American Freelance reporter beheaded by ISIS

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by vienna

Actually, it was the idiotic, stubborn, ill-conceived, ill-executed mess created by GW Bush's insistence on executing an unnecessary invasion of Iraq that caused all of this; he bungled and bumbled his way until he termed out and, in true GWB style, left it for someone else to sort out. He even "selected" al-Maliki as Prime Minister because al-Maliki would play ball with Bush and Bush's perceptions of US "interests" in Iraq (read: oil). The day Bush committed to a two-front war, he screwed up everything in the region...


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Totally agree, but that's another issue. One mistake doesn't deserve another. Bush, nor Obama listened to the experts.