Posted By:
JimBJeff,
I never said I was ashamed to be an American. I love this country. I said that I was ashamed of some of the actions it has taken around the world in the past few years.
Jeff, you cannot honestly believe that because some Muslims are deluded enough to think that they will go to heavan if they blow themselves up that the hundreds of thousands of relatives and friends of dead Iraqis, most of whom were not suicide bombers, are not mourning.
The discounting of all lives lost amounts to nothing less than racism. I am not defending the actions of the terrorists or suicide bombers. I have a very hard time understanding where they are coming from and in my quieter moments I find myself developing feelings and prejudices that I wish did not arise in my mind. But to deny that US policy in Iraq has not created the instability which has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people, many just as innocent as those who have died on our soil, is to simply live with blinders on. I wish I could just keep my mouth closed, but....
JimB