Did the war in Iraq increase my chance of getting zotted into next week?

[lostnconfused99]

i'm not very political, and i need to write a paper on the topic "Did the war in Iraq reduce the threat of Terrorism?" My teacher has made it a yes or no paper. i have to write about how it did reduce the threat of terrorism, the yes part.... so can anyone give me some info, in put

[Ev Reeman]

The strategy was almost Pattonesque in its simplicity and brilliance IMHO.

[bvw]

The account has been banned, making more posts difficult, I would imagine.

[donna]

U.S. removed nuclear material from Iraq
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.nuclear/

November 08, 2005
Disinformation: Richard Miniter
Did you know that Weapons of Mass Destruction Have Been Found in IRAQ?
http://qandablog.typepad.com/questions_and_answers/2005/11/disinformation_.html

Saddam And WMD: Russia’s Role
Investor’s Business Daily, 3/7/2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591648/posts

Saddam’s WMD have been found
New evidence unveils chemical, biological, nuclear, ballistic arms
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38213

UN Says: WMDs Smuggled From Iraq; Canadian PM Says in Terrorist Hands {Re-posting}
The Vanguard, 6-24-04
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1159339/posts

Saddam’s Terror Training Camps
weekly standard, 01/16/2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553358/posts

[Intolerant in NJ]

Clearly yes - it reduced terrorism - if nothing else it got rid of Saddam, who was paying the equivalent of $25,000. to the family of every suicide bomber in the region.....

[Hoodat]

Your premise (or your teacher's premise) is flawed. The purpose of the Iraq War was to uphold the ceasefire agreement from the Gulf War in 1991. It is one of the few times in the last half of the 20th century where America actually did what it said it was going to do. And because of that point alone, respect for America increased throughout the world. Today, President George W. Bush garners more respect amongst the Iranian people than he does in this country.

I would recommend that your teacher actually take the time to read the Authorization for Use of Force in Iraq. Then perhaps he/she could offer an assignment based upon something other than ignorance.

[TigersEye]

I see you are gone but I’ll answer you anyway. Libya gave up its WMD program as a direct reaction to the invasion of Iraq. That is certainly not the only thing but it was one good thing.

[TigersEye]

Good point.

[smokingfrog]

[TigersEye]

He won’t comment now. Increasing the reverb of the echo chamber effect here.

[When do we get liberated?]

We have lost several thousand of our troops, a fact that was dangled in front of us daily by the MSM, until it went to a trickle at which point it was buried. Lost in that is that on the conservative side we have killed more than 20,000 jihadis. While true that many of these were Iraqis who viewed themselves as defending their homeland, we have killed or captured at least 9,000 foreign fighters. This is called winning a non conventional war. These foreign fighters did not blow off bombs in Beirut, Tel Aviv or Los Angeles.
When AQ declared jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, all these guys showed up suitcase in hand to fight the infidel anywhere. Don’t imagine the same thing isn’t happening now. We took the fight to their backyard. It is playing Monday morning quarterback to think that we would not be hit since 911, without the WOT as prosecuted by Bush. It isn’t a lack of will or capacity on the part of AQ.

[calex59]

Ask for help and you shall get it. Here is a big tip. Make sure your grammer and spelling is up to par and what ever you do, capitalize those Is. There you go, now go do some research on the Internet, try one of the search engines and you should find out what you need to know.

[chevydude26]

“In otherwords, you would like us to write your paper for you instead of you going to a library, looking on-line, and using just general paper writing techniques?”

stop it...do you know how biased most sources out there are on the internet or in academic libraries...he’s in the right place trust me...

[When do we get liberated?]

Do you really want him to base it on the inventory of a college library?

[Bhoy]

Good thread. Very good replies. Lots of good info & ideas. Thanks.

[BuckeyeTexan]

You think I’m playing Monday morning quarterback? Really? How so?

[When do we get liberated?]

Wow, in three sentences, your grammar and spelling were both wrong.

[50mm]

[When do we get liberated?]

It was just a statement on the question. It was not aimed at you, I just happened to be on your reply when I responded.

[FreeSouthernAmerican]

You’re right. He/she shouldn’t read. All books at a library are bad. /s

[FreeSouthernAmerican]

I didn’t know that college libraries are the only ones that existed.