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Former Secretary of Defense 
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documentary titled The Fog of 
War lessons from the Life of a 

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Robert S McNamara. 
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during the Cuban Missile Crisis 
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He says lesson #1 empathize with
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That's what I call empathy. 
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inside their skin and look at us
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understand the thoughts that lie
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actions. 
This is why even serial killers 

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get to take the stand during 
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This is why you have to hear the
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prosecution in the Cuban Missile
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At the end, I think we did put 
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Soviets. 
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didn't know them well enough to 
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misunderstanding. 
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They believed we had simply 
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colonial power, and we were 
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North Vietnam to our colonial 
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absurd. 
And we saw Vietnam as an element

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of the Cold War, not what they 
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I have been researching the 
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history along with 911 for more 
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Here are some lessons I think we
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hope to find some productive way
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future. 
Lesson #1 Do not let tragedies 

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put you in the state of mind 
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manipulated into becoming the 
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Warfare is based on lies. 
Politicians engage in threat, 

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inflation and explicit lies. 
Unnecessary tactic to get people

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to put their lives on the line 
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Doing nothing is better than 
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counterproductive. 
Civilians frequently have to 

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bear the cost of decisions made 
by politicians, known as 

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blowback, when a few politicians
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benefit at the expense of their 
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People who pay no price for 
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Politicians are more likely to 
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coercively funded with taxation 
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regard to killing civilians. 
God says thou shall not murder. 

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He does not make exceptions for 
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geographical areas. 
The inequality between the state

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and the citizenry is the most 
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Finally, it shouldn't take an 
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to unify. 
Americans should be proud of the

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achievements of workers and 
entrepreneurs in the voluntary 

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sector who raised the world's 
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never imagined by kings or 
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The following excerpt is from a 
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at the Blockchain Center titled 
The State is the Health of War. 

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Thank you for watching the 
Libertarian Institute and Keith 

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Knight Don't tread on anyone. 
Go back to September 20th of 

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President George W Bush 

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addressed Congress and said the 
following Americans are asking 

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why do they hate us? 
They hate what they see in this 

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chamber, a democratically 
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Their leaders are self 
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They hate our freedoms, our 
freedom of religion, our freedom

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of speech, our freedom to vote 
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each other. 
Here are Osama bin Laden's 

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actual words published in a book
titled Al Qaeda in Its Own 

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Words, published by Harvard 
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Section is titled Tactical 
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Then the fighters realized that 
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could not see things clearly and
that their leader, that idiot 

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they obey, was claiming that we 
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When the truth, which this 
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that we are attacking them 
because of their injustice 

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toward the Muslim world and 
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as well as their occupation of 
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When the fighter saw this, they 
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shadows and take the fight into 
their territory, into their 

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homes. 
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of libertarianism. 
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continuous back and forth of 
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white, man versus woman, rich 
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non-muslim, Russia versus 
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The only justifiable divide in 
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are those who achieve their ends
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against peaceful people, and 
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through peaceful trade and 
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Even the invasion of Afghanistan
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not necessary. 
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health of war, the politicians 
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weren't going to have to pay the
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In fact, it would actually win 
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the defense contractors, and 
none of them were afraid that 

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they owe. 
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kill any civilians or wage an 
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That is another example of how 
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The Guardian October 14th, 2001 
Bush rejects Taliban offer to 

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hand bin Laden over The 
president said the bombing would

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not stop unless the ruling 
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turn his cohorts over, turn any 
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He added, No need to discuss 
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We know he's guilty. 
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powerful figure in the ruling 
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that the Taliban would require 
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behind the September 11th 
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added we would be ready to hand 
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If the Taliban is given evidence
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and the bombing campaign 
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hand him over to a third 
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Along with the invasion of Iraq,
another example of how the state

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primarily on lies. 
George W Bush in his 2003 State 

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of the Union address said the 
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that Saddam Hussein recently 
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uranium from Africa. 
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titled What I Didn't Find in 
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the alleged source of this 
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He is the husband of Valerie 
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9th, 2001 and was referring to 
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September 11th hijacker, saying 
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that he, Atta did go to Prague 
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official of the Iraqi 
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Secretary of Defense Donald 
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George Stephanopoulos on ABC 
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know where they are, Iraq's 
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West, South and N somewhat when 
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Syria. 
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on Terror has something to do 
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Sullivan says see last item AQ 
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is on the side of Al Qaeda in 
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down the Bashar al-Assad regime,
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He's an illegitimate ruler. 
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headlines from the New York 
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First one from 2011 says US 
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option. 
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out a terrible dictator, Moammar
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This is the organization they 
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These wars are to the point 
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Major neoconservative Max Boot 
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Affairs to his credit, titled 
What Neo Cons Got Wrong and How 

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the Iraq War Taught Me About the
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Boot says March 10th, 2023 
regime change obviously did not 

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work out as intended. 
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and Iraq were in fact Fiasco's 
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both blood and treasure for both
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of course, the countries it 
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Robert Apape and James K Feldman
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Fuse, The Explosion of Global 
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Stop It. 
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They describe the book as the 
first complete data set of all 

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suicide terrorist attacks around
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Their research concludes with 
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communities resisting foreign 
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From the introduction from 1980 
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completed suicide terrorist 
attacks by 524 suicide 

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terrorists who actually killed 
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others, half of whom are 
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The world leader was the Tamil 
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Further, at least a third of the
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Muslim countries were carried 
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such as the Kurdistan Workers 
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religion. 
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terrorist attacks before 2004 
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goal to compel a democratic 
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that are threatening territory 
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From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to the
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central goal of every suicide 
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resist military occupation by a 
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confirmation for the hypothesis 
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main factor driving suicide 
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Force units on territory that 
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87% of the over 1800 suicide 
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world since 2004 #2 strong 
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about the causes of 
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Dying to Win, Robert Pape's 
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nationalism, the desire to 
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religious and social 
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independent of foreign 
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explanation for why individuals 
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military occupation would 
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defend it. 
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suicide Terrorism, it was the 
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam 
LTTE in Sri Lanka whose 157 

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suicide terrorists totaled more 
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Of the Palestinian suicide 
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from secular groups such as 
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Popular Front for the Liberation
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Of the suicide terrorists 
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Lebanon during the 1980s, only 
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fundamentalists, while 71% were 
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were Christians. 
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suicide attackers were secular. 
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Of the 524 suicide terrorists 
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Islamic fundamentalist groups, 
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Kashmiri rebels, 69. 
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad and 
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comprising 157 Tamil Tigers, 42.
Alaska, 22. 

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Lebanese, 15. 
PKK, while 1221% had unknown 

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ideological affiliations. 
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the alleged Saudi hijackers. 
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What is happening in Muslim 
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Blatant occupation about which 
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There was no duty more 
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repel him. 
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Sherry. 
The occupation and deterioration

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in the land of the two 
sanctuaries is a plot by the Jew

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and the Nazarenes, foremost 
among them America, may Allah 

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destroy it, which has been among
the chief causes of every 

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misfortune suffered by Islam and
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Thus repelling the Americans. 
Occupying the land of the two 

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sanctuaries is the most 
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Finally, Hamza al Gandhi and I 
say to America, if it wants its 

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armies and people to be safe, 
then it must withdraw all of its

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forces from Muslim lands and 
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If not, let it await the men, 
prepare the coffins and dig 

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graves for its citizens. 
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introduction saying further 
notice that there are no suicide

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attackers from Iran, one of the 
largest Islamic fundamentalist 

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populations in the world, with a
population greater than Iraq, 

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Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan and
Syria combined.