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2015-08-09 Terror Networks

IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army: A Who's Who

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Do you see why you could not keep that "government
" now?

Posted by newc 2015-08-09 01:17|| 2015-08-09 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Failure to pursue across borders during the insurgency in Iraq. They come back to bite you. Leave no sanctuary.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 09:01|| 2015-08-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I think Paul Bremer sort of drove them into the arms of the insurgency when he issued the edict to exclude Baathist from the government and former Saddam Army officers from the "new" Iraqi Army...when you take away a livelihood and Al Douri is trotting around with $250 million in seed money, you follow the money.

I believe that Paul Bremer personally with his idiot view of the reconstruction did more to foment this pestilence than any decision made before youknowho came into office.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-08-09 21:51|| 2015-08-09 21:51|| Front Page Top

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