Looking Forward

[superjohnnya]

Alright. I've allowed it to sink in. We lost. We lost the House, we lost the Senate...we lost. The people have spoken, and I'm not going to cry foul or demand that there be a recount. I'm not going to move to Canada or say that I'm ashamed of my country. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm very proud of my country. I think the fact that the

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[anonymous]

wait, how does iraq fit in the war on terror? were we attacked by terrorists from there? were they giving weapons to terrorists attacking the us?

[superjohnnya]

Well, considering our troops are currently fighting a group calling themselves "Al Qaeda in Iraq," I'd say Iraq is not only a part of the war on terror, it's the main battleground, at the moment. Look at the geography surrounding Iraq: to the east is Iran, to the south is Saudi Arabia, to the west is Syria--all three countries are huge supporters of terrorism. Further west are Israel and Palestine, another battlefield in the war on terror. You can argue all you want whether Iraq had WMD's or whether Iraq was a supporter of terror (I'd argue that a dictatorship that kills innocent civilians is a form of terror), but the fact is by putting 200,000 soldiers in Iraq, we brought their war (the war the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists started) to them. If you look at the nationalities of the terrorists we're fighting in Iraq, many of them are Iranian, Syrian, or Saudi Arabian. We're drawing them in to fight our well-trained military so our civilians here don't have to experience the war on our own ground again.

[timmysays]

John if we're trying to fight the terrorists in Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, why are we subjecting the citizens of Iraq (as if they haven't suffered enough the past few decades) to ground zero in the war on terror. It seems pretty callous of us to let Iraqi civilians get killed by US troops and foreign terrorists, in OUR war on terror. Basically an Iraqi's life isn't worth anything compared to an Americans, thus we should encourage terrorists to come to Iraq to blow stuff up and cause a bloodbath for the population, rather than spend our resources preventing terrorism at home? I mean I don't see the point of fighting the war on terror in Iraq (besides the fact that no one gives a shit about an Iraqi's life, and a false excuse to invade a country, those nebulous WMD's). Isn't it harder to fight terrorists in a country where there is no law and order, there is no civilian oversight of the military, guns are widely avaliable, and the native population detests us. I mean, even if we wanted to bring the war on terror to the terrorists,

[prowlingpug]

word.

[anonymous]

It's not that lefties love terrorism, or that they don't recognize the threat it poses, or that they are just 'soft' on it. It's just that they realize that bombing, humiliating, torturing, shooting, imprisoning, and interrogating people who aren't terrorists actually doesn't help fight terrorism, and very well may turn those people into terrorists.