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the debate
We as Americans do a lot of flip flopping, first we say why didn't you stop 9/11 if you had any idea that it MIGHT happen. Then we turn around and say why did we start a war over what MIGHT be there. Make up your mind!
One thing is an absolute certainty, terrorists hate us and our way of life. If we do nothing, it will be destroyed.
The very things that make us free, make us vulnerable.
The fact that we can disagree with and criticize our government and its actions, is a freedom. That we can discuss it here openly without worrying someone may find out who we are and imprison us or persecute us, is a freedom. We can speak out, or we can remain silent, it is our choice. We don't realize that our civil liberties, our freedoms, are what they hate. They want us to live in fear with a government that knows everything about us, where we shop, where we talk, who owns a gun, who disagrees with the government, who doesn't. They want us to live like they do, I make the rules, you follow them, or you die!
I agree that the war in Iraq has degraded into a mess, but WHAT DO WE DO? Because doing nothing and living in fear, is exactly what they want us to do.
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