ISIS fighters in Fallujah, Iraq (REUTERS/Stringer)
Fmr. Top Iraq Commander: ‘Civil War in Iraq Has Already Begun’ -- Washington Free Beacon
Obama-backing of ‘criminal’ Maliki gov’t helped ISIL rise
A former top U.S. commander in Iraq claims that the Obama administration and the State Department have been running an “information deception campaign” aimed at covering up crimes and violent acts committed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The Obama administration’s efforts to protect and defend the Maliki government created the conditions allowing the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) to take hold in Iraq, where a “civil war” has “already begun,” according to the former U.S. commander Col. Wesley Martin.
Martin, who served as the senior antiterrorism and force protection officer for all Iraqi coalition forces, told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview that the White House should be blamed for backing Maliki and fostering the conditions that permitted ISIL to gain support.
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My Comment: There will be an accounting one day on what were the policies and actions that led to the present day disaster in Iraq. I guess this is as good as a start as any.
The accounting will not come in investigations, commissions, etc, but by reality. Which is the way it generally happens. Unfortunately the culpable usually escape.
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