Gorka: 'When Obama Took Office There Was No ISIS, Now They Have 80K Fighters'http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/12/gorka-when-obama-took-office-isis-didnt-exist-now-they-have-80k-fightersAug 12, 2016 // 12:06pm
As seen on The Kelly File
Terrorism expert and author Dr. Sebastian Gorka took on Larry Korb of the Center for American Progress over the Obama administration's policies on combating ISIS.
Sandra Smith asked Gorka what he thinks about Donald Trump calling Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the "founders" of the Islamic State.
Gorka explained that Trump would be right to say that Obama and Clinton "facilitated" the rise of ISIS in the Middle East with their policies.
He said that ISIS now has more than 80,000 fighters and is "the most powerful jihadi insurgency the world has ever seen."
"In 2008 ... ISIS didn't exist. Al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of ISIS, was one regional franchise inside Iraq. When we withdrew our troops, when we started to cook the books on intelligence, as you hear from CENTCOM analysts, then we facilitated the rise of ISIS," he said, also calling out Obama for drawing "false red lines" in Syria.
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