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Independence Day Special 2005

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 
War!
Thomas M. Miovas, Jr.

[Note: This was written regarding the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001
on the World Trade Center.]

I think we should have already been bombing the various countries that 
house terrorists and are now dancing with joy in their streets.

Even if it turns out that this terrorist attack was home grown -- as was 
the Oklahoma City bombing -- terrorists around the world are now emboldened 
with the dreadful site of the collapse of the World Trade Center in New 
York City, the shutting down of our entire air infrastructure, the attack 
on the Pentagon, the evacuation of Washington D.C., and sounds of Americans 
on the talk radio airwaves waking up to the realization that we are 
vulnerable to such atrocities.

Notice how no one is taking responsibility for this outrage -- for they 
know it has gone too far and they fear retribution.

I say we give it to them NOW. The longer we wait, the more hesitant we 
appear -- and they will see us as cowards.

As I was driving to work this morning (Tuesday, 9/11) and began to hear the 
reports live across the radio, I shouted: NUKE THEM NOW!

The terrorist organizations and countries around the world want us to feel 
fear and defeat.

I don't feel fear; what I feel is a seething anger the likes of which I 
have never felt before -- and I want the revenge of sweet justice.

If this is never to happen again in the entire civilized world, we need to 
take swift retribution against all terrorists -- foreign and domestic.

Take them ALL out at once -- immediately! -- because even if a particular 
terrorist group was not responsible this time, it was not from a lack of 
intent.

They want to live by a code of death.

We need to make sure they die by a code life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness.


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