---- More likey it gave them a place to go and act out. It is lot easier for them to get to Irag then the US. More the better it is a lot better to take care of them there then let them travel around the world attacking us. ----
Reminds me of a story my dad told me of how they used to go target shooting. They would go to the dump and drag out old TV tubes from the rubble. They would smear velveeta cheese on the tubes and then set up about 100 feet away and wait.
When the number of rats clustering around the tube got high enough, they would shoot it and watch it implode, then explode.
This is what Iraq reminds me of. Luring the rats into the trap. The more rats we can get around that tube, the better.
Your idea is sometimes described as the "Roach Motel strategy." The Muslim psychopaths go into Iraq but they don't come out.