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3. w and Cheney just "had to" go into Iraq and stir up that hornet's nest and now we have ISIS

Reply to bemildred (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:13 AM

Dec 2015

Although I think billions were skimmed off, stolen, or made on that unneeded war in Iraq.

Even Tony Blair has now admitted that Iraq war produced ISIS and the massive refugee
problem of people trying to flee the civil war in Syria.

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Romancing the Sunni: A US policy tragedy in three acts; Act I [View all] bemildred Dec 2015 OP

Written by a republican or he had worked for republicans Botany Dec 2015 #1

Yes, he seems to be a Putin-licker too.. bemildred Dec 2015 #2

w and Cheney just "had to" go into Iraq and stir up that hornet's nest and now we have ISIS Botany Dec 2015 #3

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Yes..there's this KoKo Dec 2015 #12

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. nt bemildred Dec 2015 #21

Kick........Good Reads. n/t KoKo Jan 2016 #22