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Nope, WW III started in 1979 when our embassy in Iran was invaded and US hostages were taken.

This informative email has been circulating on the net:



> Did you know that WW III started in 1979?
>
> You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask
> yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is
> bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, re-set the snooze alarm, go
> back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again.
>
> In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that
> alarm has been ringing for years.
>
> U.S. Navy Captain Phil Ouimette, is the Executive Officer at Naval Air
> Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of a speech he gave.
>
> It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why
> this action is so necessary.
>
> AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
>
> That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more
> than 3,000 Americans were killed -AD) and maybe it was, but I think it
> should have been "Get Out of Bed!". In fact, I think the alarm clock
> has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze
> button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
>
> It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a
> religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students
> attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an
> outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's
> most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on
> this sovereign U. S. Embassy set the stage for events to follow for the
> next 23 years.
>
> America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience
> and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President
> Carter, had to do some thing. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in
> the desert.
>
> The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's
> inability to deal with terrorism.
>
> America's military had been decimated and downsized/right sized since
> the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly
> organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was
> doomed from the start.
>
> Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and
> killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect
> her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil
> continued.
>
> In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven
> into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63
> people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once
> more.
>
> Then just six short months later a large truck heavily laden down with
> over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine
> Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America
> mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
>
> Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives
> is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her
> slumber.
>
> The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the
> gates of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
>
> Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a
> restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.
>
> Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the
> main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the
> snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are
> continually attacked.
>
> Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and
> we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the
> passenger list and executed.
>
> The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners
> when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the
> most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988,
> killing 259.
>
> Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still
> trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
>
> The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder. The terrorists decide to
> bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and
> killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
>
> The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested
> after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground
> parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people
> are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an
> act of war?
>
> The Snooze alarm is depressed again. Then in November 1995 a car bomb
> explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven
> service men and women.
>
> A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35
> yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It
> destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and
> injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they
> see that America does not respond decisively.
>
> They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US
> embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with
> precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks
> and goes back to sleep.
>
> The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12
> October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded
> killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war,
> but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
>
> And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans
> think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong
> they are.
>
> America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit
> the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
>
> In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high
> officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know.
>
> But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you
> can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA
> or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been
> developing since1979.
>
> The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think
> we have been in a war for the past 23 years and it will continue until
> we as a people decide enough is enough.
>
> America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has
> been changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the
> sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep
> hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to
> sleep.
>
> After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "...it seems all
> we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need
> to disseminate to terrorists around the world.
>
> Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage,
> political or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn't
> have the backbone to do both Democrat and Republican. This is not a
> political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an
> AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our
> children in years to come.

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