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Originally posted by Ustwo
The differnce of course is that in Iraq you would have been jailed for even posting this sort of thing, while in the US you are free to do so. People who whine about the patriot act tend to whine about what future laws will be. The US has had times where civil liberties were supressed to a much much greater degree (Civil War and WWII come to mind first) yet nothing long term came of it.
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Exept that in both these cases the country was at war, facing a real threat from an equal enemy, but now the only enemy seems to be the greedy chaps in the white house themselves.