National Politics - 2016

Jeb Bush Flip Flops On Iraq

CANDIDATE NOW SAYS HE WOULD NOT HAVE INVADED IN 2003 … || By FITSNEWS || One of our favorite Pearl Jam songs is “Red Mosquito” off the 1996 album No Code. It’s a gem (one of the band’s underrated masterpieces), and managed to climb to No. 37 on the Billboard…

CANDIDATE NOW SAYS HE WOULD NOT HAVE INVADED IN 2003 …

|| By FITSNEWS || One of our favorite Pearl Jam songs is “Red Mosquito” off the 1996 album No Code. It’s a gem (one of the band’s underrated masterpieces), and managed to climb to No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 even thought it was never released as a single.

Anyway, the song’s closing lyric is as follows: “If I had known then what I know now.”

A variation of that question – pertaining to the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq – was put to presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently.  And he answered it poorly.

“Yes,” was Bush’s answer then.

Well guess what … apparently he’s thought better of it.

“If we’re all supposed to answer hypotheticals, I would not have engaged, I would not have gone into Iraq,” Bush told the crowd at a town hall meeting in Tempe, Arizona.

Well, well … “take two.”

Why does this matter?  Well, Bush’s brother – former U.S. president George W. Bush – was the guy who launched the Iraq War, as well as another war in Afghanistan.  Both conflicts have continued – to some degree – under the administration of Barack Obama.

And the broader question of the efficacy – and cost – of U.S. interventionism around the globe is obviously an issue in the 2016 presidential election.

According to the former Florida governor, he was initially “reluctant to say what I’m about to say now” because he didn’t want the families of those who died in the war (including those he called to offer his condolences while governor) to think their loved ones had died in vain.

Which of course they clearly did … by the thousands.

And in addition to the human cost, let’s not forget the $4-6 trillion spent on the first “War on Terror,” which apparently succeeded only in creating a newer, bigger and more dangerous enemy than the one U.S. troops were dispatched to destroy in the first place.

But hey … let’s try it again, right?

Surely this time will be different …

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30 comments

Manray9 May 15, 2015 at 11:17 am

Jeb had two choices: He throws G. W. under the bus or he admits the Iraq war was a fiasco which destabilized the region, emboldened Iran, cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars, and killed or maimed thousands of young Americans.

He chose the bus. Probably cleared it with G. W. first.

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fc May 15, 2015 at 11:48 am

Obama thru his grandmother under the bus calling her a racist in 2007.They all do it…liberals and rinos.

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Manray9 May 15, 2015 at 11:52 am

Hmmm…a useless war which killed thousands and cost trillions versus Obama’s grandma. Apples and oranges.

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fc May 15, 2015 at 1:14 pm

I don’t care about dead soldiers unless I can blame it on Obama. If a Republican were in office then the more dead soldiers the better. Oh my!

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Fc Went To School At KFC May 15, 2015 at 2:50 pm

Threw, Dumbass…

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Centrist View May 15, 2015 at 11:18 am

Will Folks should use internet crowdfunding for pay for his legal expenses in the slander/libel lawsuit brought against him.

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guest May 15, 2015 at 1:58 pm

Or just have GrandTango and fc earn a quarter for every time they refresh the page. A few thousand clicks a day would net some good money. And hey since it’s fc then sandi morals/pogo2/flip costco/Rocky alts/Buzz alts could all get in the act and earn something extra!

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GrandTango May 15, 2015 at 3:47 pm

Liberals are VERY DEMANDING..but VERY Cheap…you want it handed to you…I bet you Bingham would get more through a funding website page than FITS..

I could see Democrats in government coming to FITS aid…but I think the people in SC would revolt against that…

I know I’d pony up for the honorable representative, if he puts up a funding page… and he he would not even have to pay me back with what he gets in his win…

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Finally May 15, 2015 at 11:21 am

Well. Some of us aren’t terminally stupid after all… Now, let’s offer George W and company to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Haig. It’s the only RIGHT THING to do.

