Posted on 04/27/2015 2:30:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...President George W. Bush offered rare, and broad-ranging, remarks Saturday night about current national security threats and the 2016 presidential campaign to a large audience of Jewish donors, suggesting that sanctions on Iran should not be lifted...
...He said he was skeptical about lifting sanctions against Iran at a time when its government seemed to be caving in, attendees said, and regretted the leverage the United States would lose as a result of lifting the sanctions. He questioned whether the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, under whom the current framework for a deal has been discussed, represents a new policy or a “new spokesman” for the old regime...
...Several attendees sensed a tacit critique of Mr. Obama and his failure to follow through on his threats to use force when Mr. Bush said “you gotta mean it” when talking tough, and that America’s allies and enemies needed to know where an American leader stood. He also discussed his own approach in Iraq, saying he changed course when it was warranted.
“You call in the military and say, ‘Here’s my goal. What’s your plan to help me achieve that goal?'” attendees quoted him as saying. He added that when asked what had to be done with terrorists bent on America’s destruction, the answer was “well, you kill ‘em,” several attendees recalled.
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True dat.
A day late and 16 trillion dollars short on that one George!
too little too late, W
Your family foisted both Clinton and Obama on us as if these dysfunctional mutts were members of your “gentleman’s club” of politicians
take your “Bush family noblesse oblige” and go back to Crawford ya milktoast, or you again become the defacto GOP campaign issue for 2016
:: Mr. Bush said “you gotta mean it” when talking tough ::
While I agree with Bush43 in this case, the US needs to be careful that Western powers don’t look to us like an older brother who protects his kid brother from the schoolyard bully.
NATO needs to “talk tough and mean it”, too.
Don’t you mean ^Jorge^?
Silly Dubya, don't you know anything? Haven't you even listened to obama's acting State Dept. spokesperson Marie Harf???
Terrorists want America's destruction because they're poor and out of work.
You don't kill them. You give them jobs! Duh?
He is only saying anything at all for political fodder for his brother. Go away George . . . you kept your mouth shut when the nation needed to hear from you - and now you only want to try to fool us into thinking that you and your brother give a dang.
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