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Originally Posted by mardigras
When I said "for whatever reason", it was to encompass all of them. Not all of them are fighting because "a large foreign army invaded their sovereign nation". Many are fighting purely because their religion teaches them of the great Jihad and they want to be the generation.
It's not the same comparing Bush to Sadaam. If somehow Bush got permanent dictatorship power and killed his opposers then you could make the comparison of someone coming to "liberate" America. We get a chance to "liberate" ourselves every 4 years, lazy voters and hackable paperless voting machines notwithstanding.
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Your all-encompassing statement doesn't hold true though. Many of them are fighting against the invaders. And yes, many others are fighting everything that moves. Muslims are fighting Muslims purely because of opportunity provided.
By western standards its not the same comparing Bush to Saddam, but thats a pretty one-sided opinion. Democracy isn't the end-all be-all of political systems. There are many people (right or wrong isn't the issue) in the world see it as an evil. Step back 20 years and imagine the USSR invading (memories of Red Dawn) to force communism on the USA because it was their idea of the best solution to end 'democratic corruption'.
If you were told today that the USA would be invaded, many of your friends and family would die, but the USA would be a better place 20-30 years from now because of it, would that offer much consolation? I'd pretty sure you'd be out in the street throwing everything including the kitchen sink at the invaders.
My point here isn't to shit on the United States. The point I am making is that there are people who truly believe they are Iraqi freedom fighters attacking the invading.