Dana7360
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I'm curious: are repubs dumb enough to think Iran would roll over and do whatever the West wants?
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Roudy
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He didn't say he "wasn't concerned" dipweed. He said he wasn't concerned with ONE PERSON. When you have thousands of Islamic nutjobs including Al Queda, the Taliban, Hezbollah, etc. out to do harm to Americans, your policy has to be comprehensive. Bush laid the framework for Obama's capture and it paid off during the Obama administration. Here are liberal pro Obama news agencies reporting it.
Which part of "wanted, dead or alive " did you not understand:
The path to Osama bin Laden’s death didn’t start with Obama
Bin Laden's death sparks brief outburst of respect from Bush-era Republicans
Bush Says Bin Laden Wanted Dead or Alive
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Was it not a crime or treason to let Al Queda Islamists slaughter an American ambassador and then get in front of the camera and LIE to the American people that it was because of some stupid film? Oh but that would contradict the Obama campaign bullshit that "Al Qaeda is on the run". Sure sure.
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That is something the GOP made up. It's not and has never been true. Bush closed the CIA unit charged with finding Bin Laden and stated he didn't think about Bin Laden any more. Don't believe me? Here, you can believe him.Yeah, Obama was able to go after and get Osama Bin Ladin.....after your doofus President, who went after the wrong country claimed he wasn't interested in getting him.....this after OBL was responsible for over 3000 deaths.....talk about incompetence. (Oh, and add another 4000+ that we lost due to his incompetence in going after the wrong country.)
Ha ha ha. "Obama was able to go after and get Bin Laden". When all else fails divert the subject to something Obama had absolutely nothing to do with.
You're such an idiot. Of course Obama had something to do with it....he could have done like Doofus Bush and claimed he wasn't concerned with him - but he didn't. You're just butt hurt because your Republican President has taken the "dummy" award.
U.S. govt. agencies were after Bin Laden from the beginning. Neither Bush or Obama had anything to do with US intelligence being able to locate him.
Remember, it was the interrogation techniques implemented during the Bush administration that yielded the information that led to Bin Laden.
He lived in a villa, not a cave. Worse, he was pretty much out in the open if Bush had only bothered to look.
Our so called "allies" the Pakistanis were hiding him, dipsticK. Bush certainly did set in motion the necessary requirement for Bin Laden to get captured. Obama is a free loader that took credit for it:
The path to Osama bin Laden’s death didn’t start with Obama
Bin Laden's death sparks brief outburst of respect from Bush-era Republicans
Bush Says Bin Laden Wanted Dead or Alive
You linked to an opinion piece followed by four others with different takes.
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I think it is a crime to trick a country into war and then ignore genocide against Christians. Even the Pope called Bush out on it.
Was it not a crime or treason to let Al Queda Islamists slaughter an American ambassador and then get in front of the camera and LIE to the American people that it was because of some stupid film? Oh but that would contradict the Obama campaign bullshit that "Al Qaeda is on the run". Sure sure.
And we won't even talk about embassy personnel that died under Bush and it was six times more than under Obama. Course Obama is black.
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No, dumbass........the idea is to take out the leader. Doofus Bush was too stupid to even recognize that. It's not hard to mouth the words "Wanted Dear or Alive" - it is yet another thing to actually take action. Doffus Bush sat on his ass while we were being attacked, then sat on his ass in regards to Osama Bin Laden....it took Obama to get the bastard. Bush is still sitting on his ass.
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I have heard what is in it. 6 other relevant countries agree that it is a good deal. Republicans in Congress were against it before it even came out......so they are the ones that haven't seen the deal but are making up crap about what is in it.
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Invading Afghanistan and destroying Al queda and the Taliban and replacing its regime hardly qualifies as sitting on one's ass. On the other hand, loosing all that has been gained in Iraq, then drawing a red line for Syria and then watching them drop chemical weapons and murder hundreds of thousands of their own people, giving rise to ISIS which created beheading and mass slaughter videos of Americans, Westerners , and Christians WHILE OBAMA SAT ON HIS ASS, definitely qualifies. So who's the dumbass now? Yes you are.
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Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
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How do you know that the people polled don't know if they are Jewish, or think they are Jewish? Did Faux News tell you that, sheeple?
