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 ...
Scratch Paul from my list of top three.
I’ve never understood the fascination with this man. I have never been on the randwagon and decided I was disinclined to get on it when he voted yes on the Hagel appointment.
You forgot to add Jebbie to your list.
Yes, and SH had slaughtered and tortured his own people as well as the kurds. The problem with Iraq was when the bureaucrats like L. Paul Bremer decided to ‘nation build’. That’s where we started to lose it. We should have stopped after we got Saddam and then left. Take out the dictator and leave and tell the Iraqis they are on their own. We will take a percentage of their oil as payment and be on our merry way.
The left did not help our cause with their constant attacks on Bush and the military.
Amazing how the left supported the war until the terrorist had time to form an opposition force, then right on queue, the terrorist went on the attack and the left went on the attack against Bush at the same time.
It's often forgotten (or intentionally overlooked) in discussions like these, but there was a conversation with Vice-President Cheney that Bob Woodward reported in Bush At War (2002).
Woodward wrote that, shortly after 9/11/01, he asked Cheney about the source of the anthrax attacks. Cheney responded "We believe we know who did it. But we're not ready to do anything about it yet."
Recall that, at the time, it was widely speculated that the anthrax powder had come from Iraq -- but, curiously, the FBI (i.e., the administration) kept deflecting the conversation toward a domestic source.
As disinformation, this approach would be consistent with "We believe we know who did it. But we're not ready to do anything about it yet."
Most people don’t realize just how small a quantity of bio weapon it takes to cover/contaminate a huge area.
In the 50’s and 60’s the govt. tested using non hazardous bio agents, how bio weapons could be dispersed and the area affected.
Crop dusters, dumping it in the subway and letting the subway carry it along, mail, etc. you name it they tried it.
Just a small amount dumped in a subway would cover,contaminate an entire city the size of NY in just a few hours.
Yes, and he supported the closure of Guantanomo Bay, said our national security is not threatened by a nuclear Iran, etc. Then he denied all of this and those who brought it up during the campaign were viciously attacked and branded as liars.
Actually we probably lost it in 2006 due to Mark Foley. Prior to that we were actually steadying in the polls. No doubt, however, that the way things were going in Iraq was a huge negative and seats were going to be lost. “The surge” should have been done long before it was to stabilize Iraq.
We lost it in 2008 due to the financial collapse coming just before the elections.
Well, that “surge” that came years later should have been done immediately - imagine Iraq being stable in 2006 and our troops withdrawing prior to the 2008 elections.
That wouldn’t have stopped Mark Foley or the financial collapse, but at least that would not have been an issue...both politically and more importantly for the good of the people in Iraq and our military.
Are you cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish the differences between Libertarians and Leftists.
Libertarians oppose big government whether the Republicans or Democrats control the government.
Leftists only oppose big government when the Republicans control the government.
Understood, but on some issues, the Libertarians sound as nutty as the latter.
Good bye Rand!!!!!
Those attacks on Bush and our troops came courtesy of Soros and his 10 million dollar campaign to demonize Bush.
Bastard that he is.
Btw, doesn’t barry still use Halliburton?
I swear, this place seems more like DU these days with some of these people. It is one thing to disagree with the wars in the Middle East. There are plenty of things to take issue with.
It is another thing to say it was done only to line the pockets of someone, as many of these people maintain.
Delusional and ignorant.
Sometimes there is no difference.
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