Pentagon prepped for timetable to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months (Taliban, Afghanistan)
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Well, did Saddam not support Terrorist activity, encourage it, and condone it?
Sure, but nothing that was a direct threat to us. They were Israel's problem. They were certainly not Al-Qaeda. Those links have long since been debunked.
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Originally Posted by Nomander
We did find a training camp on Iraq soil.
Sure, in NORTHERN IRAQ - areas not even under Saddam's control but rather under the dominion of the KURDS (our good buddies - whom we've gone to war to help "liberate")
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Originally Posted by Nomander
While we may have not found large stockpiles of WMD's there, we did have verified meetings of Saddam and terrorist leaders responsible for 9/11. That is not to say Saddam directly supported those endeavors, but it would be irresponsible to think that Iraq under his control was not a danger to the support for those regimes.
The benefit of having Iraq free and democratic as an ally was that we would have a centeralized operation to combat terroist activity within the middle east. There were many benefits to use helping the Iraq people not only for them, but for us, and for the world in general.
I'm certainly not saying Saddam was nice guy, but it's simply NOT been worth the COST. The fact is, he was already pretty impotent the way things were. He'd been reduced to little more than a nuisance - certainly not worthy of the expenditure of over 4,000 American lives and 500 BILLION or more in borrowed dollars.
The Iraqi troops are a joke. My brother in law is involved with the training of there troops. He said the Iraqis are gutless and have no clue about anything. No matter how many times you show them something, or explain it to them, they still can't get it right. He said it's just a complete joke. There military will fall fast against a full fledged Al-Qaeda attack.
I manage and train people for a living (and am ex-military). I feel it's my failure if they fail, and generalizing and insulting them sure doesn't help.
I manage and train people for a living (and am ex-military). I feel it's my failure if they fail, and generalizing and insulting them sure doesn't help.
Just stating what I have heard from a couple people that are training them at the moment.
10 billion a month is cheap compared to another 9/11
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9-11. The head honchos hiding out in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region DID. THAT'S why we should be focusing our attention and money THERE - NOT in Iraq.
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9-11. The head honchos hiding out in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region DID. THAT'S why we should be focusing our attention and money THERE - NOT in Iraq.
Ken
Iraq obviously had some effect over what happened on 9-11... Do you honestly think the attacks would have stopped if we didn't invade the middle east? They would have kept on coming...
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