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The term "terrorism" is defined by those who get terrorized, the US seems to think that Isreal and the US can only be "victims" of terrorism. For everyone else, they're "freedom fighters".

The term "terrorism" is defined by those who get terrorized, the US seems to think that Isreal and the US can only be "victims" of terrorism. For everyone else, they're "freedom fighters".

Excellent point FireWall. I also find intriguing the difference in the way congressional democrats approach the war with Iraq and way they approached the Kosovo War.

With Kosovo, the democrats were thirsty for blood. For Tom Dascle, Madeleine Albright and company, no declaration of war was necessary!! The president can act without authorization!! Nato can be an aggressor and violate international law if the cause is just!!! The U.S. is obligated to play world cop to stop genocide against oppressed peoples (a genocide that began after the bombs fell, and is believed to have stopped at a maximum of 3,000 victims, most of whom were combatants, presumably "unlawful combatants" under Yugoslaw law)!! Bomb the miscreants into submission, destroy their power grid, water treatment system and civilian bridges. If a few orphanages and hospitals are hit, too bad. Should typhus and cholera become endemic, such is the price of justice. The bad man Slobo must be stopped at any cost.

Now, when the death toll is millions of Iraqs, Kurds, Kuwaitis and Iranians, intelligence has strong evidence that Iraq is stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and has ties with terrorist groups that would like nothing more than to use them to kill as many Americans and Israelis as possible, the democrats dither.

We must not act without U.N. Security Council approval, they say, an event they know is never forthcoming. The Iraqis don't threaten the U.S., they blather, and even if they do we can't strike pre-emptively: it would violate INTERNATIONAL LAW! Consider the children of Baghdad!! Yada, yada, yada.

I'm not sure that they aren't right about Iraq. Nonetheless, the level of hypocrisy is stunning, an achievement even for the likes of Kerry, Daschle Wellstone, et al.

The term "terrorism" is defined by those who get terrorized, the US seems to think that Isreal and the US can only be "victims" of terrorism.

Yeah, we know, America and Israel are terrorists. (sarcasm)