Bush, Bin Laden and Iraq

Tech Central Station ^ | Published 01/10/2005 | By Terry Barnich

[Chgogal]

It seems to me that in the last three years Bin Laden has lost Afghanistan, billions of dollars of funding and most recently Fallujah. January 30, 2005 is his last stand. If Bin Laden cannot stop elections on "his turf", he has lost much.

[Barlowmaker]

So you disagree with the above in this article?

Yes. I think it's nonsense. The reinstitution of both a caliphate and Saddam's fascistic secular police state are wholly antithetical.

[tallhappy]

No, just this part: Bin Laden's vision of a restored caliphate

You are claiming bin Laden does not have this vision?

[garylmoore]

Syria and Iran have sent people to Iraq to stop democracy because they understand the stakes. The U.S. knew this would happen. They made Iraq the battlefield in a carefully laid strategy to keep them occupied away from our land, and to lure terrorists to one spot to wipe out. Iraq is a strategic place in the M.E., as is Afganistan. they border a majority of Islamic states. It was by no accident these two were chosen to spearhead the war on terror.

"Wise assesment" good job.

[Teplukin]

I don't care who wins and who loses. I just want to know what the end game is here. When does Iraq become a self-sustaining entity?

Or is this a situation where 150K of our troops will be in Iraq indefinitely?