Is the world safer after the invasion of Iraq? Or less safe?

Question

I just think of all the orphans created by the tens of thousands of people in Iraq that have died (so far). Wouldn't the orphans be a great source of recruitment for Al Qaeda? What would they have to live for? No family, no money, no life, and they at least can be martyrs.

It's funny I ask a question "what is the shelf life of a Twinkie" I get a ton of responses. I ask a real question, nothing... Next question is about Paris Hilton. Stupid, but let's see what happens....

Answer 1

The world is considerably less safe. The US and UK have acted as the perfect recruiting sergeant for Islamic militants. The US and UK have illegally bulldozed into a country, indiscriminately killed and tortured its people, razed whole towns to the ground, used illegal depleted uranium and white phosphorous weapons and have set up the conditions for a civil war as predicted. What more could an islamic militant do to ensure a steady flow of Muslims ready to pay back the US and UK for their crimes?

Incidentally the death toll amongst Iraqi civilians is estimated to be over half a million people. That's not counting the huge number who were effectively starved to death by the West with the sanctions in place from the first Gulf conflict.

Answer 2

Considerably less safe, I do not pretend to know the reasons why Iraq was invaded, we got involved because Blair had his head stuck up bush ****, as did Thatcher with that lunatic Regan.
Bush says jump and the Westminster poodle asks how high ?
The one thing I am certain of is the existence of an agenda regard the invasion that we will never know.
I fear all we have done is to create a very fertile recruiting ground for the terrorist, made more determined the terrorists to bring death and destruction to the UK and where it will end God only knows.
When it was said that the sadistic murdering bastard sometimes known as Saddam Hussein had developed the bomb I was 100% with going in, getting shot of him, his bomb and the regime in general , helping to restore democracy and then get the feck out.
But it was all a lie, one big lie, no evidence of a bomb was ever found, nor that he was even close to having developed it.
Bush+Blair = lies, cover ups and misinformation.
Now thousands of people from both sides of this conflict will pay the price, including innocent women and children.

Answer 3

Global safety seems to rise and fall every decade or two more or less. Many conflicts are rationalized as an effort to achieve a great peace.

The invasion of Iraq, however, was justified as a means to prevent one or more greater conflicts. And it has achieved that objective.

You probably know that Western countries led by the USA confronted the Saddam Hussein as far back as 1991, which some could argue was the start of the invasion of Iraq.

The current sectarian civil war in Iraq, inflamed by Al Qaeda and Iranian influences, was NOT caused by the arrest and destruction of the Saddam Hussein regime.

The Brookings Institute estimates that 90% of Iraqis want a unified constitutional Republic of Iraq, and not an insurgency.

The American led peacekeepers in Iraq are standing tall in their efforts to protect civilians and the constitutional Republic of Iraq.

Many orphans created by S Hussein joined Iraqi parties that were trying to overthrow his regime and liberate Iraq.

The orphans created now by the civil war are given shelter, education and hope by the peacekeepers in the areas of Iraq secured by the peacekeepers and the Iraqi Defense Forces.

Answer 4

No it is not safer when Bush invaded Iraq he opened Pandora's Box and we are now on the verge of WW3.
Iraq has become AL-quedas new recruitment ground and there are plenty of angry young men signing on.
Imagine if your country was invaded how long the line at the recruitment centre would be.

Answer 5

Its less safe, for both sides. For the poverty wracked Iraqis as well as for the US as you rightly say that the Iraqi orphans will be a great source of recruitment for the AlQaeda.
Thats the reason why war can never be justified.

Answer 6

Unfortunately far less safe. We should have stayed with our war on Afghanistan and our hunt for Bin Laden.

Just think, if we truly rebuilt Afghanistan and captured Bin Laden, George W. Bush would be a hero right now. (instead of the broken shell of a person we see on TV.)

Answer 7

Safer then why the bombings of London, Madrid?

The current nuclear Iran crisis? (But I believe its for peaceful purpose!)

North Korea nuclear crises?

Russian defense built up the past years?

The civil war in Iraq that is causing deaths each day!

I don't think so my friend!

Answer 8

Safer.
In knowing the blunders and slip-ups with human errors created back in the past being expose with time after the mystery of us-911.
In tracing the faults on how the mess was created back in the past.
In exposing the mess with living human kind living in misery in hollering "Find the root caused" without a solution.
When the mess was created in own backyards being expose with time.

Answer 9

The world is not safe. 9/11 was not the first attempt at us and I think it won't be the last.

The U.S. is in Iraq providing for people so they will have jobs, school, homes, food, so that they don't want to be recruited.

Answer 10

more terrorists are created every day. the usa formed a new dept of gov't that proved to be one of the biggest pork barrel projects of all time that has done absolutely nothing to make the usa safer. the terrorists and their ideology came from saudi arabia. because of the saud family ties to bush and usa oil co.s no real effort has been made to stop al-queida by going into saudi arabia. instead we shut down their competition on the world oil market for them.