Posted on 11/19/2004 3:16:27 PM PST by CHARLITE
Such a stance ignores a central fact about the War on Terror that simply cannot be repeated too many times: the terrorists are not fighting to preserve a way of life--they are fighting to impose a way of life on everyone else. Ask the women in Afghanistan who voted for the first time in the history of that country--who risked life and limb to do so and would not be intimidated by the remnants of the Taliban who warned them with bombs not to go near the polling places--if they agree that the terrorists are simply preserving a sacred way of life that constitutes the heart of the ''Religion of Peace.'' Ask the survivors in Israel who lost loved ones because Saddam Hussein was paying Palestinian families thirty-five thousand dollars for each of their homicide bombers. Ask the families of those who lost innocent loved ones at the World Trade Center, in Washington, in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
Make no mistake: the terrorists who refused to lay down arms in Fallujah and surrender to the will of the free Iraqis and their coalition partners are, by any measure, criminals.
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