Here's another article supporting the fact that American Jews are in favor of the Iran deal. It appears that the only ones against it are conservative dummies, who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. It restricts Iran's nuclear program in a way that makes it harder for it to produce nuclear weapons.
What do Republicans offer in place of the deal? NADA, NOTHING, ZERO, ZIP, as usual.
But according to a rare national survey conducted in the wake of the agreement, a plurality of American Jews support the new Iran nuclear deal.
The LA Jewish Journal survey released Thursday found that 48 percent of Jews support the deal while 28 percent oppose it and 25 percent hadn't heard enough to form an opinion. The survey described key parts of the deal, which lifts major economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran restricting its nuclear program in a way that makes it harder for it to produce nuclear weapons.
Jewish Americans support the Iran nuclear deal
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I love how Irans leaders chant death to America and Israel in their own parliament, but that carries no weight with the left.
On the other hand gaddafi and Assad are straight up evil to the left? Granted they are not good guys...but never have chants and parades screaming death to america. Even though they're dictators, their countries are no where near as totalitarian as Iran. And the only friends we've made in this administration is Iran and Cuba, while we've severely pissed off Saudi Arabia and Israel.
I saw a picture that that PBS host posted that mocked Netanyahu's famous bomb picture, and said irans chances of getting the bomb: 0%...in what way? Because now we can ask their permission to inspect their facilities, and they can get back to us in a month with a yes or no? Not to mention the ICBMs they can buy from china and Russia now, and probably can get refined materials from Pakistan
On the other hand gaddafi and Assad are straight up evil to the left? Granted they are not good guys...but never have chants and parades screaming death to america. Even though they're dictators, their countries are no where near as totalitarian as Iran. And the only friends we've made in this administration is Iran and Cuba, while we've severely pissed off Saudi Arabia and Israel.
I saw a picture that that PBS host posted that mocked Netanyahu's famous bomb picture, and said irans chances of getting the bomb: 0%...in what way? Because now we can ask their permission to inspect their facilities, and they can get back to us in a month with a yes or no? Not to mention the ICBMs they can buy from china and Russia now, and probably can get refined materials from Pakistan
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Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
The Iraq war was wrong, but Isis came across the Iraqi boarder from SYRIA. They came into SRYRIA from LIBYA. You don't remember the famous picture of the Isis columns driving into Iraq from Syria? ...so how did ISIS start in Iraq?
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Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
The Iraq war was wrong, but Isis came across the Iraqi boarder from SYRIA. They came into SRYRIA from LIBYA. You don't remember the famous picture of the Isis columns driving into Iraq from Syria? ...so how did ISIS start in Iraq?
The collapse of the Middle East as we know it and the rise of ISIS rests squarely on the shoulders of Obama's disastrous policies and anti American ideology.
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Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
The Iraq war was wrong, but Isis came across the Iraqi boarder from SYRIA. They came into SRYRIA from LIBYA. You don't remember the famous picture of the Isis columns driving into Iraq from Syria? ...so how did ISIS start in Iraq?
The collapse of the Middle East as we know it and the rise of ISIS rests squarely on the shoulders of Obama's disastrous policies and anti American ideology.
Another deflection by the ever "can't take responsibility for their shit Republicans" ......bullshit that only Republicans believe because that is the only way they can justify their own leader's stupidity.
The origins of ISIS, Ziedrich said, lay in the decision by Bush’s brother, in 2003, to disband the Iraqi Army following the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government.
“It was when thirty thousand individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out—they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons.… Your brother created ISIS,’’ she said.
Here is what happened: In 2003, the U.S. military, on orders of President Bush, invaded Iraq, and nineteen days later threw out Saddam’s government. A few days after that, President Bush or someone in his Administration decreed the dissolution of the Iraqi Army. This decision didn’t throw “thirty thousand individuals” out of a job, as Ziedrich said—the number was closer to ten times that. Overnight, at least two hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi men—armed, angry, and with military training—were suddenly humiliated and out of work.
