The facts are that the terrorist training camps were found all over Iraq in nearly every province except the kurdish province. That is how i concluded saddam does have EVERYTHING to do with terrorists, even if he personally had no part in 9-11, himself. Now to me if your going to have a war against these kind of people, you have to catch the small fry (hussien) in order to get the bigger fish (bin laden). Although we have not captured bin laden himself yet, we do have him effectively contained to the point where he cant organize world wide terror like he did just a few years ago.
With several acts of aggression against the US, starting with the obvious WTC attacks in 1993 which he took credit for, he has been waging a world wide attack on civilization as a whole, bombings in several countries including the US. Attacking our warships and embassies among other things like the train bombing in spain and the bomings in england. They will not let up until we all die, it is their stated purpose to turn us into their form of islam, or for us to die, and quite frankly I dont think they care which.
Now back to Iraq. We started out in afganistan, to cut off communications, rout the taliban, and immediately cripple Al Quiada as a whole. The next step at the time was to go after those who seek nuclear weapons, aka Iraq and Iran.
I can conclude from our course of action that according to our intelligence sources, which of course were flawed , hindsight is 20/20, that Iraq was closer to having nukes than Iran and that north korea had already acquired nuclear technology which requires a different strategy than to merely go in and take them out.
Now having said that, Iraq was the obvious first choice to go first, we can get in there and topple saddam rather quickly. We did not count on al quiada as a whole to ship a lot of their resources into iraq after saddam fell ( we gave them too much credit as in disgression being the better part of valor ) . So yes there were miscalculations and things didnt go EXACTLY as planned, but on the whole they are carrying on with the intended purpose: regime change with a regime friendly to the US. Now this could change depending on how desparate the terrorists get and how much more resources they are willing to spend in Iraq. They underestimated one thing, the will of the american army.
We may not all agree here at home, and there may be a few soldiers here and there ( trust me compared to the army as a whole , VERY FEW ) that dont agree with the foreign policy at the moment, but they know their job and they all signed up for it voluntarily, knowing they may be put in harm's way. Terrorists dont understand that our freedom go to and fight for what we believe in, is ultimately why we will win, and they will lose. They have to try to convince people by using religion and empty promises to get their people to kill themselves for the cause.
On to Iran, the next stop on this war against islamic fundamentalists or extremists, whatever you choose to call them, either way they are assholes all the way around. Iran is on the verge of getting nuclear technology and once Iraq can stand on its own 2 feet, Iran is next, we will give them the same ultimatums we did for saddam, only we may not have as long of a fuse this time as we did with saddam. Iran will be told to give up their nuclear ambitions or suffer the consequences of being invaded and the regime replaced by one friendly to the US. Once Iran and Iraw have been liberated, so as terrorists dont have control of the purse strings to fund terror, that is when we move on to north korea, who at that point will be backed into a corner with the rest of the world looking down on them and nothing to distract away from them and their nukes, they will either be forced to disarm, or nations OTHER than the US will take them out, ultimately we shouldnt have to lift a finger there to make north korea crumble and make it a free society.
Those are the stated goals in the war on terror. After they have been reached, I dont know for sure exactly where we are going to go from there, but, if I had to make an educated guess, it would be to more of a spy/police role rooting out individual cells and taking them out one at a time or even two at a time as we find them. Some of that is going on already but the new ones will sprout up as long as the money is there.
Some of you will agree, some of you wont. I understand that fully. Please be nice when leaving comments, I'm trying to have political discussion, withit out getting stupid So be warned if you spout off something half cocked, just forget it , I will delete it. I dont want to here theories without sound evidence to back it up either> I'm a firm believer in backing up what I say, and that if you are to tell me im wrong that you should too. So lets be nice and maybe we can all educate each other a bit!
