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[quote=Undertoad;529062]Then you should have no problem finding a citation.[quote]

good grief. Do you not watch commentators on news channels? General consensus among many people is we have made terrorism worse, not better. Do all people think that? Of course not. I'm not going to look for citations right now, but if you really want me to I will another time. You could just google it yourself.

If they did it to my corrupt, terroristic government? Boo fuckin' hoo. If they screwed up the occupation period and allowed my country to be run by thugs? Unacceptable, but if left to pick sides I know where I'm going.

Well, we took over the prison where Saddam tortured people, and then we commenced to humiliate and torture the people as well. We have turned their country into a battleground for terrorists for the past 6 years. Thousands of people have been displaced because of us, and over 100,000 have died, many of them children. If we just HAD to go and remove Saddam, then we should have allowed the Iraqi people to have control over their own country and their own destiny, and just stayed to help them rather than to dictate to them and occupy them. Maybe things would have turned out differently, for us and them. But we didn't. We screwed this up in every conceivable way possible.

It is not. Situation much worse in Vietnam. We invaded. We waged war. Along they way we burned villages. We screwed up, and it led to the deaths of millions. Where are the Vietnamese terrorists?

It is the same in that respect. But in every other way it isn't. For one thing, the world is much more global now than it was then. It is much easier for Islamic terrorists to move around now. They are well funded and trained. Islamic terrorist organizations already existed before we invaded Iraq and they had been waging jihad for years before we went in, and they had already attacked us twice, here, and in various other places around the globe, in addition to attacking other western countries. We in turn attacked a country that had nothing to do with the attack against us. The Middle East is an entire region that is connected. We have been meddling in the affairs of the Middle East for decades. We have propped up dictators and supported coups in different countries, and we have supported Israel in their fight against Palestine. We have bases in Saudi Arabia on sacred ground. So, no, it is not at all the same situation.

Hell, where are the Cambodian terrorists? You google "Cambodian terrorists" and the result is Did you mean: canadian terrorists ...that's bloody hilarious.

HA!