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The Jeb Bush candidacy is absolutely gobsmacking in its arrogance. He’s nothing but a neo-con puppet, just like his brother.
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Agree, just how dumb does JEBbie Boy think people are. He surrounds himself with the fools from his Father’s and Brother’s Administrations the very ones who wanted “War for Fun and Profit”, the very ones who “Did Not Prepare” and expects a different outcome. These fools are looking for War 3.0 (Iraq I, Iraq II and now Iran) and again for the exact same reasons “Fun and Profit”. Death for everyone else but their friends but what the hell they have the offshore accounts and homes in friendly countries so no skin off them, no sir not a strip of pain will they feel.
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Joe, you and your wife are victims of the deadliest fraud perpetrated on the US citizenry in recent times. I don’t understand why Americans do not have the integrity to have overturned that particular criminal administration. Sending the top ten to the Hague would send a message to the rest of the world that we are, once again, about justice.
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I have always respected Joe Wilson going back to the time of Cheney’s maneuverings to get us into the Iraq war. He speaks the truth and isn’t afraid to speak it to power. He is absolutely correct about Jeb’s inability to stand as his own man and disagree with his brother’s horrible decisions, and it reflects poorly on Jeb.
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“…he has the team of dunces…”
Must we insult dunces by equating them with the cast of nasty blood thirsty characters that Jeb has put together as his team?
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Wasn’t there evidence that Iraq attempted to assassinate GHW Bush when he visited Kuwait in 1993? If credible, it would go a long way toward explaining why Jeb’s first answer was the most honest.
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While the GOP candidates will all acknowledge the invasion of Iraq was mistake, they won’t acknowledge it was a willfully deceptive act. And the Democratic candidates all will agree it was so it won’t get a lot of air time during their election. It’s up to the media to ask the questions about these issues to force both sides to speak about them.
And, let’s face it, the media probably won’t do that.
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My fear is that the American people can easily be fooled again.
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Joseph Wilson:
That explains why his [Jeb Bush’s] first answer to Megyn Kelly’s question was the most honest one. Yes, knowing what we know now, he would still have invaded Iraq and he has the team of dunces to prove it.
I suspect that an even more honest answer would have been: Yes. It worked, it got my brother re-elected.
There were many reasons why the Bushies wanted to go after Iraq, but uppermost among those motives was almost certainly W’s belief that the elder Bush didn’t get a second term because he didn’t take out Hussein – and the accompanying cynical calculation that, by attacking Iraq, George the Younger could get himself re-elected because the country wouldn’t want to change presidents during a war.
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A vote for Jeb is a vote for war in Syria and Iran. And I’m sure that being the real patriot Jeb is, he won’t send his kids to the front lines.
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Contrast the recognition here that Jeb is still in the grip of the neocon fantasy with the mainstream media saying that the only reason Jeb is saying this is all about family loyalty.
Both George and Jeb have already shown that Bushes are quite willing to put family loyalty above the welfare of the country: one started a war and one stole an election.
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I understand why Dumbya and THE DICK have Get Out Of Jail Free cards. Those cards are courtesy of Wall Street.
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They’ve been fooled during the last two midterm elections!
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Krugman is referring to it as the “fraternity of failure,” not limited to foreign policy: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/opinion/paul-krugman-fraternity-of-failure.html
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No they probably won’t. That college student who recently confronted Bush had more basic knowledge and frankly more balls than anybody I can think of in television media.
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I’m beginning to think that W, was the smart one!
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This came out just after the War, and Wilson is one of the featured people. It is still 100% true today. One of the more interesting things that came out was David McMichael (ex CIA) talking about how the Bush Admin prepared “language” so that they were not actually outright lying, but just being as deceptive as possible. For instance there were indeed terrorist groups in Iraq, but they were in the part not controlled by Saddam, and they were enemies with Saddam. But hey, technically it’s not a lie.
The WMD and “terror ties” stuff was all known to be BS at the time. And everything I read at the time said the same thing. It was obvious. Yet how many people in Congress voted to give these nuts war powers? They then claimed they were duped. Wow.
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It pains me to realize what an uninformed and stupid country we have. Always ready to miss the opportunity to vote and then vigorously voting against there own best interest if they should happen to get off their collective butts.
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