The Third World War has Commenced...

Yesterday, the U.S. Secretary of Defence laid out the pretext for commencing World War III.

[link to www.iranfocus.com]

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged America's allies to increase their military spending to prevent the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire."

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"We could choose to pretend, as some suggest, that the enemy is not at our doorstep. We could choose to believe, as some contend, that the threat is exaggerated.

"But those who would follow such a course must ask: what if they are wrong? What if at this moment, the enemy is counting on being underestimated, counting on being dismissed, and counting on our preoccupation," Rumsfeld said.

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"They seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re-establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent," he said. "They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire."

Likening the war on terror to the Cold War, Rumsfeld said the battle could be won if nations persevered. He invoked Merkel's own experience - growing up in Communist East Germany to become chancellor of a unified Germany.

"Freedom prevailed because our free nations showed resolve when retreat would have been easier, and showed courage when concession seemed simpler," he said.

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Earlier today, on Fox News, liberal commentator Juan Williams said Islam looks like a "weak religion" for not being able to "stand a cartoon".

[link to media.michellemalkin.com]

Has World War III begun? I find this comment on Jihadwatch.com particularly chilling:

"Almost there. The only thing extreme about this vision of a global Islamic Empire is the amount of awareness that must be stimulated in the collective non-Muslim consiousness. The revival of the caliphate and subjugation of the non-Muslim populations around the globe is not an extreme concept to the Muslim man-in-the-street, never has been, never will be. It is just run of the mill, ordinary, ho-hum, daily thought process that every Muslim engages in every day. It is the universal aspiration of the mainstream adherents of the Islamic ideology. It is the preoccupation of more than a billion people. The irony is that they do not hide it. The non-Muslim world has simply chosen not to believe it. Well believe it folks. They mean what they say and they say that you and your families must submit or die. So what are you going to do about it? I'm perfecting my 2nd Amendment skills."

[link to www.jihadwatch.org]