Salute to the USS Cole And Her Sailors

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by don1reed

...I believe the attacks were in, Afghanistan and the Sudan. The attack in Iraq was against, Suddam for messing with the Kurds...

Here's to the USS Cole and her noble crew.

The satellite pictures of the terrorist training camp in Iraq were in just about every newspaper in the country and on all national television news networks. So was the story and pictures about the sarin gas artillery shell and the orders to use the WMDs on troops attacking Bagdad. One of those shells was even detonated around our troops, but a contrary wind blew the gas in the wrong direction. I believe there were no casualties from that shell. Our memories tend to be shaped by our worldview, unfortunately, and the facts are trampled. Just for one link to a positive test of an Iraqi terrorist training camp for WMD gasses by MSNBC, a news organization not particularly in love with the war, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3070394/. Note that although the camp was apparently not run by Sadaam, it certainly must be presumed to have been there with his approval.

Salute! to all servicemen in all our western countries' militaries, who risk their lives so that ours might be safer. Gone are the days when our military organizations' purpose is conquest (and good riddance!). Now left are those tough choices of when to use them to defend against enemies of our civilization. Seldom are those choices easy or clearcut. Many times those choices must go against what we wish we could do. Duty takes us to strange and forbidding places, like ships which sink on purpose!