Tell me again why we gave up on Afghanistan to invade Iraq

[auburngrad82]

Wouldn't it have made more sense to finish the job and eliminate Al Qaeda and Osama bin Ladin when we had the chance instead of redirecting the vast majority of our military resources to fight an unjust war based on lies?

Bush will try to use the attacks to his advantage while we should be blasting his administration for not finishing the job to begin with. If he had done his job these attacks may not have happened.

[spanone]

1. O I L

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6. Ding! Ding! Ding!

Y'know, we're only on the planet a short time, and so many marvelous resources God has created for us to steal...

[chelsea0011]

2. WMD's. "We know where they are"........Rumsfeld

[livinginphotographs]

3. I've had several Republican co-workers ask the same thing today.

Even the sheep can't deny this one anymore.

[auburngrad82]

5. Then we are finally making progress

People are beginning to see that they have been lied to. That's a good thing.

[livinginphotographs]

7. Ever the pessimist that I am...

I'll wait before I declare victory.

It's been a pretty nasty way to have to say "I told you so" though.

[dogday]

4. I hope this all backfires on Shrub and Co.

All the soldiers and Iraqis dead and still we have accomplished nothing. Mission Accomplished.. I don't think so

[bigtree]

8. Tell me why we assumed that attacking and killing Taliban members

and installing a military junta in Afghanistan, as well as invade and occupy a sovereign Muslim nation would put a halt to the terror campaign.

[auburngrad82]

10. If, in fact, Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan and was behind 9/11

then I was all for going after them. But we didn't finish the job and bin Ladin is still guiding the biggest terrorist organization in the world. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no threat to us. Al Qaeda did and still does pose a threat to us.

[bigtree]

13. The Taliban doesn't seem to be orchestrating any subsequent violence

And that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with our indiscriminate killing of those our military has deemed to be Taliban. In fact, they seem to be completely removed from the subsequent activities associated with Al Qeada.

Further, I think it is mindless to use the moniker 'Afghanistan' and justify our indiscriminate bombing (which has killed thousands of innocents, far outstripping the number of victims from the 9-11 attacks) by stating that Al Qeada was in Afghanistan. They were also in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. They operated out of New Jersey. We didn't attack these areas with indiscriminate fire and bombings. Afghanistan and its citizens didn't deserve to receive the brunt of our reprisals.

[auburngrad82]

14. You're right.

The Afghani people are, by and large, innocent victims. The Taliban, though, are partly responsible because they chose to harbor Al Qaeda and, in effect, turned their country into a sponsor of terrorism.

But we should have done everything possible to get Al Qaeda. We had a true coalition of countries that were willing to work with us. But our government decided Saddam was more of a threat to our country than bin Ladin. So Al Qaeda is still perpetrating their violence on innocent victims.

I was all for going after Al Qaeda. And I still say we should have finished the job.

You will find many people who supported the actions in Afghanistan but are against the war in Iraq.

[getmeouttahere]

9. I refer once again to Ron Suskind's article....

in the NYT from October of last year. People like BushCo want an ambiguous "war on terror" because it can never be fully realized, and they need an enemy, in this case "sin." You can never rid completely rid the world of "evil" or "sin", therefore you have perpetual war. The seizure of the Middle East's oil is BushCo's earthly reward in the bargain.

[Beaver Tail]

11. It was because Saddam was involved with 9/11.

Even though no WMD were found and that a link to terrorism was non existent and the mobile chemical labs ended up being weather balloon inflators we cannot let these facts get in the way of the truth. :sarcasm:

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12. Because Afghanistan didn't have enough good targets

At least that's what Rumsfeld said.