All that oppose them are doomed.  Wait, watch and see.

  For all the people playing the futures market.  People are making a killing, literally millions on oil futures contracts.  I got out of it wayyyyyyyy  toooooooo early

That is just great, instead of going DIRECTLY after OBL et al(who, if you recall, are the ones who attacked US) we can lure them into a trap, Iraq.  I'm not sure how this spreads democracy and freedom to the people of Iraq - guess they should be grateful we are giving them a chance (???) at democracy and a FRONT ROW seat.

I just wonder how things would have been if terrorist groups were hunted down individually, i.e., not invading a country (who by the way didn't attack US) and using our resources there.  In my view, this is the opposite of DIVIDE AND CONQUER, but then again, the great war hero GWB is a UNITER.

The response of GWB is predictable - go after what's (supposedly) easiest [mission not quite accomplished] and more profitable.

Do you suppose capturing Sadaaam was easier than capturing Bin Laden ?  If so much of our resources are spent in Iraq, do you think terrorists may have more mobility throughout the rest of the world ?

dude- you need to stand closer to the heater!  In iraq we are fighting an insurgency.  Some of its perpetrators are terorrists, MANY are NOT!  If all the hard core Terrs left Iraq, we would still have our hands full with the insurgents!

This is a distinction WITH a difference.

But the slippery slope of getting a group of people who want us out of Iraq to step up their opposition to the terrorist level- a very real issue.

Read the WSJ writer's article form today's Doonsbury- a lot of the folks ready to blow up american soldiers and collaborators would never think of coming here to fight.  But the few who do are getting trained up real fast.

This is a variation of you reactionaries' great ideas on prisons.  Now we have a lot of places where angry criminals can go to school to get more skilled and even less hope of living in the regular world.  I guess the idea is to train our eneemies in combat, so they are really good by the time they come over here to get busy.  I think we were better off when the incompetant Baaathists trained them...

... keep and fight the terrorist over there ?

Ummmmmm just how many did it actually take to fly the planes into the WTC & Pentagon on 9/11 ? not many.

WHAT makes you think that there aren't already more SUADI (NOT Iraqi !!!) Islamic Extremists already IN the United States carrying out their next plan of attack ? Recent TV news had a story of a supposed Islamic looking man taking pictures and scouting out bridges and ferry boats ( I forget what city ? ) but this shows you that we are still VERY at risk.

The thing all you GUN-ho types "let's just go nuke 'em all" don't seem to understand is that this isn't US fighting another "COUNTRY". Those that call themselves Terrorist are mobile and not limited to fighting on any one particular turf, what pray tell happens if all of our Forces and Reservist are off playing war in Iraq, and yet again just a small handful of terrorist manage to blow up a building, a train station, and ship yard full of people here at home in the USA, is that what it will take for you to understand that we are not at WAR with a country, and we can't just "take the war to them and fight it over there" ?

I say we have been LUCKY not to have had another 9/11 type attack here at home, but that doesn't mean it can't happen again, if you think that, tell it to the people of Spain that had the train full of people blown up, tell it the Russian school full of children that were attacked. We've been lucky, and/or the terrorist just haven't put their plans for the USA in motion yet.

I happen to agree with something G.W. Bush said, "We can NOT win a war against Terrorist", for the simple fact that unless you change the way you deal with them, just putting one down will tend to bread two more to replace them. It's like a hornets nest and Bush is trying to fight them with a fly swatter and a can of Raid, he may get a few of them, but ultimately he's only pissing off the collective, and I hate to tell you, but there isn't enough Raid to win this war.

It's why what Kerry said in the NY times article actually makes more sense, due to the fact that we can not expect to defeat this enemy, we either have to learn how to control it better, or learn how to co-habitate with it better.