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Originally Posted by skinnywussy
I agree with Rich, but jayman hits closer to what the Bush admin. is thinking. Creating a honeypot in Iraq for evil-doers to flock to has allowed the US military to knock them off by the thousands. It hasn't solved any real problems, but there are plenty of dead extremists.
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I respect your opinion but I think that's completely wrong. The people you're killing over there are overwhelmingly Iraqi's who are trying to defend their country, Fox News propaganda aside. The idea that you're fighting thousands of terrorists from all over the region and somehow preventing attacks against America is ludicrous. The war in Iraq only puts America in greater danger of foreign or domestic terrorists attacks.
You can't stop terrorism with bombs, you can only create more of it, that's the point. The government and the intelligence community realize this. Terrorism is what they call 'blowback' from previous military campaigns, to them it's the cost of imperialism, and a good excuse for further military action. Fighting the war over there so you don't have to fight it at home is, no offense, but the stupidest propaganda line I've heard come out of this entire mess by far. This is a war that America started against a population, it has nothing to do with killing "extremists" or "terrorists".