Former Head Of U.S. Special Forces: ISIS Would Not Exist If Bush Hadn’t Invaded Iraq

Posted by | November 30, 2015 10:51 | Filed under: Andrew Bradford Contributors Politics War & Peace

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The hawks on the right love to claim that the invasion of Iraq during the George W. Bush Administration was a good thing for Iraq, the United States, and the long-term security of the Middle East, even though it has been proven time and time again to be a bigger myth than unicorns.

Now the former commander of American special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, says the Iraqi invasion actually helped create newer, more lethal terrorists such as ISIS.

General Flynn told a German newspaper:

We were too dumb. We didn’t understand who we had there at that moment. When 9/11 occurred, all the emotions took over, and our response was, ‘Where did those bastards come from? Let’s go kill them. Let’s go get them.’ Instead of asking why they attacked us, we asked where they came from. Then we strategically marched in the wrong direction….READ MORE at LiberalAmerica

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26 responses to Former Head Of U.S. Special Forces: ISIS Would Not Exist If Bush Hadn’t Invaded Iraq

  1. MarcoZandrini November 30th, 2015 at 10:58

    Doh!

  2. Suzanne McFly November 30th, 2015 at 10:59

    What?!?!?! Can you please say that a little louder General, pretty sure faux entertainment didn’t hear that.

    • Tommie November 30th, 2015 at 11:02

      They will not except that, it’s their bread and butter to blame Obama!

      • rg9rts November 30th, 2015 at 12:34

        What will they do next year??

        • tracey marie November 30th, 2015 at 12:38

          Blame Hillary and investigate Benghazi as well as threaten impeachment on inauguration night…what else.

        • ohpaleasegivemeabreak November 30th, 2015 at 13:59

          Continue to blame him for at least the next 2 or 3 generations.

          After all, non white thinking ok to live in WHITE house?????

          The uppityness of it all!!!!

    • William November 30th, 2015 at 11:07

      Fox is busy with a different lead story.

  3. William November 30th, 2015 at 11:03

    Yeah but what about Hillary’s e-mails?

  4. MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou November 30th, 2015 at 11:54

    Umm, no sh*t, Sherlock. Everyone knows this.
    I do have to make one point though. The Bush administration may have been dumb as to who the players were in the Middle East, but it really does not matter. Top Republicans had wanted to invade Iraq for years prior to 9/11. They simply needed a way to make the American people lose their collective minds and not be able to see what was really happening.

    • ohpaleasegivemeabreak November 30th, 2015 at 13:56

      People in the know have always said that Shrub made it clear that he was going to go there and wanted an excuse…ordered one to be created, in fact

  5. rostee67 November 30th, 2015 at 11:57

    Never forget, that if the Bush (R) were not in the Oval Office, 9/11 would never have happened! Never forget, that the last two (2) Stock Market Crashes happened when the republicans were in the Oval Office, and both republicans were named…BUSH!

  6. Larry Schmitt November 30th, 2015 at 12:12

    Mission accomplished.

    • Gindy51 November 30th, 2015 at 12:33

      Says Osama Bin Laden from his (maybe) watery grave.

    • rg9rts November 30th, 2015 at 12:33

      What I was going to say….you see what happened to Red Eyed Robot…a bunch of people commented to him and called him GARY LOL

  7. rg9rts November 30th, 2015 at 12:31

    Damn Larry

  8. allison1050 November 30th, 2015 at 12:45

    Yeah, should have been “marching” to Saudi Arabia.

  9. CandideThirtythree November 30th, 2015 at 13:13

    Duh! Everyone knows that! Lots of international newspapers even say that, so the whole world blames Bush.

  10. Bunya November 30th, 2015 at 14:06

    Oh hogwash! Everyone knows that ISIS exists because there’s a black guy in the White House. The blame for everything/anything automatically transfers to the black democrat as soon as he takes office. That’s the GOP rule.

    • Red Mann November 30th, 2015 at 19:45

      I heard he was responsible for the Civil War.

      • bpollen December 1st, 2015 at 06:39

        But luckily, the Glorious South prevented the implementation of Jade Helm 1.0…

  11. Roctuna November 30th, 2015 at 15:29

    I’m waiting for one or more of our resident trolls to tell us that Gen. Flynn is unqualified to offer an opinion.

  12. dewired4u November 30th, 2015 at 16:00

    saddams old army is now fighting alongside isis with our weapons.

  13. maggie November 30th, 2015 at 20:17

    i agree that Iraq is a totally different thing than what is happening in Syria….Iraq was functioning in it’s dysfunction…we should have left it alone….Syria came a part on it’s own…it’s a human right’s disaster…now “we” ….the coalition of nations….need to step in …it’s affecting the whole globe….I don’t think any head of state anywhere in the world should ever think that they have absolute rights to create human catastrophe and not have consequences…not be removed…..

  14. Harry R. Sohl November 30th, 2015 at 21:26

    Shorter W. the lesser’s legacy: mISISsion accomplISIShed!!

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