If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here?

Question

How does that work? WE went over THERE and invaded the country. Iraq was showing NO interest in us prior to our invasion.

How, exactly, is killing Iraqis in Iraq preventing anything from happening in this country?

Answer 1

It also ignores that only 6% of the insurgency are Al Qaeda. ITS A CIVIL WAR! The majority are Iraqis. Cons have no understanding of the war. This is why America trusts Pelosi with nat security and not the GOP.

Answer 2

Iraq is only part of an overall strategy much but not all of which is centered in the middle east. Many either wish to be argumentative (or perhaps they're simply incapable of complex thought) and will talk about Hussein not having had strong ties to al Qaeda, or some such inanity, but there are lots of small groups in lots of countries involved in terrorist activities. They can't all be stopped, but we can make life difficult for them. This includes military actions, but it also includes the freezing of bank accounts and lots of little things that generally go unnoticed. If the al Qaeda leadership are hiding in the mountains along the Afghan/Pakistani border, it's harder for them to do their banking than if they're in a major city. And Sunni groups like al Qaeda are not alone. There are Shi'ite groups and others as well. They tend to be small, fragmented groups, so if you're thinking in terms of a war against another nation-state, you're pretty well missing the entire point. Iraq is very large and bloody, but it's only a stepping stone to get a country in that region that is more amenable than the previous regime to allowing us to persue the real goal of suppressing the ability of these groups to move, plan, finance and strike. It's a quite new style of war without full precedent in history, the maturation of fourth-generation warfare.

Answer 3

There is a long line of people that equate 9/11 with Iraq. On the liberal side they are just trying to be cheeky and trolling, on the Repub side they are deluded. It just happened that when we legally invaded Iraq for over 10 years of not abiding by UN sanctions and the terms that ended the first gulf war, a ton of terrorists decided to come and try to kill our soldiers, thus giving us the chance to kill them there. If those foreign jihadis were not in Iraq, they could have been here and thus saying, your original statement is true. But is open to debate.

Answer 4

Fighting in Iraq doesn't prevent anything. In fact it has created more terrorist than ever before. These people forget that one thing Bush might have had right when he used to call it a Global War on Terror. Note the word Global. In spite of the fact that there are more terrorists in Iraq than ever before, and still less than most people think as many refer to the insurgents as terrorists, there are terrorists located all over the world. Any one of these terrorists that are located all over the world could be planning an attack on the U.S. That negates the "fight them over there theory"...

Answer 5

We had to go "over there". Saddam was given years and years of warnings to abide by the UN resolution, a resolution, that was passed way before Bush was in office. There were terrorists who were living in Iraq, funnelling money to oragizations, such as Al-Quieda. We all know the devastation and destruction that they have caused all over the world. After 9/11, Iraq became a bigger threat to the United States. Again, given multiple chances to halt the murdering of his own people. He and his sons found it more fun to tie women and children to trees and start a fire under their feet and watch them burn to death. And, that was after his sons raped them. He continued to go again against the resolution and something needed to be done. If you do go back and research you will see that the first President Bush and President Clinton also sent troops to Iraq. It is only now, that the war is not so popular and Sept. 11th is a few years gone by now that people have a problem. War is not glamorous and yes people die. They were not drafted. And, living on the east coast and seeing the devestation first hand and having 9/11 hit home personally to me and my family, I say "Go get them before they get us"

Answer 6

i say the terrorists are killing themselves...by just popping their heads out and showing themselves ready to hurt anyone they should be shot at and killed if possible...if we are doing anything wrong there, its that we didnt go into iraq, dominate it and lock the country down and let them have their freedoms as they earned them...and with a curfew of shoot on sight from dusk til dawn, i think we would be out of there right now...but no...ask the liberals how to manage a military operation and it gets real messed up quick...all the engagement rules seem to favor the other side, at our expense...when we decimated some german cities in ww2, i didnt hear any complaining...now that its muslims tho, even tho they are dead set on taking over the world and imposing sharia law, we give them the benefit of the doubt...i say if someone shoots at our men from a mosque...wipe the mosque out...if its from a neighborhood, wipe out the neighborhood...we arent going to win as long as the dems keep putting conditions on the military...turn them loose and let them handle it the right way...wipe the terrorists out and then let iraq rebuild iraq and learn the lesson from this....its not a good thing for any gov't to go up against america...

Answer 7

It has nothing to do with anything, other than Iraq is now a HUGE recruiting center for terrorists. Too bad the administration cut-n-ran in Afghanistan going after the real threat.
They don't fight, it's very difficult to defeat suicide attacks.

Answer 8

How, exactly, is killing Iraqis in Iraq preventing anything from happening in this country?

our government, in wasting hundreds of billions of dollars killing iraqis, is keeping a lot from happening in the usa. like better schools, health care, and a real levy system in new orleans to name a few.

Answer 9

Oh yeah, they were definitely plotting to take over the usa. Bosnia too I hear from reliable sources.

Answer 10

If US led forces leave Iraq, the enemy will think that they defeated the Americans. They know they can do anything they want to us because eventually we'll get tired and quit

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