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 | Mr.Political (18)
03/15/2006 | I'm fairly sure that Al Qaeda would have simply resorted to whatever recruiting tools it used prior to the Iraq War...
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 | Drummond (58)
03/05/2006 | Certainly a concern, but again, only part of the picture. We know that whenever we take such an extreme action as war there is going to be negative reaction. It's inevitable. An innocent family who loses a child to bombing is understandably not going to react well to the claims that it was an accident ("collateral damage"), but the deaths of innocents are inevitable and all we can do when war is otherwise justified is try to make amends with the family knowing that it can't possibly be enough.
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 | tencat (1)
08/28/2005 | They'd find PLENTY of recruits anyway, but....
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 | Redoedo (40)
05/03/2005 | A more accurate statement would be potential recruiting tool for terroristic activities. Nevertheless, I think this argument against invading Iraq has certainly proven to be somewhat valid.
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 | Deco354 (0)
05/03/2005 | To reply to ignatious.
Yes Saddam had no connections to Al Kaeda.
But the fundamental Islamists in Iraq that saddam has oppressed certainly do. and during times of suffering people turn to religon. And when someone has lost their family due to western forces they usually want vengence. How do you inflict vengence on the western world?
JOIN AL QAEDA!
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 | middlefinger (4)
01/17/2005 | Here again, BUSH is opening the door for more hate against the US.
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| Daccory (15)
10/05/2004 | It is common knowledge that the recruiting grounds have INCREASED since March 2003. And so have the police investigations into their activities in other parts of the world...we are finding more and more Islamist cells, but by no means all because they are forming every day.
I wish some people would read the news.
It was the most dreadful thing to witness such atrocities that happened on 9/11 and most certainly AlQaeda cells existed before. Undisputed International intelligence reveals that Iraq was the ONLY country where the were NOT operating in any large number - Bush linked AlQaeda and Iraq as a
reason for his actions in that country, which then got changed to Saddam having WMDs. Whatever the reason, US involvement there will have created more fanatics to fight 'for the cause'.
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 | magellan (164)
10/05/2004 |  It's moronic and naive to think that Iraq is not a rallying cry and recruiting tool for terrorists around the world. How else can you explain killers from places like Syria flooding over the border to die via US guns? Sympathy for Saddam? No way. It's hatred of the US. Al Quaeda was estimated as 200 people following 9/11. I would guess it is one hell of a lot larger than 200 people now. That being said, I don't think that the growth of al quaeda is, by itself, a valid reason for not going into Iraq. If invading a country is the right thing to do for your national security, you can't let a terrorist response deter you. Unfortunately, in this case, going into Iraq was not the right thing to do, for plenty of reasons. Just for kicks, let's consider how many Iraqi nationals were invloved in terrorist attacks around the world prior to this war? The answer is none. Does anyone want to bet me that this is going to change? (i won't include current Iraqi attacks, as they could be considered as resistance against an occupying army)
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 | EschewObfuscation (65)
08/30/2004 | Wow, BIGBABY, again. Otherwise, many posts on this point are becoming incomprehensibly foolish and stridently anti-American. al Qaida was already huge, worldwide. Do you incoherent railers have some evidence of the enormously successful recruiting accomplished by al Qaida since March, 2003? If so, call the State Department, they are looking for the same information.
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 | Shillelagh (0)
06/15/2004 | This is the Most important of many good reasons. The more we invade and attack Muslim countries, the more the Muslim youth will turn to violence as their only alternative.
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 | President -X-D (6)
09/24/2003 | This is a non-issue, particularly when you consider the fact that NO new terrorist acts have happened against the US since 9/11. We handled the biggest threat in Afghanistan, and no more terrorists have taken their place to date. The terrorists of this world hated us before our action in Iraq anyway, obviously. There will be no "revolt" against the US following our rightful actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have seen only a small portion of our power, and are afraid.
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 | StanUzbeck (15)
09/24/2003 | Man, if some foreign soldiers came into my town and fired a missile at my house, laid their hands upon my sister and mother, killed my brother and father, and forced me to stand naked in the streets while they pointed their guns at my head, then I would probably want to kill as many of them as I possibly could. And not just them, but their families and friends back home as well. I would want their pain to be at least as great as mine. I'm just trying to understand the mindset behind volunteering for a terrorist organization, and it helps to put myself in the shoes of someone who loses everything for no tangible reason, to people who are more than tangibly standing around on the street corner wearing army fatigues and waving machine guns at passersby. If I had absolutely nothing left to lose, then would I feel all that bad about giving my life as well? I don't think I would.
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 | gmanod (3)
04/24/2003 | How stupid do you have to be not to realize that if you are a 16 year old kid in Iraq and your family gets killed by US bombs, you will not be thinking about the fact that Saddam Heussein is gone, you will be thinking about the fact that your family was alive when he was around? OF COURSE this will be used to recruit people! It's almost like the perfect act of civil disobedience, you have a portion of people that does something against the rules than when they are brutally cracked down on it lends sympathy to their movement. How many people began sympathizing with Dr. King when in Alabama the police put the dogs on people marching for civil rights? In this analogy Al-Qeada is Dr. King and we just set the dogs loose on them, this will forever haunt us in the Arab world.
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 | twinmom101 (32)
04/24/2003 | NO NO NO NO! Not everybody who is going to join a terrorist organization has done so. Where are the facts to back that statement up with? For many, this war will be just enough to push them over the edge of anger, but I'm afraid we might find this out on our own soon enough! They really don't care either if it's suicide or not because dying for the cause is half the point.
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 | mcspongeicus (0)
04/22/2003 | Wars such as this are a recruiting tool for terrorist organisatons. Remember that alot of the Muslim world sees this war as a very very unjust war against other arabs. While they do not support Saddam, many are completley opposed to american occupation in Iraq.In some poorer area especially, desperate poor teenagers can be given a sense of hope by joining these extremist groups. For the first time in their lives they have a sense of purpose. They have seen the suffering of the Iraqi people, the bombs the blood the death and they do not like the fact that people are invading another Muslim country. This war will unfortunately breed more long term hatred of America and therefore more terrorism.
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 | BIGBABY (10)
04/20/2003 | Not even the liberals should agree with this one. Everyone who wanted to fight us have already joined a terrorist army. The more that join, then the more who will be killed. Joining a terrorist army is suicide.
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