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Frankly, most folks do not appear to be very well educated regarding this war. If you're going to take down one, take them all down on both sides. Everyone involved was a rotten son of a bitch. Google civil war atrocities and read few links. The Union is as worthy of our disdain as the Confederacy.

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Apple vs orange arguments are never valid but put simply, a statue that has set in place for over a 100 years and existed before the parents of the vandals should hold some historical value. Many of the ones in the south were men that served in high positions well past the civil war. It really comes down to a few things, you respect the law or you do not, you believe in respecting all cultural artifacts or not. I fought against jihadi's a few times but I would never even consider attacking a mosque. The criminals attacking these statues should go to jail, no question.

We agree on legally, the length of time does matter as does historical value, a statue of Hitler in the middle of town would be an issue the same statue in a museum I would find of value to students and teachers. Hiding history doesn't change it, understanding it can change the world. My mosque comment was about the people with an irrational fear of all things southern remind me of the Islamophobic's, fear is fear and fear can be beaten not by violence but by education.

The simple fact that some have stood for centuries proves you wrong, most people learn from the past not fear it.

Again you are wrong, with that logic I could say destroying Mosques is ok because Mohammed owned slaves and ordered people murdered. The reality is none of us has the right to determine what other people believe or hold dear. Vandalism and hate are always wrong and should never be policy.

I am not picking on Islam, my point is there are people that hate a statue and people that hate religions and there are people that do not, Controlling hate and bias takes courage, attacking historical artifacts is the work of common street thugs. There are always legal ways to handle decent. The lefts problem is they pretend to be tolerant but use violence, the truth is every statue should be rebuilt bigger.

Oh the hypocrisy. I can remember a certain someone giving me a hard time about saying I was fine with people burning down abortion clinics.

Whoops I read 'illegally.'

Perhaps we should cleanse the world of any reference to Robert Byrd, longtime Democrat Senator, who was a member of the KKK. If people started to destroy his monuments (buildings, etc named after him) maybe it would bring some perspective into the situation.

Let's just rewrite history so it doesn't offend anyone.

Egypt should take down the pyramids too. They are antisemitic monuments built by slaves.

I actually don't believe Saddam's statues should have been taken down. Iraq has always been unstable because it's split into sects of religious beliefs. Each sect has historically quarreled for political power and when they get it they take a big fat dump on the other sects. Saddam was able to maintain stability in a country full of barbarism. He had to use violence to maintain order which is wrong by our standards but the only thing those people understand. There's a reason why he was allowed to keep his dictatorship after the first gulf war.

Half informed people know the Iraq war was BS to make the Bush's more money and to secure oil for the US. It had nothing to do with Saddam. His statues were tore down for the same reason confederate statues are being taken down. A symbolic gesture to promote a lie that manipulates uninformed people into supporting an agenda they otherwise wouldn't.

Pyramids are tombs, not anti Semitic monuments, Egyptians have historically been classified as Semites themselves, tho that's just a language group and theirs has some differences.

Iraq was split off of territory taken from Turkey after WWII and divied up by Britain and France over dinner. Brits stirred up nationalistic fervor to give the locals reason to rise up against the Ottoman Empire, and later as the usual divide and conquer to maintain control.
Saddam used his Sunni Baath Party & army to harshly oppress the Shiite majority, Kurds, and other ethnic & religious groups, all whom generally got along well for centuries under Turkish rule. They were an advanced nation when Europe was still slowly crawling out of the mire of Medievelism.

Contrary to what the public believes, no oil was taken by the US - ask Trump. Once in a while he actually tells the truth. We're not in the business of spoils of war, something he wants to change. The invasion and subsequent nation rebuilding allowed for an excuse for sanctions to be lifted and oil to be sold on the open market insteasd of in limited quantities in exchange for meds. Oil is not the only way to make a buck, as Haliburton & the rest can testify. Thanks to Reagan, instead of the Army rebuilding, subcontracters now do the job. This gives even more incentive to go to war fpr profiteering purposes,,,

Iraqi citizens took down those statues. Even many Sunnis hated the dictator.

Confederate statues were put up mostly in the 1960s, not 1860s. While commemorating those those who fought for the rights of (most of) their countrymen and as States is one thing, that it took a whole century to do so points to less sincere motives. The timing points to their true motivation - rendering local heros into nothing more than symbols of racism to stick in the eye of those in support of the Civil Rights Movement...

If that is a threat bring it, better men have tried.