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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (2214)	9/14/2001 2:42:19 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51708

So... I almost had to take E up on her offer of calling. I was down to crunch time funds wise and was set to leave Monday morning. I decided that they didn't need an extra car on the road that was without purpose and went out to get cash to stay another night. I got home with 24 bucks, 15 bucks in quarters, and a gas card with some money left on it. But that is easy stuff. This is not easy. I have only read a bit but I am not sure really that people realize we are not only at war but in a terribly dangerous war? They want 100,000 to 200,000 of us to die each day. That means biological. Think they can't do it? They can. They have money. Backwater desert rats not worth our time? They can only do little strikes? We know better now and should have always. They have money. Money is power. All the SI'ers who are well off should know that. Their strike would have succeeded with taking out the White House and Congress but not for cell phones and heroes. Incredible heroes. The Pentagon was a target? No way. Those people took it down at the last minute, too. I believe that. Think about it from a criminal perspective... the Pentagon is only symbolic. Take out what they did of the building... so what? Take out Congress and the White House? That's the aim. Their only mistake was not doing it all in a 30 minute window. And the boy prince may just become a warrior king. And he'd better. Don't think they don't want masses of us to die and they aren't capable of it. They do and they are. And the time is now. My first moment of seeing GWB become something more than a preppy drunk turned evangelical was seeing him step from the helicopter and walk to the White House without an escort, without anyone at all beside him. He claimed it. Granted there were bombers in the sky, but it was the symbolism of it. "This is my house, this is our house, this is our land". We have to defend it with our lives right now, with our attention, our sacrifice, with our understanding that we are at war. The bull market baby flushed money middle aged folks and children are challenged to stand before their aged parents and dead parents of the depression and Second World War and show they have the same mettle. Or we will die. That's all there is to it. We don't grieve for the dead and those who loved them, clean up the mess, and move on in a week or two. This is now, it is here. I, personally, will do everything I can to support the wayward prince in becoming the warrior he must be to lead us, and hope that the people of this country are not so fat and happy that they can not take the steps Americans have always taken in times such as these. And... I drove 850 miles today. Maybe I thought too much. But I say it all anyway. This isn't fat and happy time and I get to spend hours online arguing with people and trying to destroy my fellow Americans. This is... we do it together or forget it. And if you won't do it with us? Get out of the way. You won't be noticed anyway. Spit your venom and enjoy the fruits the work of others bring you. (and you know that last thing was NOT meant for any regulars here) Now... I will be busy for awhile... I will stay in touch when I can via phone and e-mail. Choosie the loose cannon