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n2doc

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4. No, we just drove a million of so Iraqi refugees there

Reply to NuclearDem (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 11:53 AM

Oct 2015

Making an already strained situation untenable. And some of those refugees had ties to the former Iraqi army, and became the core of ISIL.

But pretend that it is all Assad's fault. I am sure you sleep better with that thought.

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‘They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine.Caesar, the Syrian military photographer [View all] pampango Oct 2015 OP

No doubt, Putin will defend Assad. Those ports are more important than tortured prisoners. DetlefK Oct 2015 #1

Saddam was terrible too n2doc Oct 2015 #2

The US didn't invade Syria. NuclearDem Oct 2015 #3

No, we just drove a million of so Iraqi refugees there n2doc Oct 2015 #4

Never once did I say the disastrous Iraq War didn't play a role in it. NuclearDem Oct 2015 #5

"And the US sent prisoners to Syria TO BE TORTURED". Indeed we did. Assad was no enemy. pampango Oct 2015 #6