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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI propose a new name for the ISIS-controlled areas: Bushdiditstan
As I listen to the news about the nightmare in the Middle East, it occurs to me that the current situation is a good match for the warnings/predictions of the antiwar forces--that if Bush went on with his private war to pretty much destroy Iraq, the destabilization would have unforeseeable results and could yield power to all sorts of extremist forces. Well now an army of beheaders claim their own country larger in area than the UK and their own oil-producing region.
I can't believe that Bush along with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice etc. aren't being tarred and feather daily
crazylikafox
(2,754 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)I'd put a sarcasm smiley, but I really did hear that.
on point
(2,506 posts)TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Thanks.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Perfect!
Phlem
(6,323 posts)Thanks for the ROFL's.
i would love to see this stick. makes me want to make buttons again.
Botany
(70,489 posts)W didn't know a Sunni from a Shia before he started that mess and we
are seeing the outcome
WhiteTara
(29,703 posts)He shit on the world and we're still scraping poo off EVERYTHING!
sarisataka
(18,600 posts)name the country after its founder
Omaha Steve
(99,581 posts)K&R!
LincolnsLeftHand
(43 posts)Approximately 11 years after the war in Iraq started that Democrats should move on from blaming the problems in the Middle East on President Bush. His (unjustified) decision to go to war certainly contributed to the problems, but to blame ISIS on Bush ignores the fact that numerous others have contributed to the problems since the US invaded Iraq.
Botany
(70,489 posts)Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and so on lied us into an unneeded war which
destabilized the area and that caused the conditions which led to ISIS' rise
to power today.
Before w invaded Iraq, Saddam used to shoot al Qaeda members on the
spot but our invasion led to al Qaeda in Iraq which has now morphed into
ISIS.
Enjoy your stay and please enjoy the house pizza!
brer cat
(24,559 posts)Botany
(70,489 posts)W did not know that Sunni and Shia Muslims were differnet less then
2 months before he started Dick Cheney's war for profit.
When I encounter a W sympathizer I am always torn whether to ignore or take them on. I thought you did a good job before I saw the post. I must admit that before Dick's war I also did not know much about the differences between Sunni and Shia, but then I wasn't planning to start a war against either one.
tartan2
(314 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)tblue37
(65,319 posts)brer cat
(24,559 posts)is subject to misinterpretation, but it could work.
toddwv
(2,830 posts)also works.
Cha
(297,138 posts)former9thward
(31,979 posts)the sykes-picotistan. The British and the French divided up the Middle East with the Sykes Picot agreement after WW I to serve their own interests. That was what led to the current problems. Iraq would have never existed except for the British and French. To blame the U.S. is to cover up for the British and French colonialists.