Euphoric One said:Iraq has transformed into the front line for the way on terror.
Sorry, but that is a silly statement. No, I take that back. That statement is utterly stupid.
Did the 17 just arrested in Canada plan on taking that stuff to Iraq? I think not.
Just because we made it easy for every rag head in the middle east to take pot shots at our soldiers doesn't mean the real terrorists quit planning or trying to hurt us here at home.
If Al Queda has managed to get a terrorist cell into the US, do you really think they are going to bring them back to Iraq to plant IEDs when they have an unlimited supply of insurgents ready and willing to do that already? A terrorist already in the US is far more valuable to them. The fact that we are fighting insurgents and terrorists in Iraq will have absolutely no impact on the activites of any terrorists that were already here or that are trying to come here, except that it diverts resources from securing our borders and our homeland.
The whole "We are fighting terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here." is the biggest load of mind crap the administration has tossed out. Interestingly, it has been so readily gobbled up by the party loyalist and the mentally weak as a justification for continuing a war that started on mistaken pretenses.
Make no mistake about it. The soldiers losing their lives in Iraq may be helping Iraq (I certainly hope their sacrifice is for something good), but they are doing nothing that reduces the risk of terrorist attacks here at home.