Man, really? I'm stunned! GW did not even convince America past the bellicist habit,
couldn't rally all its friends and certainly not France and Germany.
Do remember that we're talking about a moron that wasn't elected by popular vote?
OH! REALLY? Then why we're they not at risk as much of that before the cavalry intervened?
Those "other Muslims" were there already, weren't they?
Take your time to reflect on that ...
Relax man, forget the forum and go to sleep ( almost 02:00 in Stockholm ); we'll see you in the morning, Tay.
The same Muslims Now doing random killing were ruling the country and still killed a lot, but it was targetted killing.
- Halabja poison gas attack:The Halabja poison gas attack occurred in the period 15–19 March 1988 during the Iran–Iraq War when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces and thousands of civilians in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja were killed.
- Al-Anfal Campaign: In 1988, the Hussein regime began a campaign of extermination against the Kurdish people living in Northern Iraq. This is known as the Anfal campaign. The attacks resulted in the death of at least 182,000 people, many of them women and children. A team of Human Rights Watch investigators determined, after analyzing eighteen tons of captured Iraqi documents, testing soil samples and carrying out interviews with more than 350 witnesses, that the attacks on the Kurdish people were characterized by gross violations of human rights, including mass executions and disappearances of many tens of thousands of noncombatants, widespread use of chemical weapons including Sarin, mustard gas and nerve agents that killed thousands, the arbitrary imprisoning of tens of thousands of women, children, and elderly people for months in conditions of extreme deprivation, forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of villagers after the demolitionof their homes, and the wholesale destruction of nearly two thousand villages along with their schools, mosques, farms and power stations.
- In April 1991, after Saddam lost control of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, he cracked down ruthlessly against several uprisings in the Kurdish north and the Shia south. His forces committed full-scale massacres and other gross human rights violations against both groups similar to the violations mentioned before. Estimates of deaths during that time range from 20,000 to 100,000 for Kurds, and 60,000 to 130,000 for Shi'ites.
So if You were a Baathist Sunni living in Bagdad, You were probably safe, but if You were a member
of another group You were in trouble.
Exercising free speech by criticizing Saddam would get You tortured and killed regardless of who you were.
Saddam ran his security show even worse than Stalin.
The US trained and armed Afghans and foreign Muslims that wanted to fight against the Soviets
in Afghanistan. Once the Soviet left, the US left.
A lot of the funding came from KSA.
The decision to form Al Qaeda is a political decision and totally separate from the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Noone is denying that many foreign fighters trained by the US joined Al Qaeda.
Likewise, ISIS was formed by former Baathists in Iraq as a reaction to losing power after the US invasion.
It started to grow after the US significantly reduced its presence under Shia discriminatory behaviour.
The US supported, as I have previously mentioned, FSA and similar groups.
They have more or less fallen apart and soldiers have defected to al Nusra and ISIS bringing their US weapons.
That still does not mean that the US "created" ISIS.
Still a political decision, and a decision solely made by Muslims.
Again the effort to train FSA got a lot of funding from KSA.
There is a world of differences between actively funding an organisation and
ending up with your help bering diverted for other purposes.