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ANd NOW BUSh SHITs ON OUr sOLDiers BY claIMing He wouldn’T go INTO IRaq. Our SOLDIers RIDDEd SADDam OF his WMDs and TRAnsformed THE MIddle EAst into A staBLE deMOCracy forever!!!1!!!one1!!!
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It may be that the Iraqi government provided assistance in some form to the recent attack on the United States. But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism. The United States must therefore provide full military and financial support to the Iraqi opposition. American military force should be used to provide a “safe zone” in Iraq from which the opposition can operate. And American forces must be prepared to back up our commitment to the Iraqi opposition by all necessary means.
~PNAC letter to President George Bush 9/20/01
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Everyone needs to read the Editor’s Blog. Josh lays it out with an understanding that seems to be missing from other analyses of Jebya’s foot in mouth problem. Privileged foot, of course.
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Oh good lord. Is it too early to call Jeb’s campaign an epic failure? I just don’t see how he recovers from this.
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It’s too late to try and stuff that toxic toothpaste back into the tube.
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EXACTLY! IF we HAdn’T gone IN, there WOULD be cHAos, wITH evil-DOING arMED faCTIONs TAKIng ovER WHOLE parts OF THE COUntry wHILE sADDAm TURNEd WHAtever CONDi saID into MUSHroom CLOuds. SMOkinG GUns. FreEEDOM!
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The bushleague brothers’ father seems to be the only one who understood why it was a terrible notion to invade Iraq and described his reasoning after the Iraq invasion in 1991.
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he should have said this within hours or even minutes of his original gaffe. I have zero confidence he would not make a similarly huge, neocon-inspired foreign policy error should this country’s voters be stupid enough to elect him again.
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Jeb’s “new answer” now begs the question, “If it was a mistake to go into Iraq, then why have you hired all of the same advisors who made the mistake for your presidential campaign??!!”
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But proactively other candidates have told us THEY wouldn’t have invaded, i.e. CC and Cruz.
I dunno. Thought he was more or less stating the obvious.
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I will believe him when he cans all the NeoCons on his payroll.
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I do hope the pundits in the MSM as well as the GOP shakers and bakers take another look at this puke. If this bullshit doesn’t tell you who this man really is nothing can. Pathetic, incompetent and self entitled. Prick too.
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DING DING DING DING
We have our first FLIP FLOP of the election season!
This is Jeb’s truly first “Etch-a-sketch” moment, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Get out the popcorn, it’s about to get GOOOOD!
Now every reporter is going to HAMMER Bush about Iraq. He’d better have several shirts on hand because the sweat is going to pour like buckets!
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The Decider II
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flip flop department is aisle 4 Jeb.
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So he was for it, before he was against it.
Got it.
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Well, at least this is an example of a GOP candidate backing away from something awful for a change. Usually they’re fighting each other tooth and nail for a chance to lead the asshole parade.
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A question that not one reporter will ask Jeb. If it was a Democrat, it would be a headline question/story.
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