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Originally posted by piker
I'd say for immediatly it has made Iraq unsafer for some... There are some in Iraq pre-Saddam that would be executued on the spot. So that its self is a tough argument. But one can't expect the chaos to last forever. But as predicted it is increasing before it's first election for obvious reasons to most sane people... (this excludes Kerry at least his current positon). Terrorist want to defeat democracy pretty bad. And don't give me the argument it's Iraqi's in general.. because they are 25 million strong... and only 2-5k are part of the insurgency... What is amazing is there are car bombs every other day aimed at the Iraqi military recruiting process. But, yet every day Iraqi's go stand in the line knowing that maybe another car bomb might come their way...
But why is the world safer in my opinion... Because Saddam who does has terroism ties is not in control of a WMD program that produce nasty stuff very quickly.
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Hooray! I haven't really seen you post any childish insults or anything yet.
The chaos over there has lasted thousands of years. Of course its increasing with the ramp up to partial elections in Iraq. Did you listen to Rumsfeld? They are going to hold partial elections. That is like not letting Miami, Los Angeles and Houston vote. What kind of legitmacy would a gov't like that have in a country that has been teetering on civil war for centuries?
The "insurgency" or "resistance" depending on how intellectually honest you want to be with yourself is estimated between 10-22,000 or even more. The number is probably growing every day.
Saddam's only real ties to terrorism was an after-the-fact funding of Palestinian family members of suicide bombers. He had tried to kill Bush41 rather unsuccessfully and clumsily and was promptly bombed for it. He had no wmd and there was no real program in place. I'm happy he's out of power and everything, but the way we went about it was all wrong.
Muslims view outsiders invading their land, regardless of nationality, to be enemies. It's their responsibility to get the invaders out to achieve their goals of installing a Shariah(sp?). They also don't operate with the same timeframe we do. We think years, they think in terms of lifetimes and centuries. This is not something that can be won with bombs.