Five Years Ago Today

USS Cole - Five Years Ago Today

How soon we all forget.
Not a word mentioned anywhere on the news today about the USS Cole!
Shame on us all.

I foung this on NEIN today and thought I would pass it on to ATS, Interesting comments on the WOT.

Michelle Malkin
Nothing To See Here - Move Along
By Michelle Malkin
October 12, 2005

Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.

Too many of us were blind in 2000 -- unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.

The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision.

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