Conservatives why do you really think US citizens and even some Dem leaders believe we are a terrorist nation?

Question

I guess growing up in the age of terrorism from the late 60's on I do not see the US in that light when I saw Israel's taken hostage and killed at the Olympics, planes and ships terrorised, sucicide bombers on buses in Israel, and planes being slamned into our WTC and the cheers going up from countless Muslim countries each time these happened over the years. I do not see any comparison to our legitimate war efforts in Iraq, Afganistan, or even the far flung case I see now where some compare Osama to George Washington. Your ideas. I don't see pulling over a car and methodically gunning down a woman and her four children as was done in Israel by Palestian militants as the same as out troops fighting insurgents.

100's of thousands of civilian deaths if pretty extreme, seems like the population would be dramatically in decline if this was true. And I don't see any examples of cluster bombs used in checking military records. But if you want to believe terrorist networks I guess you can. Saddam and the insurgents are the ones who have killed the most of the Iraquis by far.

Answer 1

People these days are too PC and soft for a real war. They don't understand that "innocent casualties" happen in war, and when they do it is suddenly Bush's fault. Look at how many Japanese were killed in our bombing raids there during WW2, and the death toll from conventional bombs was far greater than that of the nukes. There is little difference between Japan attacking Pearl Harbor, and islamic exremists attacking the USS Cole, and the World Trade Center. The main difference being that no country will actually claim the cowards, so we have to root them out wherever they are. And nobody wants to see innocent people get caught in the cross fire, even I don't want to see that. But when the terrorists hide in urban residential areas and take advantage of these people as human shields it is going to happen. If anyone should be condemned it should be the terrorist cowards and not the US millitary or gov't. They started this chain of events, and we answered the call to fight. They are the ones hiding, using human shields, blowing themseves up and killing innocent civilians trying to start a civil war... not the US military.

Answer 2

I think that there are Americans view us as a terrorist nation because when invaded Iraq on what they claim to be a false premise and have killed innocent women and children there. There are some who view our attacks in Iraq the same why you view the attacks on Israel and the US. I do not think it is most or even a majority of Democrats or liberals but I think there are a few.

Answer 3

1. The Bill of Rights, does NOT mention citizenship in the legal protections enumerated. Therefore common sense would dictate that ALL persons, citizens or not, within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall have the same rights and protections. 2. Air piracy and other sundry lunacy has been defined by our laws as a criminal act. Therefore, there are plenty of idiots that think that this terrorist could be treated as a criminal SUSPECT rather than a prisoner of war.

Answer 4

"Shock and Awe" was an act of terror; kidnapping, torturing, and raping tens of thousand of people were acts of terror.

The Israeli government has committed thousands of acts of terror, including "collective punishment" of entire populations for the crimes of a dozen people, murder, and torture.

Israeli's starve children to death, and bomb them.

How come it's only bad when Arabs murder children?

BTW, most Muslims in most countries did NOT cheer 9/11 -- a couple of hundred people cheered. Out of over 1 billion Muslims. The media only showed the few hundred, not the billion. They WANT you to hate all Muslims.

It's our invasion of Iraq and mass murder of hundreds of thousands of its citizens that has made more people hate us than ever before (even more than hated us for being the sole supporter of Israeli terrorism all these decades).

Dropping cluster bombs on residential areas is NOT an act of warm fuzzies, but of terror.