[joelt]

Bush’s fault? Really?

[cloudmountain]

Bush’s fault? Really?

Isn't EVERYTHING bad Bush's fault?

:o)

[jpsb]

"Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's the outcome predicted by Pope John Paul II, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, and the six Eastern Patriarchs (if I remember correctly: the Maronites, Melkites, Chaldeans, Copts, Syrian and Armenians?) who spoke out in 2003 against the Iraq War before the invasion was launched. They said: this will destroy the Christians of the East.

Saddam was a brute, but he kept the lid on the jihadis and fostered not just the existence, but even respect for, the 16-19-centuries' old Christian communities.

I'm not, of course, saying Bush wanted or expected the whole thing to explode and the Christians to face extinction. (I personally think he was the victim of bad intelligence.) But that's what happened and that was the result.