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Ron Johnson: “The historic blunder of President Obama was leaving Iraq…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Ron Johnson on State of the Union: Full Interview

Published | Video Starts at 03:11

And let's face it, I think Europe is probably a little bit more primed to really join that coalition. This has got to be long term effort. I mean, The historic blunder of President Obama was leaving Iraq after all the sacrifice, after the stabilization of the Iraq, we bugged out and as a result that coalition disintegrated and ISIS was able to rise from the ashes of what was a defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq. We have to learn the lessons of histories. We have to be relentless in our pursuit of stamping out Islamic terror. Let's turn back to the terror investigation in France and Belgium. (03:11–03:29)

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Asserts that Obama's withdrawal from Iraq led to the rise of ISIS.

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