Hannity just says dems are more of a threat

Hannity just said dems are more of a threat to the US than a country with known support for terrorist organizations (UAE), and that they have hurt the war on terror and Iraq.

While I disagree with both claims, the later is interesting to note. I predict that this will be Hannity's continual spin on the War on Iraq should it turn for the worse (& it has in recent weeks). Hence failure in Iraq will not bea failure in policy or competence of the administration, but rather the impedance to success supposedly put in place by liberals and democrats. Total BS, but mark my words - that will be his spin on the war if it goes south in a big way.

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I've never supported the war on Iraq - except for the brief period leading up to the war during which the administration misled (intentionally or not) the entire world regarding the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Once this information wa debunked, I returned to my opinion that this war is a big mistake. I would love to be proven wrong, and do believe a thriving democracy in the mideast would be great - I just do not believe it to be within the realm of possibility.

1. Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism against western nations. This was clear to me just being a layperson and paying attention to news. It was always know that Saddam Hussein was a secular, non-religious leader. Radial Islam had no use for Saddam Hussein and vice versa. Hence to go after Hussein is NOT war against terror, it is war against Iraqis.

BTW - a link between Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein was never found, and, in fact, was proven to never exist by all who researched.

2. Iraqis don't want democracy - they want a theocracy (actually, the sunnis want a sunni-based theocracy, the shiites want a shiite-based theocracy; the minority kurds might be the only group wanting a democracy.

3. The war is going to fail, with Iraq falling into civil war. It cannot succeed because the factions that make Iraq hate each other and do not want to co-exist - I do not believe they can ever co-exist in a democracy.

Why the administration ever thought they could create a democracy in Iraq is asstounding. I've chalked it up to utter and complete arrogance and self-delusion.

Let me say that if I thought the war might succeed I might be in support of the effort. However I just don't believe it will ever work.

One phrase I constanty hear from Bush supporters is "It is a War on Terror", then they follow up with "We haven't had a terror attack on our soil since 9/11, have we?" The tacit assumption is that the War on Iraq actually prevented terrorist attacks on US soil. That claim just doesn't hold water - Iraq was not filled by any anti-western terrorists prior to the US invasion, and Iraq had no terrorist training camps in Iraq. Terrorists at that time were coming from Saudia Arabia, Egypt, etc. (but not Iraq) and being trained in Afghanistan.

Well, the true reason for the later is due to the incredible tightening of the screws done by the government domestically (ie, investigating and spying on muslims in the US in huge numbers - search for any articles regarding the Patriot Act) along with similar efforts by allied governments.

Iraq apparently attracted a wave of foreign insurgents after the war began. But before the US invasion, the country was, for the most part, Iraqis; there were no terrorist training camps in Iraq.