(illustration by DonkeyHotey)
From The New York Times:
Mr. Bush, the former governor of Florida, had just concluded a town-hall-style meeting when Ms. (Ivy) Ziedrich demanded to be heard. “Governor Bush,” she shouted as audience members asked him for his autograph. “Would you take a student question?”
Mr. Bush whirled around and looked at Ms. Ziedrich, who identified herself as a political science major and a college Democrat at the University of Nevada.
She had heard Mr. Bush argue, a few moments before, that America’s retreat from the Middle East under President Obama had contributed to the growing power of the Islamic State. She told the former governor that he was wrong, and made the case that blame lay with the decision by the administration of his brother George W. Bush to disband the Iraqi Army.
“It was when 30,000 individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out — they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons,” Ms. Ziedrich said.
She added: “Your brother created ISIS.”
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Then Ms. Ziedrich asked: “Why are you saying that ISIS was created by us not having a presence in the Middle East when it’s pointless wars where we send young American men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism? Why are you spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars?”
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Jebya responded with some B.S. about "respectfully disagreeing", and claiming President Obama could have signed an agreement that would have kept 10,000 troops in Iraq. Sorry, Jeb, but that "agreement" failed because Iraq refused to give U.S. troops prosecutorial immunity. Are you saying we should have kept them there anyway? Not even your brother Dumbya would have gone for that.
But I digress. The real takeaway here is that Ivy Ziedrich is a 19-year-old super-badass.