It's better to fight terrorism in Iraq... than over here. The shrub makes this statement, or some varient of it in almost every day . Then he pauses and smirks, looking about proudly as the shrubbites cheer. I don't believe the war over there is keeping us safer over here, but aside from that heresy, t here is something immoral about cheering the idea that innocent Iraqis are dieing to spare us over here in the USA. Yes, when we see road side bombings over there, we are glad they are not right on Broadway. Push come to shove, I would rather that some lady in Iraq die in a terrorist attack than me. But , is it moral to take comfort in the misfortune of the Iraqis, so we do not suffer over here? Was part of the reason the war was mismanaged was to create a magnet for terrorists so they wouldn't bother to come over here? That's a radical new theory. Up til now. I thought we were trying to control the largest group of oil fields in the mideast, and/or find WMD, and/or stop the development of WMD, and/or punish and remove Saddam because he was an evil man who may have been implicated in 9/11, and to bring God's gift of democracy to the Iraqi people. I didn't realize we had another role for them- that through their death we may live. Sounds familiar somehow.