Posted on 10/22/2019 10:36:33 AM PDT by John Semmens
After many years of silence since leaving office, former President George W. Bush sharply chastised President Trump’s Syrian troop withdrawal, claiming it “threatens to undo my signature achievement as president.”
Bush rejected Trump’s reasoning that the United States shouldn’t be engaged in endless wars to try to promote nation-building, by pointing out that “endless is an exaggeration. My wars only started in 2003. That’s just 16 years ago. If I recall correctly, Europe had a 100 years war spanning the 14th and 15th centuries. The cold war between us and the Soviet Union lasted four decades. And to hear Trump himself tell it, there’s been fighting in the Middle East for centuries. It is Trump’s belief that somehow we can get along without wars that is out-of-step with reality.”
Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg sided with Bush and insisted that “President Trump is taking away our troops’ honor. I didn’t think we should have gone to Iraq in the first place. I think we need to get out of Afghanistan. But Trump’s hasty withdrawal of the 28 soldiers stationed in Syria by President Obama in 2011 is a slap in the face to everyone who has ever worn the uniform. We are leaving thousands of our communist Kurd allies behind to fight against the hated Turks. I’m sure everyone of those soldiers feels shame and wishes he could see the battle out to the end.”
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) attempted to distinguish between “the sensible placement of troops by President Obama with the reckless deployments of President Bush and Trump. Obama could be trusted to do whatever is good for everyone, but Bush was a bumbling fool and Trump is Putin’s mole inside the US government. Whatever Trump does is wrong and probably treasonous.”
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I am ashamed that I voted for Bush twice and once for his dad. They are strictly money mouth,war mongering embicles.
Who do you wish you had voted for?
IKR
He didn’t have a chance because no one knew what IRK was
Who do you wish you had voted for?
Set it out or voting for the Libertarian! This jerk wouldn’t say anything about Zero but as soon as Trump was elected started shooting his mouth off..
The Bushes have not only doomed any political aspirations their dynasty might have had, but they have earned and receive the utter contempt of the American People.
Mr. Bush needs to crawl back under his rock and stay there.
The way it is set up it would not have nattered. The State Department and the Military Industrial Comlex runs America that is why Trump is so hated.
I was curious about why you felt ashamed.
After all, who else was even a token conservative?
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