CIA director Brennan admits ISIS was “decimated” under Bush, but has grown as much as 4,400% under Obama
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In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies yesterday, CIA director John Brennan made a startling admission: The Islamic State was “decimated” under George W. Bush and had just “700-or-so adherents left” following the surge in Iraq. Said Brennan:
[ISIS] was, you know, pretty much decimated when US forces were there in Iraq. It had maybe 700-or-so adherents left. And then it grew quite a bit in the last several years, when it split then from al-Qaida in Syria, and set up its own organization.
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan addresses a conference on national security in Washington October 27, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas.
But in September 2014, a CIA analysis found that:
[ISIS] can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria … This new total reflects an increase in members because of stronger recruitment since June following battlefield successes and the declaration of a caliphate, greater battlefield activity, and additional intelligence.
This means that, by the CIA’s own estimate, ISIS has grown on President Obama’s watch from just 700 fighters to between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters.
That is an increase of between 2,700 and 4,400 %.
Moreover, Brennan tacitly acknowledged that the Obama administration had underestimated the ISIS threat. At CSIS, Brennan declared that:
Not content to limiting its killing fields to Iraqi and Syrian lands, and to setting up local franchises in other countries of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, ISIL has developed an external operations agenda that is now implementing … with lethal effect.
That now obvious assessment directly contradicts the assessment of ISIS’ intent and capabilities delivered by Obama administration officials just one year ago.
In August 11 2014, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes wrote in a White House blog post:
While both [al-Qaeda and the Islamic State] are terrorist forces, they have different ambitions. Al-Qaeda’s principal ambition is to launch attacks against the west and US homeland…Right now, ISIL’s primary focus is consolidating territory in the Middle East region to establish their own Islamic State. So they’re different organizations with different objectives.
And in an August 8, 2014 interview with CNN, Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken declared that:
Unlike core al Qaeda, right now, their [ISIS’] focus is not on attacking the US homeland or attacking our interests here in the United States or abroad. It’s focused intently on trying to create a caliphate now in Iraq.
That was (obviously) wrong. The Obama administration failed to recognize that ISIS had developed the intent and capability to strike the West. It built its anti-ISIS strategy on a false premise – that ISIS was focused on building a caliphate in Iraq and Syria and not on carrying out external attacks against the US, its interests and its allies.
Sadly, this is not the first time the administration failed to recognize that a terrorist network had developed the intent and capability conduct external operations. In 2009, the Obama administration believed that al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate – Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) – was focused on regional attacks and had no interest in attacking the American homeland. Then, on Christmas Day 2009, they sent a terrorist with an underwear bomb to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit.
The administration got lucky – the bomb malfunctioned. Had it not, hundreds of Americans would have been killed. But in the aftermath of that attack, the administration was forced to admit that it was caught by surprise and didn’t realize AQAP had developed the intent or capability to strike the American homeland. As a May 2010 Senate Intelligence Committee report put it, “Intelligence analysts were primarily focused on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threats to US interests in Yemen, rather than on potential AQAP threats to the US homeland.”
Now, when it comes to ISIS, they have repeated this mistake – this time at the cost of 132 innocent lives.
Yet President Obama insists that, as he put it in Turkey yesterday, “The strategy that we are pursuing is the right one.”
It would be interesting to note that the men who created ISIS were in prison getting to know each other and plan future “jihad:
thanks to Commander in Chief George Bush, who actually forced them to meet each other in a prison camp. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-inside-story?CMP=share_btn_fb
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula launched an attack and it caught Brennan unaware. The CIA is unable to listen in on terrorists and collecting tons of data from Americans will only make matters worse by bloating the agency with the responsibility of following frivolous and false leads.
The President doesn’t get to pick and choose what problems he “gets” to deal with. Every Pres has inherited issues. Obama has never been interested in foreign policy of the military. He is unequipped to deal with either. He would rather raise taxes, hand out gifts, break promises, attack the GOP, and create the largest racial divide and partisan divide in the last 30 years.
Interesting to note that had the Clinton Admin acted upon intelligence reports and been proactive in eliminating Bin Laden, this discussion wouldn’t be needed.
