A college student told likely GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday that his brother, former President George W. Bush, was to blame for the rise of the Islamic State.
The heated confrontation took place at a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, according to The New York Times. Ivy Ziedrich, 19, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida governor to question him about comments he had made during the event. Bush had argued that the Obama administration's weak foreign policy was responsible for the rise of the terrorist group, also known as ISIS, in the Middle East.
Ziedrich countered that Obama wasn't to blame -- and that it was his predecessor's decision to disband the Iraqi army that made the group's formation possible.
"Your brother created ISIS," she told Bush.
What followed was a contentious exchange, according to the Times. Ziedrich accused Bush of "spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars," pointing out that under his brother, the U.S. had spent years in the Middle East, waging "pointless wars where we send young American men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism."
Bush responded by defending the war in Iraq. "When we left Iraq, security had been arranged, al Qaeda had been taken out," he said. "There was a fragile system that could have been brought up to eliminate the sectarian violence."
So he basically explained exactly why ISIS was formed and she was shut up. It's cute that she was spewing the talking points media matters I wonder if she is old enough to form an actual real opinion.
Truth is there was no ISIS before during or after the war until Hillary and Obama decided not to sign a status of forces agreement (SOFA) that would have left 10,000 troops behind to train the army. The war was over, Obama pulled the troops out and it created the vacuum that allowed ISIS to rise. It was Hillary's job as Secretary of State to get that deal done.
Don't forget Hillary voted for the war in 2002 along with most of congress. The war was a mistake but you don't get to compound that mistake with a bigger one whitewash it and point back to the beginning and say if only we didn't.... It doesn't work that way.
