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ORIGINAL: PhoenixLM
Secondly the terrosist will keep coming this is not Bushes fault, it is not the fault of Former President Carter (remeber Iran?) or any president in between. It is the fault of the Jhiad, and tyrants such as Sadom.
What nonsense thou doth prattle! The invasion of the American embassy in Tehran was assisted by the CIA, who were trying to regain the influence they had lost with the overthrow of Reza Shah. Have you forgotten so soon that Colonel North sold or supplied them wirh arms and that, almost as soon as President Hopalong was elected, the hostages were freed under a secret deal the Republicans had cooked up?
The Taliban and Al Queda were also partly the creation of America, as they supplied the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan with weapons to fight and defeat the Soviet Union. Once the "Evil Empire" was toppled, the foreign fighters in Afghanistan started to look for other targets and, as the aid from America had ceased and as their crackpot version of "radical Islam" was gaining favour due to the repressive tactics of Israel to the Palestinian people, they had little difficulty in declaring a jihad against American Imperialism.
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ORIGINAL: PhoenixLM
From that article I feel the author wants us to stop fighting and stop defending ourselves and become the sheep the terrorist wish we were.
Phooey. You cannot stop terrorism by armed conflict any more than you could stop a forest fire with a feather duster.
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ORIGINAL: PhoenixLM
My Opinion But I will not lay my life down by doing nothing to prevent terrorist.
But that is exactly what the Bush administration is doing; they are doing nothing to reduce recruitment by the terrorist organisations or to prevent the incursion of insurgents into Iraq from neighbouring countries. Nor are they doing much - if anything - to prevent the supply of weapons and bomb-making supplies from Iran. All Bush cares about is that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons which, if that was even planned by Iran, would still be years in the future. Bush seems not to perceive the present threat posed by the Iranian theocracy and generally gives the impression he has his head up his ass.
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ORIGINAL: PhoenixLM
The brave man and women who risk thier lives to protect your freedoms and your freedom to disrespect them and thier choices, do not disrespect you they protect you the same as they do me and I thank them.
Whilst paying due respect and homage to the bravery of the coalitiion forces in Iraq, it must nevertheless be stated that they are doing precisely nothing to keep America safe from terrorism. Indeed, until the overthrow of Saddam's murderous regime, there were no terrorists or Al Queda people operating from within Iraq, but now there are. Exactly how is that progress and exactly how is America made safer by becoming despised by more people?
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ORIGINAL: PhoenixLM
The American people are strong and will continue to be strong as long as we pull together to accomplish goals, wiping out attackers of things such as 911, the British Rail and bus bombings as well as other countries who have been terrorized BUT WE MUST STAND TOGETHER, we can not continue this political war on our own soil...
Nuff Said
Do you also write the piffle spoken by Bush?
The terror attacks of 7/7 in London were not carried by Afghanis, Iraqis, Iranians or, indeed, any other foreign nationals. All the bombers were born in the UK. They may have been indoctrinated abroad or by people from other countries, but it is more than slightly impossible to prevent the free flow of information in a democracy.
It is also impossible to "wipe out the attackers", as the threat comes as much (or more) from naturalised or second (or third) generation immigrants who have been angered by the actions of America or Britain and who have been persuaded by propaganda claiming that the west has embarked on a war against Islam. What would you do: round them all up, make America into a police state, ask anyone you think might be a suspect whether they are now, or have ever been, a Moslem?
And if you do that, what has happened to the concept of religious freedom on which America was founded?
Ben Franklin stated that he who would surrender some of his personal liberty in exchange for some temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety. I would say that he had a much better understanding of the issues involved than the dry drunkard in the Whitehouse.
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