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LeftInTX

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7. We kinda created ISIS

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 12:15 AM

Oct 2019

It started due to the loss of Saddam Hussein,the flipflopped power structure in Iraq from Sunni to Shia, and power vacuum left by us.

I'm probably the only person on DU that wasn't crazy about Obama's exit strategy in Iraq. I did not support the Iraq War going in, but Iraq was left in fragments from that war. Bush did not enter the Iraq War with an exit strategy. Iraq did not have a well functioning government when we left at the end of 2011. I know the options going out were not very good for us.

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This Has to Be Asked: Is ISIS a Branch of the Russian Mob? [View all] McCamy Taylor Oct 2019 OP

Well then. WheelWalker Oct 2019 #1

OK, sure. greytdemocrat Oct 2019 #2

Oh please. They are religious fanatics. GulfCoast66 Oct 2019 #3

People like that can be led by actors who only pretend to be 'faithful' ... mr_lebowski Oct 2019 #8

strange bedfellows. RDANGELO Oct 2019 #4

Sounds plausible to me...I'd put nothing over on Putin/Trump/Erdogan... GReedDiamond Oct 2019 #5

No, I think not. Mme. Defarge Oct 2019 #6

We kinda created ISIS LeftInTX Oct 2019 #7

Say what njhoneybadger Oct 2019 #9

Mmm... no. NCLefty Oct 2019 #10

not the craziest thing i ever heard. mopinko Oct 2019 #11

Genesis of ISIL is that it sprung up under li'l bush's mideast gulags. Mc Mike Oct 2019 #12