Quote:First...  Where did ISIS form in 1999?  Was it in Iraq?  I know the answer to this question, and the fact that you do not bring up this key point shows that you are just being intellectually dishonest.

 

ISIS formed in 1999 but didn't enter Iraq untill your boy lied us into an occupation and then fired the military that was made up of mostly Sunni soldiers.  So basically under Bush, ISIS in Iraq went from 0 to thousands...  

 

Going from 0 to thousands is an explosion, don't you think?  You know, if you actually tried to have an honest conversation instead of trying to be dishonest with the conversation, you'd get further.  

 

As for leaving Iraq - we were all chomping at the bit to stay in Iraq at that time.  Remember?  Remember how everyone was begging Obama to stay in Iraq indefinately?  I sure do.  

 

How am I being dishonest?  I've provided facts to back up my points.  You've simply followed the typical playbook your master teleprompter reader in the Oval Office uses, blaming it on Bush.  I've never said ISIS didn't expand in numbers under Bush.  But, you're being completely dishonest when you act like that growth came with expansion of control, because that didn't happen until later when your inept king was busily running around on tour apologizing for America..

 

For those who weren't trying to make the Bush administration look worse by saying al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq, the ISIS / ISIL label was a convenient word game to avoid confirming that al Qaeda was indeed in Iraq.  That's not intellectually dishonest on my part.  That's intellectually dishonest on the part of anyone who said al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq with multiple camps.  Going from control over nothing to basically running a country and expanding their terror footprint into the rest of the Middle East, Europe, and abroad is a true explosion.   But, in order to agree with that, you'll have to admit that your beloved ruler was responsible since it happened under his watch.  I know you can't do that because for all the love and energy you put into defending your pantsuited princess, you will double down on the defense you put up for Barry Soetoro.  After all, it's his playbook you're working with.

 

There was already a plan underway to withdraw the majority of troops from Iraq, but not all of them.  Obama didn't have the spine to stand up to Iraq and insist on keeping a residual force there, and by showing no testicular fortitude (par for the course unless you're using drones), Obama basically rolled out the red carpet for ISIS (we can't call them al Qaeda in Iraq for obvious reasons) to fill the void and they were only too happy to oblige.

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