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Posted on 09/18/2001 11:09:58 PM PDT by FReethesheeples

"The people who committed these acts are clearly determined to try to force the United States of America and our values from the world, or to respond by curtailing our freedoms. If we do that, the terrorists will have won, and we have no intention of doing so."

----- Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld

"America is a nation full of good fortune, with so much to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America because we are freedom's home and defender, and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time."

--- President George W. Bush at National Cathedral Prayer Service, Friday, 9/15/01

VP Cheney addressed a group of the Nation's Republican Governors last February at the National Armory in Washingotn, D.C.

I was in the audience. There, he said the most impressive thing I have ever heard him say:

That continuing to grow the Federal Government at 7% instead of the Bush Adminsitration's targete growth rate of 3%, "Threatens our very freedoms"

and destroys the nature of our Nation.

One long-time FReeper on another thread asserted the theory that this pending war with Terrorism is about the Government getting totalitarian powers.

While such a possiblity always has to be vigilantly guarded aginst, these men are not in this war at risk to their lives, for POWER; they are in it for FREEDOM, just as they SAY they are.

However, with these three men at the top of the USG, the War becomes focused as being about DEFENDING freedoms, and about minimal, or no, reduction of our rights and freedoms, which, after all, are Unalienable Rights vested in us as individuals, antecednt to the State, not given to us BY the State.

What, then, is the War about?

It is about destroying the totalitarian impulse and FACT that is terrorism in order to PROTECT FREEDOM>

Its as simple as that.

Saddam, not Bush is a tyrant.

The Taliban & Osama are totalitarians, not America.

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