All this tripe coming from a corrupt poof who was instrumental in crashing the housing market and has been bent over more times than an ironing board.
Posted on 03/29/2015 9:42:28 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
As a long-term strategy for defeating jihadists, Americans blaming George W. Bush ad infinitum is sure to be a winner -- for jihadists. It's right up there with American retreat from leadership in the world as high on their list of goals. And sure enough, former congressman Barney Frank heartily endorses both.
Frank was among the guests on last night's Real Time with Bill Maher, brimming with his usual persnickety bluster. At one point he tangled with conservative columnist S.E. Cupp on the subject of the abrupt US military withdrawal from Yemen.
This led to a pair of candid admissions from Frank --
FRANK: There's a broader question here. There are people who believe that America's role is to be the leader in the world and to preserve order and I think the time for us to say, you know what, we want to be very strong, we want to defend ourselves, we come to the aid of some allies, but we've been the leader for a while, it's been very nice, it's your turn, let's let somebody else be the leader.
MAHER: Exactly! Yes! ... They need to have this fight amongst themselves, the way the Christians and the Protestants did in the 16th century. ... It's gonna happen. Let them do it.
FRANK: There are Americans who believe that, and they say this, they criticize Obama -- what's Obama doing about that? Why is it Obama's responsibility to referee these fights with people who've hated each other for a long time. I'm sorry they do. We can't stop it. (applause)
CUPP: Do you think Obama has any responsibility, though ...
FRANK: In Yemen, no.
CUPP: ... for creating chaos, in fact, in Libya where he sent troops in?
FRANK: ... Well, he has a little in Libya. More is for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney ...
MAHER: Right ...
FRANK: That war in Iraq was the biggest ...
CUPP: Again, who got us pregnant. Let's stop arguing about who got us pregnant.
MAHER: Why?! It's relevant!
CUPP: But what are you going to do about it now?!
FRANK: .... First, you say, oh isn't it Obama's fault. ...
CUPP: I didn't say that.
FRANK: Yeah, you said, isn't it Obama's responsibility in Libya.
CUPP: I asked you if he has some responsibility for sending forces into Libya and then leaving ...
FRANK: In other words, you got us pregnant in Libya. So you're different about your pregnancy testing.
CUPP: No! I'm pointing out that you only want to blame Bush!
FRANK: Yes I do! Because the war in Iraq, the stupidest thing the American government ever did, the most costly and the most damaging, is a major reason why things began to deteriorate.
CUPP: I'm glad we settled that. So what do you want to do about it?
FRANK: Leave them alone. Leave them to their own.
CUPP: We'll talk in five years about how great that strategy is once we've left everywhere.
To recap: Frank wants the United States to be "very strong" -- providing we rarely resort to actually deploying that strength. He's more comfortable with Russia, China or, who knows, perhaps even a nuclear-armed Iran assuming global leadership while America continues its well-deserved decline. Considering their laudable track records, only an unrepentant neo-con would fear for a future dominated by any of them.
Cupp tried to rise above partisan bickering over US foreign policy in the Middle East by repeatedly asking the question -- what are we going to do about militant Islam now? Nothing, Frank answers -- "leave them to their own." He gets it backward -- it is they who won't leave us to our own, and hardly a week passes without violent and graphic evidence of this somewhere in the world.
It remains a mystery why Frank when he was still in Congress, hard at work mandating that banks provide mortgages to people who couldn't afford them, also voted in favor of the Iraq Liberation Act. So did well over three-quarters of his colleagues in the House, with President Clinton signing the bill into law in October 1998 -- two years before Bush was elected. Frank somehow managed to overlook that the legislation wasn't more aptly titled the Liberate Iraqis by Leaving Them Alone Act.
All this tripe coming from a corrupt poof who was instrumental in crashing the housing market and has been bent over more times than an ironing board.
We know Barney has had a lifelong hatred of bush.
Bonnie Fwank, AKA “Hotbottom” Just another Disease-ridden, mentally ill, child molester.
Why has Barney crawled out from under his Rock ?
Is he still running homosexual whores out of his apartment?
There’s something weird about S.E. Cupp talking with Bill Maher and Barney Frank about who got “us” pregnant. John Goodwin might want to know about this.
