Glock- wrote You do realize that ISIS has been around since 1999 and were mainly in Syria. They just weren't focused on. I literally learned about this in my class by my professor who happens to be a left-wing. ISIS only grew by about a few thousand after we left Iraq..

Yes. They were known as "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" at the time. They had no power because Saddam ruled with an iron fist. It's when we decided to invade and overthrown Saddam is when we created the power vacuum that terror groups decided to fill.

Tywin wrote

Glock- wrote You do realize that ISIS has been around since 1999 and were mainly in Syria. They just weren't focused on. I literally learned about this in my class by my professor who happens to be a left-wing. ISIS only grew by about a few thousand after we left Iraq..

Yes. They were known as "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" at the time. They had no power because Saddam ruled with an iron fist. It's when we decided to invade and overthrown Saddam is when we created the power vacuum that terror groups decided to fill.

No, they were not known as Al Qaeda at the time. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are two different groups...

They pledged allegiance after the invasion of Iraq in 2003..

Question though: Can Trump reverse it? I also feel her spending five months in there more is terrible as well. I feel Obama was mainly trying to get some final points with liberal people with this. Wish Snowden could have been as well. Not 100% sure who he is, but Jeremy Hammond is a name I have seen around a lot that people want free, too. Glad Chelsea is going to be free though. The military needs to be held accountable. When they aren't, I feel we have the right to know. Risking soldier lives sucks, I get it, but what about the innocent people the soldiers harm/kill? We are just suppose to let people go just because of a certain classification on video and documents? That leads to people being untouchable, and I won't support it. One of those reasons that I can't stand mercenaries.