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If our soldiers were here at home where they belong we would be able to defend against the terrorists who COME HERE to attack us.



Oh come on, man. On September 11th, save troops in Guantamo Bay, the Korean border, and other such foreign bases and militarized zones, our whole armed forces were pretty much in mainland U.S. We had an Air Force squadron doing drills about what... half an hour away from New York? I'm sure Armed Forces are crawling all over the Northeast seeing how there are such important cities so closely packed together, yet guess what? They were still able to take down not one, but both Twin Towers. No one had any idea it was coming, and even after the first plane hit the military was powerless to prevent the second one from hitting. Come on man, it's terrorism, it's guerilla tactics, you think the military is going to be able to put a stop to it?

You're absolutely right about the effects of leaving Iraw, Owain. Much as I would like to see the war end, people are being too irrational about it. They freak out about 3000 deaths in four years, if you put it into perspective, this is fantastic, probably the safest war we have ever fought, a minuscule price to pay for stopping the spread of Islam in the middle east. In Vietnam by now we would have been in the hundreds of thousands of deaths. In Vietnam we left, and communism just sweeped in and made those what... (million?) lives lost A complete waste because they ended up dying for nothing. If we leave Iraq as it is now the very people we fought four years to remove from power will get back in, and the very insurgents we are fighting are going to end up overpowering the innocent civilians living there, and once again there is going to be a festering hot-spot of Anti-American sentiment in the middle-east.

BoS Archon
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