Golden dome Destroyed..

[lemonkettaz]

I don't understand what you're saying.

Who would take over the world? The Iraqis? With what?

And world peace? Wha... who ever talks about world peace, outside utopian fantasy-talk?!

given the chance the islamic militants would take over the world, if they could.

the only thing anyone can say is it will never change

 

[MrMatteh]

i first read that as "garden knome destroyed"

 

[Treefrog]

Because at the end of the day it has nothing to do with religion. Religion is just used as a excuse a smoke screen if you will. It has more to do with power and land.

And the fact that Saddam (a Sunni Muslim) installed the Sunni minority into his Gov't at the expense of the Shia majority, so you can understand the Shi'ites feeling a bit miffed and taking their chance to grab power.

The objective of the militant Sunni factions is to start a civil war, with the promise that this will prove too much of a bloodbath for US tastes, forcing their gradual withdrawal.

Are you serious? How will targetting each other rather than the occupying forces lead to a withdrawal?

... then the billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives which have been spent on attempting to install something resembling a democracy would have just been 'wasted', not to mention that we would be inviting in death and bloodshed on a scale that iraq hasn't seen since the Iran war (or worse).

If you're talking Coalition forces its <5,000; if you're talking Iraqis it's possibly around 250,000 by now.

And surely the reason for invading Iraq was WMD, not regime change? Not invading a sovereign nation and imposing our choice of Gov't because we decided that we didn't like theirs?

We would also run the risk of ending up with a Taleban-style fundamentalist Government which would be a perfect breeding ground for terror and hatred towards the west.

Bad news: that's exactly what's already happening.

Iraq is now a breeding ground for terrorism. An embarrassed State Department discontinued its annual terrorism report because international terrorist attacks are at the highest level since the first report in 1984. The U.S. sponsored National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism counted 3,991 global terrorist attacks in 2005, up 51% from 2,639 in 2004. Ironically, a war intended to produce freedom has, according to Amnesty International, lead to an increase in worldwide human rights violations. Tyrants can legitimately argue that since the U.S. waged pre-emptive war, so can they. In 2003, North Korea stated “preemptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the U.S.”