Reply #46: I'm tired of the talking point: They haven't attacked us here!! [View All]

[Stevepol]

Why in God's name would they attack us here, when we've got 150,000 troops with targets on their backs IN THEIR BACK YARD?

An Al Qaida memo found by American troops a couple years ago said just that. Al Qaida doesn't intend to attack here in America or to focus their interest here now that we're in Iraq. Whey should they??? We've made the game easy for them. We're surrounded by Islamic countries, by borders that cannot be sealed off, by an entire populace that hates us.

Put yourself in their shoes. Why should they try to plan and carry out some difficult terrorist attack here when we've made it easy as pie for them by coming to their back yard to play in their sand box?

This is one point I agree with the Repubs about, but the reason for it is ignored.

As soon as we get out of Iraq, they will start trying to carry out attacks within our shores again, not because the Repubs are such great guardians of our shores but because IT WILL MAKE SENSE FOR THEM TO DO SO THEN. I wish some Dems would talk about this. It's pretty obvious, and it's a good way to turn the tables on these Repubs who keep congratulating themselves that there have been no terrorist attacks since 9/11. There have been thousands of them in Iraq. Every day there's another terrorist attack because we were immoral enough and stupid enough to attack a country that didn't attack us.