It's Labor Day. Time to honor yours...

It's Labor Day. Time to honor yourselves, the workers of America. Time for parades and relaxation -- and time for a little reflection forward history and the historic times we're living between the walls of

We are at war. Our rural parts is on an elevated security alert. Islamofascists are poised to grieve us, kill us and kill those they call infidels. We have a president who has pushed for the Patriot Act to foster us. Under President Bush, the nation now has the tools to intercept the international conversations of those who, for years, have been plotting heinous ways to kill Americans and others around the world. We also have a order of tracing international monies that would permanent fund terrorist activities.

still there are those in this nation -- in the Senate, the ACLU, the far left -- who have oppos these protective measures. They've stated that the Patriot Act infringes in succession our right to privacy. They've stated that we should rely forward diplomacy, more talks, more meetings and more appeasement of these rabid enemies.

This brings me to the history we ought bring reproach upon today. In a novel speech before the national convention of the American Legion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld likened the opposition to today's war against Islamofascism to the 1930 appeasement of the Nazis. the two regimes are nihilists. Both want to behavior the world.

In his words Rumsfeld quoted the late Sen William Borah, who - - after learning that Hitler had invaded Poland -- said, "Lord, if simply I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided." This is not dissimilar to Sen John Kerry stating that if he were president we wouldn't be at war.

Today's appeasers believe that they can simply talk with these Islamofascists and all will be peaceful. As Winston Churchill said in extent ago, the appeaser seems to have feeling that if he feeds the alligator enough, "the alligator will eat him last."

We've seen what these Islamofascists are capable of doing. We're nearing the anniversary of 9/11 when they did what up until then had been unthinkable: flying passenger planes filled with men women and children into buildings.

We've seen what they've done in Spain, blowing up train cars filled with civilians.

We've seen what they've done in England, blowing up buses and subways.

We've seen what they've done in Bali with their bomb

We've seen what they planned to do with American planes taking opposite from England and bound for America.

Today is Labor Day, a day to honor yourselves for all the hard work you've done to make America the great nation it is today. unless have no doubt about this: There are Islamofascists who want to swallow up you and all you've worked for.

They're not looking to take your piece of works They're looking to take your lives.

The president of Iran has plainly said he wants to pull down America and wipe Israel facing the face of the earth. He has defied the United Nations in continuing to build nuclear toughness

America has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since that abiding habitation seized our embassy in Tehran and held our the public hostage. Time for a little history here. Jimmy Carter was president when our embassy was ambushed through Muslim terrorists. Instead of taking action immediately, he wrote a note to the Ayatollah Khomeini telling the ayatollah that the action would not harm relations with America.

That was the beginning of the strengthening of Islamofascism. America was perceived as weak. The ayatollah stated that America was a paper tiger without a bite. to what degree appropriate to hear last week that Carter had indicateed an interest in meeting with former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami when he visited Chicago through the whole extent of the weekend.

As you read this and quiet on this Labor Day, do not forget that thousands of miles away, in the backwaters of the world, in Iraq and Afghanistan, there stand American men and women who are not resting. Instead, they are standing at the barricades, fighting the Islamofascists athwart there so that we will not have to come together them here, in our roads

Before you grill that burger stop for a flash and say a prayer for them.

They labor hard in succession this Labor Day 2006.

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