He was definitely a government official of Iran

fighting ISIS was in Iran's best interest and the interest of the shia of iraq certainly

Your claim? CNN?

I did notice that he kinda looks like Sean Connery. When they announced his promotion or whatever ages back.

you are claiming he was not a government official of Iran?

No kidding he was doing this in the interest of Iran

this idea about Al Qaeda in Iran, that's the real joke in that article

madness

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-alqaeda/study-questions-iran-al-qaeda-ties-despite-u-s-allegations-idUSKCN1LN2LE
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/24/u-s-intelligence-undercuts-trump-case-on-iran-al-qaeda-links/

Are you a middle eastern expert?

The new guy looks like an actor I can't place.

I wouldn't say expert, but I have some experience

looks a bit like JAmes Olmos

Yep.

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1213839915190013959

```Bacon declined to say which local rabbis disagreed with me…because they don’t. In fact, there is near-universal consensus amongst Jews that the President’s comments were antisemitic in August, just as his public comments about Jews and money (on multiple occasions) are antisemitic. The reason the Congressman disagrees with me is because he’s afraid to take a strong public stand against President Trump. He believes that Trump will say nasty things about him and he’s afraid that his Trumpy base of support in the Omaha suburbs will abandon him.```

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/anti-isis-coalition-suspends-operations-as-iraqi-mps-vote-to-expel-us-troops

Maybe we leave Iraq?

```The Iraqi parliament resolution specifically calls for ending an agreement under which the US sent troops to Iraq more than four years ago to help in the fight against Isis. It was backed by most Shia members, who hold a majority of seats, but many Sunni and Kurdish legislators who oppose abolishing the deal did not attend the vote.```

Was a partisan vote by Shia though.

the real question is why disrupt the Iran/KSA peace process

Ahhh. Trump and Iran.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/01/04/trump-obama-iran-war-2011-video-ebof-vpx.cnn

Blumenthal breaking down the axis:
https://youtu.be/wjWllto0Xzg?t=350

```In stark contrast to western claims at the time, the Defense Intelligence Agency document identifies al-Qaida in Iraq (which became Isis) and fellow Salafists as the “major forces driving the insurgency in Syria” – and states that “western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey” were supporting the opposition’s efforts to take control of eastern Syria.``` @Unity.Nat

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf

@Unity.Nat
```Which is pretty well exactly what happened two years later. The report isn’t a policy document. It’s heavily redacted and there are ambiguities in the language. But the implications are clear enough. A year into the Syrian rebellion, the US and its allies weren’t only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of “Islamic state” – despite the “grave danger” to Iraq’s unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.```

Just to keep some honesty in the chat about what lead to the creation of ISIS

obummer

*trump*

https://twitter.com/zekejmiller/status/1213884376188149760?s=21

Welp, there you go

A vote for trump is a vote for an Iranian nuclear bomb

Because *fucking duh*

Oh there she is. How is my @Deleted User

Not bad, u?

Yup. That was expected.

Trump couldn't let a good thing Obama did go unscrewed.