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Topic: Should America stay in Iraq?

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Opinion #1
Debater: Iceman
The terrorists won't be around much longer if we set up a democracy.
Everything you said about what the terrorists' goals are makes me smile. It means that they are scared. They're scared that if we get a stable government and military over in Iraq that it will be harder for them to work. With Iraq as an ally to our cause of destroying terrorism, the terrorists will have one less big place to hide and get supplies. Do you really think that if we just leave that the terrorists will stop attacking us and Europe? This is war whether you like it or not. They want to kill us and I don't think we want that so it would be best to kill them first. To say that they don't want to kill us is just ignorance. Have you heard of the plot on Britain's commercial airplane? Or how about the cell phone thing in America. I'd go into more detail but there's not enough room. The bottom line is, whether we are there or not they will keep coming after us. Do you know why they are happy when democrats get elected? Because they know that democrats won't go after them like repubs
Opinion #2
Debater: The Wild Goose
Terrorism happens for specific reasons.
Did Muslim radicals just wake up one day in the 1970's and say "Hey, We think we'd like to exterminate America and all of Western Civilization, just for the heck of it"? Of course not. Yes, there is a violent tendency inherent in Islamic political history going back to Mahomet, but it often goes "dormant" for long centuries. What "awakened it" again in the 20th century? The answer to this question is too long and complex to be detailed here (WWI and its aftermath had a good deal to do with it) but the bottom line is this: specific policies of American and European governments are responsible for maintaining and sustaining the terrorism we see today. While the ultimate long-term goal of terrorists like Bin Laden may be the destruction of the West, but the immediate, practical goal of the terrorists is removal of American and European forces from the Middle East. If this occurs peacefully, terrorism will once again go "dormant", and it will be a long time before it returns.
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