ISIS: Bush Was Right

Finally, somebody commenting on the state of Iraq thinks George W. Bush got something right. Turns out it’s ISIS. In the new hour-long ISIS-produced film about how nice it is to die for ISIS – Flames of War: Fighting Has Just Begun – Bush is quoted: ‘You are with us or against us.’ Video shows him saying ‘Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.’ A graphic in the upper corner of the screen reads: ‘Bush spoke the truth, although he’s a liar.’
What truth does ISIS think Bush spoke? The Manichean truth that there are two groups of people on earth with nothing in common between them and a shared dedication to annihilate each other. Of course, the notion that they have nothing in common is delusional. They have almost everything in common: their belief in violence, their monotheism, their stupidity, their desire for a U. S. war in the Middle East.
‘In the face of the dark wave of the crusader force…’ begins the ISIS movie.
‘This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while,’ said Bush.
ISIS shows Obama as well as Bush and denounces both as liars, including rejecting Obama’s lie that he won’t send combat troops to Iraq. As even a number of U. S. Senators and Congress Members have pointed out, the 1600 troops he’s already sent are trained and equipped for nothing other than combat, and a pilot in a plane is engaged in combat.
But ISIS wants more. This film is not aimed at provoking the United States the way the beheading films were…

This post was published at Washingtons Blog on September 22, 2014.