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JackRiddler

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3. Good thing Saudi Arabia isn't the lynchpin of U.S. policy!

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 07:31 PM

Mar 2015

The U.S. does no business with them, right?

It's not like U.S. strategists are still bragging about what a great job they did helping Saudi Arabia export Islamist extremism to Afghanistan in the 1980s.

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Why ISIS Exists [View all] kentuck Mar 2015 OP

Well, before the breast beating leaves too many bruises Warpy Mar 2015 #1

Good thing Saudi Arabia isn't the lynchpin of U.S. policy! JackRiddler Mar 2015 #3

ISIS are relative punters compared to the holocaust of murder and unspeakable crimes unleashed by Bush war criminals. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #2

ISIS are the result of the murder and crimes of the Bush war criminals. JackRiddler Mar 2015 #4

The US, primary cause of ISIS? **facepalm** Albertoo Mar 2015 #5

I see your denial is particularly strong. JackRiddler Mar 2015 #7

your explanation is Americanocentric: the US is wrong for everything. Albertoo Mar 2015 #8

That's a false label. I merely remember what just happened. JackRiddler Mar 2015 #9

a vacuum allows assholes to fill it snooper2 Mar 2015 #11

Boko Haram? Chechen islamic separatism? Al shebab? Pakistani madrasas? Albertoo Mar 2015 #19

Kill the messenger!!! JackRiddler Mar 2015 #25

What a childish, narrow-minded answer Albertoo Mar 2015 #39

US DESTRUCTION of Iraq is the ONLY cause of BubbaFett Mar 2015 #16

I will remember that strawberries Mar 2015 #18

That didn't happen when Saddam was in power BubbaFett Mar 2015 #20

I wasn't making an argument strawberries Mar 2015 #22

argument: BubbaFett Mar 2015 #23

what are you my mother? strawberries Mar 2015 #26

you better be glad I am not your mother BubbaFett Mar 2015 #27

Yes it did! Saddam had vast numbers of innocent people killed. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2015 #35

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....x10 840high Mar 2015 #32

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And stupid politicians ... butterfly77 Mar 2015 #6

k&r... spanone Mar 2015 #10

I was expecting a picture of Darth Cheney. Scuba Mar 2015 #12

R&K! RiverLover Mar 2015 #13

"They hate us for our freedoms." H2O Man Mar 2015 #14

The removal of Saddam Hussein and our the destruction of Iraq BubbaFett Mar 2015 #15

Completely wrong brentspeak Mar 2015 #17

you're closer to the mark, i think. But, the U.S. is certainly a significant contributing cali Mar 2015 #21

The poster is 100% correct BubbaFett Mar 2015 #24

Without the invasion, ISIS would not exists, thats a fact. politicman Mar 2015 #30

No. ISIS = wahhbi ideology Albertoo Mar 2015 #40

Bullcrap politicman Mar 2015 #41

You are wrong: the Quran and Wahhab did not wait for the USA to exist Albertoo Mar 2015 #44

and if not stupidly and wickedly unleashed the acts would not be happening TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #31

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Makes as much sense as any other excuse I've heard. Deertoil Mar 2015 #28

"When Washington holds hands with dictators ... hatreds are remembered and passed down over the pampango Mar 2015 #29

Add one more essential but not sufficient precondition for ISIS: destabilization of Libya and Syria. leveymg Mar 2015 #33

ISIS is the spawn of our wars in the Middle East lunatica Mar 2015 #34

Hits the nail in those 4 paragraphs JonLP24 Mar 2015 #42

Found the articles I was looking for JonLP24 Mar 2015 #43