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To: Blue State Insurgent

>>So are the Iraqis too infantile or brown skinned to want freedom?<<

It is not the color of their skin. It is their culture.

Fact is, the American heritage that we have had drilled into our heads since kindergarten, coupled with our country's actual history and beginnings cause us to understand and value individual freedom and the strengths it brings to our society in general. It is based very stronly on Christianity, whether many want to admit it or not. And it has become our collective identity, although it is eroding. But it takes many generations for it to do so.

In places like Iraq, they too have been trained since childhood and also have a long heritage with which they identify. It is based on Islam. Islam teaches total obedience down to which foot with which you are to enter a room and where to point your head when you pray. You are controlled and cared for by others and, if you obey the rules, you are not responsible at all for what happens to you or your condition. Like a toddler lost in Disneyland without their parent, they don't want freedom. They want their mommy!

Individual freedom is a foreign concept to them. And as with the US, it will take multiple generations to remove that perceived identity. Democracy, or even the concept of a REAL constitutional republic will not be coming any time soon there.

Bush knows this.


84 posted on 09/28/2006 12:39:45 PM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: RobRoy

Bush knows what exactly?


85 posted on 09/28/2006 2:19:17 PM PDT by ikez78 (www.regimeofterror.com)
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