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southmauldin May 15, 2015 at 11:37 am

I wish I could upvote this 150 times. And I’m charging admission to the cemetery where Cheney is buried when he ultimately dies, so everybody who wants to piss on his grave can donate $5 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation.

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fc May 15, 2015 at 11:52 am

Wow.You won’t.An American hating pussy like you can’t look a veteran in the eye.

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Other Priorities Dick May 15, 2015 at 12:03 pm

He will be able to look Cheney in the eye.

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fc May 15, 2015 at 1:12 pm

No one hates America more than me. I love raising taxes on people who can’t afford it. LMAO!!

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Look At This Eye May 15, 2015 at 2:47 pm

But you’ll follow a blind dog’s ass?

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RogueElephant May 15, 2015 at 12:34 pm

LBJ killed 58,000 of America’s finest and no one wanted to try him. If ever there was a criminal that needed trying it was him and McNamara. President Bush did what , at the time, needed to be done. Plain and simple.

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grandtangosuglydog May 15, 2015 at 12:58 pm

You mean pass off lies as facts to get the country to support a war against a nation that had no wmds or anything to do with 9-11??? to allow the most piss poorly planned occupation in US history? or allow North Korea to develop and test nukes??? or allow Russia to invade Georgia? so many choices i know…sure do miss shrub.

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Jonny Logic May 15, 2015 at 1:26 pm

‘What Needed to be done’???? I agree with grandtangosuglydog. So spending trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives invading a country that posed no threat to anyone except Iran for no reason made sense? You must be talking about all the money he and Dick made from the war? Yeah, it needed to be done. SMH

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LindaMHorton May 16, 2015 at 4:22 am

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Rocky May 15, 2015 at 11:26 am

Yeah, he’s gotta get that issue off the news cycle. But he still wins the nomination – the Chamber of Commerce has already decided.

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GrandTango May 15, 2015 at 11:40 am

Your hopes diminish a little more each day….LMAO…Dumb@$$…

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Ya Big Dummy May 15, 2015 at 1:17 pm

Beats having no hope like you.

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APB 4 Rocky May 15, 2015 at 11:45 am

Muslim Obama didn’t flip flop on Iraq…he just gave it to ISIS.Good to see ya this morning Rocky.I figured you were busy securing money from the Clinton Mafia Foundation for Fits…?? :)

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Rocky May 15, 2015 at 12:23 pm

Nah, I don’t live my life on FITS. 500 posts on the law suit. My oh my. As for ISIS – I really don’t care anymore. Iraqi’s killin Iraqi’s. Gee, like we didn’t see that coming. I bet even Iran is tired of dealing with Iraq.

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Go Away Tango May 15, 2015 at 12:15 pm

Bingham has sent his cronies to Fitsnews to harass Will Folks.

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GrandTango May 15, 2015 at 3:48 pm

I guess turnabout is fair play…Right???

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HD May 15, 2015 at 1:51 pm

He hasn’t flip-flopped. He paid insufficient attention to Megyn Kelly’s question. It’s clear from his complete answer (including where he says H. Clinton would make the same decision) that he didn’t catch the “knowing what we know now” part of the question. He’s been a bit clumsy in addressing the kerfuffle, but he hasn’t said anything substantively different.

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GrandTango May 15, 2015 at 3:49 pm

Now Jeb and Hillary have even more in common..

She was for it, before she was against it, too…LMAO…

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MashPotato May 16, 2015 at 1:40 am

GT, is that really you???? Your posts are so much easier to read without all the poop slinging.

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9" May 17, 2015 at 6:25 am

Jeb likes flipping and flopping,while you aim your rod at his hirsute buttocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g

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M2000 May 19, 2015 at 12:13 am

Hey Paulbots, how come your boy Rand Paul just admitted he won’t gut the Patriot ACT and the NSA which were brought up under Jeb’s brother’s administration?

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