>>I've linked before the various ties between Saddam and terrorist organizations so I won't bother stating the obvious again.
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>>How about this:
>>1. Freedom had no chance in Iraq with Saddam in power
>>2. Now that he is gone Iraqis have a chance to establish a democracy
>>3. A democratic Iraq makes the US safer
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>#1 --- So what. You are confusing the experience of freedom you have with the freedom to blow yourself up over there in defiance of anything.

Free countries do not attack one another

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>#2 When pigs fly. If you carve up the country back to the three initial republics by religion, then you might get somewhere. But a united country of different religions will not prosper, it will implode.

I apologize. I didn't realize you had a crystal ball. Who's going to win the Super Bowl next year?
For the 1000th time...History will be the judge.

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>#3 Sounds like you’re experiencing the opiates of Afghanistan. Why would a democratic Middle Eastern country every give a western country a false sense of security? It's a simple action-reaction equation. Where our reaction was desired by them in everything they did.

A democratic Iraq, friendly to the west and the US in particular will not attack the US. (now quick, tell me they never conspired to attack us)

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>We become the evil country who swept threw an entire country, instead of truly finding the perpetrators of 9-11. That got a great deal of young angry Arab men to join forces with insurgents and make many more insurgents. The locals of Iraq are more afraid of these new people and know the repercussions that await those who leak information about them.

A great deal of Iraqis are now joining their security forces to rid their country of former Bathists and Al Qaeda. A great deal of young middle eastern men were very upset at Zarqawi bombing the golden mosque and a wedding reception in Jordan also.

Honestly, read a little bit and you'll see that things are turning.
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Daily/Apr/060428.htm
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-27T145744Z_01_FRI747286_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-MILITARY.xml
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2006/20060428_4962.html

To what end we will not know for years.