Democracies attack each other you numbskulls. In fact the US, a democracy if there ever was one, openly and privately funded, trained, and equipped insurgencies and coups against democratically elected nations in the last 50 years over and over. Iran, Chile, Nicaragua, to name a few.

Why do you think Saudis wouldn't elect OBL or Egyptians elect Aymen Zawari or someone less visible yet sympathetic to them? Politicians get elected in democratic countries by currying favor with voters. Most Muslims either dislike the US or at the very least don't trust us, why do you think anti-US politicians wouldn't capitalize and win in at least some places on that basis?

Or how about I stipulate purely for your benefit that a fucking miracle occurs: Democracy not only breaks out all over the Middle East, those nations  miraculously elect US friendly democratic governments despite the current image problems the US suffers from in the region. Not one politicians tries to play on widespread anti-US sentiment-that's quite a stipulation and I hope you appreciate it. Now, how and why will that stop the terrorist fundies? It doesn't stop ours. It didn't stop Timothy McViegh or David Koresh, in fact it made it easier for them to operate?

Terrorist operate better in a free country where they can freely travel unrestricted and have rights of due process. It's easier for them to operate in the US than in a dictatorship unless that tyrant directly sponsors them. AQ had no problem pulling off 9-11 in the US or the Madrid bombing in Spain, both democratic governments; both free nations. Why do you think democracies in the Middle East would be any different?

You think those of us opposed to this war are just so damn stupid and short sighted we don't get this grand, sweeping idea of igniting democracy and wiping out terrorism. Wrong, we do get it, we get it better than you do. There is just no logical connections between establishing a fledgling democracy and wiping out years of ethnic and religious hatred which has bred the terrorism.

Democracy is not an automatic road to paradise.  When the stench of communism was lifted in the Balkans and they got a chance to go to the polls as you recall, horrific terrorism broke out all over the place. On the other hand, hunting down OBL and Zawari will definitely end those specific terrorists.

We know where he is and we're not doing anything about it? And you're behind these pricks? Are you totally out of your flippin minds?

Why the fuck are we not in there with everything we've got? You think we give a flying shit about Pakistan's handful of nukes? If they even tried to launch one we'd turn their shitty nation into radioactive glass from border to border while India shot a few thermos in just for kicks.

Goddamn, what the hell is wrong with you people? There is no reason to think we can succeed in forcing US friendly democracies in places where the US is at best distrusted intensely. There is no reason to think that in the unlikely event US friendly leaders are elected in each and every country of interest that the terrorists will be stopped, and every reason to think it will enable them. Meanwhile we are ignoring those folks who are the literal and operational figureheads of the slimes balls that did attack us.

This.

Makes.

No.

Fucking.

Sense.

Period.

We do get 'the plan': It doesn't make a lick of sense, and we can tell using historical precedent out the ying-yang it's as unlikely to produce the desired end result as carpet bombing.

Now, do you get that we get it and that it simply sucks big hairy donkey dicks? Do you get that we get it but 'it' is a bullshit ad hoc excuse offered up after the wheels came off in Iraq? Do you get that BushCo is going down in flames because he can't come clean to a nation which forgave both Reagan and Clinton for breaking the law? Do you get that that motherfucker sat up there on live TV last night and seriously trotted out the exact same bullshit that everyone is pissed off about already?

We do get it. But by your own inability to articulate why it will work, you're tacitly admitting there's no 'there' there. Your plan suffers the Underpants Gnomes fallacy:

Step 1 Invade Iraq

Step 2

Step 3 US safer from Al Qaeda

We get it. If you can't fill in the blank, it doesn't make any goddamn sense and thousands of people are being killed and maimed for no good fucking reason. And you brain dead evil motherfuckers can't seem to get that.