And you think that Al Qaeda would never have attacked anywhere in the Middle East if we had just not invaded Iraq, is that it? That's just factually wrong. Khobar Towers? The U.S.S. Cole? You think these events were flukes? Al Qaeda was in the middle of a global onslaught against the U.S.
Since 9/11, we have not only been kicking the crap out of them around the world, we have gotten countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to wake up to the real danger Al Qaeda poses to them as well. People throw around the word "atrocity" so easliy. The real atrocity was Saddam 35 year rule of terror that lead to the deaths of a million or more Iraqis and Iranians, and the torture, rape, and maiming of untold numbers of people under his regime. Saddam is maybe the third most evil guy in history behind Hitler and Stalin as far as I'm concerned. Not just for what he did, but what he tried to do. Just imagine what the world would be like today if Saddam had a nuke (which he would have if not for Gulf War I), if he had stayed in Kuwait and later rolled into Saudi Arabia (which was next on his list), and then steamrolled Iran with the additional military might he could have built from oil proceeds. He could today be sitting on 70% of the planet's oil reserves with his finger on the nuclear trigger. Your tirade sounds like sour grapes to me. >Ken wrote: > If anything the amount of terrorism in the middle east has increased > due to our intervention in Iraq. Have you seen the news lately? How > many died this week in car bombings in Iraq? Saudi Arabia? How many > have been our are being held captive? How many Americans soldiers and > civilian contractors have been killed or maimed by terrorists? > Because they are in a war zone they don't count? Bush is an idiot. > We are worse off for our invasion of Iraq. $320 billion and counting, > what is the latest count of American forces who've died in Bush's > private war? 1,500+ ? How many maimed? 10,000 + ? and that just the > Americans. Countless innocent Iraqi's. In addition to the countless > Iraqi's fighting against the invasion of their country. Not to > mention the Italians, Japanese, British, Polish and others who've been > victims of this atrocity. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156669 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
