On Wednesday, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jeb Bush had tried to turn the spotlight from what was going on with decisions about Iraq. He wanted to focus it on Obama to criticize his decision to remove U.S. forces out of the country. Former Florida governor put his sense in too. He wanted a strategy to take out ISIS, but he didn't really go into detail about that. He basically argued that since the war started during his brother's administration it created somewhat stability in Iraq. Since then, it's been unraveling because of Obama's policies. When the U.S. withdrew its combat troops from Iraq, it had brought an end to the nearly decade-long conflict that started under George Bush. Obama had asked for more troops to remain on ground, but negotiations didn't go over well with the Iraqi government, and it didn't ensure that the United States military personnel would be granted immunity. Apparently critics at that time had warned that extremist elements would get more powerful without a U.S. presence. Now Republican presidential challengers are saying the rise of ISIS is to prove that the U.S. should have pushed harder to stay in Iraq. I don't believe that Obama should be criticized for all of this. They definitely should have learned from past mistakes. Bush was struggling to answer all of these questions that he was being asked. There was multiple days of unclear answers from him about whether he would've gone into Iraq now knowing what he knows about faulty intelligence that originally stimulated the military action.
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