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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (57209)11/21/2004 9:07:13 PM
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Most of us realize that after 911 we can't accept anymore the existence of terror-supporting regimes in the world. Though we should have realized much sooner given the decades of terror attacks against us. We did the right thing removing Saddam. We would have had to fight him again someday even if we'd backed down in '03 like the anti-war folks wish. I'll tell you right now, we also need to remove the current Iranian regime. I pray our leaders realize that and are planning to do whatever it takes to accomplish.

Our enemies are those who radicalize Islam. They are motivated by religious fervor and rarely has a more dangerous motivation been seen in the world. In Iraq, we changed a secular Islamist state into a breeding ground, a lab if you will, for our enemies to grow and nurture what drives them to hate us. Iraq is now radicalized and enfused with the passion of our enemies. I'm not sure how you can call that "making the world a safer place." Saddam was rough on his own people, but he did not allow the religous fervor that is driving the insurgents that we see running rampant now.

The fact that we've lost people already in Iraq makes it even more important to me that we not give up and make their sacrifices a waste like we did in Viet Nam.

It is one thing to make sacrifices. It is another to make sacrifices and have your fellow citizens trying as hard as they can to make those sacrifices a mockery and waste.


What do you know about Viet Nam? Do you think that we gave up and left Viet Nam and thus made the sacrifices of those who served there a waste?
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