tinydancer
Diamond Member
We are supporting air lift chopper missions now 24/7 and dropping supplies as we go.
Already ISIS has changed tactics to a fall back and blend into the civilian population strategy.
ISIS has almost 2 billion in the bank and have looted everywhere they go. They have made over 200 million selling off ancient antiquities they have stolen since last year. They have around 10 million a month in oil revenue as they black market it over to Turkey. They have set up basically a welfare system everywhere they conquer giving out free food, gas and electricity to those that obey. They have a spy network as good as the Gestapo was and eliminate all opposition everywhere they go, some of the heads placed on poles.
This is what the military told Bush might happen if we toppled Hussein as he had all the crazies in check.
And they would not listen and then when Hussein fell what did they do?
Had a party and proclaimed VICTORY.
Their power came in Syria. Period full stop. You can beat your chest and blame Bush all you want but it is total fucking bullshit.
Where are they now? Could they have taken everything they have, tanks, personnel carriers, M16s and all other sorts of American weapons if Saddam Hussein was still in power in Iraq?
You are the one out of your fucking mind. NO WAY the insurgency in Iraq now and ISIS would have stepped one foot in Iraq.
MOST ALL of the Sunni insurgents in Syria came from where? Iraq.
And 100,000 of our troops on the ground COULD NOT defeat them in Iraq.
Bush fucked it all up and you know it.
We can come up with a million "what ifs" because" if " Bush had not taken out Saddam and his sons we all would have been left with those two maniacs when Saddam died.
I always felt that those were the real WMDs in Iraq. Bona fide lunatics. And I'm not alone.
From Saddam's Demon Seed:
For Iraqis, meanwhile, it meant the passing of two of the regimes most feared men in particular Uday, whose psychotic, unhinged brutality made his father look statesmanlike
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8681025/Saddams-demon-seed.html
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