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Originally Posted by spence
Didn't need to. The involvement of former Iraqi military leadership in ISIS is well known...
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Uh, I dunno if this fact is appreciated by the general public. They seem to have an impression of ISIS being jihadist radicals. Actually, the leadership isn't.
Hilldog was appointed Sec State in 2009.
The withdrawl of U.S. forces from Iraq finished up some time in December 2011.
ISIS didn't claim the Levant until 2013.
After WWII hostilities ceased, General Patton kept some Nazis in place to keep an interim government functioning. He caught a little flack for it but it worked out.
Before Bush left office all the libs here were screaming about how Iraq was a mistake and how Bush screwed it up. I don't know if the de baathification of Iraq was talked here (maybe) but ...
Both Obama and Hillary had plenty of time to fix this before ISIS became an issue. They had every opportunity to make simple fixes.
Hindsight is 20/20 ... but what does this tell you about Hillary's and Obozo's statecraft?
Iraqi Baathist officials were Sunni but largely secular. Wouldn't have been much of a stink to re-instate them.
They made the situation
worse by withdrawing and doing nothing else.
Pathetic.