Are worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise since our attack on Iraq, and not including Iraq?
90638
Maybe, but are you really asking was the US decision to take Saddam out of power a bad chioce? I say no.
1166954
I don't agree with the US not branding them as terrorists, but consider this. You said the IRA has been doing the exact same thing . Well, not entirely. I don't think the IRA has killed 3,000 people in one day. I understand what your saying and I think any number of people lost is bad, but that was a pretty massive number.
1090166
250,000 Iraqis have been murdered by the barbaric American troops since the 2003 invasion. Most of them are civilians, women and children. Therefore by the Bush administrations own 'standards' you have committed genocide. I don't know about you but I do not like to be partially responsible for such war crimes, whether 250,000 deaths is genocide or not, it is an unforgivable crime. As citizens in a "democratic, freedom loving" country you should take some responsibility for the actions of your elected barbaric governments.
55046
The vast majority of terrorist acts over the past 50 years have been undertaken by Muslims. I would contend that terrorist and terrorism are not always associated with Muslims, however. As an example, if you search for "terrorism" on Google, there are about 135,000,000 hits. However, if you search for "terrorism -Muslim -Arab" to remove every site that mentions Muslims and Arabs from the results, there are still 105,000,000 hits. Clearly, there is lots out there about the other terrorists around the world and they are not being ignored.
944711
No, it has never been proven that Iraq had anything to do with the 9/11 attack.  On the other hand we know that  Saudi Arabians made up the majority of those actually involved in the attacks that awlful day.  Our invasion of Iraq has cost the USA many of our sons and daugthers lives and wounded thousands, changing their lives forever, on top of that thousands of Iraq's citizens have been killed and thousands have fled their homeland since we went in to make their lives BETTER....  Now we have created a terrorist haven and brought Iraq to the point of civil war and the present administration does not have a clue as to how this all can be resolved.  They had done so little research about Iraq that they thought we would be welcomed as liberating heroes and the battle would be over when we stopped bombing.  Now three years later the situation in Iraq is worse not better.  What a mess!!
754202
your right..but we cant do too many things at once. beside the middle east is the central point for terrorism, the thing we are fighting mainly for!\n\npeople in africa are probably dying because of: poor government, limited food, limited eduactaion., a religion that tells them that death is a possitive thin gs that should be used on others (killing) , and the anger they have. and I opoligize If im stereo typing...\n\n~LG23~ (legend2300)
729240
I am not sure if you would call it improving, but there certainly is more people killing each other now in Iraq than when Saddam Hussien was in power.
14506
Yes\n2000 + People have died\n25000 + are injured\nand not to mention the money involved\nand ofcourse rumors that the white house is covering up the actual death toll (just like vietnam)\nand not to mention the number of civilian iraqi's that have died
148269
When you look at the progress made with Libya and Lebanon, then yes, some of them have definitely gotten the message.\n\nSince 9-11, there have been no major terrorist attacks on American soil.  Instead they've gone for easier targets in Europe and Iraq.  As to why that is, it's hard to say, but perhaps getting the message is part of it.
496962
Families speak about it:  http://www.mfso.org/article.php?id=533\n\nHow many people die in war:http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-14310.html\nChildren in war: http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/echoes/echoes-20-03.html\n\nThere has been no official figure for the number of Iraqis killed since the conflict began 18 months ago, but some non-government estimates have ranged from 10,000 to 30,000.\n\nThe researchers surveyed nearly 1000 Iraqi households in September, asking how many people lived in the home and how many births and deaths there had been since January 2002.\n\nThey then compared the death rate among those households during the 15 months before the invasion with the 18 months after it, getting death certificates where they could.\n\nThe experts from the United States and Iraq said most of those who died were women and children and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most of the violent deaths.\n\nThe study was designed and conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.deaths/
1161135
We had 5 killed today! It isn't going to stop, and the Muslim world is a big one, and they don't view life the same as we do.\n\nThe Iraqi's don't even want us there.\n\nTime to go!! ANother great victory!\n\nDon't be surprised when we don't even get any of the oil Bush was after!
123555
I think we've been very fortunate not to have sustained any more attacks yet. In fact, in spite of my complete lack of trust in the bush adminstration i must give some credit for their ability to protect our country from any subsequent attacks. However, I belive the way the war on terror has been handled (particularly in iraq) we only only feeding the fire. I think we are making new terrorists everyday because of our activities.  I would have preferred to see our involvement stay within afghanistan where the problem was. Unfortuatenly, we have not found Osama. We have found Hussein, but i don't remember him crashing planes into the world trade center. \nI hope our good fortunate continues and we are not attacked on our soil again. But bush's continued aggression in the middle east can't possibly be helping to tame terrorism, but only to incite. Recent decisions to sell our ports to an arab country linked with the taliban is also worrisome. \nIt's a good question you've asked and its easy to say the war on terror has been effective to the extent that we haven't had any more attacks and maybe in the short run, it has helped to prevent some attacks. But i am seriously concerned about the long term consequences of the way in which the war on terror is being handled by our president.
1173027
Oh my Fing God. You bastard; you just personaly attacked a veteran with a simple question and called her bloodthirsty. less than 50,000 at most have died, check it, no where close to a million. most have died because terrorists keep blowing them selves  up in mosques and crowded market places. The point was; if you don't realy know ANYTHING about it you shoulden't whine about it
156124
Afghanistan is still Afghanistan and Iraq is still Iraq. You don't have to worry about Persian Gulf, attack or no attack.\n\nFor me human beings are important. They shouldn't be killed in the name of Islam or crusade. Muslims are burning their own mosques, they should be saved.
694992
It's more than terrorism. It's genocide, plan and simple and if we weren't tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan, I"d say yes. However, I kinda remember a movie called "Black Hawk Down" and pretty sure we would just get caught in the middle, be somehow blamed for the whole mess and be attacked by both sides before it was all over.  Maybe it's time America looked out for America and get back to taking care of Americans, instead of throwing away money and lives trying to help others that, in return label us as occupiers and turn on us.
1013439
Yes, I am effing weary about you guys dying.  I don't believe that Iraq was the biggest threat prior to 9/11 and that Rumsfeld and Cheney lied to us to make us believe that.  I feel that your life is being put at risk to fight a war that should have never started-we should have stayed in Afghanistan and found bin Laden.  We should have kept you there looking well after Tora Bora.  And I feel that Iraq wouldn't have as many al-Qaeda living within its borders had we not invaded in the first place.  I don't think that we can set a time table, unfortunately, we have created chaos within the country of Iraq, and we have to stay there until we fix our mistakes.  Unfortunately, putting your life and others at risk.
940676
I believe the figure you were given upstairs (2743) is correct. BTW, that does not include the Iraqi casualties, who knows how many. And I see that these Bush supporters upstairs did not answer the question "has ANYTHING been accomplished.....more terrorism". I can answer that. NO.