The "latest" rationalization for invading Iraq.

[Brucey]

Now they're saying that we invaded Iraq so the terrorists would go there instead of to the great "homeland," and this bizarre idea is being repeated by many. What is wrong with sheeple in US that they think it is okay to invade another country so we can fight a battle in their backyard instead of ours? Can't anyone see that even if this new reason for war was true that it says something awful about our chimp administration? Isn't is a tad bit arrogant to invade another country to create a battleground there?

[Peachhead22]

1. Bait

I wonder how our brave men and women in uniform feel about an administration which asserts it's merely using them for bait?


on edit: added "in uniform" for clarification.

[stimbox]

2. i've heard that one too

Now they have 2 places for the "terraists" to flock: Iraq and Afganistan. This is starting to sound like a letterman top 10.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. If you don't like this week's rationalization

give it a week or two -- Rover will come up with something else as soon as enough people start questioning this one.

[bryant69]

4. This one goes back at least partially to Andrew Sullivan

Who, in a vain attempt to justify the Iraq war, wrote this up a while back.

"What else did president Bush mean when he challenged the terror-masters to "bring 'em on," in Iraq? Those are not the words of a man seeking merely to pacify a country, but to continue waging war against terrorism."

For the article --> http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030906

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[grytpype]

5. Yeah, now we have those terrarists right where we want them!

Picking off our soldiers one by one and then blending back into the population!

Brilliant idea, Dub!

[prolesunited]

6. This sums it up

Here's where I found it:
http://www.rockcitynews.com/photos3c/antibushwar4/pages/flypaper-iraq.htm

[Paschall]

7. Yeah, mixed metaphors

I'm still waiting for them to explain how the "democracy dominoes" are supposed to fall when there's a big "terraist magnet" right in the middle of the game board.

But then I've never really understood Risk. Or Twister.

[Sick of Bullshit]

8. Updated "Twister"

Left hand, Iraq! Right leg, Afghanistan! Left leg, Iran! Right hand, North Korea! Fall down, you lose!

[bluedog]

9. yea right

fight them there.....so we don't fight them in Buffalo or Chicago....heard that.....
Answer me this.....with our new homeland security and airpoort security..and all that money....why not do the job to keep them out???? thats what these departments were created for....

also bring the troops home if this administration is that sure we are going to get attacked again......

We need them at our borders and Ports......Now thats protecting the United Staes!!!!

[leesa]

10. Or, we could stop fucking them over and we wouldn't have to fight them

anywhere!
What a bunch of fools to think that you can eliminate terrorism by bombing/murdering their families. Yet you ask any American if they teach their children that the best approach to violence is to use bigger violence and they would deny it with great indignance.

[Sticky]

11. Doesn't make sense

Terrorists can still invade America whether the troops are in Iraq or not. There's nothing to stop them from being in BOTH places!

Condoleeza Rice said she believes there are terror cells in the US - HELLO???....People need to contrast and compare everything said by these criminals!

[dani]

12. it's become a self perpetuating machine

as Josh Marshall analogized it in his Talking Points Memo blog.

[Skip Intro]

13. Bulls**t - but they are saying w put our soldiers there as targets???!!!

WMDs was the cry before the war. Remember "he has not disarmed, and I will lead a coalition (of the killing) to disarm him." That seems pretty straight forward, lie that it is.

But if we swallowed the current lie as the real reason, what does that say about the regime's view of, respect for, our brave sons and daughters, mothers and fathers dying in Iraq now? Awol sent then there with big red targets on their uniforms - and that was the plan. They are basically saying that our troops in Iraq are more or less sitting ducks-target pratice for evil-doers - and that that was the plan all along. How would that make the parents or spouses of our troops feel? How f**king outrageous.

I've said this to more than one rigtwinger bushbot - I can understand how party loyalty and spin could have you support that gang of criminals in the begining, but anybody that continues that support now that they've proved beyond all doubt what greedy, blatant liars they are - with no reguard for laws or the lives of anyone else - is no longer just partisan, but an accomplice to treason.

[Brucey]

15. I love your rant and feel the same. Thanks!

[rocktivity]

14. The reason why there isn't an exit strategy

Is because the stragedy is NOT to exit. Iraq is to be used as a base of operations for invading other ME countries! There is NOTHING Saddam could have done that would have made Bush pack up his soliders and back off. And that's why Bush couldn't wait for the inspectors to finish the job--no weapons, no reason to invade!


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