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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Another way of looking at this is asking yourself a different question. Would these attacks cease if America left Iraq? Or would the terrorists/insurgents carry on their fight and continue attacking America? I believe the majority of attacks would cease. That is not to say that amongst their number there are a small number of people who are more interested in attacking America than in freeing Iraq. I think there are.
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I think the terrorists are convinced they are on a mission from Allah and the attacks here would/will continue as long as we have a presence in the middle east, especially our support of Israel. I don't think our being in Iraq makes that much difference to them, just piss them off more than they already are.
The insurgent/terrorist argument can also apply to our Revolutionary War citizen soldiers.
I think that once we leave, the Iraqis may vote themselves an Islamic government run by the Mullahs. Not sure how good this is for us in the long run but I guess they will be free to do so.