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Originally posted by CamChicks
It's hard for Americans to accept that we are the enemy there. We are the imperialists that invaded them. We are the aggressors. We are the occupiers. We are wrong.
WE travelled THERE. Iraq did not attack America. Iraq was no threat to America. But that didn't stop Bush from bombing their homes and killing their children, and we have killed so many now that they will never forgive us and they will never stop fighting until we are gone. You would defend your homeland too.
I hear some Americans talk like we are doing them such a huge favor, by paying to rebuild what we destroyed in the first place. That doesn't make us the good guys. It makes us colonizers.
Bush fooled much of the US with his vague patroitic rhetoric and invoking the gods of 'Jesus' and 'Democracy', but it's not going to convince the people living there defending their nation against a foriegn army that continues to slaughter them. Every person we kill turns another family against us.
We shouldn't be allowed to label this assault on the world as 'preemption' just because we're America. Iraq didn't hit America first. It is not 'defending' when there was no imminent threat. We sent our soldiers to their lands. In a war, whoever crosses the border first are the hostiles. This was an unprovoked attack and, as tough as it is to stomach, that makes us the bad guys.
Go ahead and call me a traitor. I am saying exactly what Germans should have been saying 65 years ago. We must be willing to accept awful truths and acknowledge the misdeeds of our leaders, lest we become accomplices to their crimes.
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You of course are entitled to your opinions and conclusions...just be aware that that does not make them right...or justified.