Quote:I can't believe the level of ignorance on display in this thread.  Iraq was about oil?  Really?  ISIS was formed by remnants of Sadaam Hussein's army? Really?  It was all George W. Bush's fault?  It started after the Iraq invasion?  Really?

 

It didn't start after the Iraq invasion but ISIS grew exponentially as a direct result of Saddam Hussein's removal from power and being replaced by his opponents. ISIS had existed in a small form before that but after Hussein's demise their gathered support among Hussein's followers. The support later waned once ISIS revealed just how brutal they could be but by then it was too late.

 

Like it or, Hussein was a stabilizing force in the Middle East, without him a massive power vacuum was created the effect of which are becoming brutally clear now. Going into Iraq was a terrible, terrible decision by the Bush administration.

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