{"id":58799,"date":"2015-03-19T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58799"},"modified":"2015-03-18T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T23:18:05","slug":"blaming-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58799","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart<\/a> reports that the president jumped back on the “Blame Bush” bus the other day, his contention is that if we hadn’t invaded Iraq, removed Hussein from his throne, there would be no ISIS;<\/p>\n

\u201cISIL is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion, which is an example of unintended consequences which is why we should generally aim before we shoot,\u201d Obama said in an interview with VICE News, referring to the Iraq war launched by Bush.<\/p>\n

Obama pointed out that his fight against ISIS had a 60 country coalition, which would \u201cslowly push\u201d the terrorist group out of Iraq.<\/p>\n

Simply defeating ISIS, however, would not be enough, Obama explained, because of \u201cdisaffected Sunnis around the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s all so easy isn’t it? Leave Hussein in power and Iraq would be a peaceful place. Well, except that, for one reason Hussein would be 78 years old now and his two blood thirsty sons would probably be running the country, which was teetering on bankruptcy because of their war with Iran and their invasion of Kuwait. Remember that Hussein invaded Kuwait for their oil so he could pay off his country’s debts after the war with Iran.<\/p>\n

While he was trying to kill his own people (Shiites) the US and it’s partners were flying protection for them over the so-called no-fly zone and Hussein’s air defenses were taking pot shots at them. We had a stockpile of equipment lagered in Kuwait in order to prevent a repeat of 1990. Every time Hussein farted, Clinton had to send US troops to operate the war machines. that happened no less than three times during Clinton’s tenure.<\/p>\n

And, oh, yeah, there was Operation Viking Hammer in which the US sent special forces troops to help the Kurds battle against Ansar al-Islam, an al Qaeda-affiliated group of Salafists who had been fighting the Kurds for two years before the US took Baghdad. Ansar al-Islam became the Iraqi insurgency after conventional troops arrived. Experts also claim that Ansar al-Islam were working on chemical weapons in the town of Sargat.<\/p>\n

So tell me again why leaving Hussein in his throne was a good thing?<\/p>\n

When Bush left office, the insurgency was broken. It was this administration that fostered the environment in which ISIS gained strength. The US let everyone else take the lead in Syria and Libya instead of standing firm against the Iranians and Russians who supported both Assad in Syria. That fueled the rebellion and became the new training ground for ISIS warriors. It gave them a taste for blood. <\/p>\n

Then when no one did anything when ISIS took Fallujah more than a year ago, it gave them the confidence to march on Baghdad – and voila! Here we are.<\/p>\n

The only thing I’d complain about is the fact that Bush the Senior didn’t let us boot Hussein out of Baghdad in 1991 before there was an al Qaeda, when we were at the gates of Baghdad and had the trained and equipped force to do it with in the theater of operations. We also had the justification. But the pointy-headed hand-wringers wanted something they could call a clean victory.<\/p>\n

And this shit about an economic solution to terrorism is just naive. You just have to make life as an ISIS warrior more difficult than returning home to the goat farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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