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Did attacking Iraq enhance our position in the war on terror?
No.
It made a lot of Americans feel better, like we were doing something, at the beginning, but this sentiment has obviously run its course and petered out.
It did give the American military the chance to demonstrate its might, but its might was hardly in doubt anyway. What it did do was expose its weaknesses to terrorist style attacks.
It did bring about the end to Saddam Hussein, #2 behind the Saudi Royal Family on the Osama bin-Laden most wanted list.
It did demonstrate US willingness to go it alone, giving hope to those out there that would seek to manipulate events to drive a wedge between the US and her allies.
It did make Iraq a central stage for terrorism, giving terrorists a convenient and cheap way to engage and kill large numbers of American soldiers, something they didn't have before the invasion.
Did these make our position in the war better? And if not, then how did they make us safer, when the only way to make us safer to is to put terrorism on the decline?
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"Don't tell me we're so blind we cannot see that this is my land! I can't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
And this is your land, you can't close your eyes to this hypocracy.
Yes this is my land, I won't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
'Cause this is our land, we can't close our eyes to the things we don't wanna see."
- DTH
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