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Originally Posted by Undertoad
They are pissed off at the nuance of particular words in the President's speech days after 9/11, but can't tell the difference between a US Military effort and Canadians there to set up a medical clinic.
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Uniformed military are targets. Is this a surprise? This is not a defense of their behavior, but someone had better start looking into the motivations of these bastards if we even want to have a chance of getting out of there.
And yes, the leader of the most powerful nation in the world should not be so monumentally stupid as to describe a war in the middle east as a crusade. Crusade is as bad a trigger as jihad.
You don't have to like it, but it's time we started to understand it. We screwed up the first 8-12 months of the occupation because people not only didn't understand what was going on, but did not feel the need to even try to understand. A few hundred billion dollars and 10-12 thousand lives later, everyone is starting to wake up.
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