[Clorinox]

"Is the world safer without Hussein in power?"

Good question. Is the world "safer" today then when the war began?

It would be hard to prove one way or the other. Have bombings around the world increased or decreased since the occupation began? Does this fact have anything to do with Saddams arrest? Has al-queda become weaker or stronger since the war began?

All of these questions are very difficult to answer and would only be a start as to whether the world is "safer" or not with Saddam out of power.

A parallel question might be, is the world safer now that the Soviet Union no longer exists?

[Mase]

"Is the world safer without Hussein in power?"
Good question. Is the world "safer" today then when the war began?

It would be hard to prove one way or the other. Have bombings around the world increased or decreased since the occupation began? Does this fact have anything to do with Saddams arrest? Has al-queda become weaker or stronger since the war began?

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This is not a difficult question. If you are a terrorist, a nation who harbors terrorists or a despot/tyrant/ruler/mullah who supports terrorism, the world is definitely much more dangerous for you now thanks to our president and our armed forces.

Here's where it gets real easy: We have not been attacked by terrorists within our borders since 9-11. If you had been asked on September 12, 2001 if we could go 3 1/2 years without another domestic terrorist attack, what would your answer have been? If you were like me you were waiting for the other shoe to drop. It has not happened.

Right now, I think the members of Al Qaida, who are still alive, are busy trying to make sure that democracy is not allowed to succeed in Iraq or they are fighting our troops on the Afghan-Paki border. In doing so many more of them are being killed every day. They are being engaged and killed over there so they can not attack us here. Their leader has been reduced to hiding in a cave traveling in a small group with only his most trusted people. He is constantly looking over his shoulder for American special forces or a missile from the clear blue sky. Hard to make plans and rally the troops when your day is spent trying to survive until the next.

Anyone who thinks that these scum could possibly hate us anymore now than they did prior to 9-11 is just plain ignorant. If they could have used nukes on 9-11, they would have. This is just more drivel by the would be leftist appeasers who think that animals who fly planes into buildings, saw off the heads of innocent people or shoot children in the back in school yards can be negotiated with or appeased. They cannot. The only way to deal with them is to kill them and make it clear to anyone harboring like ambitions that they too will be killed.

It may get worse before it gets better (more bombings around the world etc.) since war is ugly and these terrorists are unlike anything we have ever confronted in previous wars. One thing is for certain, Hussein will no longer be able to kill hundreds of thousands of his own people or rape and torture thousands more.

Your parallel question about the Soviet Union is absurd. Are you one those who believes that the Afghans were better off under the Taliban?