2016 Presidential Hopeful Jeb Bush Calls Out Obama on Rise of Islamic State

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has spoken out against the Islamic State, blaming the rise of the terrorist group on President Barack Obama's administration.

Bush, who is running for the 2016 GOP presidential ticket, made his comments this week while speaking at the Reagan Library in California. 

"Despite elaborate efforts by the administration to avoid even calling it by name one of the greatest threats we face today comes from radical Islamic terrorists," Bush said this week while speaking from the Reagan Library in California.

"The terrorists are possessed. The terrorists are possessed by the same violent ideology that gave us 9/11 and they are on the offensive and gaining ground. It is not true, and was wishful thinking by the administration to claim that the tide of war is receding. The reality is radical Islam has been spreading like a pandemic across the Middle East, throughout Africa, and to parts of Asia, even in the nations of the West, finding recruits in Europe and the United States," Bush added.

Bush has also decried the nuclear deal with Iraq, recently proposed by the Obama administration. 

"It is a deal unwise and extreme with a regime that is untrustworthy in the extreme. It should be rejected by the Congress of the United States of America," Bush said.

"If the Congress does not reject this deal, then the damage must be undone by the next president and it will be my intention to begin that process immediately," he added.