February 15, 2007
by John Galt
I had just left my local Kroger's Grocery in Cookeville, TN wandering to my car with my shopping cart when whammo. It felt like someone had just hit me in the head with a 2 by 4, but this was different. I was stunned by the blow and the noise. In my dazed condition, laying there on the ground, suddenly what looked like an infant's head rolled by me. Horrified, I snapped to, standing up, leaning on a car covered in glass. I took my hand and touched the back of my head and pulled a small, blood covered piece of glass out and realized I had been hit. It then dawned on me that my small town, in Podunk, USA had joined the long list of terror targets where we weren't supposed to get zapped in this war.
The stroller which a mom was pushing was impaled in pieces in the window of the car just ten feet away from me. The mother and what was left of the infant must have been buried under the pile of rubble which used to be the entrance to the store. On the wall by the entrance was a tangled mess of blood and twisted shopping carts where a teenage bag boy was just a minute ago. I ran up to the inside of the store to try to help and dozens of poor souls were laying there, elderly and young, black, white and latino, all covered in glass, blood and crying in pain.
Later that night, after a long 4 hours in the emergency room, I heard what happened on the local, now non-stop news. A video was playing over and over again of a Hezbollah suicide bomber screaming in Spanish that he was avenging the brothers attacking the people of Allah and urging others to follow him. "Spanish?", I thought, "what the hell is going on?" Then on the news, there was the National Guard, deployed and rounding up the migrants just outside of town. Hezbollah had infiltrated from Chiapas and South America the newscaster said. And after 33 suicide bombings in major cities by Middle Eastern attackers, a new phase in the war had opened. And it explained the suicide attack in Cancun the week before. The war was now total. And it was now home. Now I understand the answer to the question:
"Why we fight?"
This scenario might be outlandish for today's date and time, February of 2007. But within 30, 60 or 180 days from now, maybe not so insane. The insiders in Washington, DC are leaking, hinting, prepping, and basically advertising the fact that war with Iran and radical Islam is about to go "hot" and worldwide. But AIism (American Idolism) keeps the sheep distracted from confronting the upcoming reality. Some time soon we will be in not just a conventional war in the Middle East, far beyond Iraq and Afghanistan's borders, but at home we will be in an unconventional war. Where vacations on cruise ships, trips to the Caribbean or Mexico or just going to the grocery store might just become a life endangering proposition. Oh, they may not suicide bomb a cruise ship. It could be as simple as kidnapping two Americans and beheading them on video. The peacelovers, tree huggers, liberals, conspiracy freaks, radio hosts stuck on 9-11, and Israel haters will all be silenced (hopefully) and should shut up and accept the new reality: This upcoming war can not be stopped.
The Iranians and Islamic radicals have been mobilizing for twenty years for this World War and their troops are in position world wide. Not only is the Revolutionary Guard deployed on it's own borders, but within Iraq, the Gulf States, Afghanistan, and throughout Latin America, Canada, and the United States via their proxy army of Hezbollah agents. Yet we still live in denial. No different than the Archduke in 1914 or our military on December 6, 1941.
We entered World War I, in this writer's opinion, not to defend our nation. It was a contrived war by Woodrow Wilson to expand our empire on the cheap, and to prevent a world wide Japanese and German empire from being created. By allying with Japan against Germany the U.S. was able to obtain bases throughout the Pacific and keep the Japanese from starting it's expansionist desires at that time. And Germany was checked, temporarily, because the collapse of the Anglo-French colonial empire was unacceptable to us. And in World War II, we finally won the final victory that was put off from World War I.
We will have no choice in this upcoming war. Our troops are there and probably will be attacked in ways we never dreamed of. The audacity of the Iranian attack will be the obvious: they will use them rather than lose them. By engaging us, they can claim it was in defense and the Arab street will follow them, causing problems for our "allies" who want us to finally win this war. I use the term "allies" loosely, because they will not fight nor are really our friends. This war, as most world wars, is a result of nations attempting to maintain a status quo and expand their own powers at what they perceive as no cost to themselves. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Egypt, are desiring the Shiite sect be exterminated and they are doing everything they can to drag us into this conflict and fight this war for them. The Sunni Wahabism can not be established as the dominant radical sect of Islam until the Shia are terminated en masse.
In the mean time, a mean bear sits on the sidelines to profit hugely, even as their nation nosedives into irrelevancy, they are playing all sides in this war. Russia still believes in MAD and would never dare attack us. But when a nuke goes off on American soil, it is this writer's belief that their fingerprints will be all over it. Because they want us eliminated so their new tripartite alliance with China and India can divide up the economic spoils.
So what does this have to do with a Mexican Islamic convert blowing himself up (theoretically) at a Podunksville grocery store? Well, think people. We're already profiling, despite what our government says. But that hidden army, which could easily sneak in among the millions of illegals already in this nation, is waiting for orders. These could be some of the radical Islamic converts or just some of the die hard old communists wanting to get revenge for our activities in Columbia, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Under the guise of radical Islam, those nations can attack us unpunished and at will. By using the battle plans developed by Hezbollah and Hamas in the Middle East. Our nation is not ready for this.
Our people will not know how to deal with this on our own soil. We are not Israel, nor prepared to behave like that nation.
This is why we will fight this war. Because we have no choice. Get prepared. Or this nation too, shall perish from this earth.
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Waivers to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds double from 2003 to 2006
The number of waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal bacckgrounds has doubled in three years, according to press reports on data released by the Defense Department.
"The Army and Marine Corps are letting in more recruits with criminal records, including some with felony convictions, reflecting the increased pressure of five years of war and its mounting casualties," Lolita C. Baldor reports for the Associated Press.
