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GreatGazoo

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1. their end goal is to topple Assad and install a pro-US/Saudi regime

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 04:56 PM

Jun 2015

"ISIS" is a marketing campaign for ongoing US involvement in Syria and Iraq. They are like the dirt that the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman throws on your carpet -- then you have to let us in to clean it up with our latest gizmos.

McCain knows ISIS "intimately" (yuck) and gets jealous when other GOPers talk about them:

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their end goal is to topple Assad and install a pro-US/Saudi regime GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #1

I've wondered for a long time.... Flo Mingo Jun 2015 #3

There is a recipe for US involvement in overthrowing governments GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #4

I am not even sure that is the goal. They really don't seem to care about sufferring and death newthinking Jun 2015 #5

Assad gave a port on the Mediteranean to Russia and harbors Hezbollah (Iran / Shiite) militia GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #6

Agreed. Which is why Fundamentalism is so useful cprise Jun 2015 #7

Same old tune HassleCat Jun 2015 #2

I'm inclined to agree with you red dog 1 Jun 2015 #8