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Originally posted by Praxus
My point is, that this sick ideology of militant islam is comming from the very thing you think it is alright for them to create, a Theocracy. Islam having Governmental power is the problem.
There is no such thing as different systems being better for different people. The best system for mankind and has been shown all through out history is a system that allows man to pursue his own happiness through reason. In other words a system that protects individual rights. Just look at Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, etc. Just because you are not from the west does not mean this system isn't the best system. Hong Kong is a perfect example of this.
It doesn't have to be identicle to our political system but they need something pretty close.
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It is for them to decide their own government.
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The fact is Iraq did pose a threat through supporting terrorism and he did have the capacity to build WMD even if he did not have them.
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Can you pass on your information to the Whitehouse, David Kaye etc where unable to come to the conclusions you have made. In fact they are now retracting to Colin Powell's position of 2001, that Iraq was contained and his WMD programmes smashed.
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This being said Iran would have been a much better target, we are going to eventually have to knock them out (or there will have to be a popular revolution) if we intend to win the "war on terror" which is in fact the war on Militant Islam.
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The words are changing. It is interesting to watch how the words change in this war on terror (sorry War on Militant Islam). WMD, becomes programmes, programmes becomes violations which become non-registrations, Terrorists become insurgents, become "the enemy".
From your words, Praxus, i think Bush should have stayed with "operation Crusade for Freedom".
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My point is that the Japanese Government bears ALL responsibility for the deaths caused by that war.
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Its a tenuous use of language, though isn't it? Its intended to imply anything goes, but we in the west don't engage in lethal force on such basis.