[lotuseclat79]

Article here.

-- Tom

[WarC]

You been asleep the last twenty years?

It's practically self-evident. If you make the extremist groups spend their comparatively (to us) sparse resources and finances in theaters of operation in the middle east, it hampers their ability to plan, finance, and carry out mass attacks elsewhere.

[Stoner]

And if you allow those extremists the freedom to tap into the oil wealth there, it's logical they'll spend some here on terrorist activities.

[Davey7549]

If only that were the case explained in that article. Unfortunately they, the terrorists will gain control of the oil resources as Stoner stated and no matter where western civilization exists there will be attacks financed by oil profits.
It appears to be easy to forget their mantra of destruction to all Infidel societies. If you least forget we are one of those Infidel societies. This is a twisted religious attitude by a few twisted individuals comparatively to the whole of Islam. No matter what happens in Iraq or Afghanistan the individuals responsible for this terror will not stop at those shores so lets not give them a free hand and loads of money to help their cause.

Dave

[Wino]

No.

[combsdon]

.....no?............

[Wino]

Originally Posted by combsdon

.....no?............

Yes.................

[linskyjack]

Originally Posted by WarC

You been asleep the last twenty years?

It's practically self-evident. If you make the extremist groups spend their comparatively (to us) sparse resources and finances in theaters of operation in the middle east, it hampers their ability to plan, finance, and carry out mass attacks elsewhere.

Obviously, you don't understand that the resources of the terrorists are not "limited" Two billion alone went out of Iraq by Bathist followers of Sadaam Hussein. Osama Bin Laden has a very deep war chest filled by his family and by other radical Sunnis throughout the world

Lets spell it out---This country has been attacked twice in the last fifty years. Both times in NYC and on both occasions, the attacks could have been prevented. Invading Iraq created a whole new generation of terrorists, growing their ranks in ways that could only make Osama Bin Laden smile!

[BanditFlyer]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

Obviously, you don't understand that the resources of the terrorists are not "limited" Two billion alone went out of Iraq by Bathist followers of Sadaam Hussein. Osama Bin Laden has a very deep war chest filled by his family and by other radical Sunnis throughout the world

Lets spell it out---This country has been attacked twice in the last fifty years. Both times in NYC and on both occasions, the attacks could have been prevented. Invading Iraq created a whole new generation of terrorists, growing their ranks in ways that could only make Osama Bin Laden smile!

It's people like Nancy Pelosi who make Osama Bin Laden smile. GWB made him hide in a cave.

[LauraMJ]

Originally Posted by BanditFlyer

It's people like Nancy Pelosi who make Osama Bin Laden smile. GWB made him hide in a cave.

[poochee]

We have potential terroists in the country, they are in all countries. Continuing to fight in this civil war in Iraq will not keep them out of the US. We have open borders that must be protected. We need to cease the war and leave Iraq to the Iraqi people. Bring our troops home to fight terrorism on the home front.

[lotuseclat79]

Aside from the war in Iraq, it might have helped if we had fought the so-called GWOT from the point of view of that the response to 9/11 could have been fought in two ways simultaneously without going into Iraq.

Going into Afghanistan was the right move, but not finishing it wasn't.

Instead of going into Iraq, it migh've been more productive to engage counter-terrorism moves against terrorists world-wide as the they have done in Indonesia with some amount of success, where good intelligence gathering and effective police work rather than brute military force have shown the world that the forces of law and order can be effective weapons against terrorists.

See Rights and wrongs of Asia's 'war on terror'.

-- Tom

[katonca]

Originally Posted by BanditFlyer

It's people like Nancy Pelosi who make Osama Bin Laden smile. GWB made him hide in a cave.

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[katonca]

Originally Posted by poochee

We have potential terroists in the country, they are in all countries. Continuing to fight in this civil war in Iraq will not keep them out of the US. We have open borders that must be protected. We need to cease the war and leave Iraq to the Iraqi people. Bring our troops home to fight terrorism on the home front.

The idea of bringing the fight to them is a sound one. Not fighting the war to win, is a poor one. You're right poochee, terrorists are amongst us everywhere and most likely planning to strike. The idea of putting troops on the border/securing is something else we must do (but it's apparent that the Mexicans living in our southern states have our representatives worried enough that they won't fulfill our wishes).

Freeing the people of Iraq appears to be a good idea gone bad.