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                                             June 22, 2008

  The United States is not          UNSPOKEN
  at war with Islam.

      Got that?                 The World Trade Center indeed
                                was attacked by some folks
                                from the middle east (largely
                                from Saudi Arabia), and they
                                were indeed associated with an
  This is so obvious -- to      Islamic organization (an
  some -- that I fear it's      extreme sect associated with
  never said to those who       the Sunnis).
  might need to hear it.
                                              Their primary motivation
  You will hear Democrats assert that         had to do with US forces
  Obama  is in fact a Christian, but          based in Saudi Arabia.
  none will mention that there's no           Their concept was not
  reason a US president shouldn't be a        "death to the unbelievers",
  Muslim -- except for the unreasoning        or even "death to the
  bigotry of a faction large enough           supporters of Israel"
  that we're afraid to challenge              or some such.
  it... and so the faction can grow
  without check.
                                                   The US military actions
     The winning formula for                       in Iraq make no sense as
     centuries has been religious                  a response to the WTC
     tolerance -- and a hard-won bit               attack.  We went into
     of knowledge it was for Western               the wrong country, to
     culture to achieve.  Most of us               fight people who had
     regard it as a Good Thing that                nothing to do with the
     Protestants and Catholics are no              attack.  And we favor
     longer burning each other at the              Sunnis there rather than
     stake, and no one with any sense              Shites.
     thinks it's a good idea to go
     off shedding blood on spurious                          WHOS_WE
     Crusades in the Middle East.
                                                      And there are Islamic
                                                      nations that have
        Except of course for                          even less to do with
        our sort-of elected                           mideastern politics
        leader:                                       (India, Indonesia).

              "This crusade, this war                    Whatever it is
              on terrorism is going                      that's really
              to take a while."                          happening,
                                                         it is not
                  Sept 21, 2001                          the Chrisitians
                                                         against the
                                                         Muslims.

         Even just on the level of
         religious doctrine:

            Christians believe
            Christ was the Greatest.

            Muslims believe
            Christ was Great.

         You'd think we might find
         a way to live with this
         difference.


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