Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter: on War & Peace


Thad McCotter: America: Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old

Reagan led the rejuvenation of America's morale and economy, its Cold War victory over Communism, and its emergence as the world's sole superpower. Lincoln the founder, Roosevelt the builder, and Reagan the finisher--each met Alfred Lord Tennyson's summons to "live pure, speak true, right wrong," and led America as it transcended the generational challenges of the time. We take heart despite our trying times. As they did before us, we will seize our opportunity to sacrifice and suffer so we can transcend our great challenges and conserve our beloved country. Though we may be down, Americans are never out--indeed, no honorable people ever are. It remains as in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," wherein a disillusioned King Arthur awakens from a haunting dream of disaster, and by his side Sir Bedivere urges: "O me, my King, let pass whatever will. As yet thou shalt not pass. Arise, go forth and conquer as of old." America: As yet thou shalt not pass. Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old!
Source: Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter, p. 56-57 Feb 8, 2011

Thad McCotter: It's not a War ON Terrorism; but a War FOR Freedom

On Sept. 11, 2001, our nation was invaded, three thousand of our fellow Americans were murdered, and we were thrust into an unsought struggle--the War for Freedom--against the butcher bin Laden's death cult and Middle Eastern fascism. Frankly, the enemy lusts to kill us for our "sin" of being free. As the attacked, we do not primarily wage a War on Terrorism. We wage a War FOR Freedom. Our immediate enemy is "infidel fascism"; our long-term enemy is Iranian imperialism. Against the terrorists--for the liberty of generations unborn. Right now, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, and throughout the world, humanity is batting infidel fascism. In Islam, kufar means "infidels." Because al-Qaeda and bin Laden butcher innocents, including Muslims, they are the kufar who pervert Islam's peaceful path and sinfully seek to enslave others of God's children. Intensifying the threat, the enemy is also fascist. This hideous ideological concoction has cunningly adapted to a globalized world.
Source: Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter, p. 93-94 Feb 8, 2011

Thad McCotter: Afghan & Iraqi theaters are part of War for Freedom

    Truths in Our War for Freedom
  1. America is not engaged in a War on Terror. America is engaged in a War for Freedom.
  2. Afghanistan and Iraq were never separate wars; they have always been battle thaters in the War for Freedom.
  3. Our terrorist enemy is not novel. America has previously defeated enemies from sword-wielding pirates to nuclear-armed nations.
  4. This enemy knows it cannot defeat our military on the battlefield. The enemy is employing violence in an act of psychological warfare.
  5. To win this struggle, America must maintain its moral clarity, cognizant that the enemy is evil and we are emancipators.
  6. The enemy is avowedly imperialist; America is demonstrably a liberator. To safeguard our own freedom, we have extended freedom to more than 50 million Muslims.
  7. We must undertake a policy of constructive containment, which circles imperial nations with democracies until these tyrannies implode beneath their own peoples; desire to be free.
Source: Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter, p. 96-97 Feb 8, 2011

Thad McCotter: No retreat in arduous eradication of terrorists

Winning requires the arduous eradication of terrorists around the globe through diplomatic, economic, & military initiatives in tiered theaters of operations. There is no retreat in this unsought struggle. We are targeted by tyrants & terrorists who know they cannot enslave humanity so long as America and her allies breathe free. Salvation will not be denied us. The general public's perception of the threat is also assaulted by a far more insidious vision--namely, that it is an overblown threat.
Source: Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter, p.105-107 Feb 8, 2011

  • The above quotations are from Seize Freedom!
    American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age    ,
    by Rep. Thad McCotter.
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