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JackRiddler

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7. I see your denial is particularly strong.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:25 PM
Mar 2015

Who cares about Wahhab or Qutb? There would be no ISIS, with 20,000 fighters holding territory, except for the entirely unprovoked and imperialist war of aggression launched by the US-UK governments against Iraq in 2003. US-UK murdered hundreds of thousands of people, injured and traumatized tens of millions, leveled cities and infrastructures, intentionally tore down the prior institutions of state, poisoned the land and caused the destruction not only of the formerly secular nation of Iraq, but indirectly of Syria, which took in two million or more refugees. These were not "policy mistakes," they were criminal aggressions. The same US-UK governments have been the Western bulwarks backing the Gulf oil kingdom regimes who, in turn, promote the ideologies you seem to think are primarily to blame, and who provided pre-ISIS with its arms. (Now ISIS get their arms by taking them from the "Iraqi Army.&quot

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
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