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To: Win Smith who wrote (85169)	9/17/2008 9:44:59 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 541658

>>I don't know exactly where you're going here, but hardly anybody objected to going after al Qaeda in Afghanistan, which would fit the description of going after them there rather than here.<< Win - I think our invasion of Afghanistan was more an example of going after them where they were. We didn't have the option of fighting them here, anyway. As for Iraq, you make a very good point. >>If you think about it, it's really pretty offensive to the Iraqis we were supposed to be setting free to turn around and say we had this grand plan of making Iraq a terrorist magnet, so we could fight "them" "there" rather than "here".<< It's not just offensive, it's unconscionable. How many Iraqis were killed by terrorists who weren't there before we created the chaos that gave them cover? - Allen