Quote Originally Posted by spngrkid101
dont you just love how were in iraq when the terrorists that actually knocked down the twin towers came from afganastan
Well, that's why we're in Afghanistan. Iraq is pretty much crap though, the public's mind can be so easily muddled that any war in the middle east automatically means we're fighting terrorists. The fact is, Iraq is an old enemy of Iran (who actually support terrorism) that's been one more close adversary to keep them in check, one more military foe to worry about before fighting western allies.

Also, Osama BinLaden publicly called Saddam Hussein a "bad muslim" and they have publicly hated each other for a while (probably because Saddam didn't want sharia law in his nation). The bullshit argument I've heard is "Binladen himself called Iraq the central fight against against the west". This doesn't prove Iraq is the central terrorist nation, it proves that it's the biggest conflict with muslims and therefor the biggest recruitment tool for angry young men who now have a good reason to be pissed at America for an unjustified invasion. America made Iraq the central fight with Islam, and AlQaeda naturally took advantage of this and rallied muslim people with the biggest issue.