[Repeat Offender]

This is an important point because the lefty talking points always blame the Iraq War and Bush for ISIS. But ISIS was born not in Iraq, but in Syria in the civil war that Obama encouraged.

I'm not blaming Bush for ISIS; however,

If the civil war in Syria started in 2011....how is the Syrian civil war responsible for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria responsible for the Islamic State of Iraq (the name PRIOR to adding Syria) declaring itself on 17 October 2006 with Ar Ramadi Iraq as the capitol of the caliphate..............?

Did somebody loan them a DeLorean or something?

[denydenydeny]

If the civil war in Syria started in 2011....how is the Syrian civil war responsible for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria responsible for the Islamic State of Iraq (the name PRIOR to adding Syria) declaring itself on 17 October 2006 with Ar Ramadi Iraq as the capitol of the caliphate..............? Did somebody loan them a DeLorean or something?

What on earth are you smoking?

Lots of things were "declared" in the Iraq War. But there never was an actual Islamic State in Iraq in any real sense. AQI/the future ISIS controlled no territory in Iraq after the Surge/Anbar Awakening and existed only as an underground terrorist cell. It would have remained such had it not been for the Syrian Civil War. ISIS as we know it today was born only when Syria became destabilized enough for Al-Baghdadi to move there in 2012 and establish, for the first time, an actual physical state with its capital at Raqqa.