US struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn't support IS

For nearly two years, U.S. airstrikes, military advisers and weapons shipments have helped Iraqi forces roll back the Islamic State group. The U.S.-led coalition has carried out more than 5,000 airstrikes against IS targets in Iraq at a total cost of $7 billion since August 2014, including operations in Syria. On Tuesday a U.S. Navy SEAL was the third serviceman to die fighting IS in Iraq.

Government-allied Shiite militiamen on the front-lines post videos of U.S. supplies purportedly seized from IS militants or found in areas liberated from the extremist group. Newspapers and TV networks repeat conspiracy theories that the U.S. created the jihadi group to sow chaos in the region in order to seize its oil.

Despite spending more than $10 million on public outreach in Iraq last year, the U.S. government appears to have made little headway in dispelling such rumors. An unscientific survey by the State Department of Iraqi residents last year found that 40 percent believe that U.S. policy is working to “destabilize Iraq and control its natural resources,” and a third believe America “supports terrorism in general and (IS) specifically.” …

OK let me help you connect some dots here.

When the CIA safehouse in Benghazi was attacked and Ambassador Stevens killed, he was in the middle of arranging for weapons to be shipped through Turkey to the “rebel” groups in Syria, much of which eventually became ISIS.

Military support was called off by Clinton because she arranged the attack to get rid of someone who knew too much about the arms smuggling (Stevens) and wasn’t trusted. Clinton’s top advisor Huma grew up in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis give the Clintons tons of money. This is also why the cover story for the attack was already prepared immediately, and why it is no surprise that Clinton knew the real story about the attack in real time and ran and stuck with the cover story anyway.

All the stuff that was allegedly for “moderate rebels” was really for ISIS. That’s why they’re running around with US arms.

The point of creating ISIS was to use them to overthrow Assad, who has pretty obviously been the real target of the Obama administration and associated war hawks like McCain for quite some time now.

There’s every reason to believe covert US support for ISIS continues to this day - our “allies” in Saudi Arabia and Turkey all but openly support them.

Thank you thoughtomater.
It is good to know that others know the “REAL STORY”.
I knew when the witch bellowed that ridiculous video story.
I know the witch is beyond anything human.......I accept it.
However, what really got me was how the media, public, friends swallowed her lies.

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