The mantra of 'it is better to fight them there than over here' is the worst policy propaganda ever created for waging a war of unprovoked AGGRESSION.
IRAQ did not ATTACK the US on 9/11! They were not the Terrorists Responsible for 9/11! Attacking Iraq did not get the Terrorists responsible for 9/11!
Also understand the war on terror is about GLOBAL terror, not the internal domestic terror of a dictator against his OWN population. Isn't this why we were not helping the woman who were being raped in Dakar, or try to stop the Genocide that was occurring there either?
We had already engaged the terrorists of 9/11 in Afghanistan. Had Bush completed that engagement first, captured and killed the leaders of Al qaeda, THEN the mop up of Al qaeda networks world wide would have been easy. Al qaeda would have been demoralized, and empty of initiative to engage in more attacks. They would have been in pure survival mode.
Instead Al qaeda has been allowed to remain in Afghanistan in the outreach provinces. Reconstituting itself, developing new networks and fattening their coffers with money from the booming Heroine trade that has grown unchecked since the invasion.
Al qaeda is once again making their presence felt in Afghanistan with more sophisticated attacks perfected in Iraq!
Iraq has become Al qaeda's training ground. Iraq has become the training ground for ALL of the enemies of the US. It is in Iraq our enemies can observe the US military in action, find the weaknesses of our military and latter exploit them.
Iraq is showing the weakness of the US. The shock and awe that embraced the US military has been stripped away by the steady drip drip drip of American blood spilled by insurgent attacks. The death toll number is NOT the number America should be focused on. It is the number of Americans maimed and disabled for life! Those number in the thousands!
If you look at the number of wounded and dead in Vietnam and compare it to the number of wounded and dead in Iraq, Iraq would by far surpass Vietnam!
Al qaeda is using Iraq as a training ground for their recruits. The slow and dumb are quickly eliminated, leaving the smart cunning battle hardened killers who will later be used to infiltrate the US for attacks.
Al qaeda's leaders are not in Iraq, only surrogate leaders and foot soldiers killing Americans. The REAL leaders of Al qaeda are planning the new attacks against this country and others.
When another attack occurs in the US, it will not matter that Saddam is in prison or Zarqawi was killed. Why? Because neither were involved in 9/11.
IRAQ did not ATTACK the US on 9/11! They were not the Terrorists Responsible for 9/11! Attacking Iraq did not get the Terrorists responsible for 9/11!
If people only knew the facts, they would not be fighting for the 'RIGHT' to be screwed over.