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is Iraq a terrosist risk
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I here people saying we should be in Iraq because it helps fight terrorism. but I'm not aware of iraq being the source of terrorism, perhaps afganistan is the place of terrorism but with americas campaingn sadam+osama bin laden (rather than keep them as the seperate entities they are) we probably even think nowadays that the gaza strip war is a source of terrorism. should we really be in Iraq ? :banghead:
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Of course Iraq was not a terrorist theat before the invasion, we created that mess.
thats what I am saying, as far as I know Iraq has NEVER been a source of terrorism they have never bombed us outside of Iraq so what the hec are we doing there. we went to war against afganistan (eventually) because the harboured osama bin laden that attaked outside of afganistan, but on a whim we ran off to Iraq and spend years misteriously missing sadams palace everytime we fired missiles at it
Iraq did nothing and we moved in makes you wonder, we can probably over run iran quite easily before they do have nuclear weapons
I mean I'm a hippy and think that terrorists really don't do enough damage to justify a massive war. The IRA was different, that was because we were involved in very shady practices and it's been us withdrawing that's slowed down terrorism.
Random psychopathic extremists? Rare enough not to care. Sorry if this offends anyone but I've probably got more chance of being hit by lightening and yet you don't see spending billions protecting myself against lightening...
...and if you measure terrorism, have we really stopped it? Overthrown some bad regimes, but has the grassroots foundations stopped? If anything it will be worse now than ever.
Oh, right, that was the CIA.
Nevermind.
Saddam was secular, not fanatical, and kept the fanatical elements in Iraq in check; so you're right, the idea of terrorist groups using Iraq as some kind of hub during his reign is ridiculous. Pity the same can't be said about Blair...
The decision to invade Iraq was decided long before 911. All part of the new American century where America would have strategic military bases all over the middle east. Iran is surrounded. If you believe America is pulling out of Iraq anytime soon ...dream on ...they are there for many years to come ...they are in the process of building super fortresses right now.