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Stopping terrorism. Impossible to enact until we define just what constitutes a terrorist. Now I know according to the official definition offered by the United States government a terrorist is someone who kills innocents for a political end. But is it really that simple? If is it, than by our own admission, waging wars against civilian populations is indeed a terrorist act as well. So basically we're guilty of our own accusations and acts.

Dear friends, there is no such thing as a smart bomb. There is no such thing as laser guided accuracy. When bombs are dropped on cities, innocents die, plain and simple. Because we have no clearly defined noble political efficacy in our actions are we not being terrorists ourselves? Every excuse given since the beginning of the Iraqi War has been shot to hell. WMD? Nope, all we have found have been the ones we knew about from the beginning and more than likely supplied to Saddam ourselves. Removing a brutal dictator? Nope, not when we once supported him and continue to support numerous tyrants around the globe. Installing democracy? Bull, not when as political scientist Norman Solomon says, "the US has subverted some of the few democracies in the Middle East (Syria in 1949 and Iran in 1953) and continues to support repressive regimes in the region." Let us not kid ourselves any longer my fellow Americans. There is no noble cause. I know we wish to tack one onto this debacle for the sake of so many things: our national pride, our belief in our moral superiority, and perhaps most importantly our belief that the troops did not sacrifice their lives in vane. Believe me, I am a former marine and wish just as much as any of you to believe that, but unfortunately I just cannot fool myself any longer. There is no cause. There is no nobility. There is no honor.

Our so called leaders are guilty of murder with their actions. President Bush and his cohorts should be tried for over 4000 counts of murder and over 30,000 counts of aggravated assault for the wounded, and that's just for the Americans who've died and suffered. I won't even get into the rest.

As Americans we love to believe that we are always right, always just. But how would you feel if some foreign power dropped a bomb on your house and killed your family? Would you not be enraged and take up arms against that aggressor? I surely would. Well, that pretty much sums up the war in Iraq. We're not fighting an army on the battlefield. We're barely fighting al queda. We're fighting

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