because they didn't want to be on the losing side

So they decided they don't like ISIS anymore

What

Nah about 1000 men

No the wiki page doesnt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mosul

Before the man leading those 1000 men was in ISIS what organization do you think he was a member of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Abdulrahman_al-Bilawi

Baghdadi doesn't do military

The guy who lead the military into Mosul

He was in the Iraqi army

Under Saddam

ISIS had some really effective commanders

You don't become a good commander without expierience

For example if an iraqi vice president helped ISIS that would really help

no

Do you think Iran and Israel are friends?

How would I support both

Only one army has beaten Israel in a war

And they've done it twice

That army is Hezbollah

What

Israel was occupying southern Lebanon, and then it wasn't

Thats a victory

Israel didn't achieve its goals

Israel's goal was to knock Hezbollah out of Southern Lebanon and get their POW's back

Israel did none of the above

Hezbollah won in the 90's and they won in 2006

I am not alt right really

Not really

Qatar is pretty shit

Thats great for the UAE

Not really

Why would I support the UAE

It has no culture it just has a bunch of oil

do you support the Syrian rebels

Egypt is fine

Who do you support in Syria

inb4 kurds

Iran doesn't back the insurgency in the Sinai?

What

The main insurgency in Egypt is Wilyat Sinai

Lol

Just like in 1980 when Saddam took Khuzestan

As we all know Khuzestan is still part of Iraq

@Deleted User Which country owns this land?

Both America and the Soviet union were giving Iraq planes for cheap

Almost no country was willing to sell arms to Iran

except Ronald Reagan when he needed to fund terrorists in Nicaragua

Thats what I just referenced

The USSR supported Saddam

The soviets supported Iraq

They didn't

The soviets stayed neutral for the first couple years

And then after a couple years the soviets supported Iraq

Iran

Israel supports the Kurds

Saudi arabia plans to recognize Israel

The soviets didn't care about ideology

They cared about who was willing to raise oil prices

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-israel.html

NO NO NO NO NO

So why do you care if saddam bombed Tel Aviv

Israel used to occupy southern Lebanon until a certain Iran backed militia kicked them out

You seem to know about Hezbollah

The south Lebanon war?

In the 1990s

In case you didn’t notice

There are a lot of countries between Iran and Israel

Also that was before the Iranian revolution

That was when the Shah was in power

I don’t support the Shah

In case you didn’t realize

The IDF wasn’t gonna take Damascus

They didn’t have the men to occupy it

Lol

The IDF knew that they couldn’t actually take Damascus

They didnt try

They never tried

If Israel tried, which they wouldn’t, Nixon and Kissinger would tell Golda Meir to fuck off

Do you think without Iraq Israel would be able to occupy damascus

Damascus is pretty big

The IDF is pretty small

Yes

That’s why the IDF’s strategy is to win pitched battles instead of occupying places

The IDF has never really occupied cities during their war with Arab neighbors

The Sinai is mostly just desert, Golan is mostly just mountains

I know

I’m not denying he opposed Israel

My problems not his position on Israel

Nah

I think he just wasnt that great of a leader

And he surrounded himself with fucking nutjobs

I’d say hafez was better than Saddam

Bashar isn’t doing that great of a job

What

He’s better than the Kurds and rebels

Hafez refused to sign a peace treaty with Israel in return for the Golan

How is that being a bitch

He couldn’t press the Golan Heights