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Originally Posted by popeye
We are at war because we were attacked. Everyone seems to forget about 3000+ Americans slaughtered by the Muslim threat. Of course unless it killed your loved one...who gives a fuck..right???
I was reminded last night why we are and should be killing muslim extremist. I watched a documentary concerning 9/11. After watching innocent women and men jumping to their death (havent seen this footage in a while) on fire or the man trying to climb out of the flames and slipping and falling from the 80th floor, all I could think was we havent killed enough extremist.
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Of course your point would be valid if we were actually "at war" with the people responsible.
And though 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 ( ok, Giuliani) was a terrible fucking thing and the people responsible should me held accountable ( a lot of them have been), in the grand scheme of things it was not worth sacrificing our liberties and all the fear mongering used in response.
" They hate us for our freedoms... so lets take away all our freedoms!" is probably the most idiotic response to an attack in history.
Every day more than 3000 people die for a variety of reasons, but we shouldnt declare war on every imagined threat.
And frankly, our own government ( yes our government, which does not mean our PEOPLE) harms more of its own citizens than Al Quaeda ever will. And that's a sentiment shared by a lot of "rightwing" thinkers, business leaders, adn others- if not the Bible thumpers and other fear mongers.