ISIL/Daesh:
I’ve read that ISIL with thoughts of a Caliphate may have started as early as 1999. However most news sources indicate it sprang from George W Bush’s war on Iraq when Bremer et al kicked the 400,000 Ba’ath Sunnis out of the Iraqi army (allowing them to keep their weapons).
Iraqi generals are now running ISIL according to Abdel Bari Atwan (see below) and acknowledged by the Washington Post in the following article. The brutality of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq has metastasized and spread to Syria, Paris Yemen Egypt etc courtesy of Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bremer.
Ahmed Chalabi’s meddling started in 1995 when “after preparation and lobbying he persuaded President Clinton to fund an expedition into northern Iraq to use subterfuge to start an insurgency.”
When the Bush administration took over in 2001, Chalabi was welcomed into the fold to feed his lies to Judith Miller, Colin Powell, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Cheney/Rumsfeld President Bush and all the participants in war propaganda. What use is a CIA that ignores its best analysts?
Towards the end, in 2014, the year before he died Chalabi said:
Iraq is a mess. Daesh is organised, with one command, united and well run, and we are so fragmented. We have no discipline, no command structure, no effective plans.[39]
ABDEL BARI ATWAN:
CSPAN carried an interview with Abdel Bari Atwan, on Sunday, November 22, 2015 on his book “Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate”. During the Q&A he went into depth on the blowback from the strategic blunder of the Iraq war and the gross negligence thereafter.
In this CSPAN video of Atwan’s recent talk he fills in the gaps on the horror we are witnessing. Our foreign policy over the last 60 years or so has been based on illusions, lies, incompetence and “our oil under their sand”.
HAJIMU MASUDA:
As reporter and historian Hajimu Masuda explains, mass illusions can and have begotten foreign policies that have terrible and escalating consequences. harvardpress.typepad.com/...
THE SEVEN SISTERS:
The Seven Sisters’ international petroleum club has run foreign policy through western democratically elected governments for over 60 years. Former Pappy Bush aide, James Baker, caught off guard during a Q&A at Texas A&M in 2007 revealed as much. Asked if he now had doubts about W’s Middle East policy, especially in view of the terrible unintended consequences of the War on Iraq. Baker, in shock, stammered — but you are questioning a foreign policy that goes back more than 50 years!
It’s easier, apparently, to run foreign policy by taking a 30 minute meeting with an oil Sheik and a few petroleum company jocks to “get things done” than to make a commitment to the well being of the billions of people who inhabit this planet and the environmental niche that makes this planet inhabitable for life as we know it.
There’s a culturally embedded, delusional, directive of aggression designed to benefit a few. Until these war crimes are heard in court there may be no reckoning.
Let’s make no mistake about this. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld succeeded in exploding a fascist country ruled by a paranoid dictator propped up by oil revenues. The Iraqi Republican Guard gestapo has now metastasized and spread throughout the region.