The terrorist didn't have a cause before Iraq?  Their numbers weren't already swelling before Iraq?  I guess you missed Osama bin Laden issuing a fatwa in 1998 saying it was the duty of all Muslims to "kill Americans in every country where it is possible."  Were we in Iraq in 2000 when the USS Cole got hit?  How about in 2001?  No?  Then what was their cause back then?  Oh yeah, they make one up if they don't have one at the time.  To the Islamic extremist, you and me are nothing more than someone who should be dead for not being a Muslim.  Did you know that Sunni Muslims believe that Shiite's are a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Islam? Are you shocked that they attack Shiite Muslism now?  Do you know anything about the reasons Iraq and Iran fought in the 1980s? Saddam's torture and institutionalized killing displaced how many people and families?  But here you are decrying the fact that they are still leaving.  No #badword#.  When there is a war in a country, people get the hell out of dodge.  It happens everywhere there is combat, it is really not a good indicator of civil war, but whatever fits your agenda right?  Terrorism has been on the increase for a long time, they really don't need a "cause."  What do you want Native?  You wan't us to tuck our tails and run from Iraq?  You want to embolden them with the beliefs that they defeated the worlds most powerful military?  You want us to abandon the Iraqi people and subject them to the next coming of the Taliban?  Tell me what you think the best course of action is.  Hide inside our own borders and launch a cruise missile after the next terrorist attack on America?  Your hero Clinton would be proud. 

So what do you know about terrorism?  Don't reply with a link.  I wan't to know in your own words what you know about terrorism.  What do you know about what motivates their hatred for the United States?  Do you really believe terrorism would go away or start to decrease if we pulled out of Iraq?