According to Reuters’ Steve Holland, Bush has tapped a “diverse” roster of former George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush officials to advise his burgeoning campaign on foreign policy, including key architects of the 2002 invasion of Iraq.
The list of advisers provided to Reuters by a campaign aid includes Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Hadley, as well as former George W. Bush Homeland Security Secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Bush adviser Meghan O’Sullivan.
— From the Think Progress article: The Same People Who Lied To You About Iraq Are Now In Charge Of Jeb Bush’s Foreign Policy
It may be hard to believe, but either one of the two status quo choices for U.S. President currently being force-fed down the American public’s throat will be almost unquestionably more imperial and warlike than Barack Obama. The reason is simple. Any society that apathetically stands by as one President after the other tramples on the Constitution will be subject to a litany of increasingly tyrannical, and even insane, leaders. This is why the oligarchy isn’t even pretending that we live in a Republic or a Democracy anymore. They are shoving our pathetic servitude right in our face by putting up these two preposterous and dangerous candidates.
If you still had any doubt, today we learn that Jeb Bush is actively surrounding himself with the exact same people who under the George W. Bush administration, masterminded the terrible tragedy known as the Iraq war.
Think Progress covered this predictable, yet terrifying, reality earlier today. Brace yourself:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) will deliver a speech on Wednesday that seeks to distance his foreign policy views from the previous two Bush presidents, saying, according to early excerpts, that while he admires his presidential family members, “I am my own man.”
“[M]y views are shaped by my own thinking and own experiences,” Bush will say as he lays out a vision that calls for increased military spending in order to project strength and encourage peace worldwide.
“Having a military that is equal to any threat is not only essential for the commander in chief … it also makes it less likely that we will need to put our men and women in uniform in harm’s way,” he will say. “Because I believe, fundamentally, that weakness invites war … and strength encourages peace.”
Yes, like all the peace the U.S. has unleashed upon the world since 9/11. Such as the creation of ISIS from the smoldering crater your brother left in Iraq.
The remarks come just days after Bush brushed aside questions about his view of President George W. Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and as the Florida governor and presumptive GOP frontrunner works to define himself in the early days of the 2016 campaign.
According to Reuters’ Steve Holland, Bush has tapped a “diverse” roster of former George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush officials to advise his burgeoning campaign on foreign policy, including key architects of the 2002 invasion of Iraq.
The list of advisers provided to Reuters by a campaign aid includes Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Hadley, as well as former George W. Bush Homeland Security Secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Bush adviser Meghan O’Sullivan.
Let’s take some of these characters one at a time…
Paul Wolfowitz – Wolfowitz, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration, began advocating an attack on Iraq shortly after the Sep. 11 attacks, established “what amounted to a separate government” to push for war and invited journalists to secret meetings in order to lay out the foundation for his plans. Wolfowitz established the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon that ignored the conclusions of the intelligence community and fed policy makers and the media discredited claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Stephen Hadley – Then-Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley famously disregarded warnings from the CIA and then-FBI director George Tenet and included references to Iraq’s pursuit of uranium in Bush’s speeches, a claim that proved to be false. Hadley later apologized for leaving the now-infamous phrase in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address and was promoted to become the president’s National Security Adviser.
Meghan O’Sullivan – Meghan O’Sullivan was as a top adviser to L. Paul Bremer — the U.S. viceroy in charge of the Coalition Provisional Authority that is blamed for mismanaging the occupation of Iraq immediately following the American invasion — and is credited with developing the security agreements and early transfer of sovereignty negotiations between the United States and Iraq. She also served as special assistant to George W. Bush from 2004 to 2007.
In 2003, for instance, Jeb Bush explained to Florida reporters that “in his heart, I know [George W. Bush] is doing what he thinks is right, and I concur with him.” Ten years later, he told an NBC reporter that “history will be kind to my brother [on Iraq] the further out you get from this and the more people compare his tenure to what’s going on now.” And in a joint CNN interview with George in 2010, Jeb said, “I have never disagreed with [George W. Bush]… ‘til death do us part.”
History is being written as we speak, and we can now see that the war in Iraq led directly to the creation of ISIS. Kind indeed.
