Originally Posted by aMFliberal

All the insurgents have to do is stay alive in Iraq until the United States leaves. If we kill them all, stop foreign insurgents from coming in, create a democratic government capable of defending itself, then we have won. If we don't do that, enough terrorists will remain or keeping coming in to drag out the conflict to long and too messy for the will of the American people. Once this will is broken, the end of the war will be demanded and the U.S. will have lost. Iraq is not out of the picture at all. It's like people forget who was actually behind 9/11. Why isn't al-Qaeda completely destroyed. Bush changed the foreign policy so that al-Qaeda had to be destroyed. You're always arguing about how we're at war and we need all the tools available to defeat the enemy? Who is your enemy? al-Qaeda murdered 3,000 Americans and I'm pretty damn worried about them. I think it's pretty clear that this administration used 9/11 as a vehicle for both the invocation of the preemption doctrine and to create a foreign policy loophole that would allow, specifically, the invasion of Iraq.