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01-30-07 (I do a weekly TV program on our local PBS station. Here is an excerpt from a recent program, shortly after the Belguim tanker was hit in the Indian Ocean. At first they denied it was a terrorist attack.)

HISTORY IS AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF INFORMATION. WE EITHER STUDY IT AND LEARN FROM IT OR AT TIMES WE'LL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. THEY CAN BE HORRIBLE.

GOING BACK TO WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN SHIPS WERE ARMED, AND WE CARRIED A FULL GUN CREW ABOARD TO MAN THE GUNS. TODAY, WE HAVE HUGE TANKERS, THE SIZE OF FOOTBALL FIELDS, ROAMING THE SEAS, WITH CREWS HALF THE SIZE OF THOSE ON A WWII LIBERTY SHIP. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE ARM THOSE TANKERS, NOW, TODAY.

THE FRENCH TANKER WAS OBVIOUSLY A TARGET OF A TERRORIST ATTACK. THE ODDS THAT IT WAS ANYTHING ELSE ARE MINUTE. IT WASN’T SADDAM HUSSEIN, BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT TAKE THAT RISK AT THIS TIME. There is no environmental catastrophe too destructive or disastrous, even for the peoples of the world at large, for Saddam or the Muslim fanatics to undertake. The longer Saddam Hussein is allowed to remain in control, the greater ability he will have to dominate or win a war in the mid-east. The truth is that once he is in control, he also largely controls a good percentage of the world's oil, and that means he can severely impact the lives of all Americans, as well as other countries on this continent. He may be 10,000 miles away, but he is capable of affecting how we live and how we BUT YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT IT WAS AN AL QAEDA OR SIMILAR ORGANIZATION. PERHAPS THEY HIT THE WRONG SHIP, THEREFORE THE SILENCE ABOUT IT. (I do a weekly TV program on our local PBS station. Here is an excerpt from a recent program, shortly after the Belguim tanker was hit in the Indian Ocean. At first they denied it was a terrorist attack.)

HISTORY IS AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF INFORMATION. WE EITHER STUDY IT AND LEARN FROM IT OR AT TIMES WE'LL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. THEY CAN BE HORRIBLE.

GOING BACK TO WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN SHIPS WERE ARMED, AND WE CARRIED A  GUN CREW ABOARD TO MAN THE GUNS. TODAY, WE HAVE HUGE TANKERS, THE SIZE OF FOOTBALL FIELDS, ROAMING THE SEAS, WITH CREWS HALF THE SIZE OF THOSE ON A WWII LIBERTY SHIP. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE ARM THOSE TANKERS, NOW, TODAY.

THE FRENCH TANKER WAS OBVIOUSLY A TARGET OF A TERRORIST ATTACK. THE ODDS THAT IT WAS ANYTHING ELSE ARE MINUTE. IT WASN’T SADDAM HUSSEIN, BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT TAKE THAT RISK AT THIS TIME. There is no environmental catastrophe too destructive or disastrous, even for the peoples of the world at large, for Saddam or the Muslim fanatics to undertake. The longer Saddam Hussein is allowed to remain in control, the greater ability he will have to dominate or win a war in the mid-east. The truth is that once he is in control, he also largely controls a good percentage of the world's oil, and that means he can severely impact the lives of all Americans, as well as other countries on this continent. He may be 10,000 miles away, but he is capable of affecting how we live and how we BUT YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT IT WAS AN AL QAEDA OR SIMILAR ORGANIZATION. PERHAPS THEY HIT THE WRONG SHIP, THEREFORE THE SILENCE ABOUT IT.