Originally posted by JEDsContour:
Without the United States and our allies stopping Radical Islam now, that is where we end up.
Radical Islam was not in Iraq under Hussein's rule. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan among others is where schoolchildren are taught hatred for Western values and little else besides the Quran. Iraq was not in this categorie.
Sadam Hussein was a ruthless dictator but belonged to the much less radical Sunni sect of Islam. Al Qaeda entered Iraq after the first Persian Gulf war and inhabited portions of the country not controlled by Hussein.
I understand that people like you will do anything to link Iraq to 9/11 and global terrrorism. Too bad it doesn't fit.
We should have finished the job in Afganistan before rushing into Iraq.
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