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G.H.S.| May 13, 2015

Jeb Bush Heckled in Reno: "Your Brother Created ISIS!"
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19-year-old college student Ivy Ziedrich confronted Jeb Bush and told him exactly what she thinks of his family’s role in the political and military crises in the Middle East.

At a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, the presumed presidential candidate and former Florida governor claimed that unrest in the Middle East was caused by President Barack Obama’s decision to remove American forces from the region, and that ISIS evolved in the power vacuum created by that removal.

As he was signing autographs afterwards, Ziedrich — who identified herself as a member of the College Democrats at the University of Nevada — challenged him on the issue of who’s responsible for the rise of ISIS.

"The threat of ISIS [ISIL] 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,” said Ziedrich."

Jeb Bush replied:

"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 we’re in a much more unstable place because America pulled back,” Bush ended up defending his brother’s invasion of Iraq once again, something that has been pointed in the US in recent days."

Jeb Bush has been accused by his many opponents as a politician that carries “loyalty to his brother too far."

"I'm my own man,” he defended himself to the Washington Post on Wednesday after stating just hours earlier during another interview with another news outlet that "What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush."

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