It's so easy to forget 9/11/01. The US didn't go after Iraq for oil, Bush Sr. or WMD. Iraq is smack in the middle of where the enemy is. Think of Fort Apache. We've decided to fight them there and not here.
if we fight them over there, they won’t come here. They will be too tied up fighting us there, and then we won’t have to worry about more attacks here. Heck, I think we should just annex the place and be done with it. Then we can keep an eye on all of those other ME counties like Iran and we will really put the fear of God in ‘em. Let’s bunker-bust ‘em into the last milennium.
the whole “fight them there instead of here” is utterly pointless when we haven’t even made an effort to secure our border (where any terrorist worth his salt can just walk across at his leisure.)
frankly, being in Iraq won’t do diddly squat to keep determined terrorists out of the United States. Keeping our border secure will.