This is all I have to say about that…
For related articles, see:
America’s Disastrous Foreign Policy – My Thoughts on Iraq
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When Asked if the U.S. is a Capitalist Democracy or Oligarchy, Janet Yellen Can’t Answer…
New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Fuck these Bush bastards. They have been balls deep in America for over one hundred years. Go away!
CIA for the win.
The political aristocracy of the USA is naught but a gang of inbred career criminals.
Remember Jesse Jacksons rants back in the day, “stay out the Bushes, stay out the Bushes………”
Bush is going for the McCain strategy . Let all the anti immigrant, low tax , smaller government types knock each other out in the primaries.
Because all those primaries have winner take all even if Bush only gets 20% ( most of those voters actually being Democrat spoilers of course) , Bush becomes the front runner against a Rublican extremist according to the Joos in the media.
I see third party candidate.
The economy collapsing is what may finally wake everyone up to what a lousy job these psychopaths have been doing. Lies catch up with people eventually.
I don’t like anyone running.Jeb just makes me as ill as Hillery running. I guess people really are stupid.
I see Rand Paul getting elected.
All these so-called “advisors” should be in prison for the rest of the lives including “W”, Cheney & Rumsfeld. We sure as hell don’t need and probably can’t survive another “Bush” in the WH.
BTW, if you really want to learn the truth about the Bush family, read Russ Baker’s great book “Family of Secrets”. I guarantee it will open your eyes to who these people really are, and what they’re capable of.
michael chertoff starring in- Body Scanners II, The Return of Skeletor
Dynasty politics: You either get the 3rd Bush, or you get the ex-president’s wife. Sounds a lot like south america, doesn’t it?
Here is a recent picture of Jeb (second row) with some others from W’s presidency.
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I’m more republican than Sensi but will not vote for that SOB. Voted for Claire Mckaskil over Jim Talent because he was a RINO pretending to be an American. Things are not one bit different because we have a real communist in the Senate rather than a subversive one. George Wallace was right ” not a dimes worth of difference”.
Jeb Bush Exposed Part 2 – He Thinks Unconstitutional NSA Spying is “Hugely Important”
Michael Krieger | Posted Thursday Feb 19, 2015 at 3:55 pm
In some ways I’m actually looking forward to the imperial spectacle that will be the Jeb Bush vs. Hilary Clinton Presidential contest in 2016. Just like an alcoholic or drug addict is often unable to shake the cycle of addiction until hitting rock bottom, so too it seems the American peasantry must hit political rock bottom before becoming fed up enough to do something about it; and I can’t imagine a more odious, absurd scenario than being forced to chose between another Bush and another Clinton.
I’ve given Hilary a lot of grief here at Liberty Blitzkrieg, primarily because she’s an oligarch coddling embarrassment (links at the end). Jeb Bush hasn’t received the same treatment as of yet, but I’m going to do my best to make up for lost time.
Just yesterday, I highlighted his unsurprising neocon foreign policy chops in the piece, Jeb Bush Exposed Part 1 – His Top Advisors Will Be the Architects of His Brother’s Iraq War. Specifically, we learned that:
According to Reuters’ Steve Holland, Bush has tapped a “diverse” roster of former George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush officials to advise his burgeoning campaign on foreign policy, including key architects of the 2002 invasion of Iraq.
The list of advisers provided to Reuters by a campaign aid includes Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Hadley, as well as former George W. Bush Homeland Security Secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Bush adviser Meghan O’Sullivan.
Imperial war monger: Check. What about his view on let’s say the 4th Amendment of the Constitution? He doesn’t seem to want to be bothered with such trivialities. The Wall Street Journal reports that:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is seriously considering a run for the White House in 2016, said Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program that collects bulk telephone records was “hugely important,” throwing his support behind the practice as Congress debates whether to reauthorize or limit it.
At an event on foreign policy hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Mr. Bush, a Republican, said, “For the life of me, I don’t understand the debate” over the metadata program.
The program’s many supporters say it helps the U.S. government prevent terrorist attacks. But its critics believe it exists with little oversight and few boundaries and could allow the government to spy on U.S. citizens.
