Very true! What's your point?
Yes, that would be naive. If and when you ever see someone who actually claimed that defeating Hussein would "stop terrorism", do let us know! I've never seen anyone say this, myself.
The very next day after we declare victory, some fundamentalist knuclehead can drive through the Lincoln tunnel with a McVeigh style bomb and blow the whole thing to hell.
Uh, what? If an FK (fundamentalist knucklehead) can do this "after we declare victory", why aren't they doing it now - in fact, why didn't they do it yesterday?
Some people have this bizarre idea that there are a bunch of FK's out there right now who lead normal lives and work at Microsoft or something, completely happy, but if we dare to dethrone Hussein then BOOM suddenly they will become terrorists.
That's the equation in many peoples' minds: these FK guys will leave us alone if we leave Hussein in power, but if we oust him, only then will they become terrorists.
This is just... a bizarre thing to believe.
1. First of all, I'm sure it's exactly what Hussein would want you to believe: "Don't ever attack me, you'll wake up the sleepers, yeah, that's it!"
2. You also must think that fundamentalist Muslims really, really love the secularist, Muslim-killing Saddam Hussein. After all, apparently they're all willing to die to keep him in power (but again, if we leave him alone, they'll continue leading normal lives and won't attack us at all).
3. Essentially your attitude expressed here boils down to pre-emptive self-deterrence. "Let's not attack murderers, because if we do, then other murderers might kill us."
Well hell, if that's how you feel why don't we just surrender the entire U.S. to Saddam pre-emptively, in the first place, and be done with it? I mean it's just too dangerous to attack Saddam Hussein! He's that powerful and loved!
All hail Saddam Hussein!
9/11 was perpetrated not with WMD, but with civilian aircraft.
Yeah, good point. Just think if they'd had WMDs.
If anyone thinks that we as a nation can sleep soundly after Iraq is defeated, you better give it some more thought.
I agree. Iraq is just one step. Who is saying otherwise?
BTW, Saddam should be taken out. But, that should have been done the last time we went to war with these idiots. Mr. "I Just Had An Aircraft Carrier Named After Me" blew that one in the very same manner that allowed Nazi Germany to rise to power after WWI.
I agree. And Nazi Germany had to be dealt with, eventually, right?
Well, the sooner, the better. Waiting only makes Hussein stronger.
Terrorists don't operate or train in a vacuum. Those who harbor terrorists are as bad as terrorists. If you don't believe this, try driving a car for a bank robber who kills people while robbing the bank before he gets back in your getaway car.