“This jerk presents ISIS/AQI as freedom fighters in the global war against George W Bush.”
You need reading glasses. The article says ISIS is a terrorist organization - that has been backed by US support, including US-facilitated arms shipments from Libya. The article OUGHT to call out Obama by name, but it focuses on 2012 — when Obama was in office, so same difference.
It starts out by mentioning Bush - because Bush’s invasion of Iraq is what started this whole US policy of destabilizing the Middle East and allowing the jihadis to run wild. And that, Jack, is a fact. I can’t get over how so many freepers think they have a duty to defend George Bush, the most liberal Republican president in a century. If Bush is so great, why aren’t you for his brother this year, so Jeb can continue the Bush greatness in the White House?
“It was recalibrated during the occupation of Iraq, when US forces led by General Petraeus sponsored an El Salvador-style dirty war of sectarian death squads to weaken the Iraqi resistance”
Who do you think the author is referring to as the Iraqi resistance. He is referring to Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and the Surge in the author’s opinion was a Latin American style death squad campaign against AQI. An AQI renamed itself ISIS, they are one in the same.
” I can’t get over how so many freepers think they have a duty to defend George Bush, the most liberal Republican president in a century. If Bush is so great, why aren’t you for his brother this year, so Jeb can continue the Bush greatness in the White House?”
Grow up. Those are the sentiments of a child. If you knew any history you would know that in the Conservative Republican rankings W would rank Third behind Reagan and Coolidge. But you would have to be someone who doesn’t need Cliff Notes to read a Bill O’Reilly book to know that.
No. If we had a good POTUS after Bush, we'd still have soldiers in Iraq killing Jihadists. Instead Obama came in and lost the peace. It is Obama who has nurtured ISIS to the the terror group that it is. Bush did not go into Libya. Bush did not destabilize Egypt.
I am not supporting Jeb because how he answered Megyn Kelly's question about Iraq. Jeb’s response should have been, “Electing Obama for POTUS was the biggest mistake the American electorate ever made. AND THAT IS A FACT, JACK.
Bush didn’t allow jihadis to run wild; he created the world’s biggest roach motel in which they could be drawn to and slaughtered over there, like vermin.
The screwup was when Jugears began announcing intentions to pull out during his campaign and finally doing it at the worst possible time.