spiritualtramp said:Of course, Saddam was a wonderful leader. go talk to some Kurds, will you?
Did you know that America was supporting Saddam when he gassed the Kurds in Halabja?
The biggest problem I have with this war in Iraq is that it's based on a false premise therefore any acts undertaken by the coalition forces are illegal and morally reprehensible.
Al Qaeda itself is a myth started by America to prosecute Bin Laden for the USS Cole bombings, in absentia, because of an American Law requires a defendant to be a part of an organisation in order to be prosecuted. Al Qaeda doesn't exist as an organised network in reality. But the philosophy of Ayman Al Zawihiri and Bin Laden does influence some disparate groups into conducting atrocities in places like London.
Both sides in the war on terror are wrong. It's not one or the other. America's gung-ho attitude, lack of proper planning, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, Nassiriya have left Iraq in a pitiful mess of violence and inflamed and polarised Arab opinion.
This polarisation of attitudes has boosted Bin Laden's philosophy of all out war on people who don't share his medieval worldview.
In other words, America's prosecution of an Illegal war in Iraq and the cackhanded way in which they prosecuted it has actually made a reality of the myth of Al Qaeda.