Re: newt g. advocates terror
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I mean, look at it this way. a former top iranian politician, goes on iranian tv and says that iran must set up a covert operation to smuggle a nuke into the US and destroy a major US city.
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That's not terrorism, it's an act of war by one country on another.
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Is it terrorism when it's done to the US, but not terrorism when the US does it?
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If a group of American citizens without the sanctioning or prior knowledge of the US Government destroys Iran's oil refinery, then yes, it is an act of terrorism.
We cannot classify actions taken by soldiers as terrorism. They are acts of war. That is precisely why it is wrong to treat the prisoners at Guan. as war criminals. They aren't war criminals because they aren't soldiers. They're terrorists.
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