today they said

Philip Hammond (Foreign Secretary United Kingdom and member of the Conservative Party): "The decision to disband the Iraqi army led directly to the rise of Isis."

James Healy: "The Iraqi army which Philip Hammond is suggesting should not have been disbanded, spent the years 1980 to 1988 in full scale warfare on behalf of Saddam Hussein against the people of Iran. During this time, the Iraqi army which Philip Hammond says should not have been disbanded, caused a million deaths. The army Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded, used chemical weapons on the armies and people of Iran. In 1990 the army Philip Hammond says should not have been disbanded, went straight from the battlefields of its ultimately failed piratical attack on Iran to a new and even more adventurist invasion of Kuwait. If the invasion of Kuwait had succeeded it would have been difficult for the army Philip Hammond says should never have been disbanded, to resist moving onto the adjacent oil fields of Saudi Arabia, which contained at the time about half the world's oil reserves. The Iraqi army which Phil Hammond says should not have been disbanded, caused the deaths of several hundred thousand people in Kuwait during its attempted extirpation of that country. Following the Kuwait debacle, Saddam Hussein used the Iraqi army which Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded, to murder thousands of Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq. The Iraqi army Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded, used chemical weapons on the Marsh Arabs in order to break them utterly. The Iraqi army Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded also used chemical weapons to terrorise the Kurds of northern Iraq during the 1990's. The Iraqi army Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded killed a further 400,000 Iraqis on behalf of Saddam Hussein during these years as part of Saddam Hussein's internal politicking. The Iraqi army which Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded spent the decades of Saddam Hussein's rule systematically terrorising Iraq's majority Shia population, preventing them from having any say in how their country was governed. The Shia are at least 60 percent of the population of Iraq as against Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army of Sunnis which Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded and whose core Sunni community amounted to around 30 percent of the population of Iraq. At no point would the Shia have accepted the continued existence of the sectarian Sunni Saddamite Nazi Iraqi army which Phil Hammond says should never have been disbanded... As for Philip Hammond's comments on the origins of Isis and his assertion that Isis came about because of the disbandment of the Iraqi army which Phil Hammond states should never have been disbanded... Here is the news... The Isis terror franchise is a flag of convenience for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda. The present incarnation of these entities  using the flag of convenience Isis, emerged when elements of the Islamist government in Turkey colluded with Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, to create, train and unleash a new fully functioning terror army styled Isis in 2013 effectively infiltrating this fully fledged proxy army from Turkish soil into Syria and from there into Iraq. The unleashing of Isis in 2013 was possible only because anti war American President Barack Obama (seeking to criminalise his predecessor President George W Bush) had precipitously withdrawn American forces from Iraq, ten years after the Americans and British and their allies had liberated that country from Saddam Hussein's murderocracy. The unleashing of Isis cannot with any legitimacy be attributed to the decisive action of President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair in putting an end to Saddam Hussein's decades long barbarisation of Iraq and the region around it. Philip Hammond's comments are an opportunistic attempt to coat tail on anti war sentiment among Britain's media class and pseudo elites. Mr Hammond's explanation for the rise of Isis is wrong in every respect."