Interesting, how did the Wall Street Journal fail to mention that former NSA chief Keith Alexander admitted that the spying hasn’t achieved much of anything. In the 2013 article, NSA Chief Admits “Only One or Perhaps Two” Terror Plots Stopped by Spy Program, we learned that:
The Obama administration’s credibility on intelligence suffered another blow Wednesday as the chief of the National Security Agency admitted that officials put out numbers that vastly overstated the counterterrorism successes of the government’s warrantless bulk collection of all Americans’ phone records.
Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.
As we know, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Back to the WSJ.
Mr. Bush’s comments are significant, as the legal authority that allows the program to exist is set to expire in June. Congress is weighing whether to rework the program in a way that would strip the NSA of some of its powers.
Mr. Bush’s support for the metadata program puts him in sharp contrast with another likely GOP White House candidate, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Mr. Bush – as he made evident during his comments in Chicago – supports more government spending on the military and a broader military influence.
Reason accurately covered Jeb’s absurd position in it’s piece:, Jeb Bush: “I don’t understand the debate” Over the NSA’s Bulk Phone Records Collection Program. Here are some excerpts:
Does Jeb Bush truly not understand that some people—indeed, quite a lot of people—might find a vast, secret, program to spy on millions of citizens to be a little bit creepy? That many in the public might understandably find this to be a potential government overreach, or an abuse of federal power?
Perhaps he really doesn’t. If so, that should disqualify him from the GOP’s presidential nomination before his run even officially starts. But I doubt that he is truly as flummoxed by concerns about the program as his dismissive remark suggests.
Instead, I suspect he knows all too well what the program entails, what its critics argue, and why it has remained a topic of controversy for so long. But Jeb Bush does not want to defend the particulars of the initiative so much as he wants to publicly stand by his brother’s administration and then settle the issue by declaring that it is not one. Despite his declaration yesterday that he is his “own man,” and not his brother or father, he would not even broach the possibility that his brother’s program might be deserving of any critique.
Put another way: Jeb Bush claims he doesn’t understand the debate because he doesn’t want there to be a debate. But there is one, and if he is to run for president, he will have to take part in it.
BINGO. It’s like a Jedi mind trick. “These are not the drones you’re looking for…there is no debate, what debate, move along peasants…”
Over the C
I don’t want or like Jed Boosh. But I’d vote for him over Hillary.
It’s like this Men and bb. You are sentenced to death and are given a choice.
1. You can be skinned alive head to toe.
2. You can die by firing squad.
Me, I’ll make a choice.
Flash and his buddy Leftcoaster will say we are dead either way and let someone else make the choice for them.
I don’t want Al Sharpton and his followers making choices for me, thank you very much.
I hate it when newbies post billboard size pic’s, it fucks up the view on my IPad. Stucky has been known to do it as well. Lol
I wouldn’t get overly concerned about hillary or jeb. Hillary, much to the horror of the dimocrat establishment, has aged out. She is a walking book of verbal gaffes, especially after dark, when the booze starts flowing. Fire in the belly – not there. Jeb? Who are his voters? Noone. No right, no left. Bu-by fat boy
Shit’s getting deep when the issue of the day is who loves America. God will have to take a back seat while non-patriots who obviously hate America are shamed into supporting America’s newest war of liberation. We shall liberate the middle east from the threat of ISIS and make it safe for true peace-loving Muslims. Support our troops, support the war to end terror, support America, the land that God loves and you should too. Fuck Yeah!
Another Clinton or another Bush? Is that it? Is that all there is? WTF! Is this comedy or tragedy? I think it’s both.
Evil III vs Evil II, wow, what a choice we have!
I predict the two former First Ladies, for a win Alex.
My gut has been telling me it will be Hillary and Mooshelle vs. Bushie and probably Christie or Romney.
Oh what joy, freedom and a return to productivity and the American Dream will come forth from either of those choices.
Voting for the lessor evil continues to verify your own evilness, no matter how badly you wish it weren’t so.
I doubt Clinton will run. She’s really too old, and her health is failing.
And Michelle O’bama? I mean, please, how did this rumor even get started? The woman really has very little interest in politics per se, and has interested herself only in the traditional “first lady” type concerns since her husband took office. She is most likely chomping at the bit to get into the $5M house in whatever warm-climate paradise she and her husband will retire to when he leaves office, so she can bask in luxury on the presidential pension and perks given ex-presidents.