This was probably the single most catastrophic decision of the American venture in Iraq. In a stroke, the Administration helped enable the creation of the Iraqi insurgency. Bush Administration officials involved in the decision—like Paul Bremer and Walter Slocombe—argued that they were effectively ratifying the reality that the Iraqi Army had already disintegrated.
This was manifestly not true. I talked to American military commanders who told me that leaders of entire Iraqi divisions (a division has roughly ten thousand troops) had come to them for instructions and expressed a willingness to coöperate. In fact, many American commanders argued vehemently at the time that the Iraqi military should be kept intact—that disbanding it would turn too many angry young men against the United States. But the Bush White House went ahead.
Many of those suddenly unemployed Iraqi soldiers took up arms against the United States. We’ll never know for sure how many Iraqis would have stayed in the Iraqi Army—and stayed peaceful—had it remained intact. But the evidence is overwhelming that former Iraqi soldiers formed the foundation of the insurgency.
Did George W. Bush Create ISIS? - The New Yorker
sakinago
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So they waited for ten years and went to Libya, then fought in Syria, and then went back to fight in Iraq? Another ten percent went to Europe, to later come back to the Leviant to fight?The Iraq war was wrong, but Isis came across the Iraqi boarder from SYRIA. They came into SRYRIA from LIBYA. You don't remember the famous picture of the Isis columns driving into Iraq from Syria? ...so how did ISIS start in Iraq?
Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
The collapse of the Middle East as we know it and the rise of ISIS rests squarely on the shoulders of Obama's disastrous policies and anti American ideology.
Another deflection by the ever "can't take responsibility for their shit Republicans" ......bullshit that only Republicans believe because that is the only way they can justify their own leader's stupidity.
The origins of ISIS, Ziedrich said, lay in the decision by Bush’s brother, in 2003, to disband the Iraqi Army following the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government.
“It was when thirty thousand individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out—they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons.… Your brother created ISIS,’’ she said.
Here is what happened: In 2003, the U.S. military, on orders of President Bush, invaded Iraq, and nineteen days later threw out Saddam’s government. A few days after that, President Bush or someone in his Administration decreed the dissolution of the Iraqi Army. This decision didn’t throw “thirty thousand individuals” out of a job, as Ziedrich said—the number was closer to ten times that. Overnight, at least two hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi men—armed, angry, and with military training—were suddenly humiliated and out of work.
This was probably the single most catastrophic decision of the American venture in Iraq. In a stroke, the Administration helped enable the creation of the Iraqi insurgency. Bush Administration officials involved in the decision—like Paul Bremer and Walter Slocombe—argued that they were effectively ratifying the reality that the Iraqi Army had already disintegrated.
This was manifestly not true. I talked to American military commanders who told me that leaders of entire Iraqi divisions (a division has roughly ten thousand troops) had come to them for instructions and expressed a willingness to coöperate. In fact, many American commanders argued vehemently at the time that the Iraqi military should be kept intact—that disbanding it would turn too many angry young men against the United States. But the Bush White House went ahead.
Many of those suddenly unemployed Iraqi soldiers took up arms against the United States. We’ll never know for sure how many Iraqis would have stayed in the Iraqi Army—and stayed peaceful—had it remained intact. But the evidence is overwhelming that former Iraqi soldiers formed the foundation of the insurgency.
Did George W. Bush Create ISIS? - The New Yorker
Leave it to the New Yorker to listen to what one guy says with no evidence as long as they can pin it on bush (who I think was a terrible president). But it doesn't explain why they waited for ten years and went to other countries to fight...and why many are not from Iraq. What about gaddafis army that we deposed, what happened to them? But I guess since it was done by a guy with a D in front of his name, that's ok?
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Bizzare version of events....
Iran were getting nuke bomb unless the deal was done... Nuclear non poliferation experst say the deal makes it harder Iran to get the bomb (they actually said it close to 100% that IRan won't get the bomb)
The GOP option, they impose sanctions, no one else in the world will, Iran can trade with everyone else...
MUPPETS...
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So they waited for ten years and went to Libya, then fought in Syria, and then went back to fight in Iraq? Another ten percent went to Europe, to later come back to the Leviant to fight?The Iraq war was wrong, but Isis came across the Iraqi boarder from SYRIA. They came into SRYRIA from LIBYA. You don't remember the famous picture of the Isis columns driving into Iraq from Syria? ...so how did ISIS start in Iraq?
Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
The collapse of the Middle East as we know it and the rise of ISIS rests squarely on the shoulders of Obama's disastrous policies and anti American ideology.
Another deflection by the ever "can't take responsibility for their shit Republicans" ......bullshit that only Republicans believe because that is the only way they can justify their own leader's stupidity.
The origins of ISIS, Ziedrich said, lay in the decision by Bush’s brother, in 2003, to disband the Iraqi Army following the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government.
“It was when thirty thousand individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out—they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons.… Your brother created ISIS,’’ she said.
Here is what happened: In 2003, the U.S. military, on orders of President Bush, invaded Iraq, and nineteen days later threw out Saddam’s government. A few days after that, President Bush or someone in his Administration decreed the dissolution of the Iraqi Army. This decision didn’t throw “thirty thousand individuals” out of a job, as Ziedrich said—the number was closer to ten times that. Overnight, at least two hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi men—armed, angry, and with military training—were suddenly humiliated and out of work.
This was probably the single most catastrophic decision of the American venture in Iraq. In a stroke, the Administration helped enable the creation of the Iraqi insurgency. Bush Administration officials involved in the decision—like Paul Bremer and Walter Slocombe—argued that they were effectively ratifying the reality that the Iraqi Army had already disintegrated.
This was manifestly not true. I talked to American military commanders who told me that leaders of entire Iraqi divisions (a division has roughly ten thousand troops) had come to them for instructions and expressed a willingness to coöperate. In fact, many American commanders argued vehemently at the time that the Iraqi military should be kept intact—that disbanding it would turn too many angry young men against the United States. But the Bush White House went ahead.
Many of those suddenly unemployed Iraqi soldiers took up arms against the United States. We’ll never know for sure how many Iraqis would have stayed in the Iraqi Army—and stayed peaceful—had it remained intact. But the evidence is overwhelming that former Iraqi soldiers formed the foundation of the insurgency.
Did George W. Bush Create ISIS? - The New Yorker
Waited 10 years? Not that I know of....they used to be Al Qaida....then rebranded as ISIS.
US troops and allied Sunni militias defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq during the 2007 "surge" — but didn't destroy it. The US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, described the group in 2010 as down but "fundamentally the same." In 2011, the group began rebuilding, and in 2012 and 2013 it freed a number of prisoners held by the Iraqi government, who then joined its ranks.
Facts are facts......nasty little things that some don't want to admit when it suits them not to.
Meanwhile, the group saw an opportunity in Syria, where peaceful protests descended into violence in mid-2011 and 2012. It began establishing a presence in Syria around August 2011 in order to participate in the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime, a move that helped it gain fighters and valuable battlefield experience.
In 2013, the group once known as al-Qaeda in Iraq — now based in both Syria and Iraq — rebranded as ISIS.
ISIS used to be al-Qaeda in Iraq
sakinago
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So in 2011 when they were rebuilding who was president? And yes ISIS is al Qaeda just rebranded...and who supported those "peaceful" protests, and the "freedom fighters" in Syria, and Libya? And who continues to support the "freedom fighters" in Syria currently and will bomb assads troops when they fight with these "freedom fighters." (Assad who currently and undeniably is fighting ISIS the most). And freedom fighters who currently have a non aggression treaty with ISIS. We should not have been in Iraq...so where is the justification for outing gaddafi and Assad? How is that going to re-stabilize the region?So they waited for ten years and went to Libya, then fought in Syria, and then went back to fight in Iraq? Another ten percent went to Europe, to later come back to the Leviant to fight?The Iraq war was wrong, but Isis came across the Iraqi boarder from SYRIA. They came into SRYRIA from LIBYA. You don't remember the famous picture of the Isis columns driving into Iraq from Syria? ...so how did ISIS start in Iraq?Nothing was ever gained in Iraq, dumbass. They have been killing their own for centuries....Doofus was going to introduce Democracy....how's that working for ya? Doofus Bush declared a victory when there was none - all he ever accomplished was the start of ISIS and now, as usual, you conservatives can't take responsibility for any of the shit you start, you are trying to blame ISIS on Obama. Well, nice try, but it belongs to Bush, dumbass. And yes, you are still the dumbass.
