If Iraq occupied the United States would you plant ieds to defend your country?

Question

If you did, would you be considered a terrorist. Remember before you answer that 9/11 was bin ladens doing and Sadamn was originally accused of wmds until none were found and then he was labeled a brutal dictator to justify invading Iraq.

Sadamn was brutal but why did we not take him out back in the 80's when he killed those people? KInd of weird that no wmds were found but we ousted him for something he did over 20 years ago.

ied stands for improvised explosive device and last time I checked Noam, roads don't come with explosives on them.

Answer 1

Pick another country, Iraq occupying the US is short of a joke.

Answer 2

Yes, a country under attack would in most cases defend itself with all the might available. Therefore Saddam was not a terrorist while he was trying to defend his own country.
But a country that invaded another country X and was pushed back and humilated by a third country Y and saved itself by appealing to a truce, does not invite Country Y to invade. Saddam did just that. He defied all UN resolutions without prepararing Iraq for a war with US. He acted foolishly from the arrgance of the weak.
That however does not justify an invasion of Iraq. Not many people really believed that Iraq had any WMD worhtwile of effective destruction at the time when Iraq was invaded. But Saddam's Iraq showed enough signs that it could go into developing that and use first against the other Arab countries which he attacked earlier. Unless Saddam gave concrete evidence that he was in fact not doing that, given his record of the past no one would keep quiet. Iraq had to be stopped from pursuing that path. The world could not have waited till Iraq really developed WMDs. Had all the super powers had taken a joint resolution to invade Iraq if Iraq did not implement all UN resolutions forthwith, the war in Iraq might not have taken place. The US had to take advantage of the situation to settle the issue once for all. And, this has been settled after Iraq came under US occupation and Saddam and many of his assistants have been eliminated. This has provided enough relief to Eorope and other Arab countries, whether they admit this openly or not.
The US could easily pull out from Iraq now. But being there is thwarting eforts of terrorist countries which dreams of ruling the World. This is causing tremendous economic burden on the US economy. Unless the US economy becomes strong again with no fiscal eficit or current account deficit, the US would not be able to sustain its efforts to save the world from terroism and religious expansionist activities of the middle east.
But to accuse US of terrorism in Iraq is a travesty of Truth and imagination of the weaker minds.
Iraq war did not require any justification: Iraq (Saddam) invited the War thinking that it was clever and strong enough to ignore what the richer nations and the USA.

Answer 3

If those IEDs were only targeted at combatants you might have a point.

However the vast majority of the attacks target innocent civilians. And the people conducting the attacks are in opposition to of the US - but of the government the Iraqi people elected.

What is presently going on in Iraq would be comparable to the Democrats planting IEDs because they lost the 2004 elections.

Answer 4

Sadam was a brutal dictator and used weapons of mass destruction. 9/11 and Iraq were two-different issues.
You misunderstand the term terrrorist. A terrorist exists despite popular will. A terrorist uses force and violence against lawful governments or individuals to create a climate of fear.

Answer 5

Read up on General Burgoyne. The British Commander who was captured at Saratoga. He went back to England and became a member of Parliment. He goes on and on about how Britain could never govern an armed populace. He became a leading voice in the movement to stop the fighting.

Certainly I would fight a foriegn invade. As we speak the Border Patrol is being outgunned on our own border.
I thought that was why we had an Army. To protect our borders, not Iraq's

Answer 6

If anyone invaded our country I would do what is necessary to defeat them. I would not blow-away my own civilians as is presently being done by the terrorists. You must remember also that there are many of us old veterans that have faced an enemy before and we have lived a good life and are not afraid of death. We will fight till the last man is no longer able to fire a weapon!!

Answer 7

First off, they aren't defending their country. They want to enslave the good people of Iraq. Those fighters aren't even Iraqi!!!!!!! They're Iranian, Palastinian, and Syrian. They are terrorists. And, no, I'd never use an IED. I'd be brave, and use a rifle.

Answer 8

Where do the liberals come from in the US. It's like a disease. I would not plant ieds. It is purposeless murder. There is no justification for it. It accomplishes nothing. Innocents are killed and maimed for no good reason.
The justifications for going into Iraq are legendary. It seems to me that you either don't know or want to forget the recent history. It is all readily available in your library. Just read newspapers from 9/11/01 until now.
Hussein was insane. He was a brutal, murderous dictator. A fact that has been known for 30 years.

Answer 9

Some will tell you that they believe that the enemy is within. They will tell you that those dreaded LIBERALS are the enemy within. Of course anyone who disagrees with them is automatically labeled a liberal.
These are the people that our Founding Fathers warned us about. They are willing to give up their freedoms for security, but they will not demand open government. They are more interested in fighting their cultural war at home than they are in fighting any war abroad. They are bringing this country down with their cult of divisiveness.
They're so blinded by their hate for their neighbors that they cannot connect illegal immigration to the North American Union to globalization to The New World Order. Even open borders and millions of illegal immigrants during a time of war
won't calm their hate enough for them to realize the truth. That
they are following a leader and an elite that don't consider themselves to be Americans. They are globalist and their view of the future is Feudalism. But there won't be anymore of those dreaded liberals.

Answer 10

Why are there so many idiots above answering this by blaming "liberals?" Again with the labels! You're a liberal! As if that means anything.

Anyway - if an invading army killed tons of my countrymen and my family and was taking a resource we could sell for our own independence, then yes, planting an IED would cross my mind.

Answer 11

More liberal spin tactics. Yes I would and no I would not be a terrorist. The difference is that the US is MY country and I'd be defending it or what was left of it after you liberals ruined it. The insurgents in Iraq are terrorists because they are not Iraqi's, and they are only deliberately murdering innocent people out of hate. Duh! And we DID find WMD's in Iraq, they were know to be there in larger quantities, but because Bush tried to appease you sissy liberals by going to the UN one last time, they had plenty of time to move them to Syria and Iran. You'll never see this in the druve by mdeia though, it would make them look oike the anuses and left wing liars that they are.