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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GST who wrote (9133)	1/12/2007 6:00:28 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

"So we have 100 people a day dying of terrorism in Iraq today. I don't know if your conclusion is correct, or not. "Question: If Iraq posed no terrorist threat to the US, and if terrorism in Iraq is now running rampant, did the invasion make a positive contribution to ridding the world of terrorism?" This is even more difficult to evaluate. Here is an analogy. A boy at age eleven begins the same weightlifting regimen that Arnold S. used to become Mr Universe (or whatever it was). At age nineteen the boy has huge muscles. Do we give credit to the weightlifting program? Would the same thing have occured if it were any other boy. I don't know. If I found out that the boys father was equally muscular and never followed a weightlifting program but did work in a coal mine all his life, the attribution becomes even more difficult. We know that terrorism had already began to grow long before 2003. We know that the huge success of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan had caught the attention of revolutionary groups and disorganized regions all over the world. The likelyhood of terror events increasing in number even by multiples from one year to the next was quite real by 2003. So to say that the invasion of Iraq was instramental or detrimental in this regard becomes very difficult. It becomes down right ridiculous when the opinion becomes more based on which party to support or oppose in US politics, than on scholarly research. Answer: I don't know.