ISIS/ISIL make major gains in Iraq

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Credit for this mess goes to the United States, due to entering in first place back in 2003.

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Clearly an Iraq overrun by Islamists and Iranian puppets is so much better than Saddam's Iraq.

This is just the punctuation on the evidence that the foreign policy of George W. Bush, neoconservatism and the Republican Party was and still is a miserable failure of a pipe dream.

Anyone else you'd like to throw in? Condi Rice? Brent Scowcroft? Barney the Dog?

IIRC Brent Scowcroft was not a fan of Bush 43 policy regarding Iran.

Try again.

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So, it's either an organization worse than Al-Qaeda or Iran?

Iraq was indeed made safe for democracy

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The judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and killed.

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Well, that's ironic.

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It appears that Ba'ath loyalists are playing as important role as the Islamists.

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Of course.  The way Malaki has treated them, I don't blame them too much for thinking that ISIL is the lesser of the two evils.

I can - they should be smart enough to know better.

I think both sides are thinking of themselves as a temporary allies, nothing more.