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Rational,
this was not a vitriolic post, and so, I will not reply in an angry vitriolic way.

But, I believe that you are ignorant, and your ignorance is a danger to our troops, and the citizens of this country. But ignorance is a condition that is not fatal and can be cured with education.

Now, first off, I must ask you WHY you think the President went to Iraq? Do you believe the President is a blood thirsty tyrannical emperialist? Was he trying to conquer a land and a people to enslave them for our purposes? As a sense of "nationalism"? Was he thirsty for oil? Where is the oil?

I write you as one who is NOT ignorant of the situation in Iraq. Whose family has been there and seen with their own eyes the joy of a people who were allowed to vote for the very first time, people who risked their lives to do so; and the horror of innocent people having their heads hacked off while hearing the shouts, "allah is great!".

I am a person who is not ignorant about the war on terror--but instead have been involved in it in a way that not many Americans are. Involved so that you don't have to be.

Now, I want you to get a globe. Find Iran. What is the country on the left of Iran? What is the country on the right? Where are our troops? Where were our troops in the year 2000?

You say that terrorism was not in Iraq before the war. The children raped in the rape rooms might tend to disagree with you. Kurd survivors might tend to disagree with you. The men hung on hooks in the "interrogation" rooms might tend to disagree with you. But, setting Saddam's terror aside for a moment, let's admit that you are correct, in that there are more OUTSIDE terrorist coming into Iraq. Would you rather they were here?

Now, where do you suppose they would have attacked the United States, if we were not in Iraq? Do you think that they are just angry at us for being in Iraq---so angry at us that they feel they must cut the heads off innocent humanbeings? Do you really think that they would not have cut anyone's head off, if we would not have attacked Iraq? Why did the terrorists mutilate and drag the bodies of our troops through the streets of Mogadishu, when we were there handing out food? Why did terrorists kill innocent humanbeings on 9-11? The terrorists in Iraq come from Iran, Syria and other countries who have often been at war with Iraq themselves! Their mission has nothing to do with us removing Saddam from power in Iraq. They want to destroy us in the same way Muhammad destroyed those who did not believe in his 'visions'.

"It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land" (Surah 8:67).

It is our religious belief that they can not tolerate, not anything that we have done.

These terrorists would part your head from your body, right in your own home, if we were not there. Libya would still be involved in terror, if we were not there. Iran would send a nuclear missle on our cities, if we were not there. We NEED to be there.

The volunteers in our military, over there, are fighting for our lives and our freedom. You are ignorant. Blissfully ignorant of the truth and the enemies of the United States who are using a grieving mother as a lightening rod, hoping to castrate the United States Military so that they may destroy us.