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To: Lane3 who wrote (84769)	9/16/2008 7:00:04 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 541597

But there was no evidence of any terrorists in Iraq when W got the war of his heart's desire. I think it's an extremely specious claim to say that starting a war with Iraq was supposed to draw terrorists there instead of here. By all indications, it was supposed to be a quick in-out demonstration of might. Claiming that the mess they made in Iraq was somehow redeemed because we ended up fighting a bunch of terrorists there seems a bit contrived. I'd say the biggest reason there hasn't been further attacks inside the US is much tighter security and a shakeup of the intelligence agencies. Which has nothing at all to do with the mess in Iraq, and arguably was made more difficult by the resources sucked up by that war.

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