• Godric@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Mmmm hmmm, poor ISIS, being terrorized by the US. They just want to vibe and chop some heads off, but mean ole Uncle Sam hates them :'(

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      11 hours ago

      After the U.S. invasion, the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer banned senior Ba’ath Party members from government jobs and dissolved the Iraqi Armed Forces.

      This mass dislocation of soldiers became the root of opposition to US occupation and eventually the core of the ISIS movement.

      Incidentally, also a group the United States clumsily expended in their efforts to harass Iraq’s neighbors.

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        9 hours ago

        I had no idea that they were just minding their own business and the US forced them to chop those people’s heads off and take women as sex slaves, who knew

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      12 hours ago

      yeah. not like the isis folks arent at all locals who have had girls schools blown up by america so they can control oil.