to FR compassionate conservative.
Posted on 02/15/2016 1:57:52 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday said Donald Trump's openness to the idea of impeaching President George W. Bush for the Iraq war was "an extreme and radical position."
Speaking to reporters ahead of a rally in Aiken, South Carolina, Cruz went after Trump's comments from the CBS News GOP presidential debate on Saturday night in which he attacked the former president.
"On Saturday, one of the strangest moments was when Donald Trump repeatedly attacked George W. Bush and defended his position seeking to impeach George W. Bush," Cruz said Monday.
"Now, when he was arguing for the impeachment of George W. Bush, that was not a reasonable position."
At Saturday night's debate, moderator John Dickerson alluded to a CNN interview Trump did in 2008 in which he said he was surprised that Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, didn't try to impeach Bush, which Trump said, "personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing."
Asked whether he still believes Bush should have been impeached, Trump did not answer the question directly and instead said he gets along with everyone as a businessman.
On Monday, Cruz also attacked Trump's sister, Maryanne Barry, who he said was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be a federal appellate judge.
"Donald's sister was a Bill Clinton-appointed federal appellate judge who is a radical pro-abortion extremist," Cruz said. "Indeed, she wrote an opinion striking down restrictions on partial birth abortion, saying that restricting partial birth abortion was irrational. Even among liberal judges, that position is extreme, and Donald said, his extreme, abortion-supporting sister would make a terrific Supreme Court justice."
Trump backed away from that statement on Sunday, saying he suggested it as a joke.
I don’t know what that means.
“im so sick of these crybaby bushs”
I could care less about the Bushes. But the only one crying here is trump, with his threats to sue and go third party because he’s being attacked in a primary.
“In other words, Trump is tapping into that deep sentiment of anger and dislike of the Bush presidency”
Just for this week.
to FR compassionate conservative.
No, it’s been going on a while. This is like a long, drawn-out exorcism in which we must cast off the demons of the GOPe, the establishment, the donors, and the blathering classes.
“No, it’s been going on a while.”
until next week when he comes out and says what great people they are and how he likes everybody.
Like I say, a long slow exorcism. Will feel much better when it’s over.
Rush Limbaugh mentioned today that Trump was attacking a much “revered” president in South Carolina. I have never seen that word attached to George W Bush.
“Did Trump really want to nominate his sister for SCOTUS”
Can you be serious. The woman is way beyond retirement age. He was being kind to his sister. He probably loves her.
Feb. 10, 2006A former top CIA official said the Bush administration used prewar Iraq intelligence selectively to make the public case for war after having already decided to invade the country, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Feb. 8).
“Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war,” Paul Pillar, national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, wrote in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. The administration “went to war without requesting — and evidently without being influenced by — any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any aspect of Iraq.”
“It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between [Bush] policy-makers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized,” Pillar wrote.
Pillar, now a security studies professor at Georgetown University, was considered the CIA’s top counterterrorism analyst prior to his retirement. He was responsible for coordinating assessments on Iraq from throughout the U.S. intelligence community, according to the Post.
BTW, we really did land on the moon...
First you state:
“I wasn’t aware that becoming president endows people with the ability to be all knowing.”
Then you state:
“That implies that Bush knew the truth, and knowingly lied to help make the case for war.
That is pure 100% BS.”
How do you have the ability to know what George W Bush knows?
No nukes.
No MCWFs
none.
...just old chemical shells left from the Iran wars.
I love it when truth is exposed. Bushbots can’t help themselves.
“BTW, we really did land on the moon...
I’ve seen evidence... unlike Iraq
I saw you corrected yourself quickly.
Tell that to declining Middle America who've become the results of these corrupt insider politicians destructive foreign policies, which all but looted the American treasure and weaken the U.S. in every direction.
And you want to keep things business as usual? Not this time.
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