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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Amy J who wrote (655087)11/1/2004 9:32:44 PM
From: MJ  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Amy J.

I think this factor has and is being looked at.

One of the things you mention is the eye for an eye etc.
Amy that is also a part of our culture. It is not exclusive to the Muslims.

The difference in America is that historically we tend to hold back on retribution until we are shoved figuratively to the wall-----and this is what all of the incidents preceding 9/11 and 9/11 did; theses incidents made us recognize that we could not stand back any longer. That we had to be proactive in the process rather than reactive as the terrorists want us to be----or passive as they want us to be.

We have a Iraq civil war on our hands created by Saddam-----who killed and buried his own people. The Iraq people who were escaping Saddam by leaving Iraq understand better than we the need for America to be in Iraq.

Yes, I understand the you killed my Grandpa 70 years ago----fact is that one of my Great Grandfathers was shot during the civil war because he refused to go to war. "It was not his war. Slavery was not his problem."

As his descendants, does this generation of my family carry a grudge-----no we recognize the times and issues for what they were and have all become productive members of this Great Nation born out of a struggle, a Civil War.

Unlike our Civil War days the world has shrunk because of the rapid communications and technology. Civil Wars are no longer internal within a country as they affect the whole world.

mj
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