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Basically decimated. >> abu bakr al baghdadi was held in a u.s. detention center for four years during the u.s.-led invasion and emerged as an al qaeda leader now head of isis. the u.s. presidents in iraq the war on terror didn't it in a way -- i hear you saying that you deal with the world as you were given it if you were president, but didn't that directly coalesce jihadists against the u.s.? >> we can say -- first of all, prur to 9/11 jihadists were coalesced against the u.s. already. and the only time the u.s. used troops during the 1990s was in defense of muslims against orthodox christia...
The time we got through the surge in '07 and '08, president bush made a courageous and very correct decision and iraq was in good shape when we left office and barack obama said as much. what happened basically was they failed to follow through, they withdrew as quickly as possible and left no stay behind force there. they created a vacuum and the vacuum was filled by isis. >> how dangerous do you really think isis is now to homeland security? american soil. >> i think extraordinarily dangerous partly because of their ability to recruit from the united states people become members of isis to g...
Communist expansion in eastern europe but defeated hitler. that would be like harry truman saying in 1946 or 1947 we're not going to do anything about soviet expansion because roosevelt caused this by going to war against hitler. there's always actions and reactions and the fact is that as of 2007 2008 iraq was stable and president obama clearly dropped the ball in 2010 and 2011. >> congressman peter king thanks for being with us really appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up ben carson is neck and neck with donald trump in iowa as the outsiders leave the mainstream candidates well behind the...
Republicans over iraq for instance played out i think in this interview with the former vice president. he said he refuted this idea that the invasion of iraq by the bush administration created instability in the region that gave isis and al qaeda a toehold there. what was your reaction to that? >> i agree with the vice president. obviously it was instability in '04, '05 and '06. with the surge in '07 and '08, by the time president obama came to office he himself said that iraq was stable and secure and that was the rationale that he gave for withdrawing our troops that there was stability in ...