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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I’m blaming Goldwater myself. Maybe Alf Landon (he wasn’t elected president, but he would have done a lot of nasty things if he had been...so the libs tell me). The libs simply aren’t going back far enough. (snicker)
Of course it is Bush’s fault since Obama is an ideological narcissistic brat boy who is too stupid to learn from experience.
Those two as well. There's no limit to the depths of perfidy from Republicans. I think they're also responsible for the heartbreak of psoriasis and the odd hangnail. (smirk)
Wait a minute! Our Dear Leader is a kinder, gentler, peace loving man that we going to usher in world peace. Hell, the world gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for all the peace he was certain to bring. And the whole world would love the USA again.
What went wrong? Oh yea, George Bush....
(head slap)
I blame FDR
There was a best-selling novel published December 3 in which a Putin-like character invades Ukraine, and Russia is defeated by American black ops. If anyone is responsible for the revolution and invasion, it is the booksellers who failed to put that book in the Fiction section.
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." -- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..." -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
I’m betting Bush was also responsible for her being queer.
Does the idiot blame Clinton for 9-11?
Really, let’s put the damn blame right smack dab where it belongs, George Washington. If it weren’t for HIS foreign policy, we would be exactly what Rachael and her freaks think we should be......urapeons.
And Bill Clinton made her prefer women.
I knew this was coming only I thought O,bummer would be saying it!! It’s all Bushes fault.
Oh why not! I’ve been blaming our foreign policy mess (including the rise of the Bush I and Bush II administrations) on Jimmy Carter for 34 years!
Richie Maddow just needs to find a nice girl to settle down with.
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr..
First of all, 5 of those 13 years in Afghanistan belong to Obama.
Second, what is the Mad Cow’s background that makes her an expert on anything?
Where are the anti-war folks? They were at the Oscars last night sitting on their hands and keeping their mouths shut. They can’t say anything about Russia until they learn what their leader is going to do. Then they’ll all line up behind him.
Think about it. Say you’re George Soros and you want to buy the American press. Would lay out millions or billions of dollars to buy the money losers? Nope. A million bucks does it. You give ten people $100,000 each. Just find the decision maker in each newsroom. You control ten news organizations. It’s a cheap way to buy the news.
From the Guardian - October 2007
Vladimir Putin stirred ghosts of the cold war yesterday by comparing the Pentagon’s plan to site elements of its missile shield in Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 when the US and the Soviet Union went to the brink of nuclear war.
This gave us an indication that Putin had plans for the countries of the former USSR. It’s not like this snuck up on us.
Yep, right on cue...Yesterday, I wondered how long it would take to blame Bush.
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