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GreatGazoo

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10. In this case, we needed cover and an excuse to overthrow Assad

Reply to Hydra (Reply #8)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 12:26 PM

Nov 2015

ISIS was going to be the reason for us invading Syria but the Russians are trying to block this. The Paris attacks refresh ISIS as an excuse for the US and NATO to go into Syria.

The overwhelming majority of people killed by ISIS are muslims. There are suicide bombing attacks frequently and in various countries (eg Nigeria, Chad) but our media only obsesses about it when they have a war to sell us.

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Reality Check: Proof U.S. Government Wanted ISIS To Emerge In Syria [View all] jamzrockz Nov 2015 OP

Reality - A Bitter Pill For Some cantbeserious Nov 2015 #1

No offense, but this is sounding more like troll food than evidence. Ford_Prefect Nov 2015 #2

I am not quite sure what you are getting at jamzrockz Nov 2015 #5

I don't think the origins of Daesh are as simple as that document seems to suggest. Ford_Prefect Nov 2015 #7

Playing with fire newthinking Nov 2015 #3

Blow up the cork... Thespian2 Nov 2015 #4

Strange FlatBaroque Nov 2015 #6

Good post, but why are we always funding the people we're supposedly fighting? Hydra Nov 2015 #8

In this case, we needed cover and an excuse to overthrow Assad GreatGazoo Nov 2015 #10

sources Snoopy 7 Nov 2015 #9