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stevo...i think the burden is then to be very specific about that terrorism. it is not enough to show Arab men in grainy photos and use a vague guilt by association. there needs to be conclusive documentation that our campaign in iraq has something to do with the broader campaign against terror groups.
however, i will note...i think it is entirely immoral to simply select a country that did not have significant terror links (beyond internal terrorism which we had helped support through the lovely gift of biological weaponry, the perfect gift for the dicator who has everything) and invade to use the local populace as terrorism decoys. So we're fighting them there. There had people in it. There was somebody's home.
The civilian casualties have been staggaring. So we're not fighting them in America and there has been no 9/11 again. Take iraqi casualties of civilians, divide by 3000. I think using a conservative estimate, there have been the equilvalent of seven 9/11 scale tragedies in iraq due to our intervention.
If another country wanted to fight some worthy fight on our soil, and that it would only cost thousands upon thousands of civilian lives...what do you think our response would be? Over there wasn't a barren waste. It was somebody's country.
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