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We hear, and I believe it is true, that the Muslim suicide bombers kill themselves and others to further their religion. I don't understand how killing people spreads your religion, but I understand that the suicide bombers believe that they are martyrs for their faith and that they will be rewarded after they die for their sacrifice.
It seems to me that our troops have been sent to martyr themselves and to act in a sense as suicide bombers, snipers and killers also. In Iraq they are ordered to enforce an American peace and to support an American sponsored government and, when challenged as they do that, to kill the Iraqi people. The odds that our troops will die or suffer serious injury as they attack those Iraqis who oppose them are extremely high. The Muslim suicide bombers face certain death. Our troops just face a high likelihood of death or maiming injury.
So, I could understand why they would as individuals do this if they were fighting to protect our country from a truly imminent threat or danger or even to achieve an ideal of great importance. But, at this point, it appears that our troops are simply fighting to protect an ungrateful and unpopular government and, above all, to ensure that the multi-national oil companies get a high percentage of the profits from the Iraqi oil. Besides the fact that it is going to require continued military force to enforce any agreement granting those companies their oil deal, how do those reasons for dying and being maimed compare to those of the people dying because they think they are furthering their religion. Are they all just suicide bombers and martyrs?
Does our government have the right to ask our troops to suicide bomb and martyr themselves for an unpopular Iraqi government and oil company profits? What does that have to do with our purposes as a nation under our Constitution?
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