Jeb Bush: I would have invaded Iraq

[phrodeau]

Of course, since Saddam threatened his dad, too.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

“Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?”

“I would’ve,” he responded, “and so would’ve Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would’ve almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

“You don’t think it was a mistake?” Kelly followed up.

“In retrospect,” Bush continued, “the intelligence that everybody saw — that the world saw, not just the United States — was faulty.

Instead of answering the question about whether he would’ve authorized the Iraq invasion knowing that the intelligence was all wrong, he answers an easier question: He would have authorized the Iraq war knowing what we thought we knew then.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/12/jeb...he_really_mishear_megyn_kellys_iraq_question/


former aide to Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the former Florida governor “misheard” a question from Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly about whether he would have ordered the invasion of Iraq.

Bush said in the interview that aired Monday that knowing what he knows now about the war and the intelligence leading up to it, he still would have authorized the 2003 invasion.

But the former aide, Ana Navarro, said Bush simply misspoke.
“I emailed him this morning and I said to him, ‘Hey, I'm a little confused by this answer so I'm genuinely wondering did you mishear the question?,’ ” Navarro said on CNN’s "New Day." “And he said, ‘Yes, I misheard the question.’ ”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-ex-aide-says-jeb-bush-misheard-iraq-question

gsgs comment-

Misspoke is on the table, again ?

/end gsgs comment

 

[phrodeau]

The faulty intelligence that led to the Iraq War came from the Oval Office.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/selling-the-iraq-war-experts-knew-the-intel

 

[someoneyouknow]

The faulty intelligence that led to the Iraq War came from the Oval Office.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/selling-the-iraq-war-experts-knew-the-intel

Duh! It is well documented Cheney was down at the DIA and CIA almost daily essentially telling them to lie. Whatever ridiculous tidbit was found he pressured people to use it, going over heads if need be to shape the propaganda in any way he could to get the results he wanted.

As I posted in my thread from yesterday, a former Deputy Director of the CIA has publicly apologized to Colin Powell for the "faulty" information he was given when delivering his speech to the UN. I remember reading about Powell looking over what he had been given and telling the people, "This is crap!" He had entire sections taken out because he knew it was flat out false.

It's pathetic we need to keep bringing up the sheer amount of lies used to justify not getting Bin Laden when we nearly had him cornered in Tora Bora.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush...uestions-it-answers?google_editors_picks=true

Facing criticism over his answer, including from prominent conservative commentators and fellow presidential hopefuls, Bush responded to the mounting controversy in a radio interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Tuesday afternoon. In it, he confirmed that he did not hear Kelly’s question.

“I interpreted the question wrong, I guess. I was talking about given what people knew then, would you have done it, rather than knowing what we know now,” Bush said when asked to clarify his remarks. “And knowing what we know now, you know, clearly there were mistakes,” he continued, once again pointing to faulty intelligence and the decision to wind down the 2007 troop surge.

But when it came to finally answering the question of whether he would redo the Iraq War with the full knowledge of all that came next, Bush chose to punt.

“I don’t know what that decision would have been, that’s a hypothetical,” Bush told Hannity when pressed to say what he would have done with a time traveler’s hindsight. “The simple fact is mistakes were made … And so we need to learn from the past to make sure we’re strong and secure going forward.”

Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elleithee said in a statement that Bush’s response showed he wasn’t “ready for primetime.”

“To the rest of us, this isn’t a hypothetical,” Elleithee said. “It’s clear, and in this one case, we’d like you to be more like your brother – be a decider.”

 

[KingOrfeo]

“Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?”

“I would’ve,” he responded, “and so would’ve Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would’ve almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

Well, that wasn't the question, was it?

 

[luvslingerie200]

did anyone who's posted actually see the interview? I did, it was clear that he didn't hear the "knowing what you know now" part of the question. A typical gaff that is in EVERY campaign. At least he's talking to reporters unlike Hillary.

I dread a Bush/Clinton campaign, but I thought a lot of his answers on education and immigration reform were well thought out and articulated.

 

[JackLuis]

He may be smarter than W, but that is a pretty low bar.

 

[about_average]

But the former aide, Ana Navarro, said Bush simply misspoke.
“I emailed him this morning and I said to him, ‘Hey, I'm a little confused by this answer so I'm genuinely wondering did you mishear the question?,’ ” Navarro said on CNN’s "New Day." “And he said, ‘Yes, I misheard the question.’ ”

Just who we need for president. A person who can't understand an extremely simple question;
“Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?”

 

[Wrong Element]

did anyone who's posted actually see the interview? I did, it was clear that he didn't hear the "knowing what you know now" part of the question. A typical gaff that is in EVERY campaign. At least he's talking to reporters unlike Hillary.

I dread a Bush/Clinton campaign, but I thought a lot of his answers on education and immigration reform were well thought out and articulated.

He didn't hear the very first words of the question?

 

[phrodeau]

There are Americans who bristle at the thought of a President named Barack, yet are perfectly OK with the thought of a President Jeb.

 

[KingOrfeo]

There are Americans who bristle at the thought of a President named Barack, yet are perfectly OK with the thought of a President Jeb.

Even President Jed would be better, li'l doggy!

 

[Wrong Element]

Even if one believes that Bush didn't hear the question completely, which I think is a stretch, there's a serious point here, which is that no one believes a Jeb foreign policy would look much different from a Dubya foreign policy -- "Secretary of State John Bolton," anyone? Good luck to him dealing with that.

There are Americans who bristle at the thought of a President named Barack, yet are perfectly OK with the thought of a President Jeb.

I believe I can illustrate this.

 

[phrodeau]

Even if one believes that Bush didn't hear the question completely, which I think is a stretch, there's a serious point here, which is that no one believes a Jeb foreign policy would look much different from a Dubya foreign policy -- "Secretary of State John Bolton," anyone? Good luck to him dealing with that.






