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Obama Plays the ISIS Blame Game

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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President Barack Obama indirectly blamed the foreign policy of his predecessor, President George W. Bush, for the rise of the barbaric and brutal Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq.

In an interview with Vice News founder Shane Smith released on Tuesday, Obama was asked how the ISIS terrorist group, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State, which has seized large chunks of Syria and Iraq, was able to become "so popular so fast."

Obama responded saying that the group's rise was aided by the U.S. invasion of Iraq that began in 2003 during Bush's presidency.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/who-is-to-blame-for-the-rise-of-isis-bush-or-obama-135981/

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