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Mr. President, Give Americans One Good Reason Why We Should Feel Safe With
You In
Charge?
By Lisa Richards
January 11, 2009
Ever since Barry Obama took office, the War On
Terror has become criminal
activity handled with kid gloves. Obama campaigned against Gunatanimo
Bay, announcing
he would shut the installation down if elected. Obama
kept his promise, stating by 2011 Gitmo will close.
Since the announcement, there have been two strikes in America and one
outside: the Fort Hood attack by an American
Islamic terrorist and U.S.
soldier/psychologist working on the base murdered his fellow soldiers in
the name of
Allah and Islam. He was known for being anti-American,
anti-west, trying to convert fellow soldiers to Islam.
Next, the brutal 2009 attack on CIA officers by an Islamic terrorist, who
made a video prior to the attack, explaining
his reasons for the attack:
Pakistani Taliban leader Beitullah Mehsud was killed by an America drone
in the summer
of 2009.
According to terrorist al-Balawi, “We say that we will never forget the
blood of our Emir Beitullah
Mehsud…To retaliate for his death in the
United States and outside the United States will remain an obligation
on
all emigrants who were harbored by Beitullah Mehsud…The Jordanian and the
American intelligence services
offered me millions of dollars to work with
them and to spy on mujaheddin here, but hamd'allah (thanks be to god)
I
came to the mujaheddin and I told them everything. We arranged together
this attack [on the CIA]”
Then on Christmas day 2009, 23 year-old Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab boarded Northwest Airlines
flight 253 with 80 grams of the
plastic explosive PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate), along with a
chemical fuse,
stuffed in his underwear (Richard Reid had 50 grams of PETN
in his sneakers when he lit them Christmas 2001, in
an attempt to blow up
a plane), which he lit in flight over Detroit, Michigan. Passengers who
saw smoke coming
from the Nigerian’s blanket extinguished the bomb.
PETN, used by the military, cannot be detected by metal
detectors, thus
Abdulmutallub was able to walk through security. He was not profiled
despite the fact his
identity was listed as dangerous. His own father
warned the U.S. Embassy his son was a threat to America; Abulmutallub
has
been on a terror “Watch List,” but not placed on the “No Fly” list, which
prevents one
from boarding a flight.
(http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/28/airline.terror.attempt/index.html)
When questioned by investigators, Abdulmutallub stated he “acquired [the
explosives]
in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be
used.”
(http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-yemen-planned-northwest-flight-253-bomb-plot/story?id=9426085)
Abdulmutallub admitted he is an al Qaeda recruit and the attack was in
retaliation for U.S. attacks
on Yemen soil. But as Fox News and the
London Times report, the U.S. airstrikes occurred on December 17, 2009,
Abdulmutallub purchased his one-way ticket on December 16, 2009, the day
before the Yemen strikes, proving he and al
Qaeda planned the attack well
in advance. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581355,00.html)
Islamic sites are hailing the Nigerian terrorist as a “hero” for the
“attack,”
and the fact their “brother” “passed through security”
undetected.
Though the FBI
says the amount of PETN could only blow a hole in the
plane, the fact is the plane was in flight, a hole in the fuselage
would
have brought the plane down, killing 300 people on board. What is worse
is the fact Abdulmutallub was
not taken into custody by counter terrorist
experts and sent to Gitmo for interrogation, he was read Mirandized like
a
common criminal and then taken to a Federal Prison in Milan, Michigan
where he was arraigned, pleading “not
guilty” to the charges of committed
terrorism.
(http://abcnews.go.com/WN/umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-pleads-guilty-attempted-plane-bombing/story?id=9510524)
The Underwear Bomber, like Richard Reid and the 9/11 hijackers, purchased
a one-way ticket
and was on a watch list and considered dangerous to
America. Like the majority of terrorists, Adbulmutallub was
not poor;
rather he came from well-to-do family, is an an engineering graduate
student who, according to Britain’s
Independent, has been living the life
of luxury in London, proving it is not poverty that makes one a terrorist,
nor
war, since Muslim terrorists always strike the U.S., or Israel, first.
It is religion, intolerance for mankind, and racism
toward non-Muslims,
which Americans and Westerners will not admit to for fear of being called
racist.
Obama
has been the worst offender in the area of tolerance and
carelessness in protecting America: he appeases Islam while
disregarding
its threat, telling tolerance-numb Europe that “Islam has a place in
America,” and “America
is one of the largest Muslim countries.”
On August 6, 2009, The Washington Times reported “It’s
official. The U.S.
is no longer engaged in a ‘war on terrorism.’ Neither is it fighting
‘jihadists’
or in a ‘global war.’” Head of White House Homeland Security
Office John Brennan told the Times
“The President does not describe this
as a ‘war on terrorism.’” The reason, according to
Brennan, Obama feels
words have an effect on how people are perceived and how others react.
Never mind the
fact Islamic terrorist’s words and actions have severe
effects on mankind. The last time I checked,
America was not at war with
Catholics, Protestants, or Jews.
Brennan further declared the Obama Administration
refuse terrorism
rhetoric because “terrorism is but a tactic, a means to an end, which in
al Qaeda’s
case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate… [and] You
can never fully defeat a tactic like terrorism any
more than you can
defeat the tactic of war itself.” Brennan said using such phrases like
“war
on terror” assumes we are war with Islam. Thank God Patton and
MacArthur did not believe such kowtowing rubbish
about Nazi’s and the
Japanese.
Obama has weakened America, placing America at high risk with his words
and lack of actions.
In early 2009, Obama stated he was “trying to come up with a phrase that
better
articulates a hopeful message [than war terror].” He came up with
“Overseas Contingency Operation,”
a term actually defined as Possible
Unforeseen Out Of The Country Event requiring the Process of Procedural
Maneuvers
to take care of Business.
Technically, Obama put the war, and terrorists, in the same category of a
G8 or
G20 Summit on free-trade.
President Bush called terror what it is, terror, further declaring “Our
enemy
is a radical network of terrorists and every government that
supports them. Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda,
but it does not
end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach
has been found, stopped
and defeated.” Bush used the phrase “axis of
Evil,” Reagan called the Soviets “The evil
Empire.” Obama refuses such
expressions. It would insult Islam and have an emotional effect on
terrorists.
Obama allows terror to attack America through his insistence to close
Gitmo, permitting terrorists to be treated
as civilians, forbidding
interrogations, claiming it is torture, expressing tolerance and gentle
rhetoric, his asking
Iran for sit-down peace talks, when it is considered
surrender in Islam for the enemy—America—to ask for
peace.
The fact terrorists are allowed civilian court arraignment, receiving
habeas corpus, is in effect handing
America over to terrorists. These
monsters cannot be reasoned with, they do not seek or desire peace and
negotiations;
they plan and commit war and death. They are not common
criminals; they are destroyers of mankind, their ultimate
goal.
Why should any American feel safe to fly? Why should Americans feel safe
with Barry Obama as Commander
and Chief of the United States Military? He
won’t let them, or the CIA he wants imprisoned for rightful interrogating,
do their job.
According to CIA Bomber, “What we [Islamic terrorists] strive for cannot
be exchanged
for all the wealth in the world. This attack will be the
first of the revenge operations against the Americans.”
In Obama’s latest speech, he had no choice but to refer to the Underwear
Bomber’s actions as “war
on Terror.” But his “Buck stops here with me”
idiom holds no ground. He has lost his presidency
by proving he cannot
keep America safe, because he does not want to fight the very people he
was raised with: Islam.
Lisa Richards Copyright©™ All Rights Reserved January 11, 2010
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