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Originally Posted by samcol
A lot of governments are behaving as terrorists. Prime example, everytime the US denies habeas corpus, everytime it tortures, everytime it attack a city, town, or village, in Iraq that is no threat to the US, the US is committing terrorism.
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I'm probably a bit biased since I am an US Soldier serving in Iraq right now. I'd be sort of curious to see where the US is attacking a city,town, or village outright? There hasn't been an offensive like that since the war actually started when it was more of a conventional type. Having been here in both 2004 and now 2006-2007, there is a huge difference in how the US is being attacked, and how we are responding.
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Originally Posted by willravel
If you were a military officer and you constantly had friends running over IEDs and had no idea when and where you would run over one, would you be scared? If you heard about military installations being bombed, wouldn't you check beore entering your barracks? That's terrorism.
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I'd have to agree here, since I've been on too many convoys to count throughout Iraq. I don't know anything I've experienced that is more terrifying than driving down a road and watching people pop up out of the grass and start shooting at you. Or maybe watching one of your friends get blown up randomly. Its not like IEDs are shown nice and neat on the side of the road.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This includes that feeling you get when American troops enter your home.
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Again, until you have personally had US troops enter your home, I don't think you would be in a posistion to say how it is done, unless of course you've done it. Having talked to people who have had their homes entered, the majority of them don't mind.
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Originally Posted by OurCrazyModern
Intentionally blowing oneself up as a tactic still strikes me as absurd.
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Only good thing about it is eventually you run out of bombers? Story in the paper here a while ago, suicide bomber in a dump truck, paid 30,000 to blow it up on a US base. Somehow he tipped it over before getting there and waited for US to pick him back up, and confess everything..