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Jeb Bush to Attack Hillary Clinton for Islamic State’s Rise in Iraq

posted on August 11, 2015

In The Wall Street Journal, Patrick O’Connor reports that Jeb Bush will make a speech Tuesday evening, holding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton partially responsible for the rise of the Islamic State. The Obama administration’s decision to withdraw from Iraq created “the void that ISIS moved in to fill – and that Iran has exploited to the full as well,” Mr. Bush will argue in his speech. “ISIS grew while the United States disengaged from the Middle East and ignored the threat.”

Read at The Wall Street Journal