Tag: Iraq War
Walter Jones Is Dead
“Because I did not do my job then, I helped kill 4,000 Americans, and I will go to my grave regretting that.”
— Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), quoted by the Raleigh News & Observer in 2015 on voting to authorize the Iraq war. Jones went to his grave Monday, Feb. 10.
Trump Can’t Stop Lying about Opposing the Iraq War
In his speech on terrorism last week Donald Trump repeated the lie that he opposed the Bush-Cheney invasion of Iraq in 2003.
“I was an opponent of the Iraq War from the beginning – a major difference between me and my opponent,” Trump said, reading prepared remarks from a teleprompter.”Though I was a private citizen,whose personal opinions on such matters were really not sought,I nonetheless publicly expressed my private doubts about the invasion. I was against it, believe me. Three months before the invasion I said, in an interview with Neil Cavuto, to whom I offer my best wishes for a speedy recovery, that quote, perhaps we shouldn’t be doing it yet and that the economy is a much bigger problem.”
Factcheck.org, the rigorously nonpartisan fact checking organization, says this statement is not true:
Rumsfeld Now Claims He wWas Against Iraq War
I’m not one who thinks that our particular template of democracy is appropriate for other countries at every moment of their histories. The idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic. I was concerned about it when I first heard those words.
— Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, telling the Times of London “that efforts to oust Saddam Hussein and replace his tyrannical regime with democracy were unworkable, and that he had concerns about the plan from the beginning.”
Brian’s A-Lyin’
Brian Williams seemed as trustworthy as a friar,
It looked like his career could only go higher.
We thought he was a reporter,
But turns out he’s a bullshitter.
He’s just another lower-than-a-snake’s-belly liar.
Axelrod Hits Clinton Over Her Criticism of Obam’s Foreign Policy Stance
Just to clarify: “Don’t do stupid stuff” means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision.
— Former Obama adviser David Axelrod on Twitter (@davidaxelrod), hitting back at Hillary Clinton for her comments rejecting President Obama’s self-stated foreign policy principle, “Don’t do stupid stuff.”
Invade, Leave, Repeat
We got out, but now we’ve got to go back,
‘Cause their soldiers just don’t have the knack.
At the sight of a gun
They turn tail and run,
So we’re back — on the attack — in Iraq.