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MSNBC's Maddow: G.W. Bush Is to Blame for Ukraine Crisis
newsmax.com ^ | March 03, 2014 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 03/03/2014 4:03:23 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow charged Monday that the George W. Bush administration's Middle East policy has steered America's current security policy and response to global crises — including the one in Ukraine.

Talking about her new documentary, "Why We Did It," involving circumstances leading to the Iraq War, Maddow told MSNBC colleague Andrea Mitchell that the Bush administration is largely responsible for the nation's current course overseas.

“The decisions of our generation on national security are determined more than anything by what the George W. Bush administration did with that nine-year war in Iraq and, alongside it, a 13-year war in Afghanistan that’s still going on," she told Mitchell. "And the American people are against those wars."

“Those are the determinative constraints for our thinking about everything,” she continued, “from Crimea, to Syria, to what the overall size of the U.S. military is.”

Maddow said her documentary concludes that if the United States is to avoid "these kind of protracted foreign occupations, like we did under the previous president, we can’t effectively make good decisions about that until we understand why we did that."

"We know the public case for why we went to Iraq was not true," Maddow said, adding that her findings for the documentary were "disturbing."

"It's getting at the question that needs to be answered," she said.

Mitchell, agreeing with Maddow's premise, noted that the Bush administration's policies impacted "every other decision we make — why the president decided not to go ahead with airstrikes against Bashar al-Assad on Labor Day weekend.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bush; bushsfault; crisis; demagogicparty; maddow; memebuilding; msnbc; obamarussia; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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To: digger48

Who said this and when:
“Our problem and the world’s problem is with Iraq’s leaders. And
today those leaders have a choice. They can allow U.N. inspections to
proceed on the world’s terms, or they can invite serious military
strikes on ours.”

Madeline Albright Feb 18, 1998 CNN Townhall meeting Columbus, Ohio.
Transhttp://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/02/20/98022006_tpo.htmlcript:
Yeah, GWB made this stuff up about Iraq and went on some wild crazy excursion for kicks. Liberals should have to pay for their lies.


61 posted on 03/03/2014 5:10:27 PM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: Cementjungle
I knew it had to be either GWB or the TEA Party.

Well you know the liberals would never blame the NIC.

62 posted on 03/03/2014 5:16:38 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Breto

The President of Georgia might contest that last statement.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3128382/posts


63 posted on 03/03/2014 5:20:38 PM PST by Paul R. (Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; Revolting cat!

I was in with the “Bush’s Fault” meme DAYS ago.


64 posted on 03/03/2014 5:24:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Says the mentally impaired lesbian who can't even recognize the proper use of God's design.

65 posted on 03/03/2014 5:34:37 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
In response to a horrific attack on New York city, GWB used US forces to overthrow two governments. That was over an 8 year period.

During the first 4 years of Obama/McCain/Clinton, the US used soft diplomacy force (ie - covert) in attempts to overthrow 3 governments (Libya, Egypt and Syria).

Let me repeat that for you useful idiot progressives.

GWB - 8 years and two countries.

Obama/McCain/Clinton - 4 years and three countries.

And now we have a fourth country the US has utilized soft power in an attempt to overthrow a government under Obama/McCain/Kerry. Ukraine.

66 posted on 03/03/2014 5:45:10 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Tailgunner Joe. And she has an amen corner even here.


67 posted on 03/03/2014 5:54:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Cementjungle
I knew it had to be either GWB or the TEA Party.

It couldn't have been Bush's fault!

He was too busy causing the Great Depression, the Johnstown Flood, the Dust Bowl, Slavery and the Bubonic Plague!

Just ask any liberal college professor, student or newscaster. Pelosi or Reid will probably confirm this!

/s

68 posted on 03/03/2014 5:57:22 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Break out the giant butterfly net....this one’s a keeper!
69 posted on 03/03/2014 6:00:57 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: VerySadAmerican; SunkenCiv
Keep in mind that Ms. MadCow works for the same network that believes Czechoslovakia is [still] one of the countries bordering Ukraine.


70 posted on 03/03/2014 6:16:45 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Before Lefty Feminism got hold of Maddow:

See how the Left screws up everything:

Maddow has turned into a real screwball.

71 posted on 03/03/2014 6:35:18 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
No surprises here. That Bush guy was some kind of supervillan!
72 posted on 03/03/2014 7:02:54 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Actually, I’m going to blame the Mooch!

If she and her entourage of 300 or so, along with kids and mother, had even bothered to vacation in either Russia or the Crimea, her group could have improved Russia’s / Ukraine’s balance of trade by at least a billion or so: but not travelling there, dissed Putin.

And now, she’s going to diss Bibi, by not spending next week’s entourage’s billions in Israel, but in cashing in our enemy China!


73 posted on 03/03/2014 7:50:12 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Noob1999

Man I didn’t know the 43rd and 44th President of the US was GWB? Who is this Obama Character?


74 posted on 03/03/2014 7:55:58 PM PST by DocJhn
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Sounds like the Regressive Queen is trying to find a reason to go military against the evil homophobic Czar Putin. Sure doesn’t follow her usual modus operandi of screaming immediately.


75 posted on 03/03/2014 9:36:39 PM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

76 posted on 03/03/2014 10:35:06 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Mad Dawgg
Macho Putin vs. Girly-Boy Obama
77 posted on 03/04/2014 6:19:03 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

A much more useful historical touchpoint is Syria. The way I see it:

1. Putin sent Barry to bed without supper over Syria.
2. Barry and his Euro buddies decided to stir up trouble in Ukraine as a tit for tat for Syria.
3. Putin called their bluff.

That storyline actually is way more believable than this pathetic attempt.


78 posted on 03/04/2014 6:21:44 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Their butt boy can do no wrong.


79 posted on 03/04/2014 6:23:25 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Travis McGee; Breto
Bush also did nothing when Putin went into Georgia.

Travis, can you believe this got post posted on FR?

80 posted on 03/04/2014 2:27:12 PM PST by houeto (We intend to liberate Democrats from the dreaded Job-Lock this November!)
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