ANOTHER Obama Success Story – Flag of Al-Qaeda Flies Over Fallujah

Gateway Pundit ^ | 1/3/2013 | Jim Hoft

[markomalley]

Another Obama success story…
When George Bush left office the War in Iraq was won.
Today the flag of Al-Qaeda flies over Fallujah.
It only took five years for Obama to lose all US gains in Iraq.
(video at link)

The Washington Post reported:

A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.

The capture of Fallujah came amid an explosion of violence across the western desert province of Anbar in which local tribes, Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have been fighting one another for days in a confusingly chaotic three-way war.

Al Qaeda fighters march in Fallujah, Iraq this week.

[clearcarbon]

...as well as Nuclear weapons in Iran and Chemical weapons in Syria.

[Leaning Right]

Jim, I'm amazed by your Sept 13, 2001 post, the one that you linked to in this thread (your post #7 here). You saw the situation perfectly back then, and what you predicted has, sadly, come true.

And both you and grania are correct. Afghanistan and Iraq were Bush II's to win or lose. But Bush wouldn't make the really tough decisions. And so we will lose both wars.

Al-Qaeda is able to return to Iraq because Bush never destroyed them.

To blame Obama now is like blaming Nixon or Ford for the loss of Vietnam. Vietnam belonged to LBJ. Iraq and Afghanistan belong to Bush.

[SgtHooper]

How people love to bash Bush, when really, truly, and actually there exists a Congress that fully supported the action.

[TexasCajun]

I hear John MeCain is flying over for a photo-op with the “Freedom Fighters”.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

When George Bush left office the War in Iraq was won.

A war in which victory must be preserved by an open-ended commitment of continued expenditure of blood and money is no victory at all. The old conservative reputation for superior national security prowess can not be regained with such foolish defenses of Bush's incompetence.

[denydenydeny]

None of these stories points out exactly how al Qaeda gets all these men into Anbar: because the "rebel" group controlling northern and eastern Syria is the al-Qaeda affiliate, called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). This "rebel" group does no fighting against the Assad forces and instead serves as a conduit for foreign jihadis to enter Iraq.

How al-Qaeda Changed the Syrian War