I believe I can illustrate this.

Or maybe President Bolton would appoint Secretary of State Jeb Bush.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/13/bolton-presidential-announcement/27283139/

 

[lovecraft68]

There are Americans who bristle at the thought of a President named Barack, yet are perfectly OK with the thought of a President Jeb.

Because Jeb is at least an American name and not one associated with terrorists

 

[lovecraft68]

I ask myself....is this country dumb enough to elect a third Bush....

Then I answer myself with the fact both Bush2 and Obama were reelected despite their approval ratings spending most of the time in the shitter.

 

[JackLuis]

The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You

You mean more than John Bolton? Yes Virginia, the is a much scarier Neo-Con comb licking cock sucker.

http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-main/wolfowitz.jpg​

Given that Jeb has tried mightily to distance himself from his brother, whose administration used false assertions to launch the still highly unpopular Iraq War, this touting of W.—even at a behind-closed-doors session of Republican donors—seemed odd. But perhaps more noteworthy is that Jeb Bush has embraced much of his brother's White House foreign policy team. In February, his campaign released a list of 21 foreign policy advisers; 17 of them served in the George W. Bush administration. And one name stood out: Paul Wolfowitz, a top policy architect of the Iraq War—for the prospect of Wolfowitz whispering into Jeb's ear ought to scare the bejeezus out of anyone who yearns for a rational national security policy.

I had hoped he had died.

 

[KingOrfeo]

former aide to Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the former Florida governor “misheard” a question from Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly about whether he would have ordered the invasion of Iraq.

It's a bit more complicated, and a great deal worse, than that.

. . . .In his memoir, he [W] admitted to tactical mistakes, but stated forthrightly: “The region is more hopeful with a young democracy setting an example for others to follow. And the Iraqi people are better off with a government that answers to them instead of torturing and murdering them.”

He added: “There are things we got wrong in Iraq, but the cause is eternally right.”

Dick Cheney certainly agrees. Paul Wolfowitz, one of Jeb’s advisors, blasts the aftermath of Saddam’s fall, and the wholly incompetent occupation – the reign of Paul Bremer and Dan Senor and fresh-faced 20-something ideologues from the Lincoln Group trying to govern Iraq – but not the decision to wage war itself. There were lots of things the Bush team might like to do over, but the invasion isn’t one of them.

The Cheney-Wolfowitz-Rumsfeld faction saw an Iraq invasion as a brilliant stage on which to enact all of their geopolitical goals: It was a chance to replace a Middle East adversary with an ally; to ease our reliance on Saudi Arabia for defense and for oil, and to develop a strategic counterweight to Iran. It was also an opportunity to declare the U.S. would wage pre-emptive war, to showcase our military might in the aftermath of 9/11, and to shore up Cheney’s doctrine of vast, presidential power. The WMD argument was either just one of many concerns, or an outright fabrication.

So let’s be fair to Jeb Bush for a moment: he can’t get this answer “right” politically – as in, now that we know there weren’t WMDs, and the aftermath was a shit-show, the Iraq invasion was a “mistake” – because it probably isn’t what he believes. Let’s remember, he was one of 25 signatories to the founding document of the pro-invasion Project for a New American Century in 1998 — alongside Cheney, Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz, Frank Gaffney and other neocons. Wolfowitz is one of his foreign policy advisors. He has told us that when it comes to Israel, his brother is his top advisor.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You mean more than John Bolton? Yes Virginia, the is a much scarier Neo-Con comb licking cock sucker.

http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-main/wolfowitz.jpg​

I had hoped he had died.

He did, actually, sometime during the Clinton Administration; but, like Cheney, he's not the sort who can be slowed down by that.

 

[phrodeau]

“The region is more hopeful..."

So was Job after chapter one.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

oh the obama derp is never ending ...

get a job and start paying off the obama debt, asshat

 

[patient1]

It's a bit more complicated, and a great deal worse, than that.

It's 5/15/2015, the day I say -

Thank you King Orfeo for cutting and pasting a Salon article!

 

[MrBates2]

“Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?”

“I would’ve,” he responded, “and so would’ve Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would’ve almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

“You don’t think it was a mistake?” Kelly followed up.

“In retrospect,” Bush continued, “the intelligence that everybody saw — that the world saw, not just the United States — was faulty.

Instead of answering the question about whether he would’ve authorized the Iraq invasion knowing that the intelligence was all wrong, he answers an easier question: He would have authorized the Iraq war knowing what we thought we knew then.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/12/jeb...he_really_mishear_megyn_kellys_iraq_question/


former aide to Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the former Florida governor “misheard” a question from Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly about whether he would have ordered the invasion of Iraq.

Bush said in the interview that aired Monday that knowing what he knows now about the war and the intelligence leading up to it, he still would have authorized the 2003 invasion.

But the former aide, Ana Navarro, said Bush simply misspoke.
“I emailed him this morning and I said to him, ‘Hey, I'm a little confused by this answer so I'm genuinely wondering did you mishear the question?,’ ” Navarro said on CNN’s "New Day." “And he said, ‘Yes, I misheard the question.’ ”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-ex-aide-says-jeb-bush-misheard-iraq-question

gsgs comment-

Misspoke is on the table, again ?

/end gsgs comment

He is truly a dumb ass! Even Laura Ingraham, a cheerleader for this sort of thing said, it was a bad idea with what we now know.

Now he says this:

"It’s at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a committed child-centered family system, is hard to imagine," he said. "So, irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling — because they are going to decide whatever they decide, I don’t know what they are going to do — we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage."

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Of course, since Saddam threatened his dad, too.

I love how fucking stupid you obama slaves are

 

[RyanBooks]

So, should the US have not defended the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein?