Limbaugh: You Can’t Blame Bush Because ‘ISIS Didn’t Exist’ When He Left Office
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Ignoring how ISIS was formed, Rush Limbaugh ignorantly stands up for George W. Bush in an effort to blame President Obama for ISIS.
Limbaugh asserted on Sunday that President Barack Obama was avoiding responsibility for creating ISIS by tracing the origins of the terrorist group back to the Iraq invasion.
“People are scared, we’ve got these refugees coming in and nobody can vet them, and yet, we’re told, ‘Don’t be a bigot, don’t be a racist, don’t be a xenophobe’” Limbaugh complained to Fox News host Chris Wallace. “We’re none of those things…
“The people leading the country today… they see us as the problem, not the solution, they think that we are responsible for some of these problems,” Limbaugh grumbled. “They fall back and blame George W. Bush for what’s going on. ISIS didn’t exist when Bush left office.”
Earlier this year, Politifact determined that GOP hopeful Jeb Bush was “mostly false” after he made a similar claim about ISIS not existing when his brother was president.
According to the National Counterterrorism Center, the group al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) was established in 2004 and later renamed to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also commonly known as ISIS.
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