re: #398 GeneJockey

Dark, do you think we (meaning the US) bear responsibility for AQ being there in the first place? I mean, they weren’t there before, but rather moved in after, taking advantage of the chaos our upsetting of the civil government caused. Absent the invasion, would those people have died?

Some of them would have, given that they were Shiites who would have still been living under a murderous Sunni regime.

But that aside, I don’t think the US can be faulted for Al Qaeda deciding to try to set up shop in Iraq. Bin Laden and his monstrous crew decided to support making Iraq a takeover target for their form of totalitarianism, we didn’t make that decision for then.