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Jeb Bush Would Have Authorized Iraq War Even Knowing What We Know Now
If one of Jeb Bush's biggest stumbling blocks to the presidency is his brother's tumultuous tenure in the White House, this past week hasn't been a good one for the former Florida governor.
After telling a group of fundraisers behind closed doors that former President George W. Bush was one of his advisers on the Middle East, the likely 2016 GOP hopeful followed that up telling Fox News' Megyn Kelly that he would have authorized the Iraq War even knowing what we know now.
"I would have, and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody," Bush told Kelly in an interview to air Monday night. "And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got."
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Even knowing what we know now, No Jeb, you would kill a million helpless innocent men, women and children for no reason and Hillary would NOT.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)War profiteering is how the Boosh family fortune was built.
And no, there is no way HRC would vote the same way knowing what is now known, and I am no HRC fan. That is utter BS (Bush Shit)
randys1
(16,286 posts)was right, but obviously a mistake.
But as you are pointing out, it is in their DNA to either side with the enemy or start wars for profit, so no surprise.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)He's a Bush, I wouldn't expect anything else from him.
Bushes love sending other people to war, as long as they don't have to fight in it themselves.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)And not many of my friends, either. We watched as Colin Powell drove a stake into the heart of his personal integrity, and we couldn't believe it. Pictures of fuzzy blobs in the desert, and mangled telephone intercepts. We had clear photos in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that was way before satellite imagery and digital magic and all the other stuff we have now. Nope. Wrong, Jeb. Many people knew the "intelligence" was bogus, and we suspected your brother knew it too. He just wanted to be a "wartime president" and we bet you do, as well. Come on now. You can tell us. You just want to stand on the aircraft carrier and pose in front of a big banner that says "Mission Accomplished."