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2008-05-29 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by 2008-05-29 11:16|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq in 2003."

Neither in 1943 were Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy in French North Africa, under Vichy France with whom we were not at war with nor did we have an authorization to use force or a declaration of war against. Did that deter President Roosevelt from invading? No. Yet it was through that strategic avenue that we were able to confront and expel the Germans and Italians who were in North Africa.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-29 12:16|| 2008-05-29 12:16|| Front Page Top

#2 It's today's reality that matters.

The non-sequitur rebuttal to this truth continues to be"But it was the Invasion of Iraq itself that created the terrorists. The bumper-sticker logic is that had it not been for the liberation of Iraq foreign Jihadists and Iraqi insurgents would have been content to live out their pious lives as simple goat herders. Its great for sloganeering but as a rationalization for their argument not so much.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-05-29 12:17|| 2008-05-29 12:17|| Front Page Top

#3 This ignores all the other terrorists - include Saddam's regime itself - who were in Iraq.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-05-29 13:01|| 2008-05-29 13:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Plus it glosses over the various terrorists that were known to be living in Iraq during the 1990s and up until the beginning of the war : Abu Nidal is just the most famous of them. So the Left is trying to say the ONLY terrorists that matter are Al-Q, and that we should ignore or even accept other Islamic terrorists like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-05-29 20:05|| 2008-05-29 20:05|| Front Page Top

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