kiwiman127
Comfortably Moderate
JRK it doesn't matter, the people that opposed the war won't change their stance.
I supported going into Afghanistan for the obvious reason but taking a majority of resources and applying them to Iraq lengthened our efforts in Afghanistan. I would care to bet that if the US has stayed focused on Afghanistan, we'd be long gone from that shit hole.
Many lives wouldn't have been lost, many more lives wouldn't be ruined and the US would be far better off financially.
Do you realize the people we were fighting in Iraq were the same people we were fighting in Afgahn?
al-Qaeda in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From your link:
"Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is a popular name for the Iraqi division of the international Salafi jihadi militant organization al-Qaeda. It is recognized as a part of the greater Iraqi insurgency.
The group was founded in 2003 and first led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who declared allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in October 2004. It was initially operating under the name Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة التوحيد والجهاد*, "Group of Monotheism and Jihad"); since 2004 its official name is Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) ("Organization of Jihad's Base in the Country of the Two Rivers").[4] Foreign (non-Iraqi) fighters are widely thought to play a key role in its network."
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"In January 2003, Ansar's founder Mullah Krekar denied any connection with Saddam's regime.[8] The consensus of intelligence officials has since concluded that there were no links whatsoever between Zarqawi and Saddam, and that Saddam viewed Ansar al-Islam "as a threat to the regime" and his intelligence officials were spying on the group. The Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq concluded in 2006, "Postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi."
al-Qaeda in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia