Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: A Soldier's Father Speaks Out

1. China Gets More U.S. Secrets
Another un-ratified U.N. treaty has benefited communists at the expense of
the U.S., thanks once again to the Clinton administration's 'legacy.'
In yet another example of how the former president sold out America's
security to Red China, a defense department official tells Insight magazine
how the Clinton administration handed over technology in order to keep
within the "spirit" of the controversial Law of the Sea Treaty.
Senior strategic adviser Peter Leitner says giving away highly sensitive
underwater technology -- which the Chi-coms 'demanded' under the pretense of
needing it for manganese mining on the ocean floor -- compromised American
submarine movement and could help Beijing to run submarines undetected just
off the coast of the U.S.
"The quality of the side-scanning sonar, deep-ocean bathymetric equipment,
cameras, lights, remotely operated vehicles and associated submersible
technology provided them the capability to locate, reach and destroy, or
salvage early-warning and intelligence sensors vital to our national
security," said Leitner at a recent hearing.
Leitner also said that the technology allowed our "chief potential military
adversary" to map any area of the oceans or continental shelves to determine
submarine routing schemes or where missile-launching or intelligence
gathering submarines may operate undetected just off the coast of the U.S.
"The ultimate nightmare would be a close-in, submarine-launched
cruise-missile attack upon the continental U.S. to which we are completely
vulnerable and defenseless."
Leitner fought a "lonely battle" to keep the technology out of Beijing's
clutches, to no avail.
"The zealous advocates of the treaty in several government agencies saw to
it that the technology was provided to the People's Republic of China so as
not to undermine the "spirit of the treaty," said Leitner.
Editor's Note: A Chinese military manual first noted that bin Laden could
attack the World Trade Center - read here for the full story.
2. A Soldier's Father Speaks Out
A gentleman from Virginia, proud parent of a decorated Army officer serving
in Iraq, writes to us, "I am so fed up with the anti-American propaganda
coming from some Americans that I wrote the open letter below. I will
appreciate it very much if you include it": [text of letter follows]
An open letter to some political partisans, especially certain politicians
and people in the media: I have a son who is an American soldier in Iraq.
I care very much about what affects him and his comrades in arms.
I am not fooled, when you partisans spew propaganda that helps our enemies
and harms our soldiers, then tell us you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you focus on, highlight, and exaggerate the negative
things that happen in Iraq, while ignoring our positive accomplishments,
then tell us you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you focus attention on American soldiers killed and
wounded in Iraq, to use these brave patriots as an anti-Iraq-war political
football, then tell us you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you keep criticizing why and how we invaded Iraq -
that is done; our troops are there - then tell us you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you engage in constant, carping criticism of what the
U.S. has done and is doing in Iraq, then tell us you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you search for and trumpet to the world anything that
will diminish respect for our soldiers and their leaders - even when it
endangers greatly their lives, then tell us you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you tell our soldiers and the rest of us that they are
stuck in a "quagmire" and will suffer a Vietnam-type defeat, then tell us
you support our troops.
I am not fooled, when you spout propaganda that undermines the morale of our
soldiers and the American public and boosts the morale of our enemies, then
tell us you support our troops.
You are giving aid and comfort to our nation's deadly enemies! They know
they cannot defeat us militarily in Iraq. However, you cause them to think
they can win here politically by breaking our will, if they kill and wound
enough of our soldiers.
You despicable partisans! You are stimulating our enemies to attack our
soldiers and the people working with them. The blood of many Americans and
Iraqis is already on your hands. And your hands collect more blood every
day!
You are determined to regain the political power you have lost, and you
believe your presidential candidate and congressional candidates will win,
if the U.S. fails in Iraq.
If your anti-American propaganda contributes to the deaths of many Americans
and Iraqis, that is a price you are willing to make them pay. You are
pathetic and dangerous!
I am not fooled, when you contemptible politicians and other political
partisans, including many in the media, tell us you support our troops. I
know that is a lie!
I am not fooled, when you claim spreading your pernicious, divisive,
anti-American venom makes you patriotic. I know it does not - and I know you
are not!
3. Mystic: Iraqi Prisoner Photos a 'Set-up'
We usually don't report on psychic phenomena - "out there" as it is.
Still, we get some unusual observations over the transom from time to time.
One mystic we have covered is Elizabeth Baron of 
elizabethbaron.com
, who
seemed to have great revelations during the Washington sniper story. Days
before police captured Muhammad and Malvo, Baron was on a national radio
program (it was recorded) and said the feds had it all wrong: there were two
shooters, one younger, another older; that they were motivated by religion;
and that they were driving a blue car. At the time, FBI profilers said there
was only a single white male conducting the killings, and reports had him
driving a white van.
As it turned out, the older Muhammad and the younger Malvo, both Muslims,
were captured in a blue car days later.
Interestingly, Baron e-mailed us early this week and said the revelation she
got from a saint told her that "the people in the videotape who are doing
the Iraqi prisoners wrong --- that is a setup."
We found it interesting that this reference to a "videotape" came days
before Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon first said that the abuse scandal
includes videotape of these incidents.
"I cannot understand why the public has not picked up this information,"
Baron's revelation offered, adding that there are some powerful forces
behind this story.
"The authority goes pretty high up but it is a setup to make the President
of the United States and to make America look stupid and to be seen with two
faces," she said.
Here are some more revelations that we can't endorse but certainly find
interesting:
"It is very important for the President to get to the culprit. The man [or
woman] who is behind all that wears a tan uniform and has two stars on his
shoulders. He is an individual who hates the American way and wants to see
changes in America. He does not have an interest in winning a war. That is
definitely not his interest. This man has been paid millions and millions of
dollars to do this awful thing. It doesn't take someone who is really bright
to look at these videos and see that they are staged. And everything that
was done was staged so that it would look so ridiculous. It is important for
the Intelligence to get to the bottom of this. They will find that an
officer [which could be a man or a woman] who is very high up will have
money put in a Swiss bank. It will not be in his name though. It will be in
a woman's name who is connected with him/her and she is not American. She is
not his wife; she is a girlfriend, but this money will be transferred around
in years to come. This money was put together by a number of people who got
together and planted this little scheme right in the middle of political
battles in America. It was meant to make the President look silly. It is
important for everyone to pray for peace because this war can go into
another war and that could go into another war and as you know, two of the
most dangerous places on earth are Iran and North Korea. These people have
the ability to create mass destruction in many ways so it is important for
everyone to pray for peace at this time."

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