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shockey80

(4,379 posts)
Sun Oct 27, 2019, 10:48 AM Oct 2019

Thank you Obama for helping take out ISIS.

Trump and the Republicans taking all the credit is a bunch of bullshit. Obama put the plan, coalition in place long before Trump took office. Trump just continued what Obama put in place.

Fuck Trump, even when has good news to announce he does in the most uncouth manner.

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Thank you Obama for helping take out ISIS. (Original Post) shockey80 Oct 2019 OP
But Michael Flynn said GW Bush created ISIS... irisblue Oct 2019 #1
I'm not congratulating Trump rocktivity Oct 2019 #2
I miss having a real POTUS Gothmog Oct 2019 #3

irisblue

(32,975 posts)
1. But Michael Flynn said GW Bush created ISIS...
Sun Oct 27, 2019, 10:53 AM
Oct 2019
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/01/former-military-official-says-george-w-bush-created-isis



Snip-This month, the retired Defense Intelligence Agency director sat down with German magazine Der Spiegel for an interview where he blamed the 2003 Iraq war — and then President George W. Bush — for creating the Islamic State terrorist group.

In the interview, Flynn describes the decision to release Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, current head of ISIS, from American custody in 2004:

The Iraq war was "a huge error," he said, adding that the fall of Saddam Hussein presented an opportunity for groups like ISIS to grow.

"As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him," he told the magazine. " ... The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision."


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