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ORIGINAL: mnottertail So NO, Iraq was NOT a huge diversion. Under asymmetrical warfare, you do not need to use your own military to attack another nation. You do not even need to send a military over to be an imminent threat. Iraq under Saddam was an asymmetrical threat to the United States. Al-Qaeda had the manpower. They had the martyrdom brigades willing to send suicide bombers to the United States. What is missing is WMD. I take it back. You aint even a fuckin private. You've never been in the military, so can it with your claims of what I was, or wasn't. mnottertail: reread the white paper presented by the chinese colonels. hey, you brought the fucker up. I've read the book twice, and both times I saw what I explained here. Even your attempts to cherry pick the book in the last debate failed to indicate that they were communicating something other than what I was arguing. mnottertail: we are fighting a war on terrorism where the terrorists aint in Iraq, Wrong. Even the 9/11 report acknowledged that there were at least two terror groups in Iraq that were a part of Al Qaeda. Then we had Salman Pak, terror training camp in Iraq, that trained terrorists to do things, like hijact aircraft. The last Iraqi commander in charge of that post admitted to training Al Qaeda. So there were terrorists in Iraq. The Iraqis call Saddam, "the grandfather of terrorism." The terrorists are in Iraq today, albeit with a lesser presence than before thanks to our efforts. mnottertail: bankrupting our country "For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy--because everything is at stake." -Mathias Dopfner mnottertail: by sending our goods and services out of country for what? This is an unrelated topic, dealing with economic forces that work between countries. mnottertail: while the people who fund terrorism are making oil money off us as well.... The terrorists have their own fundraising efforts, which doesn't involve selling us oil. And if that's an issue with you, you could always stop using oil based products, and encourage your friends to do the same. mnottertail: we kill and maim more Iraqis than Saddam ever could, thus insuring our enmity with them for several more generations, all the while the terrorist are not being dealt with. Not true. The terrorists, that you claim doesn't exist in Iraq, are responsible for more Iraqi deaths than the coalition is. I don't know where you got your numbers from, but they're wrong. The Iraqis recognize the fact that we're selective, and that if a coalition soldier killed someone, it's because that someone was firing at the coalition soldier. Countries around the world are going after the terrorists. Where have you ben when they were coming up with reports of terror cell busts from around the world? mnottertail: In addition, we have seriously destabilized that part of the middle east, will be bogged down there for eons to come, and blah blah blah blah blah. WRONG. That's not the Iraq that I saw when I was there. Iraq is progressing. Its move to westernization, and being a strong democracy with sound economic policies, is accelerating. What we're doing in both, Iraq and Afghanistan is having a stabilization effect in the Middle East. I saw that when I was there. mnottertail: We are not fighting an asynchronous war, they are. WRONG. We're fighting an asymmetrical war. mnottertail: Again 'threat' is ideology, not a concrete action. It includes both. We're not just fighting a radical element, but an ideology. Our pushing that region closer to what we have in the west is a move to take the steam out of the radical ideology driving the terrorists. mnottertail: You need to understand what you research and glean the real from the asswipe, something you are not at all apt at. Despite all the years you've had access to my posts, and to the link that I provided in that post, you still don't get it. Are you even capable of getting that information dumbass? No matter how many times I look at the material that I linked you to, I still see what I've argued here. I highly doubt that you read what you claimed you read.
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