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9/11
I'm not sure whether this beinglongs in activsm or not but I think that when the airplanes hit the twin towers on 9/11, the terroists actually thought what they were doing what the right thing to do. I know that they shouldn't have done it in such a destructive manner but isn't that what we're doing now? We're completely destroying Iraq and are we immature enough to say when we all realize that this was an idiotic thing to do, "Well, they started it!" Does anybody else agree with me?
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you make a good point there. we're not too much better than them, we're pretty much doing what they did to us. i don't like bush, so if you were looking for something unbiased, you won't get it from me...but hey..i'm trying. :)
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I completely agree with you and I know I'm going to catch hell for this, but so what.. I don't know any of you.
The war is one big waste. We went to find weapons of mass destruction and we've yet to find them.. but still our soldiers and innocence people are dying everyday because the so called leader of our country can't get his act together and get our men out of there. We got Sadaam. What more does Bush want? Oil? Does he not realize that the Iraq people aren't gonna give it up without a fight? That's why the gas prices are so outrageous. We can get oil from other places.. Hell... Alaska has enough oil to keep us going for at least 20 or 30 years but Bush doesn't seem to care about that. He just wants to wage war against people who've done nothing to us (except for the terrorist and they weren't from Iraq they were from Afganistan). And now that no more people are volunteering to go to war anymore, Bush has decided he wants to make a draft starting in 2005. And if the bill is passed anyone who turns 18 can just be drafted right into the war. Do you think that's fair to make someone who doesn't even believe in the crap, go? Didn't think so.
ANd about another girls statement she made about either being with the terrorist or with your country.. Well you don't have to support the war just to support your country. I love America.. I just don't like the way it's being run.
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You should stick by your country! Your either with us or the terrorists! And if you join them you will be convicted of treason and executed.
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I do!
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Yes, I understand completely and totally agree! It's definitely the minority opinion, but hang tight to those thoughts there.
By the way.. I have to set you straight here. Though it's contraversial - 9/11 and Iraq are NOT RELATED.
The people who crashed those planes on 9/11 were part of Al Quaeda, a terrorist organization in Afghanistan. Which is why we went to Afghanistan first.
The claims that the ex-government of Iraq was linked to Al Quaeda were shaky at best. The reason we invaded Iraq is because they refused to hand over weapons of mass distruction, as per some decade-old U.N. agreement, and were supposed to have destroyed these weapons. How they could hand over weapons they were supposed to have destroyed, it beats me. This somehow got caught up in the theory that Saddam Hussein is evil and needed to be taken out of power. Not saying he wasn't, but there's a lot of better things governments can do in their spare time than take over chaotic nations.
Sorry for the long post... hope that helped a bit?
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It may sound childish but They started it and were going to finish it. You cant expect for them to come over here and take away innocent people from the families and we not do anything about that? Come on now.
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Even if 9/11 hadn't happened I think there would still be a war in iraq. Bush was mad that saddam tried to kill his dad, and iraq has oil.
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When we put murderers in jail, we don't do it just to punish them. We do it because they're dangerous people and we don't want them out on the streets. Same with the war in Iraq. It wasn't just fought because we were mad, it was fought because it was home to militant extremists who we thought could be terrorists. We're trying to not be destructive, trying not to hurt civilians, which is very different from terrorists who try to hurt <i>mostly</i> civilians. We're not trying to destroy Iraq, we're trying to change leadership, so the terrorists don't have quite as many friends there.
Many people are for or against the war but it's not a black and white issue, there are many reasons for and against it.
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In away we are doing the same thing, and worst to our countrym over 600 more americans died because of Bush's rage as well as other active Americans that believe we belong there. But let me put it this way.
Someone you don't like beats up your little brother/sister. What do you do? if you know you are fully capable of getting back at them? You fight them.
We are doing the same thing, they hurt us majorly now its our turn to make thngs right.
Im not saying I agree with Bush's decision to try and take over their country but Im not saying we should be passive and let this go unnoticed.
Cspinoza1
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Umm... no.
they slammed planes in an act of stealth, hiding amongst us to strike and kill unsuspecting innocents... and it wasn't done by Iraqis.
In Iraq, the US military was launched, war was openly declared, and we did exactly what we said we were going to do.
I really think you need to do some serious research on this, as the very limited breadth of what you know (or the wealth of what you don't know) is rather apparent. This site is definitely not the place to get educated on foreign affairs.
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Advicenators probably isn't the best site to ask that sort of question. Why not go to the Politics Forum at Spacefem.com
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