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Obvious: The Iraq War created ISIS
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is something that is so obvious, it is in danger of never being said, in which case those who led us into war will try to pretend it isn’t true as they argue the case for the next one. Simply put – the Iraq War (a war of choice, irrelevant to 9-11, sold to…
the silver lining to the Iraq War
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Aziz Poonawalla
Here’s an article by a defense industry analyst that goes out of its way to avoid mentioning who and what political party was responsible for the Iraq War while assidously making the case that said war has paralyzed American military decisionmaking in the long run: Without Iraq’s enormous price, the once unassailable U.S. military strength…
The muslim world sends love to Boston
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Aziz Poonawalla
Just wanted to share these two moving images – the first, from two women in Kabul: and the second, two boys in Iraq: Next time you hear or read the Islamophobes’ claim that muslims “dance in the streets” when there is tragedy in America, remember these images. Sources: Afghans send sympathy and love to Boston,…
Iraq War retrospective: not convinced by Colin Powell at the UN #iraq10
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Aziz Poonawalla
On Feb 5th 2003, Colin Powell gave a speech at the United Nations that supposedly laid out the case for WMD in Iraq and the argument for invasion. After the war began and WMDs were not found, this speech destroyed his credibility and Powell’s political aspirations were rightly dead afterwards. Here is the skeptical post…
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