Former Head Of U.S. Special Forces: ISIS Would Not Exist If Bush Hadn’t Invaded Iraq.

[shadowmayor]

14. You are fucking welcome people!

Spent a year in Abu Ghraib prison - er detention facility as an engineer cross-leveled and stopped-lossed to help the MP reservists charged with running the place during OIF3. This old sergeant knew before going in that Iraq was pure horseshit and I spoke out loudly and repeatedly. Some hated me for it, others came around as time went by. The brass wanted to kill me. Really knew it was folly while I was dodging mortars and rockets and RPG's and bullets (still waiting on those flowers Donny!). We gathered up Iraqis by the truck-load often for no other reason than being over 5 feet tall and living in the wrong neighborhood. This process led to a collection of really pissed-off Sunnis meeting each other for the first time and devising a plan of action. Abu Ghraib was like their boot camp, and then they were sent to Bucca where they were allowed to supervise themselves and formulate the group that we now call ISIS. So you are all very welcome for the work I did. I helped create ISIS - ta da!!!

And another thing. The Surge was pure bullshit propaganda put out by Petraeus and the other butt-kissing star officers to save face for the Bushies. In reality, we paid a shit-ton (that's an Army term for many boat-loads) of cash to the Sunni tribal leaders, especially in the Anbar province to "stand down" their attacks on the Americans. Simultaneously, we were partitioning Baghdad and other cities ensuring the Sunni-Shiite divide would fester and continue the civil war we unleashed. After we left, these Sunni leaders with all their cash and arms where swept into the arms of a new group fighting for Sunni autonomy in a country now being led by Shiites hell-bent on revenge. And the fawning corporate media and duffers like Magoo (McCain) still believe the myth of the surge.

What a mess for the next administration to inherit - especially when the military was being led by such incompetents. I remember junior saying he would never leave an on-going war to his successor like Daddy did in Somalia for Clinton. Well, in a way he was correct - he fucking left two wars to be cleaned up!

What in the hell did the people of Iraq ever do to the people of the United States???