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It is very simple. We are in Iraq so that someday your children won't have to go to a Mosque to pray to Allah (who will be their only choice); so your daughters don't have to wear Burqas and so you don't have to someday wonder why you didn't see it coming.
We are in Iraq (while we still have the freedom to speak our minds) so we can prevent people who hate Americans from taking that freedom away from us.
If you don't know why we are in Iraq, it might be because you have no idea what principles are and what it means to live in a country with a constitution that leaves us free and how important and rare it is in this world; a constitution that gives us freedoms that you may not know the source of and what it took to establish them. We are in Iraq to prevent that constitution from being invalidated by an invading Army of Muslim extremists who will not let you speak your mind and not let you question the decisions they make for you and not give you the luxury of having a dissenting opinion as this country does now.
We are in Iraq to make sure that people who don't know why we are in Iraq remain free to ask questions that as Americans they should know the answer to...if they care about their freedoms and their affluent lives. We are in Iraq because we were attacked on 911 and some of us realized those murderers really want all Americans to die and that Saddam Hussein wanted the same thing - and was actively working toward our demise - look at Salman Pak and Al Zarqawi and Weapons of Mass Destruction that have been found. We are in Iraq because some of us know that we must make a stand somewhere and it is better to make it now in Iraq than here in the U.S. when it might be too late. Posted on 5/15/05
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