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# CNN Republican Debate: Rubio and Cruz Spar Over Airstrikes

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## Video: CNN Republican Debate: Rubio and Cruz Spar Over Airstrikes

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_Published 2015-12-16. Nine Republican presidential candidates faced off for the fifth Republican debate on CNN_


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## Transcript

ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated through air strikes. Air strikes are a key component of defeating them but they must be defeated on the ground by a ground force. And that ground force must be primarily made up of Sunni Arabs themselves. Sunni Arabs that reject them ideologically and confront them militarily. The air strikes are important, but we need to have an air force capable of it and because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country We are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest air force we have ever had. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them. Three times he voted against the Defense Authorization Act, which is a bill that funds the troops. It also, by the way, funds the iron dome. And other important programs and I have to assume that if you vote against the senate you would also be towed as president. Marco is suggesting that somehow he also is tossed more than a few insults this direction. We will utterly destroy them by targeting the bad guys and one of the problems With Marco's foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

If you're an American citizen and you decide to join up with ISIS, we're not gonna read you your Miranda rights. You're gonna be treated as an enemy combatant, a member of an army attacking this country. [ APPLAUSE ]

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