Cheney is a lying moron again. His insistence on invading and occupying Iraq after lying to the world created ISIS. They wouldn't exist without him.
Cheney is a lying moron again. His insistence on invading and occupying Iraq after lying to the world created ISIS. They wouldn't exist without him.
Indeed.
However, there would still be Boko Haram, the African ISIS, but that is in Africa, and we generally don't care about that country.
Heidi Cruz compares her husband’s failed presidential campaign to the fight against slavery
People are generally focusing on the slavery part of Heidi's quote (which took 25 years to defeat, apparently), but the worst part to me is that it sounds like Ted Cruz is already preparing to run again in 2020.
I would imagine they blame the entire current cluster fuck of a situation on Obama pulling out too soon.
that's what my dad does
Why would there be anything called ISIS? If the founding doesn't exist why would a subset exist?
Had Cheney/W killed OBL at Tora Bora when we were listening to exit plans, who knows how much less be going? Very likely a lot of this would never have happened.
He must not have been very good at it.
Why would there be anything called ISIS? If the founding doesn't exist why would a subset exist?
Had Cheney/W killed OBL at Tora Bora when we were listening to exit plans, who knows how much less be going? Very likely a lot of this would never have happened.
The affinity of conservatives for hucksterism not only explains Trump’s rise—but also why the Never Trump movement has never gained enough traction to stop him. By the time Trump launched his campaign, the conservative movement had already destroyed the intellectual immune system that is necessary to resist grifters. A telling example can be found in the famous “Never Trump” issue of National Review from February. Amid all the editorials and articles warning of the dangers of Trump was a full-page ad for something called “The Patriot Power Generator 1500.” The ad begins: FORMER CIA OFFICIAL WARNS; “ISIS TERRORISTS WANT TO CRIPPLE AMERICA’S ELECTRIC GRID!” Further down is a series of alarming sub-headlines designed to sell the generator: “IT May Have Already Begun,” “You Know We’re Targeted,” “Weather Is the Other Enemy.”
Excellent article about how the Republican Party has become ripe for "scampaigns."
https://newrepublic.com/article/134...ial&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=sharebtn
It was only natural that politicians themselves would want to get in on these scams. Writing in the New Republic in 2014, the journalist Ben Adler documentedhow an entire class of Republican politicians, including Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Mike Huckabee, used mailing lists built up in their presidential campaigns to sell dubious products afterward. In Cain’s case, anyone who gave money to his campaign would get ads, after the campaign ended,promising a “breakthrough” remedy for erectile dysfunction, “one of more than 50 similar pitches for miracle cures and easy-money tricks that Cain has passed along to his e-mail followers.” Gingrich and Huckabee, ostensibly more “serious” and established politicians, did much the same:
Newt Gingrich now pings the e-mail subscribers to his Gingrich Productions with messages from an investment firm formed by a conspiracy theorist successfully sued for fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mike Huckabee uses his own production company’s list to blast out links to heart-disease fixes and can’t-miss annuities.These scams, risible as they seem, bring in serious money. By Adler’s calculations, Cain and Huckabee made small fortunes from selling their email lists to advertisers: “At $36 per thousand list members for an ad filling an entire e-mail, and no fewer than 33 such ads sent last year, Cain made more than $420,000 from e-mail ads in 2013—minus Newsmax’s cut and the costs of maintaining his list. For Huckabee, whose list is nearly twice as long as Cain’s and commands a rate of $43.25 per thousand, the rough haul is north of $900,000.”