Dubya's criminal war spreads to France:

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/15/effects-bushs-iraq-invasion-spread-france.html

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/23/were_still_fighting_george_w_bushs_battles_syria_isis_and_the_worst_foreign_policy_blunder_in_american_history_partner/

"Soon after March 2003, when U.S. troops invaded Iraq, neighboring Iran faced two American armies at the peak of their strength. To the east, the U.S. military had effectively destroyed the Taliban and significantly weakened al-Qaeda, both enemies of Iran, but had replaced them as an occupying force. To the west, Iran’s decades-old enemy, Saddam, was gone, but similarly replaced by another massive occupying force. From this position of weakness, Iran’s leaders, no doubt terrified that the Americans would pour across its borders, sought real diplomatic rapprochement with Washington for the first time since 1979. The Iranian efforts were rebuffed by the Bush administration.

The Precipitating Event

Nailing down causation is a tricky thing. But like the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that kicked off the Great War, the one to end all others, America’s 2003 invasion was what novelists refer to as “the precipitating event,” the thing that may not actively cause every plot twist to come, but that certainly sets them in motion."

[Octafish]

1. Broadcast media are blaming the Muslims.

The mad fools think they will survive Chimpageddon.

[msongs]

2. bush hasnt been president for 7 years nt

[napkinz]

3. ISIS is Bush's Legacy ...

[Hekate]

4. Thanks for the history lesson, napkinz. It has to be repeated often, as even here people forget.

It irks me no end to see the GOP and RW in general rewriting history so that the mess in the Middle East is Obama's (and Hillary's, and Bill's) doing, but it is downright enraging to see it going on here.

[napkinz]

5. you're welcome ... I devoted a whole thread to this --->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027346281 (Don't Let The GOP Rewrite History)

[kairos12]

6. Pandora got nothing on Shrub.

[napkinz]

7. ...

[ryan_cats]

8. Does

Does anyone remember before Desert Storm about how GHB's ambassador told Saddam that the US would consider Saddam's eyes on Kuwait as purely an Arab affair.