Are we fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq so we don't have to fight them at Shopping Malls?

Question

Acording to Tony Snow:
To walk out of Iraq right now would plant a seed that ultimately would lead to destabilization there, hundreds of thousands of deaths, loss of our influence in the region, would create instability throughout the Middle East throughout East Asia, throughout Europe. And sooner or later it would come to our shores, to a shopping mall near you.

Thanks for the lecture/rant boscatman. I was more or less making a joke out of something I thought was an osburd observation.
Take your meds.

Answer 1

Like we have not already done that by invading a country that did not attack us.
Our pre-emptive war based on fallacies was and is still seen by Muslims as an invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation that did not attack the West. A country, despite what the administration has convinced some of their koolaid drinking followers to believe, that did not supply money, intelligence or humans in the attack on the US. The country that did that was Saudi Arabia but we did not invade them.

It is now the "cause celebre" because it is a highly effective recruiting tool for Al Qaeda because this invasion played right into the rhetoric Bin Laden used to draw people to him.
This pre-emptive war in Iraq was the perfect rallying point for Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda's premise is that they are fighting the West because the West is determined to destroy Islam and all the Islamic people. Their "fight", to those Islamic jihadists, is a defensive jihad (holy struggle)- an Islamic military reaction triggered by an attack by non-Muslims on the Islamic faith, on Muslims, on Muslim territory.
Al Qaeda did not have a toehold in Iraq until we invaded. Case in point- Al Qaeda in Iraq did not exist until 2004, when Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Bin Laden.
The Bush Administration had Al Qaeda weakened and cornered and instead of staying and rooting them out, he took his eye off the ball and invaded a country that did not attack us, so the the group regained strength and are right back where they were prior to 9/11.

Answer 2

Actually, there's a civil war on over there. Your seed has already grown into rather a large tree. You no longer have any influence in the region and the whole world is now engaged in an escalation of a pre-existing conflict with militant Islam. I don't doubt that the trouble will soon come back to your shores, whether you're still in Iraq or not.

Answer 3

I agree with the basic statement that we are fighting them on their soil instead of ours. I believe that was the proper way to handle this in the begining. However, if you are paying attention...and its obvious your not...you will see that we have stumbled into an entirley different situation. There is NO WAY to win this war. All we are doing is getting ourselves in deeper and deeper...while they get madder and madder because we are there. I for one do not want our troops to be in Iraq anymore...much more I don't want them to be there 30 years from now either. At some point in time we need to get out of there. If you keep making comments like the ones you made we will never get out of there and end up with a bankrupt ecomomy and hundreds of thousands killed of the next 30- 40 years!!!
Look past the immediate goals, man!! Pay Attention when someone gives you doomsday advice.
Influence in the region..R U crazy!!! What influence..they all want us out.
Cause instability...R U watching or have you ever paid attention in school...there has never been and will never be stability in that region.
Jesus guy!!! Wake the F*** up!!!!

Answer 4

Right, it's so stable there now, they can't possibly attack us while we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Isn't it amazing what people say to justify this war? You would have to believe that every viable al Qaeda cell has left their 50 or 80 countries, has gone to Iraq and is now pinned down, unable to leave. You might get a different opinion from the victims of the London and Madrid bombings.

Answer 5

You know how Little League teams have names like Yankees and Giants? Well, we’re fighting a Pee-Wee League team called Al-Qaeda in Iraq so we can be shopping in the malls when the real Al-Qaeda rips one of our major cities.

Bush is easily confused and keeps focusing on the wrong team; like an autistic person who keeps staring at something no one else sees.

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Hasn’t anyone in the current Bush Administration read the President’s father’s book, ‘A World Transformed’ [1998]?

In it, he - Bush the Wiser - explained why removing Hussein from power would further destabilize the already volatile region with the possibility of causing regional (or greater) armed conflict. He also stated that if the US invaded Iraq and removed Hussein from power, it would:

1. result in America becoming stuck in a no-win Vietnam-like quagmire;

2. result in America losing its friends and allies;

3. result in America losing its standing in the world and its ability to lead and influence international political events; and

4. result in jeopardizing America’s own interests in the Middle East, undoing decades of intense effort to put ourselves in a position to be politically effective in the region;

If Bush had listened to his real father instead of the imaginary one he hears in his head we would not be in this mess.

Answer 6

You look to have very selective memory alongside with complete memory loss in maximum circumstances. all of us be responsive to for a certainty that Al Qaeda grew to become into in Iraq till now we went in by fact as quickly as we killed their 2nd in command logs confirmed he grew to become into living in Iraq for the duration of 9/eleven. We additionally be responsive to that Saddam grew to become into investment terrorism. do no longer you study the information? Now we've killed the subsequent in command and that i doubt Bin encumbered is even alive anymore. Too undesirable the dialysis delusion grew to become into shown incorrect. I cherished the belief of him hooked to a device. additionally we've got here across the education camps that have been happening long till now we've been instructed via congress to assault. We even have satellite tv for pc video of the WMD's being transported to Syria till now we attacked. you apart from mght forget approximately that it grew to become into Clinton who had Bin encumbered and gave him to the Sudan by fact he did no longer prefer to handle terrorism. He appeared any different way his total presidency and we paid the fee. The laughable section is that human beings such as you believe that the terrorists have been everywhere interior the worldwide different than Iraq. Now how lots extra narrow-minded can that be? you are able to proceed to glide in a state of complete lack of information and hatred, yet do no longer anticipate clever, recommended human beings to accept as true with you, ok? We basically chuckle at such foolishness.

Answer 7

PUH-LEEEZZZZ We arent even fighting them!!!! and as far as our influence goes, IT's Gone along with our Credibilty, our Honor and our National Self Esteem and Place of Integrity in the Worlds view!!!!

Answer 8

We created this enemy. If they want to shop at our malls I think it's the least we can offer them.

Answer 9

Be afraid very very afraid!! Fear is not working anymore Tony!!

Answer 10

In My Opinion, A Ridiculous Assumption!

If indeed terrorists did attack the USA, wouldn't they target the seats of power?
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