Thank u!!! You are so right!!! That’s all I wanted to say!!
All while playing pretend like I’m a star with Hollywood’s play actors.
Interesting to note that had the Clinton Admin acted upon intelligence reports and been proactive in eliminating Bin Laden, this discussion wouldn’t be needed.
Thank you for mentioning this part again. THIS is what everyone needs to remember. The Clintons completely Blew it in the beginning and brought this on for the world to deal with.
Are you saying it would have been better not to lock them up? Or maybe they never should have been let go…who let them go by the way?
Bingo.
Right Aaron, we should have just taken them out and shot them. It would have saved America a lot of blood, money, and time. When are you idiot progressives going to quit trying to blame Bush for Obama’s incompetence. Bush left about 700 insurgents. Obama has allowed ISIS to grow to around 31,500 so who has really screwed up Aaron?
It is funny how these liberals keep saying it is Bushes fault. Do they remember 9/11 happening within months of him being in office? Clinton allowed these fools to multiply and did nothing to keep us safe. If you really want to go there, it’s Clinton’s fault!!
Clinton, busy with Lewinsky issues, delegated the authority to make a decision on Bin Laden to Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor. Berger was caught stuffing docs in his clothes at the National Archives confirming this.
I agree with mjnellett. Execution is what should have happened. I also agree that it is past time to stop blaming Bush when Obama has had 7 years and has only made things worse. He is a muslim and has no intention of killing them but he does intend to bring them to our country where they can kill us. God willing, we can survive the last 13 months of obama’s term.
He’s a Muslim and a _ igger! Proof is in the two major problems we deal with today….1) Islamic terrorists, and 2) the bogus Black Lives Matter, New Black Panthers, pretty much any university campus activity and it’s complicit administration and teachers, et al, and their ilk!
Aaron is extraordinarily naive, citing the insipid and anti-American, anti-West rag, The Guardian. In fact, Guantanamo Bay accommodations are probably cleaner and more pleasant than most of its current inmates’ own homes. No one gets beheaded there either.
I don’t blame Bush for the rise of ISIS. Instead, I think it is more a result of Obama’s lack of interest in, and inability to formulate and follow any sort of foreign policy (aided and abetted by incompetent former Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton). Yet this comment from Brennan is puzzling. He does flip-flop a lot, e.g. water-boarding was useful, now water-boarding is bad, now this, about ISIS and Obama.
Bill Clinton could have saved us a lot by have Good Ole Bin Laden killed. They had a sniper with the cross hairs on his gun on bin Laden and Bill Clinton told them to stand down. With all the money and Intelligence time spend on him, too let him live. And with Obama just drawing lines in the sand no one takes him serious in the middle east. The US Is not what it once was. Like Ronald Reagan if he said he was coming you could believe it.
Something fishy about your link Aaron. ISIS originated in 1999, two years before 9/11 and seven years before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined ISIS in 2006. He then worked his way up to leader in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
Prisoners don’t get to mingle at gitmo. I can’t believe people are still trying to blame Bush for Obamas failure.
They were not allowed to mingle, but they probably set up some type of communication system between them.
Just like our US POW’s did had done.
So everything would be fine and dandy, no ISIL, but for GWB who personally imprisoned people who needed to be in prison. Wake up!
So it was Bush’s fault again?
Will any one of you accept responsibility for electing an egocentric, idealistic thin skinned, panty waist to be president of the greatest country in the world
Coming from the party with Donald Trump as your frontrunner. That is rich.
So Aaron, any judge who sentences any criminal is responsible for any future crimes that criminal commits in collusion with any other criminal(s) he meets while incarcerated?
But, thanks to obama, those woh met each other in a prison camp, have now-been-released, create more havoc among those people. And now we have the whole story.
Quit, giving him the benifit-of-the-doubt, by accrediting his decisions as, [ mistakes ]. He knows what he is doing and has, [ purposely ], by all decisions he makes will bring even more havoc among people here and abroad.
Well at least Bush did something. As opposed to nothing today. Terrorists were in jail where they belong.
And it is OBAMA who is setting them free to murder and destroy AGAIN.
