I wish I could believe that they are fighting and dying for my freedom because I'd certainly feel better about the war. To me, the Iraq war has nothing to do with "freedom". How has someone from Iraq tried to take my freedom? Even the 9/11 attack itself wasn't an attack on "freedom". It was clearly an attack, but the attack itself didn't impair freedom. Our government's own actions after the attack certainly attacked at least some of our freedoms (if illegal spying on Americans doesn't indicate a loss of freedom, I don't know what does?).

It makes me sick to see politicians with a cowboy complex or short man's syndrome state that "if you change how you live, the terrorists have won", while simulaneously flipping this country's constitution and basic principles on their heads.