It ain't as if there were a handful of such recruiting opportunities for them, prior to the Iraq conflict.
That's the point. Prior to the iraqi invasion, there were only a handful of recruiting opportunities for AQ. There were operating in only 6 countries. Now, thanks to bush's war which McCain/Palin want to continue, ...there are AQ recruiting posts all over the planet, and they are operating in 80+ countries.
Terrorism was fueled LONG before this started. Draw them all in one spot and go to work on them.
Ya, but it was only regular leaded fuel with 47 octane... and it was cut with water. Not much power to it.
Now, thanks to Bush's stupid myopic self sodomizing policies, ...AQ has bloody jet fuel. Thanks Bush!