Senator Marco Rubio (FL-R) told Breitbart News as American war planes are bombing Islamic state terrorists in the Middle East the terrorists are often using American military equipment we provided to Iraqi forces.
Rubio said:They stole that stuff. The Iraqi forces abandoned post, leaving behind this equipment and now we have to bomb the equipment that we gave the Iraq’s five-ten years ago.
After ISIS invaded several areas in Northern Iraq they captured thousands of American made military vehicles. After attacking Mosul they captured 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles from Iraqi’s fleeing their posts. They turned some of them into lethal armored suicide bomber machines. Other Islamic State propaganda features American made M1A1 Abrams tanks and armored troop carriers.
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Rubio blames Obama’s efforts to get Americans out of Iraq for the problem.
He said:
It didn’t have to be this way, I mean that’s a direct result of the fact this president ran on the promise of getting us out of Iraq, even if it was premature – at any cost. He got us out of Iraq, left behind that equipment to the Iraqis – who within a couple of years had lost it as we predicted would happen.
Rubio argued if Obama left a stronger American presence in Iraq, they wouldn’t have folded against the onslaught from the Islamic State.
Whether you agree with the war in Iraq or not when it initially happened, after it did, we should have all agreed that now we need to make sure this thing turns out the best way possible and some enduring U.S. presence would have allowed that to prevent what you see now happening.