In Wednesday's New York Times, Lizette Alvarez notes that "the number of waivers the military granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds has nearly doubled in the past three years, jumping to more than 8,000 in 2006 from about 4,900 in 2003, Department of Defense records show."
"In the past few years, the Army has employed a range of tactics to expand its diminishing pool of recruits," Alvarez adds. "It has offered larger cash bonuses for enlisting, allowed more high school dropouts and applicants with low scores on the Army's aptitude test to join, and loosened weight and age restrictions."
Excerpts from Associated Press article:
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According to data compiled by the Defense Department, the number of Army and Marine recruits needing waivers for felonies and serious misdemeanors, including minor drug offenses, has grown since 2003. The Army granted more than double the number of waivers for felonies and misdemeanors in 2006 than it did in 2003. Some recruits may get more than one waiver.
The military routinely grants waivers to admit recruits who have criminal records, medical problems or low aptitude scores that would otherwise disqualify them from service. Overall the majority are moral waivers, which include some felonies, misdemeanors, and traffic and drug offenses.
The number of felony waivers granted by the Army grew from 411 in 2003 to 901 in 2006, according to the Pentagon, or about one in 10 of the moral waivers approved that year. Other misdemeanors, which could be petty theft, writing a bad check or some assaults, jumped from about 2,700 to more than 6,000 in 2006. The minor crimes represented more than three-quarters of the moral waivers granted by the Army in 2006, up from more than half in 2003.
Army and Defense Department officials defended the waiver program as a way to admit young people who may have made a mistake early in life but have overcome past behavior. And they said about two-thirds of the waivers granted by the Marines are for drug use, because they — unlike the other services — require a waiver if someone has been convicted once for marijuana use.
Military grants more waivers to recruits
Associated Press | February 14, 2007
LOLITA C. BALDOR
The Army and Marine Corps are letting in more recruits with criminal records, including some with felony convictions, reflecting the increased pressure of five years of war and its mounting casualties.
According to data compiled by the Defense Department, the number of Army and Marine recruits needing waivers for felonies and serious misdemeanors, including minor drug offenses, has grown since 2003. The Army granted more than double the number of waivers for felonies and misdemeanors in 2006 than it did in 2003. Some recruits may get more than one waiver.
The military routinely grants waivers to admit recruits who have criminal records, medical problems or low aptitude scores that would otherwise disqualify them from service. Overall the majority are moral waivers, which include some felonies, misdemeanors, and traffic and drug offenses.
The number of felony waivers granted by the Army grew from 411 in 2003 to 901 in 2006, according to the Pentagon, or about one in 10 of the moral waivers approved that year. Other misdemeanors, which could be petty theft, writing a bad check or some assaults, jumped from about 2,700 to more than 6,000 in 2006. The minor crimes represented more than three-quarters of the moral waivers granted by the Army in 2006, up from more than half in 2003.
Army and Defense Department officials defended the waiver program as a way to admit young people who may have made a mistake early in life but have overcome past behavior. And they said about two-thirds of the waivers granted by the Marines are for drug use, because they — unlike the other services — require a waiver if someone has been convicted once for marijuana use.
Lawmakers and other observers say they are concerned that the struggle to fill the military ranks in this time of war has forced the services to lower their moral standards.
"The data is crystal clear. Our armed forces are under incredible strain and the only way that they can fill their recruiting quotas is by lowering their standards," said Rep. Marty Meehan (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., who has been working to get additional data from the Pentagon. "By lowering standards, we are endangering the rest of our armed forces and sending the wrong message to potential recruits across the country."
Army spokesman Paul Boyce said Tuesday he is concerned because the Pentagon data differs from Army numbers. But overall, he said, "anything that is considered a risk or a serious infraction of the law is given the highest level of review."
"Our goal is to make certain that we recruit quality young men and women who can keep America defended against its enemies," Boyce said.
The data was obtained through a federal information request and released by the California-based Michael D. Palm Center, a think tank that studies military issues.
"The fact that the military has allowed more than 100,000 people with such troubled pasts to join its ranks over the past three years illustrates the problem we're having meeting our military needs in this time of war," said Aaron Belkin, director of the center.
Belkin said a new study commissioned by the center also concludes that the military does not have any programs that help convicted felons adjust to military life.
In recent years, as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have dragged on, the military has also relaxed some standards in order to meet recruitment demands. The Army, for example, increased its age limit for recruits from 35 to 42, and is accepting more people whose scores on a standardized aptitude test are at the lower end of the acceptable range.
In its report, the Pentagon said, "The waiver process recognizes that some young people have made mistakes, have overcome their past behavior, and have clearly demonstrated the potential for being productive, law-abiding citizens and members of the military."
According to the Pentagon, nearly a quarter of new military recruits needed some type of waiver in 2006, up from 20 percent in 2003. Roughly 30,000 moral waivers were approved each year between 2003 and 2006.
The military in its report divides moral waivers into six categories: felonies, serious and minor non-traffic offenses, serious and minor traffic offenses and drug offenses. Because many states have different crimes categorized as a felony or misdemeanor, the groupings are more general.
About one in five Army recruits needed a waiver to enlist in 2006, up from 12.7 percent in 2003. In addition, the report showed that the Army granted substantially fewer waivers for drug use and serious traffic violations last year than in 2003.
More than half of the Marine recruits needed a waiver in 2006, a bit higher than in 2003, and largely due to their more strict drug requirements. Felony waivers made up about 2 percent of the Marine waivers, while other lesser crimes made up about 25 percent, both up slightly from 2003.
About 18 percent of Navy recruits required a waiver, up only slightly from 2003. Two-thirds of the waivers granted by the Navy were for misdemeanor-type crimes and about 5 percent were for felonies.
Just 8 percent of Air Force recruits had waivers, down a bit from 2003. Nearly all of the waivers were for the misdemeanor-type crimes.
