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Posted on 05/14/2015 1:42:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“I would have invaded Iraq, and you would have too.”
That is literally what Jeb Bush told Megyn Kelly in an interview set to air tonight on “Fox So-Called News.”
Amazing, right?
Up until this point, Jeb has done everything he can to separate himself from his brother George W. Bush’s disastrous eight years as president.
Just a few months ago, for example, he went out of his way to say during a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that he was his “own man” and that his family’s track record didn’t say anything about what he would do as president.
The irony, of course, is that Jeb owes everything to his last name.
His connections, his money, the very fact that he’s taken seriously as a candidate – they’re all because his last name is “Bush.”
If his last name were anything other than “Bush,” he wouldn’t get anywhere near the amount of attention he’s getting.
But even so, being the brother of the guy who got us into the Iraq mess is something voters actually do care about, which is why Jeb has tried really hard to distance himself from “W.” and his policies.
That’s what makes what he said to Megyn Kelly about invading Iraq so surprising.
It’s a big break with his campaign strategy so far, which has been to sell himself as a “moderate” conservative who’s learned from the mistakes of the past.
But here’s the thing: If it is a break with campaign strategy, it’s an honest break with campaign strategy.
That’s because Jeb Bush isn’t really a moderate.
Like his brother and dad before him, he’s a neocon extremist.
The mainstream media has apparently forgotten this, but back in the late ’90s, Jeb helped found the Project for a New American Century or PNAC, a neocon think tank that called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and pretty much every other government the US didn’t like.
According to PNAC, the end result of this massive regime change campaign, would be a “Pax Americana” in which the US would dominate the world, its natural resources, and its economy.
It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie, but PNAC was very influential.
Many of its founding members like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Zalmay Khalilzad, for example, went on to serve in the George W. Bush administration where they helped plan the Iraq debacle.
If history’s any guide, these very same PNAC neocon extremists would also play a big role in a Jeb Bush administration.
The Washington Post has put together a great graphic comparing Jeb’s foreign policy advisers with the foreign policy advisers of the two Bush administrations and the Reagan administration, and that graphic makes one thing really, really clear: The same people who advised Ronald Reagan and both George Bushes on foreign policy are advising Jeb Bush on foreign policy.
This group includes people like Paul Wolfowitz – yes, that Paul Wolfowitz – who are so tied to both PNAC and the nightmare of the Bush II years that just mentioning their names makes it feel like 2003 again.
So while he can say whatever he wants about being a moderate, Jeb Bush is ultimately as extremist as they come, and if elected president, he’ll run this country just like his dad and brother did.
I must have missed it, but I didn’t see Ted Cruz referenced in the article?
Replace Jeb with Hillary, and read the article again. The criticism against Jeb’s qualifications can easily be applied to Hillary.
No better than? By what standard?
That would imply that thee was some sort of equivalency between Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. Possibly, for certain perspectives, and standing far enough away, both Jeb and Ted may look a little bit alike, but up close, there are some pretty strong distinguishing factors.
For one thing, Jeb probably has a much more polished accent when speaking Spanish, which may or may not be an advantage.
Ted, on the other hand, looks like a version of John Wayne standing next to Jon Lovitz when in the same room as Jeb.
Stupid commies, they’re peaking to soon. They are supposed to say endorse Jeb and say he is a “maverick” until he gets the nomination and then unload on him.
“That is literally what Jeb Bush told Megyn Kelly in an interview set to air tonight on “Fox So-Called News.””
Thom Hartman is a moron.
Good to see that Salon employs morons. Less money us taxpayers have to shell out.
I keep hoping Jeb will see the light of day and just not announce.
LOL, the Left is stuck on the Iraq war not realizing their own candidate not only voted for the war, but she pushed hard for it. And before you say she was duped by George, you’re really saying Hillary is stupid. And that means the lefties are pushing a stupid candidate for the White House. Stupid is as Stupid does
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