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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Then you are naive and/or using double standards.
Again, just because Bush Sr. didn't take out Saddam in the 80s was no reason for Bush Jr. to decide to mop up the job. Well, Haliburton made it justifiable.
100% Terrorism. Give me a concrete reason why it doesn't fit the description.
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Because it was an operation with a specific military goal beyond "creating terror". 9/11 wasn't meant to secure the Twin Towers. The Second Gulf War was meant to secure Iraq. It's purpose was also not to scare the beejebus out of the Iraqis, but, again, to secure the country. Whatever you think of our motives, our goals had nothing in common.
Again, that's not to elevate the Iraq War, as I see it as a political action to gain a strategic foothold in the middle east and secure the Iraqi oil fields, but just cause it's "Bad, mmkay" does not make it terrorism.