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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 220541" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">America</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> is neck deep in human rights groups, feminism, ecology, and, for God’s Sake, the rights of minorities. So what about the people of Iraq who’ve been living with war and tyranny for three decades and who are now being assaulted by the most vile movement on earth? Are we, as a sympathetic nation, 100% behind the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of "missing" Iraqis, and are we in full support of the Iraqi women's battles against fundamentalists? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">When I hear about “exit plans” I feel our stand on human rights and charitable groups has taken a pass on </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Iraq</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> and I’d like to know wish why. Here we sit on our fat, happy a$$e$ on safe, dry land and many of us want to watch, in between our mindless reality shows, and see if the Iraqis sink or swim. Shame on anybody who wants to back out.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Why haven’t some of our larger American cities offered to make </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Baghdad</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> a </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Sister </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">City </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">and lend a hand that way? God knows we’re helping everybody else in the world:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-sister-cities-in-the-united-states" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-sister-cities-in-the-united-states</span></u></a></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Wherever Muslims congregate, terrorism was in place long before the Iraqi war. (</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">India</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Palestine</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Chechnya</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thailand</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, the </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Philippines</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Indonesia</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">,….) Pakistan’s ISI (bin Laden’s headquarters), the terrorist training camps all over the Middle East, the Islamic religious schools that educate the Taliban, the fanatical clerics who hide behind their mosques, were all in full swing before the Iraqi war. For the past twenty years, a generation of terrorists has been nurtured and groomed all the way from the </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Netherlands</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> to </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Spain</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">. And so,</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">We can’t pull out, we can’t lose this war, and our involvement will be with more than one country over there - </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If every room in your house was infested with termites, would you have only one of those rooms fumigated? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Are there really those out there who don’t agree with the regime change in </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Iraq</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">? And for those of you who want to wash your hands and go home, do you know what that would mean? </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The very nature of this enemy and the thought of their success should make any decent person ashamed. What alternative could there have been to confronting </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Iraq</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">? </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 220541, member: 8657"] [FONT=Verdana]America[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] is neck deep in human rights groups, feminism, ecology, and, for God’s Sake, the rights of minorities. So what about the people of Iraq who’ve been living with war and tyranny for three decades and who are now being assaulted by the most vile movement on earth? Are we, as a sympathetic nation, 100% behind the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of "missing" Iraqis, and are we in full support of the Iraqi women's battles against fundamentalists? [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]When I hear about “exit plans” I feel our stand on human rights and charitable groups has taken a pass on [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Iraq[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] and I’d like to know wish why. Here we sit on our fat, happy a$$e$ on safe, dry land and many of us want to watch, in between our mindless reality shows, and see if the Iraqis sink or swim. Shame on anybody who wants to back out.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Why haven’t some of our larger American cities offered to make [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Baghdad[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] a [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Sister [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]City [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]and lend a hand that way? God knows we’re helping everybody else in the world:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][URL="http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-sister-cities-in-the-united-states"][U][COLOR=#800080]http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-sister-cities-in-the-united-states[/COLOR][/U][/URL][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Wherever Muslims congregate, terrorism was in place long before the Iraqi war. ([/FONT][FONT=Verdana]India[/FONT][FONT=Verdana], [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Palestine[/FONT][FONT=Verdana], [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Chechnya[/FONT][FONT=Verdana], [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Thailand[/FONT][FONT=Verdana], the [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Philippines[/FONT][FONT=Verdana], [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Indonesia[/FONT][FONT=Verdana],….) Pakistan’s ISI (bin Laden’s headquarters), the terrorist training camps all over the Middle East, the Islamic religious schools that educate the Taliban, the fanatical clerics who hide behind their mosques, were all in full swing before the Iraqi war. For the past twenty years, a generation of terrorists has been nurtured and groomed all the way from the [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Netherlands[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] to [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Spain[/FONT][FONT=Verdana]. And so,[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]We can’t pull out, we can’t lose this war, and our involvement will be with more than one country over there - [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]If every room in your house was infested with termites, would you have only one of those rooms fumigated? [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Are there really those out there who don’t agree with the regime change in [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Iraq[/FONT][FONT=Verdana]? And for those of you who want to wash your hands and go home, do you know what that would mean? [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]The very nature of this enemy and the thought of their success should make any decent person ashamed. What alternative could there have been to confronting [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Iraq[/FONT][FONT=Verdana]? [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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