if this act that was to be done by the Six was not a terrorist act, then what was it?

simple, it is part of "their " war against us.

The problem here is that you are discussing this as if it is an isolated incident not part of their strategy. that is the kind of "Army" they can assemble, small or large groups acting to achieve the same goal using whatever weapons they can get.

a little resentment

comon now. you used this word few times. with all what you said, is it really "little". If that happens to you, you really would be a "little" resentful? i would be furious. and that is what i believe they feel.

Last I check you were no expert on Muslim thinking so if you want to base your opinion on a hypotesis be my guest but you are no more sure of why they do what they do than anyone on this site is.

Dont be soooo sure. I can assure you what he said is 100% correct. If you live with them and talk to the people in the streets you will reach that same conclusion.

However, do you really HAVE to go there and live to understand this? what Sean said is 100% accurate, i dont think anyone will disagree with what we did and still do to these people and to the region in general, all you have to do is put yourself in their position. what would YOU do? or do you think they are ragheads and backward as some here think? even if they are that, they still will defend their turf. even animals do that.

Let's wake up and behave in a less arrogant barbaric way. it is disgusting that we think we are the only people on earth who have the right to defend our land while others' turf is for us to take and use, by force if necessary.

while arrogant is a good descriptive word, imho...i can't go with barbaric. our policies may have been reckless, naive, careless, and again, arrogant...but i don't think many of those policies were of the intention of being barbaric so much as they were about greed and power and that lust lead to a certain "laise faire" attiude towards the mid east in general.

when people start treating the globe like a chess board...look out.

Thank you. It's nice to see that some people can still actually think before they post. This is one of the things I find most disgusting about some peoples opinions about the US and the war in Iraq. We are not barbarians, sure money is one if not the main driving force in almost everything we do but I just can't stand, no, I hate it when people portray us as some kind of monster that goes around killing without out a care, that we just get on our powerful ships and sail towards an unsuspecting, innocent country and drop every bomb we can find in storage and kill anything that moves without missing a beat on what goes on in American Idol.

Our guys are dying, not just because we did not think our strategy thru, but because we are trying to be the better man and follow a set of imaginary rules. Somehow we convinced ourselves that we can stop an enemy while preserving life at the same time. We dream of bullets that can weave around children playing soccer and hit that 1 guy in the crowd with the bomb strapped to his chest. We dream of enemies that will fight in isolated areas so that innocent people don't get hurt or die. We dream of defeating an enemy that will stand in line (like they do in Jr basketball and baseball games) and shake the hand of those who beat them. But we all know that this is all nothing but dreams, situations that may be possible in a perfect world.

If there is one thing I have learned in life (it being 100% proven by my daily experiences for more than 20 years) is that good guys always finish last. Bon Jovi says in his song "BLaze of Glory" "They say you're born in sin, well at least they gave me something I didn't have to steal or have to win". It seems that he can add "guilty till proven innocent" to those lyrics. Cause that is how the average person here in the US sees everyone, at least from personal experience.

I'm sorry thinkaloud, but you assure me of nothing. You are no mind reader and no he is not 100% correct cause that would be impossible. You are broad brushing Iraqi's by saying "If you live with them and talk to the people in the streets you will reach that same conclusion.". In other words, they all think a like. Are you telling that there is no way you will find an Iraqi that will say something good about us? That nothing but hate, anger, dislike and/or disgust is all they express? Is it even possible to actaully speak to every single Iraqi person and be 100% sure as you say? And they say I live in a dream world. Dude, if anyone, besides Col gene, needs to come back to this reality, it's you. Even Sean is not that out of this world.