It is refreshing to see a US Senator name the enemy, instead
of one of its tactics.

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Islamic Fascism the Enemy, Not Terror, Says Santorum
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
July 21, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - The United States is not fighting a war against
terrorism so much as a war against Islamic fascism, U.S. Sen. Rick
Santorum (R-Pa.) said Thursday. But a spokesman for the Council on
American Islamic Relations said Santorum's argument only empowers
"extremists."

Days after Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that the
United States would fight a war against terrorism, starting with Osama
bin Laden's al Qaeda and the group's political benefactors -
Afghanistan's Taliban government. But on Thursday, Santorum said
labeling the conflict a war against terrorism was politically "safe
and misleading."

"Some say we're fighting a war on terror. That's like saying World War
II was a war on blitzkrieg. Terror, like blitzkrieg is a tactic of
war, used by our enemy," said Santorum at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C. "It is not the enemy.

"In World War II we fought Nazism and Japanese imperialism. Today, we
are fighting against Islamic fascism," he said.

Santorum labeled Islamic fascism "truly evil" and added that it poses
"as big a threat today as Nazism or Soviet Communism."

"Islamic fascism is the great test of this generation," he said

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Full article at "Cybercast News Service"
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/
Politics/archive/200607/POL20060721a.html 

Cheers, Steve..

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