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Originally Posted by SOUNWORTHY
These are not Americans to be protected by our liberties they are prisoners of a war started by those who killed over 3,000 innocent people.
Yes I was in the military for 5 years. I'm a disabled Korean vet and proud of it!
I didn't serve for the freedom of the Muslims but the freedom of the American people.
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Well then, I'd expect you to know better. You see, there's a fundamental disconnect between you and me. You think that our liberties are provided by the Government and since they are not American citizens their liberties don't matter. I hate to inform you...but our founders explicitly taught us the opposite. Our liberties are NOT provided by Government. Our liberties are God given...and God given liberties are for all men regardless of citizenship.
Secondly, most of these are not "Taliban" or "al Queda". Most are Iraqis from various factions and groups who wanted hegemony in Iraq. I know the conservative mind has a short memory and struggles with differentiation...but Iraq never attacked us. Al Queda backed by the Taliban attacked us. Iraq was a war of choice. We expanded the war to include the Iraqis...the records show that while Al Queda was operating in Iraq, Saddam saw them as a threat to his power and was launching his own operations to suppress them. Saddam was a secularist who used religion as a tool....he highly distrusted Wahabbist Islam and the religious extremists.
*Interesting note here. Under Saddam things were bad...but things are regressing in Iraq. For example magistrates could be female under Saddam...not so now. Fundamentalist religious factions now have a say in the Iraqi government. My prediction....when we leave...rather in two years or 10 years...religious fundementalists will seize power using democracy. They will manipulate the people religiously to get their votes. Iraq will be a greater threat in 10 years than it ever was under Saddam's secularist socialist dictatorship.