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Originally Posted by Rich
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".
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For the most part I agree with you - I was refering to my own interpretation of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield logic in the previous post. The actual results in iraq are more like you described than an actual honeypot effect. Many more civilians are dying than insurgants. However, of the insurgents, its believed that many are coming over from Syria and such. Since the stronghold in (forget the city, to lazy to google, you know what I'm talking about) is right on the border of Syria, and insurgents are being killed by the hundreds weekly right now on that border, its safe to assume that foreign fighters are part of the insurgency.
What am I describing when I say "insurgents"? The ones who are indiscriminently killing civilians, foreigners and new iraqi government workers with no known agenda.