Comments on: Who cares how they got there? http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/2007/07/24/who-cares-how-they-got-there/ Just thinkin' 'bout stuff Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:13:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: thinkinboutstuff http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/2007/07/24/who-cares-how-they-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-2966 thinkinboutstuff Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:43:51 +0000 http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/2007/07/24/who-cares-how-they-got-there/#comment-2966 Valid points. Based upon where we are today? Yes, I believe Iraq is an important "front" in the overall war. I also believe we need to continue to bring more attention to Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines and Somalia to name a few. World Wars, which this essentially is, require that we attack on many fronts; ideally, from a very selfish perspective, I'd prefer the front never come home again. Since we are in Iraq, and since Al Qaeda is there, seems only logical to fight them in Iraq. Valid points. Based upon where we are today? Yes, I believe Iraq is an important “front” in the overall war. I also believe we need to continue to bring more attention to Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines and Somalia to name a few. World Wars, which this essentially is, require that we attack on many fronts; ideally, from a very selfish perspective, I’d prefer the front never come home again. Since we are in Iraq, and since Al Qaeda is there, seems only logical to fight them in Iraq.

]]> By: krogers http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/2007/07/24/who-cares-how-they-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-2965 krogers Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:54:16 +0000 http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/2007/07/24/who-cares-how-they-got-there/#comment-2965 Here's why you should care "how they got there or why they are there." Bush argues that the reason we should continue the war in Iraq is because we're busy fighting Al Qaeda, the group that attacked us on 9/11, there. Our own intelligence, however, says that Al Qaeda in Iraq only comprises only 10-15% of the insurgency. In other words, 85-90% of the people we're fighting in Iraq have nothing to do with Al Qaeda, and would presumably not be attacking us if we were not there. Our own intelligence estimate has shown, and you seem to concede, that Al Qaeda in Iraq is not a part of the group that attacked us on 9/11, but is rather just one of the estimated 40 groups that have sprung up in sympathy with Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda after the invasion. Our own intelligence also shows that these groups are increasing, not decreasing, as a direct result of the invasion. If the war in Iraq really is about defeating Al Qaeda, the group that attacked us on 9/11, does Iraq look like a good use of lives and material resources to you, in light of what our intelligence tells us? Here’s why you should care “how they got there or why they are there.”

Bush argues that the reason we should continue the war in Iraq is because we’re busy fighting Al Qaeda, the group that attacked us on 9/11, there. Our own intelligence, however, says that Al Qaeda in Iraq only comprises only 10-15% of the insurgency. In other words, 85-90% of the people we’re fighting in Iraq have nothing to do with Al Qaeda, and would presumably not be attacking us if we were not there.

Our own intelligence estimate has shown, and you seem to concede, that Al Qaeda in Iraq is not a part of the group that attacked us on 9/11, but is rather just one of the estimated 40 groups that have sprung up in sympathy with Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda after the invasion. Our own intelligence also shows that these groups are increasing, not decreasing, as a direct result of the invasion.

If the war in Iraq really is about defeating Al Qaeda, the group that attacked us on 9/11, does Iraq look like a good use of lives and material resources to you, in light of what our intelligence tells us?

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