Misguided invasion of Iraq was responsible for this mess-but its the

But it's the French--what do they know?? WE hate them too, right??


Washington (AFP) 6/14/2014 7:48:39 AM
Haider Hamdani/AFP

Iraqi men raise up weapons in the central Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf on June 14, 2014 to show their support for the call to arms by Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani

The rise of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq can be traced to America's invasion of the country more than a decade ago, as it left a power vacuum and unleashed sectarian bloodletting, experts said Friday.

With television footage of Sunni extremists sweeping across Iraq this week, critics of former president George W. Bush's decision to invade in 2003 said the onslaught offered yet more proof of the war's disastrous fallout.

Neoconservatives who backed Bush's decision touted the war as a way to build a model for democracy in the Middle East. Instead, it has fueled an explosive Sunni-Shiite divide that is still sending shockwaves through the region, experts said.

For University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole, events in Iraq are "an indictment of the George W. Bush administration, which falsely said it was going into Iraq because of a connection between Al-Qaeda and Baghdad."

"There was none," said Cole, an outspoken opponent of the invasion.

But by occupying and "weakening" Iraq, the Bush administration ironically created conditions that allowed Al-Qaeda "to take and hold territory in our own time," he wrote.

Cole also blamed Iraq's troubles on the legacy of European imperial meddling from a century ago, sectarian-minded leaders in Baghdad and a US-trained Iraqi army that ran away from the militants.

The late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was long painted as an arch-enemy by the United States, but more than ten years since US-led forces toppled his regime, his era appears relatively stable and innocuous compared to the virulent threats now engulfing Iraq and causing alarm in Washington.

Saddam's fall opened the door to an emboldened Iran extending its reach across the region, a Shiite-led government that has alienated Sunnis and helped give birth to Al-Qaeda linked extremists now entrenched in Iraq and Syria, analysts said.

Other commentators blamed the Bush administration for t

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/...sion-spawned-current-crisis-in-iraq-analysts/

 

The terrorists invading Iraq CAME FROM SYRIA,and are the SAME ONES that "GUESS WHO?" has been ARMING to FIGHT ASSAD.

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I like how the SHELL-SHOCKED OBAMAPOLOGISTS keep trying to GLOSS OVER THAT EMBARRASSING FACT.... in their DESPERATE ATTEMPTS to "Blame Bush" for the LATEST OBAMA CATASTROPHE.

 

And TERRORISTS from SYRIA would have poured over the border--had SADDAM HUSSEIN still been in place??

Perhaps you should look up the phrase POWER VACCUUM.

Yes, HUSSEIN (the other one) was SMARTER and STRONGER than Bush and Blair. Go figure.

 

The invasion and Bush's leadership over Iraq was not misguided. What was misguided was the voters who put an incompetent in office who really doesn't give a (*)(*)(*)(*) about the United States, the security of the United States and seems quite happy to purposefully weaken her for his own transformation agenda. Our President's true colors are really showing.

 

Only left wing loons love torturous dictators. I never realized how much you missed saddam c-pic

 

Lmfao!
Of course not. The also wouldn't be if the great and wise Obama hadn't pulled out all of our troops while at the same time declaring victory and peace in Iraq. People are trying to blame this on bush are freaking hilarious. What is happening today is Obamas fault.

 

We perhaps did under-appreciate the way those people there need to be ruled by an iron-fisted dictator, and why? Because that would be RACIST.

 

So where did the terrorists in Iraq go?

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Bush signed the treaty mandating that we pull out those troops. Obama was doing nothing more than following the Supreme Law of the Land.

 

Boy you people really are DELUSIONAL or have convenient or short memories. BUSH WAS NOT ELECTED the first time. As a FLORIDIAN who was an 'observer' in all 4 recounts, Bush did NOT WIN. Obama actually won BOTH of his elections. Had Gore been able to assume office, THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR A DISCUSSION ON THIS BOARD. And we would have been a much richer nation!

 

Why do conspiracy theorist have to pollute every thread with their nutter conspiracies?

1. Bush won the election. Period

2. There is a section of this board for conspiracy people to trade tin foil hats. I suggest you go there.

 

Indeed. There are a few posters who revel in trolling and derailing their own threads.

 

The hell did you just say????

 

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