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I know that "extreme rendition" is a euphemism for international kidnapping to do the torture elsewhere and perhaps by more expert practitioners.
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I know that the Patriot Act is officialized excuse to violate of our constitutional guarantees and a license to intimidate and abuse American citizens with impunity.
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I know that government tracking and eavesdropping on our phone calls and email is wrong and beyond Orwellian.
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I know that American Christians now hide within the stone walls of their churches rather than to walk and speak out as would Christ to oppose the treachery and to stop the slaughter.
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I know that once friendly peoples of the world now disrespect, even despise Americans for the treachery done in the name of our country.
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Perhaps most difficult for this veteran to digest is that I know that every one of our soldiers who died and will die in Iraq and Afghanistan is a wasted agent of our government's treachery.
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I know there is a large segment of the U.S. population who "Support Our Troops," believing the propaganda that they are somehow defending America against "terrorism" in those deserts seven or eight thousand miles from our coast, or saving Christianity from the Muslim threat to its existence, and that it is heroic for our soldiers to be blown to pieces by an IED or picked off by a ragtag sniper defending his own village.
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I know that there is another large segment of Americans who really just don't care about all this, don't wish to listen, talk or be bothered by it. They've got "more important" things to do.
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