Hi Aaron. And bad guys meet each other here, in the U.S., in prison and form alliances/gangs etc. I guess according to you, we just shouldn’t lock up the bad guys anywhere???? Good stuff. Naive and ignorant, but good stuff.
If they were imprisoned under Bush, they did not get to “mingle” but furthermore they were let out of prison by Obama!
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist – [email protected]
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
The true will set us free from this government deception. Seek the truth and expose the traitors.
Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.
America is using ISIS in three ways: to attack its enemies in the Middle East, to serve as a pretext for U.S. military intervention abroad, and at home to foment a manufactured domestic threat, used to justify the unprecedented expansion of invasive domestic surveillance.
ISIS is the work of the CIA and our military interventions. http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881
Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad
Fellow Americans, after 14 years of cover-up, now we know that 9/11 was an inside job, done by the bush administration; it was done to get the support of the American people to invade Iraq. The 2003 American invasion and occupation of Iraq created the pre-conditions for radical Sunni groups, like ISIS, to take root. The US under George W. Bush government destroyed Saddam Hussein’s government and replaced it with a predominantly Shiite administration. The U.S. occupation caused vast unemployment in Sunni areas, by rejecting socialism and closing down factories in the naive hope that the magical hand of the free market would create jobs. Under the new U.S.-backed Shiite regime, working class Sunni’s lost hundreds of thousands of jobs and the upper class Sunni’s were systematically dispossessed of their assets and lost their political influence. Rather than promoting religious integration and unity, American policy in Iraq created sectarian divisions and the fertile breeding ground for Sunni discontent, from which Al Qaeda in Iraq took root. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) used to be Al Qaeda. After 2010 the group rebranded and refocused its efforts on Syria.
The ramification of the U.S. Middle East wars is this huge human catastrophe 1- The destruction of the Middle East countries economic infrastructure. 2- Millions Of innocent people killed. 3- The development of terrorist forces against the west invaders that destroyed their countries. 4- The exodus of millions of people from the Middle East to the EU; the millions of refugees is the worst of the 21st century. The so-called “War on Terror” should be seen for what it really is: a pretext for maintaining a huge U.S. military force. The two most powerful groups in the U.S. foreign policy establishment are the Israel lobby, which directs U.S. Middle East policy, and the Military-Industrial-Complex, which profits from the former group’s actions. Since George W. Bush declared the “War on Terror” in October 2001, the war has cost the American taxpayer way over 7 trillion dollars and thousands of our soldiers lives; but, the ones that profit from the wars are the Washington’s military elite. In fact, more than seventy American companies and individuals have won up to $27 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last three years; according to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity. According to the study, nearly 75 per cent of these private companies had employees or board members, who either served in, or had close ties to, the executive branch of the Republican and Democratic administrations, members of Congress, or the highest levels of the military.
We the people of these United States are tire of military interventions and undeclared wars; our real enemy is Washington and this corrupt system of governments that supports the agenda of the oligarchs and sends our soldiers to fight wars to protect the interest of the US predator corporations. The agenda of the one world order is the dream of the oligarchs, they want to control the world’s natural resources and the world’s economic at the expenses of the thousands of American soldier’s lives and the millions that are killed because America’s imperialist colonization agenda. Do not let money corrupt our system of government; this government is buying people to deceive the American people and cover up the truth as reported by experts that know the truth. The mainstream news media deceived the American people and acted as the propaganda machinery of the government to cover up this crime against humanity.
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Sources for this article include:
10 companies profiting the most from war
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997/
9/11 VERDICT: Mainstream Media Guilty Of the Biggest Cover-up in US History
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/09/911-verdict-mainstream-media-guilty-of-the-biggest- coverup-in-us-history-3-3212688.html
U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes for Using 9/11 As a False Justification for the Iraq War
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html
9/11 was a conspiracy
http://www.sprword.com/9_11.html
9/11 was an inside job. Report on Build # 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biKeaOH3qc
9/11 cover up the work of the CIA
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up
9-11 excuse for US global genocide. The REAL 9-11 atrocity: 9-11 Million Dead in Bush Wars
https://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/9-11-excuse-for-us-global-genocide
The American Genocide Against Iraq: 4% of Population Dead as result of US sanctions, wars
http://www.juancole.com/2013/10/american-population-sanctions.html
9/11: Beyond the Seal of Approval by israelshamir.net is undated
http://www.globalresearch.ca/911-research-and-the-american-left-the-discourse-of-foundation-funded-alternative-media/5446733
Bush Administration Convicted of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bush-adminstration-convicted-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity/5336860
Who’s to Blame for Syria Mess?
