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Showing Original Post only (View all)What do YOU think "ISIS", "ISIL", or "ISLAMIC STATE" actually is? [View all]
Please offer supporting arguments for your answer in the thread below.
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| A genuine, spntaneous "jihadi" movement of bloodcrazed nihilists. | |
7 (35%) |
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| A "false flag" operation created by the prowar Right to force U.S. troops back into Iraq. | |
4 (20%) |
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| Something al-Maliki put together to get payback for his forced resignation. | |
0 (0%) |
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| Something else | |
9 (45%) |
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| Not sure | |
0 (0%) |
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| 0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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I think it's a movement that the PNACers are helping to force U.S. troops back into Iraq. n/t
woodsprite
Sep 2014
#1
...Mercenaries who are being funded, trained and supplied weapons by the military industrial complex
951-Riverside
Sep 2014
#3
A threat to liberal and moderate human beings though not to those residing in the US. n/t
pampango
Sep 2014
#21
+1. One thing is they likely have the names of many of the jihadi's since they gave em guns in
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#27
It's a cross between false flag and genuine jihadi's. Fairly common op, arm some whakos to do
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#26