Do Americans believe that war in Iraq is the CAUSE for no recent terror attacks on U.S. soil?

Question

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It is a fact that there has been no successful terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. Do Americans see the reason for this as (a.) a CORRELATION (i.e., coincidental) OR as (b.) a CAUSE AND EFFECT relationship (i.e., Americans know the difference between a correlation and cause-and-effect relationship and have ample evidence of the cause and effect relationship between the war in Iraq and there being no terror attacks in the USA since this war began)?

*Only 4 answers acceptable:

Yes, the war in Iraq is the CAUSE of no terror attacks on U.S. soil because...

NO, the war in Iraq is not the CAUSE of no terror attacks on U.S. soil because...

There is NO cause and effect relationship between the war in Iraq and no terror attacks on U.S. soil because....

There IS a cause and effect relationship between the war in Iraq and no terror attacks on U.S. soil because....


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Answer 1

No. It's entirely due to much better intelligence and counter-terrorist operations.

Answer 2

I feel they are unrelated. Therefore a cause and effect relationship does not exist. Thus not even coincidental

Please remember it took several years to plan the second strike on the WTC. ( 2/26/93 being the first one).

I feel the only cause and effect relationship between terrorism and Iraq is that the US actions in that war have caused the instability in the country and insurgent secular attacks. If Hussein were still in power there would be no such secular violence.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The war in Iraq is part of the war on terror. The war on terror has prevented attacks. Iraq alone is not enough. You can't limit 'acceptable answers' to those you list if you want an honest response.

Answer 5

The question is flawed for the reason that there HAVE been terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11. The most striking of these are the now nearly forgotten Anthrax Attacks of October-December 2001. Someone sent packages of anthrax through the US postal service which included handwritten notes that read "Kill America. Kill Israel. Allah is great." Five people died, most of them postal employees. Congress was shut down while in session for the first time since 1814 when one of the packages showed up there. The nation was wracked with panic in a hysteria that nearly rivaled that of the 9/11 attacks. Fox News, Newsmax, and Sean Hannity attempted to link the attacks to Saddam Hussein and used the panic to beat the drums for the Iraq War. The investigative trail ran cold although it turned out that the anthrax was of domestic manufacture and meant for the US military. The packages stopped being shipped as abruptly as they showed up, and the Anthrax Killer or Killers dropped out of sight although they had never really surfaced in the first place. In short, America was attacked by a biological weapon of the sort that Iraq never attacked America with or possessed since the 1990s and whoever is responsible is still out there somewhere on the Great American Plain.

Other attacks have taken place since then. A package if ricin showed up in Congress in early 2004 and Congress shut down again. A series of explosions rocked the BP oil refineries in Texas killing around 15 people, hopefully due to BP incompetence rather than Islamic extremists but the whole thing got covered up and swept under the rug quickly. An Iranian grad student drove his SUV across the UNC campus to protest American treatment of Muslims (his words) running over six and injuring nine in March of this year. More recently fledgling Al Qaeda cells were discovered in Atlanta and New York, composed of angry young Black men.

None of these equaled the magnitude of the 9/11 Tragedy but they do put the lie to "We haven't been hit since 9/11" and "Fight them there or fight them here". And while President Bush continues to state that 9/11 happened because "The terrace hate our freedom" it really happened because Osama Bin Laden objected to the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia. President Bush pulled American troops from Saudi Arabia in 2003 to fight in Iraq, so Osama Bin Laden got what he wanted from 9/11.

All of this is largely pointless now, as President Bush disbanded the FBI team that hunted OBL a year ago with no fanfare, and his strategy for Iraq appears to be hunker down and wait for January 2009 when he can dump the whole mess on the next President.

Answer 6

No, there is no relation to the decline of terrorist attacks on US soil with the Iraq war.

Answer 7

There is a cause and effect because many of the terrorists mustered to defend their "homeland." They are kept quite busy by the US military.

Its not the only reason for no new attacks, but it is a component.

Answer 8

No, remember the coalition?. Remember "we are all in this together", well terrorist have attacked our allies all over the world. In my book if they were part of the "coalition" to root out terrorist and they have been attacked by Terrorist, the killing all over the world is still killing. Also we have 22 million illegals that just walked in from other countries. How many are terrorist?

Answer 9

yes the Iraq's are rebelling on America because of the Americans invasion on Iraq

Answer 10

Good police work only.