https://consortiumnews.com/
A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
Just when did Kuala Lumpur gain the moral high ground to try crimes against humanity? https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-inbox/civil-society-takes-malaysia-un-maltreatment-filipinos-sabah-213814738.html
They would still be in prison if it weren’t for Obama. Don’t blame this on Bush!!! He hasn’t been in office for 7 years now. That BS excuse has done ran its course!
And thanks to current commander and chief many are being and have been released to commit more terror attacks
Did he just set this whole thing up as just a meet and great? What an interesting take.
For as long as there are still infidels, the seed of jihad will sprout. The promised rewards are irresistible to those who believe in it.
Yes, Sid. as I recall, dead jhadist martyrs get 72 virgins in heaven. But, when the martyrs get there, they find that 40 of the virgins want to stay that way, 20 of them have a headache, and the other twelve? Well, it’s that time of the month.
Like they wouldn’t have met for jihad if they weren’t in the pokey together. Really? Take the blinders off. they meeting daily now and they are free.
And who released them from prison again? ?
I was wondering how you could blame this on Bush. Obama is godlike. Wake up.
Aaron Have you ever been to gitmo ? where did you get your information
?CIA Military Intel ,FBI Made it up out of thin air?
I am of the opinion , that there are few non-state entities that support a 30000 armed force per month logistically , you are speaking about 10000 USD per boot in monthly cost , so we are talking about 300 Mil USD per month. Therefore this is a for profit venture , and the only one entity benefitting from this 4 bil usd/yr expense is the Military Industrial expense which has a net benefit of 1.2 Trillion USD per annum. Not bad business 4 bil usd outlay to receive 1.2 trillion usd. Cui bono
isis is supporting itself with oil taken from oil fields they have taken over, i doubt any of them wear uniforms or eat in mess halls as western soldiers do, you are mistaken if you believe the US is paying billions of dollars (as you say they require) do support isis…well, unless 0bama has decided to do so
Adrian Matadeen, as far as I know we send soldiers with 2 boots each so that would be 600 Mil USD? And these are pretty expensive boots? Please stop referring to our soldiers as boots, These are human beings who bleed and die just like you and me. Some of them have children, wives, parents and yes they do come home with one or no feet left sometimes. It just seemed odd to me that you seem so in a hurry to condemn them to just having one.
There is no law preventing the CIA from collecting data, listen to, or spying on the Islamic terrorists who instigated the Paris attack. But the CIA didn’t do it anyway. Brennan isn’t wringing his hands. He’s wringing his chicken.
Together with welfare, ISIS seems the be the only other thing that has grown under Obama.
Anyone associated with Bush will go to their graves claiming “mission accomplished”, and blaming President Obama for the chaos W created. They think if they say it enough times history may be kinder to them. Won’t work.
Do you live in America? My country was attacked on 9/11. We had to do things to protect our home. Now they’re on their way back. Do we wait and let them kill our people? Do we wait until they reach our homes and murder us? Thats whats going on here. Are these people just joking about murdering us? No they’re not joking. If you were in any American Presidents shoes what would you do? How would you foresee your decisions playing out? I’m just curious because your comment seemed really vague and it seemed to have nothing to do with the article I just read.
That turns out not to be the case. Because regardless of how accomplished a mission is, some Democrat can come along and waste it. Happened in Vietnam, again in Iraq. If we don’t hurry, it’ll happen in Afghanistan too.
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist – [email protected]
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
The true will set us free from this government deception. Seek the truth and expose the traitors.
Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.
