Report: Iraq War Made Terror Worse

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Was really that hard to see this coming 3 years ago?

Report: Iraq War Made Terror Worse

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No, sadly it was pretty obvious this was going to fuel extremism despite what the Bush apologists will have you believe. Many commentators stated that this would be the exact result of the Iraq war.

The idea that all these people were going to become suicide bombers anyway and now we can convientiently fight them in Iraq instead of on American soil is just about as absurd as the idea that invading Iraq was about spreading Democracy. Sadly people still seem to believe both.

We've mentioned internment in the Irish situation before in previous threads, and how that acted as the best recruitment tool the IRA (etc) ever had. In that case the people recruited actually had "stuff" as well, like houses and jobs and a "rich" western way of life. Imagine how many more people will turn to extremism in a less developed country and situation.