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To: MtnClimber
Former acting CIA director Michael Morell said Wednesday that al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) “would never have rebounded” if President Barack Obama had left a number of troops rather than pulling out forces in 2011.

“So, 2011 — the end of 2011, when the US military left the country, AQI, which was the predecessor to ISIS, was at its weakest point, it was at its nadir. As soon as we left, they started to rebound. They started to rebound because the military pressure came off of them, and they started to rebound because Prime Minister Maliki, without the US there to babysit him, started making a whole rash of bad political decisions which alienated Sunnis…The bottom line is AQI would never have rebounded had we stayed there in some number.”

39 posted on 05/24/2015 6:16:05 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Funny how when the Iraqi army was running away in 2012- 2014 the white hut blamed Maliki. So they installed a new President of Iraq ( like the US has such a great track record in installing potentates to replace other potentates) and now there is ..... Silence.


46 posted on 05/25/2015 12:45:11 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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