America is using ISIS in three ways: to attack its enemies in the Middle East, to serve as a pretext for U.S. military intervention abroad, and at home to foment a manufactured domestic threat, used to justify the unprecedented expansion of invasive domestic surveillance.
ISIS is the work of the CIA and our military interventions. http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881
Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad
Fellow Americans, after 14 years of cover-up, now we know that 9/11 was an inside job, done by the bush administration; it was done to get the support of the American people to invade Iraq. The 2003 American invasion and occupation of Iraq created the pre-conditions for radical Sunni groups, like ISIS, to take root. The US under George W. Bush government destroyed Saddam Hussein’s government and replaced it with a predominantly Shiite administration. The U.S. occupation caused vast unemployment in Sunni areas, by rejecting socialism and closing down factories in the naive hope that the magical hand of the free market would create jobs. Under the new U.S.-backed Shiite regime, working class Sunni’s lost hundreds of thousands of jobs and the upper class Sunni’s were systematically dispossessed of their assets and lost their political influence. Rather than promoting religious integration and unity, American policy in Iraq created sectarian divisions and the fertile breeding ground for Sunni discontent, from which Al Qaeda in Iraq took root. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) used to be Al Qaeda. After 2010 the group rebranded and refocused its efforts on Syria.
The ramification of the U.S. Middle East wars is this huge human catastrophe 1- The destruction of the Middle East countries economic infrastructure. 2- Millions Of innocent people killed. 3- The development of terrorist forces against the west invaders that destroyed their countries. 4- The exodus of millions of people from the Middle East to the EU; the millions of refugees is the worst of the 21st century. The so-called “War on Terror” should be seen for what it really is: a pretext for maintaining a huge U.S. military force. The two most powerful groups in the U.S. foreign policy establishment are the Israel lobby, which directs U.S. Middle East policy, and the Military-Industrial-Complex, which profits from the former group’s actions. Since George W. Bush declared the “War on Terror” in October 2001, the war has cost the American taxpayer way over 7 trillion dollars and thousands of our soldiers lives; but, the ones that profit from the wars are the Washington’s military elite. In fact, more than seventy American companies and individuals have won up to $27 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last three years; according to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity. According to the study, nearly 75 per cent of these private companies had employees or board members, who either served in, or had close ties to, the executive branch of the Republican and Democratic administrations, members of Congress, or the highest levels of the military.
We the people of these United States are tire of military interventions and undeclared wars; our real enemy is Washington and this corrupt system of governments that supports the agenda of the oligarchs and sends our soldiers to fight wars to protect the interest of the US predator corporations. The agenda of the one world order is the dream of the oligarchs, they want to control the world’s natural resources and the world’s economic at the expenses of the thousands of American soldier’s lives and the millions that are killed because America’s imperialist colonization agenda. Do not let money corrupt our system of government; this government is buying people to deceive the American people and cover up the truth as reported by experts that know the truth. The mainstream news media deceived the American people and acted as the propaganda machinery of the government to cover up this crime against humanity.
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Sources for this article include:
10 companies profiting the most from war
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997/
9/11 VERDICT: Mainstream Media Guilty Of the Biggest Cover-up in US History
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/09/911-verdict-mainstream-media-guilty-of-the-biggest- coverup-in-us-history-3-3212688.html
U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes for Using 9/11 As a False Justification for the Iraq War
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html
9/11 was a conspiracy
http://www.sprword.com/9_11.html
9/11 was an inside job. Report on Build # 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biKeaOH3qc
9/11 cover up the work of the CIA
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up
9-11 excuse for US global genocide. The REAL 9-11 atrocity: 9-11 Million Dead in Bush Wars
https://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/9-11-excuse-for-us-global-genocide
The American Genocide Against Iraq: 4% of Population Dead as result of US sanctions, wars
http://www.juancole.com/2013/10/american-population-sanctions.html
9/11: Beyond the Seal of Approval by israelshamir.net is undated
http://www.globalresearch.ca/911-research-and-the-american-left-the-discourse-of-foundation-funded-alternative-media/5446733
Bush Administration Convicted of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bush-adminstration-convicted-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity/5336860
Who’s to Blame for Syria Mess?
https://consortiumnews.com/
A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
Come on Juan, we read this already, do you have to put this in twice?
