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Originally Posted by cmac2012
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I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse.
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That is absolute crap. Seriously. So if we hadn't "tortured" anyone in Gitmo, the Iraq takeover would have been a cake-walk? Al-Qaeda would have just let us have Afghanistan and Iraq? They wouldn't have recruited more fighters and they wouldn't have done any suicide bombings? What moron could believe that except a bonehead "journalist" in the year 2008 who just repeats what he hears rather than investigates what might be the truth.