Perhaps you should make a comparison between Islamist terror recruitment before and after the invasion of Iraq.
Seems they were doing pretty well already.
Or doesn’t that little glitch count?
Now give me some figures on recruitment.
What’s jjimm’s talking about is that your post#14 contained almost no relevance to the question Jervoise asked. The only thing in the whole post that referred to how you were theatened by Iraq was that it inspired terrorists.
Try to keep up…
No relevance to the question.
No hard figures (for obvious reasons) but some cogent analysis from US allies:
Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda’s Ranks, Report Says
Israeli Think Tank: Iraq War Distracted US, ‘Created Momentum’ for Terrorists
Iraq involvement increases threat: ASIO
Now if you’d be so kind, do Jervoise the courtesy of answering his question.
Homicide bomber? :dubious: First clue that you just mindlessly repeat anything this adminstration tells you.
Second, the Palestinian suicide bombers are not a threat to you or your family.
No, it wasn’t. Just Palestinians against Israel.
Hussein was not a threat to you or your family in Gulf War I. The assassination attempt story has been pretty much debunked. If there was an assassination being plotted (there’s not much evidence that one was), there’s even less evidence that Hussein or Iraq’s intelligence agencies had anything to do with it.
So again, no threat to you and your family there.
Probably, but he never attacked the US on US soil, nor is there any evidence he planned to.
By what, Somalia? Iraq had nothing to do with Somalia - that was al-Qaeda and friends. So, again, no evidence that Iraq posed any threat to your family.
Nope, but the question was about how Iraq was a threat to your family. Unless you have family in Israel, threats against Israel are not a threat against your family.
Nothing to do with Iraq. Still no evidence that Iraq was a threat to your family.
Nothing to do with Iraq. Not a threat to your family.
9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. Iraq still not a threat to your family.
And of course, how many years were between al-Qaeda attacks on American soil? And that’s with the so-called “incompetent” Clinton running the show. Yet every right-winger is running to give Bush credit for three years of no terrorist attacks. :dubious:
Disgusting, but still not a threat to your family.
All horrible to be sure. But, unless your family was living in Iraq under Hussein, still not a threat to them.
So, the question again, duffer. How was Iraq a threat to you or your family? You threw out a bunch of strawmen before, let’s see if you can honestly answer the question.
Paraphrasing what I posted elsewhere: enough with the “homicide bombers” schtick. What - you think suicide is noble? IRA bombers tried to make damn sure they didn’t blow themselves up, but they were still terrorists, and still “homicide bombers”. The key differentiator with a suicide bomber is that this kind of terrorist has is to commit suicide while murdering innocent people.
Anyway, duffer, still eagerly waiting to hear how you and your family were in danger from Iraq.
duffer, aside from the Iraq stuff, you have shown yourself to be extremely ignorant of the situation at hand.
There was a coup in 1999 in Côte d’Ivoire, which led to a rigged election and a civil war. The fighting was then embroiled in the anarchy of neighboring Liberia, and the rebels even threatened a “Rwandanization” of innocent Ivorians. But I suppose you’re only interested in atrocities when Saddam Hussein (note spelling) is involved?
Following from a 2003 peace agreement – which pretty much divided the country but did nothing to resolve the disputes between the government and the rebels – French and West African peacekeepers were invited in to stabilize the situation, under the auspices of a UN Security Council resolution that was supported by the Bush Administration. There never was an invasion.
Not every war that has occured has anything to do with Iraq. How does that saying go: If one only has a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail? Surely to one simple mind here, the whole world looks like Iraq. Take some time to learn about what you’re speaking about before exposing yourself as a fool.
Duffer, the republican incumbent winning the election seems to have brazened you. Not only are your posts and threads assinine still, they’re assinine with impunity. With ego.
You still make just as little sense, and your posts and threads show just as little brainpower, are just as poorly thought out, constructed, worded and executed as before. Except now, you’re acting with such machismo and ignorance that your posts contain an insane amount of partisan war-mongering ignorance that they’re unbearable.
I suggest you go pull up some of your turnips and unplug for a while.
Sam
Hell, I’d go to war for chocolate.
Who’s with me?
OK, you’re right. Iraq wasn’t a direct threat to me and mine. I was getting caught up in the idea of families like mine overseas putting up with this. I’ll promise to never worry about another country unless they have soldiers literally standing inside the city limits. Deal?
duffer:if you haven’t recently, read this again
How many times is the word ‘liberate’ used? Zero.
How many times is the word ‘freedom’ used? Zero.
How many times is the word ‘humanitarian’ used? Zero.
How many times is the word ‘democratic’ used? Zero
How many times is the word ‘torture’ used? Zero.
How many times is the word ‘opression’ used? Zero.
How many times was the phrase ‘weapons of mass destruction’ used? Seventeen.
So let’s be honest here duffer. Was this really a humanitarian mission from the start?
Nothing new there. 
Yes, but who says they’re in another country?
All the above “words” were not mentioned until after the invasion, when no weapons or capability to make weapons were found. THEN it became a humanitarian God given sacred mission to cram freedom and decency down their throats, for their own good. 
snerk
Yes, and Ill be the first to admit that I am an idiot. However, thankfully there are people with great thoughts on this board. I do respect the views on the SDMB. I have no ill will towards the French but I will give them a hard time.
I’m telling on you! You used the F word!
Remember? Now it’s freedom fries, freedom toast, freedom bread, freedom dressing. Never never never use the F word!
duffer, I’m impressed.
As to your second sentence, one would hope the same compassion you extend towards the suffering of the Iraqi people under Hussein earlier in this thread could be extended towards others, such as those suffering in the Cote d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Uganda, North Korea, Turkmenistan, etc. etc., and that you utilise this compassion to pressurise your, and world governments, into intervening on humanitarian grounds. Like the French are doing.