A lot of free-roaming Ba’athists that we didn’t have sufficient evidence to prosecute but had enough of a bad background we didn’t want them in positions of authority over newly supplied and trained personnel. Considering Daesh is usually described as an apocalyptic group whose goals are a huge war, it seems not to…

Which supports my hypothesis as much as the basis of your claim, and still does not support any consensus in favor of yours. Which either you are completely ignorant of, or are now aware you made a claim you cannot substantiate and are now handwaving frantically to cover up.

No, it does not support your claim, in fact it very specifically does not go into the motivations you claim there is a consensus for. It doesn’t even mention ”loss of status and income.”

You were and are being disingenuous, because the CFR report does not support your claim.

If you don’t know, maybe it would be best for you not to be commenting. Also, a citation involves a link to source, one that specifically supports the claim you are making, that there is a consensus that the leadership of ISIS that came from former Iraqi military and civilian officers, are only engaging in these…

You don’t speak car either. . you’re going to have to provide a citation for this consensus you claim. Multiple ones, really, you you state there “seems to be” such a consensus. And blog posts don’t count.

“Seems to be” not a very strong argument in favor of your “consensus.”

Hindsight is 20/20, but had they not purged Bathists, and more aggressively asserted control in the initial aftermath (like looting), it might have been a better outcome. They employed the strategy used in post WW2 Germany where Nazis were purged, which was spectacularly successful in Germany but a terrible idea for…

I’ll let you just cherry pick whichever metric makes your position easier to defend.

So, a fairly rational disarmament discussion, and a Daily Fail article that still notes that his actual doctors have stated he wasn’t suffering from Alzheimer’s in office.

So if there’s a liar here, it’s not me.

Boojum called *saying bad things about the president* “fascistic”.

Spreading lies to rewrite history certainly is, much as you’ve just done.

Big Lie technique, Orwellian groupthink, constant attempts to rewrite history? While the members of that particular belief group obviously wouldn’t use the term to describe themselves, the shoe fits perfectly.

It’s common knowledge much like Obama is a secret noncitizen Muslim is among certain groups. A lie, spread by groupthink, trying to gain traction by constant repetition.

reports came out

I think trying to spread false information about a President is really damn creepy and fairly fascistic. There’s plenty of accurate things about Reagan to criticize him about, why the need to make shit up that’s demonstrably false?

No excuse, but those attacked your statements and behavior, not you. But I do know one thing new about you now, you’re very sensitive to having your errors pointed out. If that’s just the case on the internet, you might want to back away from commenting on things you aren’t actually knowledgeable about, but if you’re…

Don’t need to pretend, you can scream up is down all your life and even if your friends nod and agree with you, you are still factually incorrect.

Which pretty much proves that Reagan was not suffering from Alzheimer’s as President. Those who worked with and treated him state so. Junior had much less contact with him, and pretty much became a partisan hack.