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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Military Chief: Iraq War Was A 'Failure' That Helped Create ISIS
Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, former U.S. special forces commander in Iraq and Afghanistan who was the country's highest ranking military intelligence official, says that the George W. Bush administration's Iraq war was a tremendous blunder that helped to create the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS.
"It was a huge error," Flynn said about the Iraq war in a detailed interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel published Sunday.
"As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him," Flynn went on to say. "The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision."
When told by Der Spiegel reporters Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark that the Islamic State would not "be where it is now without the fall of Baghdad," Flynn, without reservations, said: "Yes, absolutely."
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"We may cause it to change its name, but we are never going to destroy this organization," Flynn said."
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tecelote
Dec 2015
OP
"The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state." /nt
think
Dec 2015
#2
It's always the "former" leaders. Never the current ones. Funny how that works.
phantom power
Dec 2015
#4
peacebird
(14,195 posts)1. Bush/Cheney's middle east extravaganza... the gift that keeps giving.
Thanks in part to those who believed Bushco and voted for the IWR.
Bernie was smart enough to vote NO.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)3. The solution compounds the problem requiring more of the solution.
Take the profit out of war and it will end tomorrow.
think
(11,641 posts)2. "The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state." /nt
phantom power
(25,966 posts)4. It's always the "former" leaders. Never the current ones. Funny how that works.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)5. And now we have someone that played significant roles in both bad decisions that wants to
be the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. How can someone who was proven so wrong in the unprovoked war against Iraq and then still make the same "mistake" against Libya and who wants to continue making more "mistakes" against more Middle Eastern nations, and possibly beyond, be acceptable to anyone? It boggles the mind.
Why is Peace not a major point in this election?