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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (200505)	9/1/2006 12:58:47 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You want to justify crimes and atrocities. I want to call them what they are and to see them stopped and to see those who commit them held accountable. You cannot defend America by dishonoring what it means to be an American. To be an American means holding true to a set of values and principles despite pressure from those who would have you abandon them in the heat of the moment and in a moment of weakness. Terrorism is a true threat to America. But the threat lies more in what we chose to do in response to terror than from the terrorism itself. If we hold true to our values and principles we CANNOT be defeated by terrorism. But if we show ourselves to be weak and abandon our values and principles, using the behavior of terrorists as our justification, then we have in fact defeated ourselves and destroyed America. As for your post there are so many blatant mis-statements it is hard to know where to begin. For example you say "even though there was an ongoing act of genocide being perpetrated against the Kurds". There was no ongoing genocide taking place against the Kurds when we invaded Iraq. This is a crock -- pure and simple. When the Kurds were under direct assault we sat on our hands. The no-fly zone gave them the breathing space they needed to establish a fairly independent regime within Iraq -- all of which you know, but you chose to play dumbass games with the use of the term "genocide" instead of being honest about it.