OT: US Pres election

[Trumanator]

I did not say that Gore would provoke more attacks, I meant that he probably would have been content for it to be a "domestic" issue. Personally I would much rather have the terrorists get slaughtered in Iraq than have the probably more even casualty ratio that we would have here. As for Bush being an idiot, refer to my above post. Him doing what he and his party believed was best would probably have something to do with them being the majority party= more Americans support them than the other guys.

The argument that the most intelligent man makes the best president would make sense...except that Richard Nixon was a very smart man. So was James Buchanan, so was Jimmy Carter, and they didn't exactly lead to great success abroad did they?

[quantum_mechani]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

Personally I would much rather have the terrorists get slaughtered in Iraq than have the probably more even casualty ratio that we would have here.

This attitude is so baffling to me. I mean, the vanishingly small percentage of people willing to cross continents to commit acts of terrorism (not to mention with the means to do so), compared to those willing to - as they perceive it - fight to liberate their occupied country is just extreme. I'd also note that at the Iraq war passed 9/11 in American casualties some time ago. That's completely apart from the even very conservatively hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead... it's hard to believe most of those were militants.

And even if you assume those fighting in Iraq have the will or the means to commit such acts in the US, the amount of security you could buy with the cost of the iraq war is mind-boggling.

[Edi]

I moved this to the Intel Forum Bar & Grill because it really does belong here. There is a redirect at the Dom3 forum that will expire in one month.