Sorry onetime, you're wrong. You can't tell me you feel safer today having redirected our attention away from Al Qaeda and on Saddam. Al Qaeda is not the only threat, but their are the prime threat that no other group comes even close to matching in ability, structure and intent to damage us.
Who was Saddam funding? The only terrorist organization he was into was Hamas, who has a singular focus of killing Israel, not us.
Bush has to be responsible for our own security first.
Saddam was on the very low end of state sponsorship. Especially in anti-american interest.
Saudi was much higher, and as John Stewart said last night, Pakistan sold mushroom clouds to everyone BUT Iraq.
Removing the Taliban and hunting them to extinction, while at the same time making Al Qaeda a ghost of it's former self, leaving only aimless individual cells around the world would send a very strong message. Especially to those we want to send a message to, notably those who would plan, fund and carryout missions to kill americans.
The only thing Iraq showed the world is that once we want to destroy you, the world doesn't have the ability to stop us. It made the world fear us though. It did nothing to real terrorists. If anything it showed the terrorists we don't have the attention span or will to enter into a true longterm search and destroy of terrorists who have actually killed americans.
Tell me you feel better knowing that Osama, Ayman Zawahiri (the true brains behind Al Qaeda) and Sheik Omar are still out there planning revenge than if we had Saddam and his obvious impotence.
Cause I sure as hell don't. I was never afraid of Saddam, and the war has proven to me that I was right.
Last edited by Superbelt; 07-22-2004 at 05:40 AM..
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