Documented: According to the 2016 GOP potus nominee, Donald J. Trump, the terrorist organization ISIS (or ISIL) was "founded" by potus #44 and "co-founded" by future president Hillary Rodham Clinton. An assertion that PolitiFact rated Pants On Fire. 8/11/2016.
Although he later downgraded the remark to "sarcasm" (DJT: "So I said, the founder of ISIS. Obviously I'm being sarcastic... but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you"). This was after he stated, in response to a leading question by Right-wing radio pundit Hugh Hewitt, that NO, he meant BHO and HRC founded ISIS literally.
But the truth is that, according to how Hugh Hewitt interperted Trump's words gwb founded ISIS. Hewett said "that he (Obama) created the vacuum, he lost the peace". But there was no "peace". Not one that the weak and corrupt Iraqi government could keep, anyway. Iraq was destabilized after gwb decided to illegally invade it. THAT is what lead to the formation of ISIS, as has been noted in a number of tweets and articles.
2/19/2015. Twitter.
Bipartisan Report@Bipartisanism.
#ObamaLovesAmerica because George Bush created ISIS and he has to deal with the mess.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, born 7/28/1971 as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri, is the leader of the Sunni militant jihadist organisation known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which controls territory in western Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. Al-Baghdadi was arrested by US Forces-Iraq on 2/2/2004 near Fallujah and detained at the Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca detention centers under his name Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry as a "civilian internee" until December 2004, when he was recommended for release by a Combined Review and Release Board. In December 2004, he was released as a "low level prisoner".
5/14/2015. HuffPo.
For The Record, Yes, George W. Bush Did Help Create ISIS by Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Ryan Grim.
[Excerpt] "Your brother created ISIS", college student Ivy Ziedrich told Bush during a town-hall-style meeting in Reno NV, on Wednesday. ... Moments earlier, the former Florida governor had been telling the audience that President Barack Obama was responsible for the rise of the militant group. But Ziedrich, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, replied that Bush's version of history glossed over a few key events.
"You stated that ISIS was created because we don't have enough presence and we've been pulling out of the Middle East", she said. "However, the threat of ISIS was created by the Iraqi coalition authority, which ousted the entire government of Iraq. It was when 30k individuals who are part of the Iraqi military were forced out. They had no employment, they had no income, yet they were left with access to all the same arms and weapons".
5/14/2015. Twitter.
David Samples@NatureGuy101.
Please RT if you agree that George W Bush is Founding Father of ISIS #UniteBlue #tcot.
Note: Neither this tweet nor this account appear to exist on Twit-Turd any longer. [checked 10/3/2024].
11/14/2015. Addicting Info.
These 5 Facts Show How Decisions By President George W. Bush Led To ISIS by Oliver Willis.
[Condensed excerpt] #1. The decision to invade Iraq, #2. The Bush administration believed it could install Ahmed Chalabi... but... he was viewed as a "western stooge", #3. Almost all of the leaders of ISIS have connections to the former Iraqi government, mostly coming from the military of the Saddam Hussein regime, #4. The de-Baathification law promulgated by L. Paul Bremer, Iraq's American ruler in 2003, has long been identified as one of the contributors to the original insurgency. At a stroke, 400k members of the defeated Iraqi army were barred from government employment, denied pensions — and also allowed to keep their guns, #5. ISIS leaders' training as part of Hussein's regime gave them the knowledge they’ve needed to be deadly: Even with the influx of thousands of foreign fighters, almost all of the leaders of the Islamic State are former Iraqi officers...
12/1/2015. US News & World Report.
Former U.S. Military Official Says George W. Bush Created ISIS by Lauren Boyer.
[Excerpt] Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, says the Bush administration played a large part in the creation of the Islamic State.
| See Also
swtd-345. Donald Trump, Founder Of American ISIS (Theory). 8/12/2016. swtd-350. The Day The Terrorists Won (Tuesday, September 11, 2001). 9/11/2016. |
DSD #31
Don't forget Al Qaeda in Iraq, an important forerunner to ISIS.
ReplyDeleteOf course, when Saddam Hussein was the chief, there was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Conservatives are comfortable with cognitive dissonance. They started blaming Obama for the recession before he even took office. You can probably remember Lisa posting about gas prices before and after Obama.
I guess she forgot to print the retraction.