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Originally Posted by whell

Yeah, BS. All those ISIS dudes had George Bush and the Iraq war top of mind while they were killing kids and torturing Christians.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...y-said-we-love

ISIS exists because Saddam Hussein was overthrown, creating the disenfranchisement of Sunnis in northern Iraq. I am not excusing their atrocities by any means. But if Saddam was still in power ISIS would not be inviting foreign fighters from all over the world to come join them in Anbar province.


You can have a right to your opinion, but you do not have the right ignore to the facts. When we broke the state structure of Iraq in 2003 we did not count on the insurgency, Al Qaeda In Iraq, the 2006-2008 civil war, we did not foresee the destruction of Syria by Assad/Al Nusra/ISIS, and we could not predict that a power vacuum in northern Syria would lead to the dissolution of state borders.

The United States wanted to bring democracy to the Middle East, not ISIS.
Powell was right. We broke it....who knows if it can be fixed.