Iraq a "terrorist Disneyland" if U.S. goes [suggests we'll be back in Iraq 2-3 years after leaving]

Reuters ^ | May 15, 2007 | Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent

[jdm]

If U.S., British and other coalition troops withdrew from Iraq in the next year, he said, "certainly the scale of attacks that would be mounted inside Iraq, and using Iraq as a launching pad to strike other Western countries -- countries in Europe, North America - would become such that after two or three years, the U.S. forces will have to go back to Iraq."

Unimaginable. Reid & Pelosi should rot.

[jveritas]

If we leave Iraq now before we crush the terrorists there, not only we need to re-invade Iraq in 2 to 3 years but the other countries that the Al Qaeda terrorists and Iran would have controled by then, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, U.A.E, Lebanon, and of course Iran and Syria.

[KarlInOhio]

and using Iraq as a launching pad to strike other Western countries -- countries in Europe, North America - would become such that after two or three years, the U.S. forces will have to go back to Iraq."

If we go we will promise to come back if needed. Ask the government of South Vietnam how useful that promise is when the Dems are in charge.

[drzz]

OH REALLY ?

” the U.S. forces will have to go back to Iraq.”

WHAT A SURPRISE !

Afghanistan, left in 1989, back in 2001

Iraq, left in 1991, back in 2003

Somalia : left in 1993, back in 2007

http://leblogdrzz.over-blog.com

[Breyean]

Of course, the UK and the EU could always send troops.

[drzz]

My guess America will be still in Iraq in 2020.

And my other guess is America has better be in Iraq in 2020, or the free world will lose the War on Terror.

It would have been unthinkable to leave Germany during the war against communism, don’t think the US could leave Iraq during the war against radical islam.

[drzz]

Except the EU will be a Muslim state soon.

I don’t know if you notice, but for the first time ever, the free world is really, really in danger to lose the fight.

Not on the battlefield of arms, but on the battlefield of resolve.

[eureka!]

Yep. Heaven help us (and the civilized world) if we have a Democrat president in 2008...

[ex-snook]

Alarmist. When their neighbors India, Russia and China start to worry about Jihad taking over the world, it will time to take notice. Our Navy and Air Force can control any country in that area without future boots on the ground.

[drzz]

My advice if a Democrats gets the White House in 2008:

if you work in a tower, you better have to resign.

[hiramknight]

It would take another two-three years to bury all the bodies of the dead Iraqis left behind by the ensuing genocide.

[eureka!]

It really is crazy how the moonbats have taken over the party. It is equally crazy that more sane old-school Democrats are not fleeing the party...

[CeasarsGhost]

"Iraq a "terrorist Disneyland" if U.S. goes [suggests we'll be back in Iraq 2-3 years after leaving]"

But.....but.... but what about that "vast majority" of "moderate" muslims who are "peace loving people"? Won't they be able to handle the "tiny minority" of terrorists who have "hijacked the great religion of islam"?

Why do we pretend to be at peace with a "moderate islam" that does not exist? Exactly what islamic country on earth isn't already a "Disneyland of terrorists"?

[Chuck Dent]

Unimaginable. Reid & Pelosi should rot.

You're confusing political expediency for policy. No matter who is elected in 2008, 2012, ad infinitum, the US will be in Iraq for the next 50+ years.

We still have bases in the UK, Germany, Turkey, Okinawa, Korea, et al. We'll be in Iraq as long as we're dependent on ME oil.

[CeasarsGhost]

"When their neighbors India, Russia and China start to worry about Jihad taking over the world, it will time to take notice."

All three nations you mentioned have substantial islamic terror problems, especially India. But Russia has a big terrorist problem too, they just don't like to talk about it much while they try to crush Chechnya and keep their own muslim population appeased. Even China finds itself trying to keep the peace with its jihadi citizens. So what do you want to do, wait until it's too late and then face the problem?

[ex-snook]

If India, Russia and China were as worried as we are about world Jidad they would have troops in Iraq before it’s ‘too late’.

[philled]

Will it really take a couple years before we need to go back? Let's see...

The "Foreign Assistance Act" was passed in 12/1974. Anti-communist forces collapsed in Cambodia on 04/17/1975 and Vietnam on 04/30/1975.

In August of 1978, Chief surrender monkey, George McGovern took to the floor to call for the bombing of Cambodia. Forty-four months previous, he had declared that the greatest gift we could give the people of Cambodia was peace.

“Do we sit on the sidelines and watch a population slaughtered, or do we marshal military force and put an end to it?” -- Senator George McGovern, August 21, 1978

During that interim, Pol Pot's death toll mounted between two and three million. They are bound to be less coordinated and descriminate, but will the fanatics, fascists, mullahs, and Iranians be more or less efficient than Pol Pot? That is really the only question I have.

[jdm]

We still have bases in the UK, Germany, Turkey, Okinawa, Korea, et al. We'll be in Iraq as long as we're dependent on ME oil.

Yes, but UK, Germany, Turkey, Okinawa, etc. are not hostile territory, with roadside bombs planted here and there.

[cowdog77]

Of course, the UK and the EU could always send troops.:
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[CBart95]

Here we go again. Getting egged into a silly “what if” scenario by the Euro-trash British MSM.

Iraq already is an “terrorist Disneyland” and so is the entire world if factual accounts are really added up.

We have deliberately kept the Coalition participation low key and minimized all along. Brits have had a valuable role, but since many of the EU nations are actually aiding terrorism in the Middle East, they are already part of our enemy in real defacto terms.

We must learn not to be “energized “ by the Euro-slime media and their propaganda.