I feel like I must be missing something...

[winterbadger]

"If we were to quit Iraq before the job is done, the terrorists we are fighting would not declare victory and lay down their arms. They would follow us here, home," Bush told a crowd of about 1,000 gathered at a West Virginia Air National Guard maintenance hangar.

Really? We have to fight the terrorists in Iraq because otherwise they will attack us at home?

Can't terrorists *already* attack us at home? Are we safer in Iraq than in the US? Wouldn't Shi'ite militants trained by Iran find it harder to kill US soldiers with EFPs, IEDs, and RPGs if the soldiers were in Watertown, NY, or Killeen, TX?

Are terrorists finding it all that hard to attack us in the US? Sure, the latest groups in the UK seem to have been a bit inefficient, but the 7/7 bombers in London, the 3/11 bombers in Spain, and the 9/11 hijackers in the US seem to have been able to attack us here just fine.

I have this nagging feeling that some part of of the president's statement just ...doesn't...make...sense.

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[wolfette]

I've someone argue before - where she got the idea I have no idea - that the US and UK invaded Iraq knowing what would follow, as a deliberate ploy to lure all the "Islamo-fascists" there to be killed

Yeah, I thought she was talking through a hole in her ......... head... too.