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2023-12-03 Iraq

US Department of State: Iraq still one of the ''safe havens'' for terrorism

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-03 2023-12-03 01:41|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Hip, hip, hurray for Nation Building!

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-03 02:24|| 2023-12-03 02:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The US spent 100's of $$$ Billions and many US Lives freeing IRAQ from Saddam Hussein. An this is the results of what that freedom and democracy achieved in the Arab world.

If so, then spending a few $$ million bribing Arab dictators to behave, seems to be cheaper and results less lives lost.

R.I.P. Sgt Hurley (SFOD-D KIA Feb 21, 1991)

Posted by NN2N1 2023-12-03 06:16|| 2023-12-03 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 A Boosh/Cheney™ Production

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-03 06:50|| 2023-12-03 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Nothing in Kuwait, Iraq or Afghanistan is worth a bucket of warm camel pi**. Never been to Somalia or Syria. Probably much the same. Just a wild guess.

Stay the fok out of it and stay at home. Anything going on over there will sort itself out on it's on accord.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-03 06:59|| 2023-12-03 06:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonder if we had gone full Mongol in Afghanistan if any of this would still be going on today.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-03 07:20|| 2023-12-03 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ I've had the same thought. Wrong people running things P2k. 'Rhino and Spider' on the other side of the FOB, would never have approved.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-03 07:24|| 2023-12-03 07:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Boy, Saddam sure kept this under control when he was in charge, eh?

Quick show of hands: anyone still believe the lie that Saddam was going to give WMD to Islamists? That lie is so old it can drink at a bar now.

Posted by Vortigern Phert8938 2023-12-03 08:13|| 2023-12-03 08:13|| Front Page Top

#8 ...remember all the panic when ISIS overran the place still holding chem weapons.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-03 09:35|| 2023-12-03 09:35|| Front Page Top

#9 t Iraq continues to be classified as one of the "safe havens" for bully boy organization

And why is that, hmmmmm? That classification worth a few $$ to the right fokkers huh?

Posted by AlanC 2023-12-03 17:31|| 2023-12-03 17:31|| Front Page Top

#10 And here I thought the US State Department was a safe haven for terrorists.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-03 17:34|| 2023-12-03 17:34|| Front Page Top

#11 anyone still believe the lie that Saddam was going to give WMD to Islamists?

They’d already used chemical weapons on the Kurds — remember the yellow rain that dropped entire villages in their tracks? Why give the Islamists the things when the advanced class at Salman Pak was taught to make their own? Al Qaeda was experimenting on dogs using prototype chemical and biological weapons, including on the puppy belonging to one of Osama bin Laden’s sons.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-03 19:10|| 2023-12-03 19:10|| Front Page Top

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