[smoking camels]

Very interesting... your opinion of me is actually higher than mine is of you.

I will admit one thing. I can argue inteligently and do understand issues such as this. However when I am confronted with what appears to be arrogant, self righteous, stupidity I tend to react in a knee jerk manner. It has been my downfall many times. Of course this kind of person doesn't want to learn anyway. Their only concern is to force others to see it their way.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Well I'll hope you will reexamine some of the issues. I can personally vouch that there are practicing Muslims who wish this whole thing would go away, who want no war, who want nothing to do with the terrorists, who love the United States, and who have no desire to go back home. Many have already become citizens. Somehow I don't consider them the enemy. Like I said earlier, I'm all for being vigilant, cautious, profiling, and certainly prosecuting and deporting subversives. Where war is required, so be it.

Maybe I'm too harsh in my defense of those I perceive as innocent bystanders, but I'll be danged if I'll turn over Ann Frank to a bloodthirsty few on these threads. Here's hoping you'll see through their broad shallow arguments. All I'm advocating is that where appropriate people look at the individual, not just his/her affiliation(though certainly scrutinize and weigh their affiliations).