GOP Sen. Jeffords Says Bushes Will Declare War Again to Win Elections

Michael Kinsley has said that in Washington, a “gaffe” is when a politician slips up and tells the truth in an public interview. Last week, Republican Sen. Jim Jeffords made just such a gaffe when he told a Vermont NPR interviewer that he believes Pres. Bush and his followers would declare war on Iran to put another Bush family member in the White House.

“I think it was all done to get oil,” Jeffords said of invading Iraq. “And the loss of life that we had, and the cost of it, was to me just a re-election move, and they’re going to try to live off it. Probably start another war, wouldn’t be surprised, next year. Probably in Iran.”

“Do you think that’s likely?” VPR host Bob Kinzel asked.

“I probably shouldn’t even talk on it, I just feel so bitter about the thinking that’s gone on behind them, and the reasons they go to war and went to war,” Jeffords replied. “But I feel very strongly that they are looking ahead, and that there will be an opportunity to go into Iran and try to get their son elected president. I don’t know, but you do it each time they (are) going to have a new president. I’m very, very (Jeffords chuckles). Oh, well, I better be quiet.”

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