CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield October 25, 2015 20:16:00
The invasion of iraq as the principal cause. what would you say to them? >> i think there are elements of truth in that. but i think we've, again, got to be extremely careful otherwise we'll misunderstood what's going on in iraq and syria today. of course, you can't say that those of us who removed saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015. but it's aren't also to realize, one, that the arab spring which began in 2011 would also have had its impact on iraq today, and, two, isis actually came to prominence from the base in syria and not in iraq. and that leads me to the br...