'Al Qaeda Is on our Side': How Obama-Biden team knowingly empowered terrorists in Syria.

This article by @aaronjmate is a tour de force.

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— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) April 23, 2022

George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld launched the Iraq War based on lies Al Qaeda had presence in Saddam's country. The US an UK war propaganda machines tried to turn global public opinion in their favour to oust Saddam. UN Charter - sovereignty - borders - peacemaking. By US institutional violence, torture campaign, prison concentration camps they created a monster worse than al Qaeda: Al Baghdadi and the Islamic State became a militant force that would soon grow into a menace once the turmoil in Syria became a chaos of civil strife and foreign fighters from Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechnya.

Saudi Arabia opened their prisons under leadership of Prince Bandar Bin Sultan of Afghanistan infamy, to lead in Syria. The Sunni and Shia divide prevented any agreement for a diplomatic solution in Geneva talks. In September 2015 Russia and Putin had enough of the bloodshed and slaughter of Christians and intervened at the request of the leadership in Damascus.

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