Argument: War in Iraq has helped terrorist recruitment

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Francis Fukuyama. “Iraq May Be Stable, But the War Was a Mistake” Wall Street Journal. August 15th, 2008: “By invading Iraq in the manner it did, the U.S. exacerbated all of the threats it faced prior to 2003. Recruitment into terrorist cells shot up all over the world.”

Democrat Richard Ben-Veniste said the war in Iraq “has been a recruiting poster for jihadists throughout the Muslim world, and there are far more terrorists now than there were on 9/11. The Iraq invasion and occupation had nothing to do with terrorism. It had nothing to do with 9/11.”[1]