Republican presidential candidates have slammed US President Barack Obama for his policies in tackling the Islamic State and Iran, making a case to send more troops to defeat the terror network and strengthening Arab allies to deal with Tehran.
Ten of the 17 Republican presidential candidates appeared yesterday at the Fox News’s first primary debate in Ohio where they spoke about pressing issues including Iran, ISIS, immigration, abortion, economy.
While they bitterly fought among themselves in front of television cameras watched lived by millions of people, they were unanimous on withdrawing the Iranian nuclear deal, if elected to power in the 2016 presidential elections.
“We need to stop the Iran agreement, for sure, because the Iranian mullahs have blood on their hands, and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal,” Jeb Bush, the former Florida Governor said in response to a question.
The debate was conducted by Fox News in Cleveland, Ohio.
“We have a president who doesn’t have a clue. I would say he’s incompetent, but I don’t want to do that because that’s not nice,” business tycoon Donald Trump alleged.
“Now, with Iran, we’re making a deal, you would say, we want him. We want out our prisoners. We want all these things, and we don’t get anything. We’re giving them USD 150 billion dollars plus…if Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now because you’ll quadruple—this, what’s happening in Iran, is a disgrace, and it’s going to lead to destruction in large portions of the world,” Trump said.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, another leading Republican presidential candidate, said, “We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine. America is a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies throughout the Persian Gulf.”

News Nation website, 7 August 2015