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 is a United States Congressional statement of policy calling for regime change in Iraq - two years before Bush was elected to the office of President of the United States.
And Barney Frank was all in favor of that policy at the time.
If the objective was never to seek ‘regime change’, but only to have fancy words down on paper, why pass a resolution to that effect?
George W. Bush was only using a tool put to his disposal.
Barney Frank talking about Bush is a hoot, that old queer don’t know jack about Bush, either one.
Barney is a hater of God and self, and as such, hates the Truth, hates the world, and Life. (Maher is not much different). He can’t fill the void in his rotten Soul and can’t find true “meaning” in his evil, pathetic existence of Life.
Vice creates slavery....and he has been a slave to Satan his whole twisted adult life. It is why officials who held office were always removed when there was even a whiff of evil surrounding them. But not since Nixon—the evil and twisted are kept in office and often glorified for their perversions and evil, twisted mind.
His particular sin, using young men/boys in such degrading, dehumanizing ways, is particularly vile and evil. The Afghani harem boy mentality and mind of goat rapers: haters and mutilators of women. A mind which desacralizes sex and the body to the realm of Satanism to mock God and Truth and Christianity.
We either embrace Christianity or Satanism. It is “either or” in Just Law-—there is no “homosexual” marriage allowed in a World which promotes Truth and Virtue and the Laws of Contradiction (Reason) which is the only purpose of any true Virtue System. You can never promote warped, evil views to young children and present vile behaviors and dehumanizing use of people, as “Good” to the children.
Of course, the last 100 years (John Dewey) is to corrupt and warp the minds of our children to destroy Individualism and Risk-takes (total emasculation) to just make wittle Barneys)-—for the NWO of “happy slaves”.
Barney Franks brain is fried...He has been mentally lost for most of his life...
I’m glad he is out of Congress and he needs to be ignored...MSM must be having a poor news day to go to him for remarks...
Slowly but surly we are getting them out of power...
WAKE UP VOTERS AND REMEMBER THIS IN NOV. 2017
OOPS...
2016...(SLOW DAY FOR ME TOO!!)
Hates economics, hates banks, hates big business, hates Bush -- hey, what's his FR nick?
The old queen is in the news because he released a book that no one, not even other old queens, is going to read. I wouldn’t even use the pages to line a birdcage. Go away Barney. Find a boy-toy to play with.
a good summary of Frank's life and times!
The enemy then and now, the enemy that presented an existential threat to the United States was Iran not Iraq but our misguided invasion of Iraq means even today that we do not have the stomach to deal with Iran. This is not simply a Barack Obama problem, although he is utterly hopeless and possibly treacherous, this was also a George W. Bush problem. Bush simply would not use military force to stop Iran getting the bomb. Was that a result of being burned in Iraq? There might've been a military justification then to engage Iran but it seems now to be beyond our reach militarily, politically, diplomatically and even morally.
The tragedy of the Iraq war extends not only to Iran but to the present chaos in the Mideast which will only worsen beyond our worst nightmares when Iran gets the bomb as it inevitably will. That war in Iraq has so many downsides attached to it that it is impossible to identify all of them or to assess their degree of harm. Consider one: Barack Obama was spirited into the Oval Office and identified as a genius because he opposed the Iraq war when competitors like Hillary Clinton voted for it. But Barack Obama did not oppose the Iraq war because he saw something that few others could see, he opposed the Iraq war because he was ideologically reflexive, he was and remains an opponent of the interests of the United States believing us to be font of evil in the world when we project power. In office he has done everything he can virtually everywhere (Afghanistan not excepted) to prevent or distort the application of American power. Not only did the Iraq war help put Barack Obama in office, it has provided him justification, a cover with which to pursue his ideology.
It is not a question of who is at fault for Iraq as these pundits debate, it is a question of properly identifying America's national interests and aligning those interests with viable solutions, some of which inevitably must be military in nature. The Iraq war has made that process almost impossible.
He has a book out....
OK that is the best line I ever heard for bwaney. Hat’s off!
I was just going to say “and then mahers blew bwaney.”
It sounds like Bahknee doesn’t like Bush.
Interesting to see how liberal you’ve gone.
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