America has never, ever, pursued "empire"...
Pat said terrorism is like a cancer
He's right there, even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then...and like a cancer, it must be removed...
because of the war in Iraq, which I don't believe had anything to do with terrorism originally
Perhaps you and Pat should read page 62 of the 9/11 Commission report.....
Now you have insurgents you call terrorists because they don't want us there.
Partially true. Most of the insurgents are not Iraqi, and THEY don't want us there, because if WE succeed in bringing democracy to Iraq (which is smack-dab, right in the middle of islamoland), they will soon be come like the dinosaurs, EXTINCT!
3,500 Americans paid with their lives on 9/11, for doing nothing more than showing up for work. I for one don't give a rat's a$$ if the rest of the world likes us or not, I WANT them to FEAR US! No nation on this earth has ever sued for peace from a position of weakness. Whether you like it or not, Bush has one thing right: it's payback time. These radical islamist cannot be bribed, bought, or even reasoned with; they must be destroyed. NO nation will know peace from terrorism until then...
And may I as a Follower of Jesus Christ utter a religious statement relative to the words of dirtbiker........AMEN!
We are pursuing empire, not that we want to colonize, but we want to control their economics.
Dirtbiker: I respect your opinion, and only wish you would temper it with Christian kindness. Remember, Jesus wants ALL, not just those who fit into the republican party mold.
He is the only solution to this, and he told us so. How far we have strayed, in looking for people to hate rather than people to win for Him. I have no sympathy for people who murder innocent civilians, but my heart can't reject a billion Muslims and I can't dismiss them all as terrorist sympathizers.
God bless and goodnight.