Juan, stop spamming!!! Enough is enough already.
Texanna33
I invite you to go to YouTube and watch the actual Mission Accomplished speech. At no point did Bush ever say mission accomplished. It was a banner hung by the ship congratulating the crew. Contrary, if you listen to the speech, about 17:30 into it he said, “our mission continues”! Earlier he said, “we and our coalition forces will stay until this is complete. Go watch it, then come back and say you are right, I was listening to Obama’s campaign spin and didn’t fact check. Also, if you watch and want to come back at me with no WMD, Google Iraqi Yellowcake. I bet you have never heard of it. There is a difference from being there and watching TV!
Bull crap you are you beating that old drum again ? Obama has been in office for over six years hell you guys blamed Bush for 9/11 and he had been in office 1/6th of the time Obama has…..when does his( Obamas) failure become his fault?
Scary.
By the same logic, ISIS grew by an even larger percentage under the Bush Administration, since the organization did not exist prior to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
On a more serious note, the two most important factors in the growth of ISIS were 1) the Syrian civil war (which neither US President caused), and 2) the exclusionary rule of PM Maliki in Iraq (who was supported by both the Bush and Obama Administrations).
Rex, ISIS originated in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
Well except for the Bath party folks that filled out the leadership of isis you might have been right
I am tired of everyone talking about the military industrial complex being the underlying cause of everything anyone brings up. Who profits from it? Not the military.
Petraeus’ surge was a success so they hurried to dig up some dirt on him. It is small wonder this Nation has so deteriorated. You are all walking around bumping into walls.
Virginia, greed and corruption is destroying our country; Republicans and Democrats are the same; Presidents are being use to colonized the countries that we want to exploit and the ones that do the dirty work is the CIA, The FBI, The NSA and the DEA; now the one US agency that protect them is the US Dept. Of Justice. These criminals have Carte Blanche and impunity to commit any crime with zero accountability to the people. Please do not believe me, do your own research, seek the truth and expose the traitors. The true will set us free from this deception and corrupt government.
You all make valid points but let’s be real honest here shall we, President Obama is a self professed Islamic sympathizer who should be more worried about the safety of the American people and by allowing ISIL to grow to the numbers it has and gain a the tactical advantage it has while in the process releasing 5 known Radical Islamic prisoners for the exchange of a single U.S. Deserter was and is treason. In direct violation of article 3 of the constitution which states the President will protect the people of the United States from all enemies both foreign and domestic yet people still support him.
Dan, this is the truth. America is using ISIS in three ways: to attack its enemies in the Middle East, to serve as a pretext for U.S. military intervention abroad, and at home to foment a manufactured domestic threat, used to justify the unprecedented expansion of invasive domestic surveillance.
ISIS is the work of the CIA and our military interventions. http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881
Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad
What will it take to remove this Cancer in the WH wbo gets his National Security advise from CAIRES, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood? He’s filled Homeland UN-Security Dpt with fellow Muslims, I just have to wonder why he hasn’t been Arrested for Treason yet? Who does the actual arrest? Is it the responsibility of Congress or the military? Get Busy and just Do it already! Before we have another 9/11 and then this ineligible Imposter declares Marshal Law! No time to dawdle and pretend he will start doing the right thing and put our country and Our safety First!
While ISIL may have been officially formed in 1999, up until then it was a part of Al Qaeda, so it still existed in some form or another well before 1999, and clearly grew under Pres. Clinton.
The absurdity of the article’s analysis is made plain by the contention that AQAP had developed the “capability to strike the American homelsnd.”
This “capability” characterization is based upon an isolated and failed underwear bomb attempt. Reason and truth go first in partisans.
ISIS would have grown large under any American President since radicalization is so much easier with the advent of so much technology. However, our defense structures to combat terrorism has grown proportionately to ISIS’ hatred.
ISIS would have grown large under any American President since radicalization is so much easier with the advent of so much technology. However, our defense structures to combat terrorism has grown proportionately to ISIS’s hatred.