>>>Iraq has nothing to do with war on terrorism! Afghanistan is war on terrorism and Bush put military soldiers in Afghanistan, in harms way when he removed many of the military weapons from Afghanistan to be shipped to fight in Iraq! The Taliban came back stronger in Afghanistan! Today the fight against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan is a furious battle.<<<
After 9/11, Tommy Franks wanted to blanket Afghanistan with soldiers. Rumsfeld said no, fighting terror networks is like fighting a non-geographical force. Thus, we put in a light, quick, fast fighting force in Afghanistan.
The Northern Alliance did most of the ground work. We did the air work. With just a few thousand soldiers, we did in a few weeks, what the Soviet Union couldn't do in 10 years.
There's no "furious battle" in Afghanistan. What furious battle? Do you hear about anything in Afghanistan much anymore? How many Americans have died in Afghanistan?
Fighting Osama bin Laden can be done with 1,000 forces the same as it can be done with 500,000 forces. You cannot INVADE A MAN.
Iraq is a HUGE part of the War on Terror and I guess we forever will agree to disagree there.
We hear Saddam didn't support terrorism...
- He funded Hamas.
- He funded Islamic Jihad.
- He funded Abu-Sayyaf, a group with ties to al-Qaeda.
- He funded Hezbollah (the world's 2nd largest terrorist group).
- He funded Ansar al-Islam, (a group with direct ties to al-Qaeda).
- He sponsored the MEK, the ANO, the PLF, and the PKK.
- He sheltered Abu Nidal, a man who killed over 900 people in 90 attacks in 25 countries.
- He sponsored the ANO.
- He sponsored the PLO.
- He sheltered Abdul Yassin, one of the terrorists in the 1993 WTC attack.
- He sheltered one of the world's most wanted terrorists, and leader of the PLF, Abu Abbas.
- He sheltered al-Qaeda/Ansar operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
- According to Germany, Iraqi officials met al-Qaeda operatives in 1998.
- The man killed 750,000 of his own people at the least and 2 million at the most.
- Ayman al-Zawahiri met with Iraqi officials in 1991.
To me, that's part of the War on Terror. If Iraq isn't part of the War on Terror, what is? If we attacked Iran instead of Iraq, would that be part of the War on Terror?