Searching for "#12628554"...
Searches are rate-limited for guests to two per second.

Syria (21) zerosugar from private IP, post #18802683 - Sat, 07 Dec 2024 23:54:31 -0800
./posts/all/1733644471-116.txt:Reply #12628554 @whiteguyinchina We did not win ultimately in Iraq or anywhere else just as we lost in Afghanistan. Maybe there is no winning. If you think about it, it seemed like a victory in Iraq, but years later, we had to pick up the peaces with ISIS. Many members of ISIS were disenfranchised soldiers from Saddam's old army. abu bakr al-Baghdadi was an IraqI who lived adjacent to a mosque during the American occupation. He became radicalized as he heard a cleric speak and as he witnessed American soldiers disrespecting the people and throwing Qurans in the street. They watched the Shia and Kurds hang Saddam and even though Saddam was not religious himself, he still was a Sunni ethnic. Today, Sunni around the world view Saddam as this lion of the Sunnah.