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Originally Posted by Pierre
Going into Iraq was nothing to do with al-qaeda,
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Really?? Try, for instance:
"White House Says it Has Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
"W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 26 ††The United States has long charged Saddam Hussein with supporting terrorism, but the Bush administration is now alleging something new ††what one official called a "current, symbiotic relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Da...ics020926.html
It is only recently that the US has admitted that actually there was *no* direct links between Saddam Hussein's Regime and Al Qaeda's attacks on September 11th.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/no-saddam-qaeda.htm
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Going into Afghanistan did however show Bin Laden that he cannot hide behind the protection of other countries and governments.
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It also showed him that, despite the mass of military might levelled against him, he is still free to engage in his attacks.
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As opposed to, say, the West wanting to overthrow Islamic regimes and replace them with Western Democracies...??
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An interesting term you use "western democracy" a democratic system of government is not a western invention . Also you imply that a dictatorship is an Islamic way of government.
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Actually I imply no such thing, nor would I ever say such a thing. I was using the phraseology from the quote that I gave.
And the point about "Western Democracies" is that what the US wants to put into Iraq is an *American* style government. Not just "a democratic" one.
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What is wrong with an Islamic democracy?
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Nothing, I have never said there is.
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Their strategy may be, but their objectives aren't. We are not trying to eradicate Islam
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And, I point out again, not *all* Muslims want to "eradicate" Western "godless regimes" either.l