The Sunni people support ISIS because they aren't the one's suffering. The Shiites are being killed by them. The Sunni people were already annoyed that the Shia government wasn't treating them fairly. This government was probably a big change for them as well, since Sunni Saddam probably treated the Sunni's well.

In the end, all this will end with many lives lost, and Iraq will probably be seperated into 3 seperate states. And that would be exactly what Israel wants.

king bush. dont care about economy? wtf?  

yeah... im done here.

im going to take a page from Mark Twain on this one and not even argue it.

Warmongering and lots of internal torture and extrajudicial killings, not to mention brief spurts of genocide like the gassings of Kurds and Shias in the 80s. It wasn't a pretty place to live, either through the 80s in the war with Iran, and then after that the country basically fell under perpetual siege after the disastrous First Gulf War.

I can agree that the Baathists and pre-Baathist republicans that ran the country after the fall of the British-backed Hashemites did many good things for the country, but they did so by papering over the ethnoreligious differences through force and fear of force, which is ultimately unsustainable.

Iraq may have been better off for *enduring* Baathist rule, in the sense of what the Baathists brought, but removing it had to happen, and if you compare what has happened in Iraq to what has happened in Syria, it wouldn't have gone well in any direction.

Iran will not invade. They don't want to be involved in a war. 

Iran has already sent troops to Syria to protect Assad and are sending troops to Iraq to fight ISIS and stop these terrorists from reaching their own border. But most importantly, they've sent troops and miliary aircraft to protect the Shiite shrines in Iraq. If ISIS takes over the Shia cities, they will stroy those shrines, and those places are the some of the most religious places in Shia Islam. 

Hopefully a common threat will unite US, Iraq, Iran and other neighboring countries in the Middle East.
Those people really need a generation or two of peace just to reflect their relation and future. Most people that fight in Syria and Iraq aren't even native of those places. So, those countries need to get their sovereignty back and think for themselves, instead of getting pushed around by the West, Saudis and some psychopath groups.

:'(

That's what happens when you fuck a country up, mess with the status quo, and establish something alien and unsustainable.

Sooner or later that was gonna happen in Iraq unfortunately. Saddam just delayed it and the War sped it up.

Isn't it interesting how Israel isn't worried about these terrorists? And more importantly. these radical 'Islamists' never mention Israel. They always say that they hope to create a big Islamic state from Palestine, Syria, and Iraq. Something doesn't seem right...

Israel really has a grip on their borders unlike the neighboring countries.

Nobody or no group in Israel would house ISIS members unlike Syria and Iraq.You have to think about that before other possiblities.

Got something 50 pageish I could read?