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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	hound, hound, hound
	Date:	3/19/2011 7:43:30 PM

You weren't safe before we went into Iraq and you aren't safe now. If you believe anything else, you are kidding yourself. The lack of completed attacks has more to do with the vast improvement in our intelligence networks after 9/11 and the "wiretap" laws.
9/11 resulted in a heightened awareness in law enforcement, and also provided the money to improve communications between the intelligence collecting organizations across the government, and building Middle Eastern intelligence networks.

Oh, one thing we got out of Iraq -- the world sees us as a country who will unilaterally go into a foreign country on a "false pretense", depose their leader, put the country into chaos, and then eventually leave. That's what we got out of Iraq. Most of the world believes we have a war on Muslims and distrusts our intentions.

There were never any terrorist training camps in Iraq, nor was it necessarily a "safe harbor" for terrorists. That was the Taliban in Afghanistan; Sudan and Yemen. Syria is known to financially support terrorist groups, so why didn't we go there first?
Just think what where we would be in terms of our budget and our safety if we had focused our efforts in Afghanistan instead of taking a detour in Iraq. The real plan was to sweep through Iraq (they actually expected that we would be embraced by the Iraqi people and quickly depose Saddam) and then to sweep on into Syria and Iran.
But, as you know, we got bogged down in Iraq and never were able to progress to any other objectives.

So now we are years behind the power curve in fighting the bad guys, who reside in the
no man's land in the mountainous regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They haven't moved. That's where they have always been. And we've lost the momentum of the American people to continue to fight there. In fact, recent polls suggest that the majority of people think we should withdraw.