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Originally Posted by RocHard
Wow. That's stunning. No idea who you really are but I agree with every word you just wrote.
The terrorist attacks have nothing to do with Iraq. 9/11 happened before we invaded Iraq, as well as other attacks. They attack Western nations because we are not Muslim or Islamic. They feel we do not have the right to exist. A small handful of people believe they are the "chosen race" and that no other peoples should be allowed to exist. This line of thinking when out when the Nazi "Master Race" was defeated in the 1940's.
I'm not a Nazi, not Jewish, and I surely didn't vote for Bush. I'm also married to a woman of Middle Eastern descent who still has family there.
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I agree that fundamentalist thinking really has to be removed from Muslim/Islamic nations. A state headed by dogmatic religious dictators doesn't work in the modern world where laws are created, applied, and upheld because of their merit and not because they're mentioned in some ancient text supposedly from Allah or God.
The part I disagree with is when people say they hate our way of life. I don't think that's true. I think they love our way of life and see us as prohibiting them from partaking in our way of life. Their is nothing about having a nice house, car, food, and fun that anybody on earth wouldn't want.
If the war in Iraq is a true step forward for creating democracy and not merely stripping the place of it's natural resources for our benefit only, I think it's a good thing in the long run. I wonder if we're really that noble though.