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bob
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bob asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 7 years ago

Is it fair to say that Dubya created ISIS like Reagan created the Taliban?

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  • 7 years ago
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    Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, was released from prison in December, 2004, during Bush43’s Reign of Error.

  • ?
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    7 years ago

    No it is not. ISIS created ISIS and if GW BUSH had the opportunity to stop it he would have. They are gaining strength now, is it fair to say that Obama is the reason for that? I don't think so but its a fair question in response to yours.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No. But both created the conditions which allowed ISIS and Taliban to seize power.

  • 7 years ago

    No, they created themselves, just like the Evil One did.

    Do you really believe that either Bush or Reagan could create anything like ISIS or Taliban? You give them more credit for imagination than I do.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Hillary Clinton : We created Al-Qaeda: http://youtu.be/Dqn0bm4E9yw

    http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0228 "CIA created al-Qaeda and gave $3 BILLION to Osama bin Laden"

    http://www.vox.com/cards/things-about-isis-you-nee... "The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) used to have a different name: al Qaeda in Iraq.

    US troops and allied Sunni militias defeated al Qaeda in Iraq during the post-2006 "surge" — but it didn't destroy them. The US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, described the group in 2010 as down but "fundamentally the same." In 2011, the group rebooted. ISIS successfully freed a number of prisoners held by the Iraqi government and, slowly but surely, began rebuilding their strength."

    http://www.rense.com/general61/myths.htm

    "Al Qaeda was created by the CIA, in their offices in Washington D.C., According to Richard Clark in his most recent book. It was created for Saudi Arabia to bankroll Osama bin Laden, through the House of Saud, "in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union during the 1980's and Riyadh and Washington together contributed an estimated $3.5 billion to the mujahideen."

    "In late 2003, U.S. News & World Report conducted an exhaustive study titled. 'The Saudi Connection.' Its findings included the following."

    "The evidence was indisputable: Saudi Arabia, America's longtime ally and the world's largest oil producer, had somehow become, as a senior Treasury Department official put it, 'the epicenter' of terrorist financing'

    Starting in the late 1980's - after the dual shocks of the Iranian revolution and the Soviet war in Afghanistan - Saudi Arabia's quasi-official charities became the primary source of the funds for the fast-growing jihad movement. In some twenty countries the money was used to run para-military training camps, purchase weapons, and recruit new members.

    Saudi largess encouraged U.S. officials to look the other way, some veteran intelligence officers say. Billions of dollars in contracts, grants, and salaries have gone to a broad range of former U.S. officials who had dealt with the Saudis: ambassadors, CIA station chiefs, even cabinet secretaries.

    Electronic intercepts implicated members of the royal family in backing not only al Qaeda but also other terrorist groups."

    "In October 2003, Vanity Fair magazine disclosed information that had not previously been made public, in an in-depth report entitled 'Saving the Saudis.' The story that emerged about the relationship between the Bush family, the House of Saud, and the bin Laden family" (outlined) relationships that went back at least to the time of the Saudi Arabian Money-laundering Affair which began in 1974, and to George H.W. Bush's terms as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-1973) and then as head of the CIA (1976-1977)."

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No. Why do Moslems always need someone to blame for their terrorism? The Koran is the reason for the barbarism and always was.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No its not fair.

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