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joshcryer

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6. They wanted to create a new caliphate.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 08:15 AM

Jul 2016

It seems they underestimated the rest of the middle east to have another one (Saudi Arabia being the sole caliphate in the region and unlikely to change due to US's support of that state).

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Here's why ISIS just blew up 5 of its own oil refineries in Iraq [View all] Rhiannon12866 Jul 2016 OP

Why ISIS does anything that they do? Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #1

Imagine the people here that were killed by our assholes - I mean ancestors. lol. jtuck004 Jul 2016 #5

I don't recall OUR ancestors plowing a truck into a crown in France... Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #9

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They wanted to create a new caliphate. joshcryer Jul 2016 #6

They're just insuring perpetual war... tenderfoot Jul 2016 #10

Iraq is actually making pretty good progress in the war against ISIS uhnope Jul 2016 #2

Shame ISIS leaders were former Saddam generals, etc. joshcryer Jul 2016 #7

It took two years -- two years -- to put out the fires in Iraq's oil wells the last time....n/t secondwind Jul 2016 #3

Gulf War Kuwait oil fires BlueStateLib Jul 2016 #11

Dirty Daesh. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2016 #4

Headline Says Refineries ProfessorGAC Jul 2016 #8