‘I Helped Create ISIS’: Iraq War Veteran Says US Policy Caused 'Blowback' In Middle East

[Purveyor]

Saying he had “helped create ISIS,” an Iraq War veteran and US Marine is speaking out about the atrocities and criminal activities he and his fellow soldiers engaged in during the Iraq War, claiming he knew it would lead to “blowback” in the Middle East.

Former Marine Vincent Emanuele’s acknowledgement of responsibility comes in an article that was posted on TeleSUR’s English website, in which he hoped to answer the often raised question of “Where did ISIS come from?”

“When I was stationed in Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 2003-2005, I didn’t know what the repercussions of the war would be, but I knew there would be a reckoning,” he wrote at TeleSUR. “That retribution, otherwise known as blowback, is currently being experienced around the world (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, France, Tunisia, California, and so on), with no end in sight.”

Speaking with RT, Emanuele said his enlightenment came on his second tour to Iraq and was the result of a simple question.

“I saw my fellow Marines kill innocent people, torture innocent civilians, destroying property, mutilating dead bodies, running over dead corpses, laughing and photographing people while doing so,” he said. “For me it was very simple. I sat there in Iraq and I asked myself ‘How would I behave?’ ‘What would I think if I was in the shoes of the Iraqi people?’”

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[Warpy]

1. His part was a minor one. The real villain was that idiot Bremer

and his insanely short sighted policy of "de-Baathification" which put most of the trained military and police forces out of work, with no income and no way to work. Most of the early victories of ISIL were due to the remnants of Saddam's army, while many of the people Bremer's goons trained had little aptitude for or interest in being soldiers. It was a paycheck.

The most Emanuele and others like him did was create some support for ISIL among the population. Since their iron fist has been far harsher than anything Saddam came up with, one hopes that support will last only until they're kicked out of the area.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended for enlightenment.

Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.

[CJCRANE]

3. You need two sides in a war. The neocons deliberately instigated these atrocities

to make more Muslims hate America and the west.

That was phase one.

We're seeing phase two now, which involves not only retaliation against the west but a new type of jihadi who wants to conquer the west and other parts of the world.

[malaise]

4. Duh!

All wars have more than one side - whether the war and occupation is illegal or not.
There will always be blowback. Bush, Cheney and the other war criminals are responsible for this mess. You cannot kill and not expect a response and it is not terrorism.