Vote John McCain for President 2008.

[pakidan101]

I'm also deeply offended, being as a Muslim myself, about all the comments going on in this thread about "Why do Muslims attack us?"

So far I have seen answers like "They hate to see freedom" or "They hate our culture" or just simply "They like to kill."

All I have to say is: WTH?!

Do you think that these terrorists, as sinful and morally wrong as they are, are monsters? Not in the figurative sense, I mean actual living breathing monsters? Don't you think they are humans as well, who would like to be heard?

How egotistical do you have to be to believe that they hate us because of our freedom? That is like saying that you are so rich and happy because you are rich that all poor people hate you because "They hate money" and hate you so much that they are willing to kill you and themselves to see it destroyed. That is how badly the belief that "they hate freedom" sounds like.

What terrorists really hate is how the United States treats the Middle East. It is that simple and it is unbelievable how so many just do not understand. The United States carries itself has the police of the world right? The defender of justice and equality for the whole world? Then why does the United States support dictators and such? Why did the US put Saddam Hussein as the leader of Iraq in the beginning? To fight Iran after Iran insulted the US by keeping US soldiers as hostages for over a year. Why did the US support Musharraf, a Pakistani general who overthrew a democratic government and became the illegitimate President/dictator for years? Because he can help the US in getting Taliban fighters. The US only looks out for numero uno: Themselves.

Yet the US claims to look out for everybody. How does that make sense? This is the hypocrisy the terrorists claim to hate the US for so many years. The Middle East is slowly decaying away with governments who only look out for themselves, and it gets hard to get them out when the US supports them. Take for example Saudia Arabia, where the freedom of women is non-existent and good jobs are hard to come by at all but nothing can be done because the King of Saudia Arabia is supported and protected by the US due to its supply of oil.

But what about Afghanistan and Iraq, where the US has toppled terrible regimes and placed democratic governments? Don't any of you remember the US's primary reason for going there since the beginning? It's to get bin Laden, thats why. Then weapons of mass destruction. Then it was to get rid of Saddam Hussein. Finally, it was to place a democratic gov't. Yes, the good things did come. After their initial objectives were either accomplished or never existed.

But for everything the bad the US has done, the terrorists are equally as bad. Instead of forming an organization for peace, they kill innocent civilians in the hope of causing fear and destruction, just to be heard and topple governments they deem not good enough for Islam. In order to show their anger to the world, they have become un-Islamic, bad Muslims, the very people they hated and pretty much alienated all Muslims around the world, including me.

As much as the US is guilty of supporting anyone who would help them, despite whether they are dictators or not, the terrorists who are angry at the US for that reason and are acting on it are guilty just as well for their actions. Even when the US is supporting China, a communistic country with little freedoms who are treating the Tibetans just as poorly as other countries with dictators, through trade, the terrorists are killing innocent women and children and would rather commit sin and wrongdoing than voicing their objections as peaceful people do. In this world, there is no good guy. It is not as black or white as people like to think. Just shades of gray...a very dark tone of gray. Sorry for the long rant. Just had to say something.