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If they weren't locked up, they'd be trying to kill more of us, either home or overseas.



If our soldiers were here at home where they belong, they wouldn't be getting killed over seas. If our soldiers were here at home where they belong we would be able to defend against the terrorists who COME HERE to attack us. What are we doing in Iraq? We're pissing off the Iraqi civilians so they join in on the jihad. Where does that leave us? With a bunch of pissed off Iraqis who would A) sit at home and not bother us in the least or B) come here to the US (ps - they can't attack us if they aren't here) and attack us. Remember, this is a war on TERROR, not a war on IRAQ, Iraq just happens to be where the potential terrorists live. Oh, and oil. (FYI, if the Bush administration said "We're going to war with Iraq for their oil." I would be totally cool with that; empirical wars serve a clean cut purpose, whether it's good or bad.)


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They declared war on us. They attacked us, and now they want to whine because they feel we aren't treating them nicely?



Who declared war on us? Iraq? Afghanistan? Or a handful of religious radicals? So now we're in their country and they're thinking something really similar to what we thought on 9/11/01. I bet an everyday thought for most people there is "Damn Christians, they don't know the difference between their mouth and the bad end of a gun." This is a holy war! We represent Western culture, aka Christianity, and they're Muslim. It's our crusade against their jihad. The big difference is, when they get killed in battle, they go to their heaven and are greeted with 70 virgin women with which they have their way.

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