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Originally Posted by aceventura3
To Baraka - Most of the Iraqi people want the same things most Americans want. They are honest, hard working people who want the best for their families. The want rights, they want to participate in their government (look at the numbers who voted in their elections), the want education and an opportunity to share in the wealth of the nation. Many currently live in fear from terrorists as they lived in fear under Saddam. Our fight is not with these people. Our current mission with Iraq regarding Iraq is to stabilize the country so that the Iraqi people can develop a government and assume control of the country. We have other missions under way in addition to that one.
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What you say the Iraqis want is pretty universal. And I think it still stands: Americans are fighting Iraqis, just as both Canadians and Americans are fighting Afghanis. To deny this risks romanticizing the issue. One's cultural or social status isn't abdicated by being a "terrorist" or an "insurgent."
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