Doofus.
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
Opinion: Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq - CNN.com
The collapse of the Middle East as we know it and the rise of ISIS rests squarely on the shoulders of Obama's disastrous policies and anti American ideology.
Another deflection by the ever "can't take responsibility for their shit Republicans" ......bullshit that only Republicans believe because that is the only way they can justify their own leader's stupidity.
The origins of ISIS, Ziedrich said, lay in the decision by Bush’s brother, in 2003, to disband the Iraqi Army following the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government.
“It was when thirty thousand individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out—they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons.… Your brother created ISIS,’’ she said.
Here is what happened: In 2003, the U.S. military, on orders of President Bush, invaded Iraq, and nineteen days later threw out Saddam’s government. A few days after that, President Bush or someone in his Administration decreed the dissolution of the Iraqi Army. This decision didn’t throw “thirty thousand individuals” out of a job, as Ziedrich said—the number was closer to ten times that. Overnight, at least two hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi men—armed, angry, and with military training—were suddenly humiliated and out of work.
This was probably the single most catastrophic decision of the American venture in Iraq. In a stroke, the Administration helped enable the creation of the Iraqi insurgency. Bush Administration officials involved in the decision—like Paul Bremer and Walter Slocombe—argued that they were effectively ratifying the reality that the Iraqi Army had already disintegrated.
This was manifestly not true. I talked to American military commanders who told me that leaders of entire Iraqi divisions (a division has roughly ten thousand troops) had come to them for instructions and expressed a willingness to coöperate. In fact, many American commanders argued vehemently at the time that the Iraqi military should be kept intact—that disbanding it would turn too many angry young men against the United States. But the Bush White House went ahead.
Many of those suddenly unemployed Iraqi soldiers took up arms against the United States. We’ll never know for sure how many Iraqis would have stayed in the Iraqi Army—and stayed peaceful—had it remained intact. But the evidence is overwhelming that former Iraqi soldiers formed the foundation of the insurgency.
Did George W. Bush Create ISIS? - The New Yorker
Waited 10 years? Not that I know of....they used to be Al Qaida....then rebranded as ISIS.
US troops and allied Sunni militias defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq during the 2007 "surge" — but didn't destroy it. The US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, described the group in 2010 as down but "fundamentally the same." In 2011, the group began rebuilding, and in 2012 and 2013 it freed a number of prisoners held by the Iraqi government, who then joined its ranks.
Facts are facts......nasty little things that some don't want to admit when it suits them not to.
Meanwhile, the group saw an opportunity in Syria, where peaceful protests descended into violence in mid-2011 and 2012. It began establishing a presence in Syria around August 2011 in order to participate in the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime, a move that helped it gain fighters and valuable battlefield experience.
In 2013, the group once known as al-Qaeda in Iraq — now based in both Syria and Iraq — rebranded as ISIS.
ISIS used to be al-Qaeda in Iraq
1. National security is the Republican's most prized political weapon. Being tough on terrorism is literally what they sell to voters. (Remember when Reagan declared war on terrorism? Then he was revealed to be negotiating with Iran the whole time, even before he assumed office.)
2. It was predicted by Bush 41 during the Gulf War that removing Hussein would create a terminal power vacuum, followed by a costly/ineffective U.S. occupation . This is why Reagan supported/enabled Hussein in the first place, because the region needed a brutal strongman to crush the never ending tribal warfare.
3. Republicans are at war with Obama not ISIS. This is why they've been critical of his limited bombing but still won't authorize his authority for going to war. Their job is to destroy Obama politically - not matter what he does on ISIS OR Iran.
2. It was predicted by Bush 41 during the Gulf War that removing Hussein would create a terminal power vacuum, followed by a costly/ineffective U.S. occupation . This is why Reagan supported/enabled Hussein in the first place, because the region needed a brutal strongman to crush the never ending tribal warfare.
3. Republicans are at war with Obama not ISIS. This is why they've been critical of his limited bombing but still won't authorize his authority for going to war. Their job is to destroy Obama politically - not matter what he does on ISIS OR Iran.
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