OBAMA ADMITS CREATION OF ISIS BY WASHINGTON

During his speech in Tampa, Florida, outgoing US President Barack Obama has virtually admitted that the US has created the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama (Photo: zeit.de)

Outgoing US President Barack Obama delivered a speech about confrontation to international terrorism. Or, rather, about the confrontation as it is understood by the US itself. According to Obama, the US made significant progress in the fight against terrorism, which resulted in creation of a powerful coalition, consisted of more than 60 countries. Will just remind, there are, for example, one Luxembourgish serviceman, as well as the Belgium air power, which ‘misses’ and strikes the Syrian government army instead of terrorists, among members of the ‘powerful’ coalition.

Meanwhile, Obama virtually admitted that actions of the US (rather, the previous US administration) produced the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The outgoing US President said that mistakes of the country, made during the Iraqi campaign in 2003, allowed the IS to rise. At the same time, he immediately added that the US did not make such mistakes during his presidency.

“When ISIL made substantial gains first in Mosul and then in other parts of the country, then suddenly Iraqis reached out once again for help. And in shaping our response, we refused to repeat some of the mistakes of the 2003 invasion that have helped to give rise to the organization that became ISIL in the first place,” Obama said.

He also admitted that Washington provides assistance to various groups of militants. But, according to the US, they are ‘moderate’ rebels and oppositionists, but not militants.

“And then we took the fight to ISIL in both Iraq and Syria, not with American battalions but with local forces backed by our equipment and our advisors and, importantly, our Special Forces,” Obama said.

Advisors and the Special Forces – after such words we can confidently say that presence of US advisers and Special Forces in eastern Aleppo is the main reason of American hysteria in connection with advances of the Syrian government forces in the city. Apparently, US advisers, dressed as ‘moderate’ opposition, also are in the ‘boiler’ in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo.

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