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Iraq Crisis: Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost--Robert Fisk
So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabias latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit and Raqqa in Syria and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama.[/bFrom Aleppo in northern Syria almost to the Iraqi-Iranian border, the jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis and by Kuwaiti oligarchs now rule thousands of square miles.
"Bush and Blair destroyed Saddams regime to make the world safe and declared that Iraq was part of a titanic battle against 'Islamofascism.' Well, they lost."
Apart from Saudi Arabias role in this catastrophe, what other stories are to be hidden from us in the coming days and weeks?
Published on Friday, June 13, 2014 by The Independent/UK
Iraq Crisis: Created by Bush & Blair and Bankrolled by Saudi Arabia
Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost
by Robert Fisk
The story of Iraq and the story of Syria are the same politically, militarily and journalistically: two leaders, one Shia, the other Alawite, fighting for the existence of their regimes against the power of a growing Sunni Muslim international army.
While the Americans support the wretched Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his elected Shia government in Iraq, the same Americans still demand the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his regime, even though both leaders are now brothers-in-arms against the victors of Mosul and Tikrit.
The Croesus-like wealth of Qatar may soon be redirected away from the Muslim rebels of Syria and Iraq to the Assad regime, out of fear and deep hatred for its Sunni brothers in Saudi Arabia (which may invade Qatar if it becomes very angry).
We all know of the deep concern of Washington and London at the territorial victories of the Islamists and the utter destruction of all that America and Britain bled and died for in Iraq. No one, however, will feel as much of this deep concern as Shia Iran and Assad of Syria and Maliki of Iraq, who must regard the news from Mosul and Tikrit as a political and military disaster. Just when Syrian military forces were winning the war for Assad, tens of thousands of Iraqi-based militants may now turn on the Damascus government, before or after they choose to advance on Baghdad.
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Iraq Crisis: Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost--Robert Fisk (Original Post)
KoKo
Jun 2014
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deminks
(11,017 posts)1. Wait, I thought it was for freedomdemocracyfreedom, and before that it was septembertheeleventh.
And there was a "Mishun Accomplisshed" in there too somewhere.
I think that was the 'gist' of it.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. Iraq: Bush's Religious War Against Islam
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)3. Oil. & war profiteering.