CHARLES PIERCE: No, Jeb Bush, Your Brother Did Not Keep Us Safe

[kpete]

No, Jeb Bush, Your Brother Did Not Keep Us Safe
Jeb looked delusional, but he wasn't alone.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE

"There's one thing I'll tell you about my brother," said Jeb (!) Bush. "He kept us safe."

And everybody cheered.

I ran out of patience long ago with The Great Mulligan. C-Plus Augustus ignored the terrorist threat for nine months. He told his Attorney General to shift focus from counterterrorism to weed and porn. He told his National Security Advisor to worry about the Russians. He blew off a Presidential Daily Briefing and a CIA briefer. Then, on September 11, 2001, there were 3000 Americans who were not kept safe on his watch. He then stonewalled any real investigation of his negligence. He then launched a war of choice after allowing the architect of the attacks to go free. There were more than 4000 American soldiers who were not kept safe. And now his blithering brother suggests that time began on September 12, 2001. Scott Walker then chimed in about how it was all Barack Obama's fault. Then there was Mike Huckabee, stressing the importance of "good intelligence" on formulating foreign policy. This would have been a good idea in, say, 2003, when Jeb(!)'s brother was cooking the books to start his pet war. But everybody cheered. Nobody called them on this. Nobody, except Rand Paul, had second thoughts on sending more American troops back into Iraq. But Donald Trump, whose combat experience is limited to punching out a music teacher in prep school, said that he thought the president lacked courage. I wouldn't hire any of these guys as a crossing guard.

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Jeb (!) wants to put Margaret Thatcher on the $10 bill. I think he'd given up and started drinking mojitos with both hands during the break. Kasich wanted Mother Teresa, who was Albanian. But I am not going to comment on the concluding That's So Reagan question, although I think the whole event would have been livened up had that airplane started to taxi out of the hall.



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[Stuart G]

1. i believe that one statement forever...defined Jeb Bush..stupid, delusional, and arrogant.

Yes, he got some kind of cheer at the debate, but the rest of the world knows the truth. Charles P. Pierce is correct as is everyone else who has written or will write about this.

"He kept us safe" is almost an unbelievable statement, but not from a liar like Jeb. How can he defend that statement, if he is ever asked about it by someone with a working brain.?

[nichomachus]

2. Only 2,600 Americans were killed on 9-11

The rest were foreign nationals.

Let's not overlook them.

[malaise]

3. Tell them Charlie - fugging LIARS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027177132

[CTyankee]

4. That airplane just looked strange...reminding me of that movie "Airplane!"

[Gothmog]

5. W was a bad president who failed to keep up safe