing","article":"You said you are in the military...have you ever heard about Gulf War illness? The DOD has denied the truth of it but yet soldiers that served there have died or are very sick and  &quot;it&quot;  is spreading to their families (but the military says it's just stress). Maybe YOU should do some research and then you will realize that the army is the Gov. guniea pigs and they don't give a crap about you when you guys have taken your oaths to heart and they sweep you aside, I am disgusted that they treat you guys this way. Check out the documentary &quot;Hidden Wars of Desert Storm&quot; and some others on Gulf War Illness. ","author":"carla","parent_id":30667,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-02-21 23:31:59","modified":"2003-02-21 23:31:59","fileurl":""}]}