Posted on 04/07/2014 5:08:13 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Edited on 04/07/2014 5:29:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
David Corn over at Mother Jones unearths a 2009 video of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), in which Paul suggests that former vice president Dick Cheney wanted to invade Iraq in order to benefit his former employer, Halliburton.
In the video, shot at Western Kentucky University, Paul argues that Cheney thought the invasion was a bad idea in the first Bush administration but changed his tune after working for Halliburton.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
These older people don’t understand how much the Iraq war hurt the GOP with voters. It the reason the GOP lost the House, the Senate and and the White House in 2006 and 2008.
Cheney is the poster boy for crony capitalism and the revolving door style of corruption. He’s also a proponent big government and an open borders fanatic.
So what you are saying is Bush while he was Gov. of Texas, somehow arranged to have Bill Clinton’s CIA and all other intel agencies around the world falsify reports claiming Iraq had WMD’s so he, Bush, could then use these false reports to invade Iraq when he became president sometime in the future.
Got it.
Welcome to Free Republic. Yeah, us *older people* know how to deal with a threat to our nation, when we see one.
Cheney is the poster boy for crony capitalism and the revolving door style of corruption. He’s also a proponent big government and an open borders fanatic.
I'll take Cheney in my foxhole over most any other "R's" presently in office, with the exception of a very few.
You sound just like Nancy Pelosi or a DU lib, newb. Take it somewhere else.
Tree - Apple - Plop!
Well - great minds and all .....
I’m going to call BS on Rand this time even though I like him.
My understanding at the time and correct me if I’m wrong was that there was a big flap that Haliburton got the contract for putting out the oil well fires on a no bid. But it was pointed out that the only reason they got the contract was that they were the only company at the time that was large enough and had the equipment to handle the job and that they never broke even on the deal let alone made money.
Here is Al gore ranting about Bush ignoring Hussein’s WMDs in 1992. 33 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h6gehCPvpk
ABC news 1999: Osama bin Laden / Saddam Hussein alliance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7n3ivH3pCQ
Tell me WHY we invaded Iraq?
If you don’t know that, you are badly out of touch with most Americans.
Neocon type foreign policy is very unpopular now and it is probably the biggest reason why so many college educated white Americans are not voting GOP. What do you think is driving the increase in self-identified “libertarians.” Most of these people are conservative leaning and foreign policy is for most the biggest disagreement they have with the GOPe.
I tend to agree w/ you re how Cheney is viewed by many voters...they believe Cheney was banging the drum for a war in Iraq. It doesn’t matter what ‘we’ believe or not...it does matter how the average voter viewed the war in Iraq.
I don’t think it helped that GWB did that stupid video...supposedly comedy... looking for WMD and never finding them. No...didn’t help one dang bit.
But I’m not voting for Rand Paul and I’m not voting for Bush III.
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So in your confused mind, not only is everyone at the political site you just signed up for 'old', but because they are 'old', they can't know about the politics and history that this forum exists to discuss, study and affect.
We do know a little bit about politics here.
The libertarianism they are leaning towards is dope and the gay agenda, the kids didn't suddenly come out of their Obama stupor to become foreign policy wonks.
A chip off the old Blockhead.
Only in the land of the loony left could a despicable terrorist be a major threat one minute then become a “victim” the next.
yep
I did not intend to offend you. Bush was president on 9/11. He attacked Iraq???? you can’t make that up. The SOBs that killed 3000 of us were Sunni from Saudi Arabia!! invade them!! not Shiites in Iraq who did nothing to us. In either invasion you TAKE THEIR OIL!!! Your point is what?
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SH had been supporting terrorist for years.
Had he provided even a small amount of bio weapon material to the terrorist the terrorist could have brought this country to it’s knees.
You recall what happened with the small amount of anthrax sent through the mail?
A single quart of anthrax would have been enough to spread across the entire country and then some.
Just a few months ago everyone was talking about the WMD’s Syria has as coming from Iraq, maybe you forgot.
Personally I’m glad Bush didn’t take a chance and wait to respond until after an attack which would have made 9/11 look like a walk in the park.
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