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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 06:51 PM Jan 2015

I 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

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I propose a new name for the ISIS-controlled areas: Bushdiditstan (Original Post) uhnope Jan 2015 OP
Love it crazylikafox Jan 2015 #1
Perfect! Because it's TRUE. BlueCaliDem Jan 2015 #2
Spread it far and wide. PADemD Jan 2015 #3
Oh, that's funny. I heard it was Obama. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2015 #4
Perfect !!! on point Jan 2015 #5
Oh, my goodness. I'm definitely using that! TexasMommaWithAHat Jan 2015 #6
it fits samsingh Jan 2015 #7
Bushdiditstan? Enthusiast Jan 2015 #8
It's been a long day Phlem Jan 2015 #9
knr mopinko Jan 2015 #10
Love it! Botany Jan 2015 #11
Perfect. He did do it! WhiteTara Jan 2015 #12
Credit where it is due sarisataka Jan 2015 #13
I'm in Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #14
Seems to me that LincolnsLeftHand Jan 2015 #15
wrong! Botany Jan 2015 #18
+1. Thanks, Botany. nt brer cat Jan 2015 #21
you can always have different opinions but you can only have 1 set of facts Botany Jan 2015 #24
So true. brer cat Jan 2015 #25
K&R! 2naSalit Jan 2015 #16
Excellent, perfect!!!!!! tartan2 Jan 2015 #17
Rice, Cheney, Rove should be forced to live there and enjoy the fruits of their labor, eom whereisjustice Jan 2015 #19
Main issue I see, though, is that Cheney was largely in control during W's first term. nt tblue37 Jan 2015 #20
Dickistan brer cat Jan 2015 #22
PNACistan toddwv Jan 2015 #23
Excellent, uhnope! Cha Jan 2015 #26
It should be more appropriately called former9thward Jan 2015 #27
K&R freshwest Jan 2015 #28
perfect! niyad Jan 2015 #29

Botany

(70,489 posts)
11. Love it!
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 08:22 PM
Jan 2015

W didn't know a Sunni from a Shia before he started that mess and we
are seeing the outcome

 

LincolnsLeftHand

(43 posts)
15. Seems to me that
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 08:47 PM
Jan 2015

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)
18. wrong!
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 09:14 PM
Jan 2015

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!

Botany

(70,489 posts)
24. you can always have different opinions but you can only have 1 set of facts
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 12:52 AM
Jan 2015
brer cat

W did not know that Sunni and Shia Muslims were differnet less then
2 months before he started Dick Cheney's war for profit.

brer cat

(24,559 posts)
25. So true.
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:04 AM
Jan 2015

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.

former9thward

(31,979 posts)
27. It should be more appropriately called
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:47 AM
Jan 2015

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.

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