Discussion: Jeb Bush On Iraq And Afghanistan Wars: 'I Won't Talk About The Past'

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I don’t blame you, pal, but I don’t that’s going to be an option.

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Which means the Chuck Todds of the media world won’t want to upset him by asking him. But of course the Chuck Todds will ask Hilary Clinton about Benghazi and Bill’s shenanigans.

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‘I Won’t Talk About The Past’

Hey Jeb, you can’t use that. That’s Obama’s line!

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How dare he! That’s all I can say. His idiot brother fucked up big time and he doesn’t want to talk about it. Guess what moron? This isn’t your family secret that you don’t want to discuss at thanksgiving. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead, countless others injured, and god knows how many displaced. The entire region is in chaos all because of this blighted family. And he doesn’t want to talk about it! Funny how things which happened less than a decade ago and the consequences of which are very much being felt today are the “past”. Does moron think that he won’t have to deal l with Afghanistan and Iraq if he’s the President?

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If I’m in the process of considering the possibility

Whoa, Passive/MIRVed Aggression…
“Leave Mother in the celler with Dubya!”, JEB, draped in blue, sobbed from her dressing room.

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Jeb, did you forget that the past is a good teacher of what not to do in the future?

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I bet you don’t want to talk about the past. The mere mention of the name Bush invokes PTSD symptoms in some people. I know, because I’m one of them.

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The past informs decisions in the present. You’d better be able to talk about the past.

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Don’t worry, Jeb-- well talk about it --PLENTY.

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Oh, for crap sake, Jeb. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not in the past, so just answer the goddam questions, or go home and stay there.

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I think he ought to face it full on:

"Hey peeps. I know my dumbass, worthless brother was a HUGE fuckup who spent trillions of your tax money on two failed wars that could have instead went to the jerb creeters, and killed thousands of Americans who we call heroes now but that was Cheney’s fault. I promise (wink) I won’t attack another country unless I really want to. "

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Same bull, different body.

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Isn’t that the standard GOP line, in the face of their terrible guilt–“That’s old news.”

Sorry Jeb, it won’t work. Your father and your brother engaged with Iraq, and who knows how much the current situation owes not only to W but to your dad’s interventions there?

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“I won’t talk about the past,” Bush said on Friday when a reporter asked him about an upcoming foreign policy speech in Chicago, according to Bloomberg Politics."

and he’s damned sure to repeat it…

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Any questions? …punt.
Any other questions? …punt.

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~?~ as in ~?~

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thank you for the truth-spouting.

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The smarter brother being inspired by Cheesehead governor.

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Should make for truly epic and awesomish debates, huh?

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