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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Nevada Town Hall, Jeb gets nailed on Iraq and ISIS by a Dem College Student
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Ivy Ziedrich, who said she was a member of the local Young Democrats chapter, forcefully asked Bush about his belief that the Islamic State terror group has been an outgrowth of the Obama administration's decision to withdraw U.S. military forces from Iraq.
Ziedrich: The threat of ISIS was created by the Iraqi Coalition Authority which ousted the entire government of Iraq. It was when 30,000 individuals who were part of the Iraqi military, they were forced out, they had no employment, they had no income. Yet they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons. Your brother created ISIS.
Bush: Is that a question?
Ziedrich: You dont need to be pedantic to me, sir.
Bush: Pedantic? Wow.
Ziedrich: You could just answer my question.
Bush: So what is the question?
Ziedrich: My question is why are you saying that ISIS was created by us not having a presence in the Middle East when its pointless wars, when we sent young men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism? Its this idea like, why are you spouting nationalistic rhetoric to get us involved in more wars?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/13/on-the-trail-jeb-bush-faces-hostile-questions-about-iraq-war/
Good job, ms. Ziedrich.
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(11,833 posts)Ziedrich: The threat of ISIS was created by the Iraqi Coalition Authority which ousted the entire government of Iraq. It was when 30,000 individuals who were part of the Iraqi military, they were forced out, they had no employment, they had no income. Yet they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons. Your brother created ISIS.
Bush: Is that a question?
Ziedrich: You dont need to be pedantic to me, sir.
Bush: Pedantic? Wow.
Ziedrich: You could just answer my question.
Bush: So what is the question?
Ziedrich: My question is why are you saying that ISIS was created by us not having a presence in the Middle East when its pointless wars, when we sent young men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism? Its this idea like, why are you spouting nationalistic rhetoric to get us involved in more wars?
Bush: We respectfully disagree... Al Qaeda had been taken out, there was a fraudulent system that could have been brought up to create, to eliminate the sectarian violence and we had an agreement that the president could have signed, it would have kept 10,000 troops, which is less than what we have in Korea. It could have created the stability that would have allow for Iraq to progress. The net result was, the opposite occurred because immediately that void was filled. And so, look, you can rewrite history all you want but the simple fact is that were in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.