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Jeb Bush Heckled over Iraq War: ‘Your Brother Signed a Bad Deal!’
Source: Mediaite
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was heckled during an Iowa speech over his brother George W. Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq.
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“We had to get out in 2011!” the heckler yelled.
Despite the interruption, Bush kept his composure. “We didn’t have to get out in 2011,” he retorted.
“Your brother signed the deal!” the heckler continued.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/jeb-bush-heckled-over-iraq-war-your-brother-signed-a-bad-deal/
I wonder if the Jeb! folks are beginning to regret the brilliant idea of making the Iraq debacle the centerpiece of their campaign.
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Somehow, the Shock and Awe Right to Rise Dark Money $114 million SuperPAC campaign isn't going according to plan.
Jeb Bush at the Iowa State Fair on Friday, August 14, 2015
via Mashable
Jeb Bush Responds To Iowan Who Says "Your Brother Signed The Deal" To Exit Iraq In 2011, August 14, 2015
An attendee of the Iowa State Fair heckles GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush over his policy proposal to restart the Iraq war in earnest to eliminate ISIS.
"Will we be welcomed as liberators again? Or," asks the man.
"Right now we have 3,500 soldiers and Marines in Iraq already," replies Bush. President Obama has deployed them in groups of a few hunded every few months since 2013. "We have no startegy, it jsut kind of creeps up, we're responding incrementally to the problems that exist rather than having a strategy," Bush says.
"What I've heard from the advisors is, first of all, the Iraqis want our help..." Bush began.
"They wanted us out in 2011," the Iowan voter yells.
"Excuse me?" Bush says. "
We) didn't have to get out in 2011."
"Your brother signed the deal!"
President Bush planned the 2011 withdrawal before 2007 because it was safely outside his term limit.
"It could have been modified and that was the expectation. Everybody in Iraq and everybody in the administration knew this deal could have been expanded."
"Your brother signed a bad deal!"
"And now we have to do something else," suggests Bush. "Deal with the fact that we have Islamic terrorists organized as a caliphate."
Bush's policy: more weapons to Iraqi "moderates."
"Rebuild the Iraqi military, arm the Kurds, reengage with the Sunnis... And we need to do the same thing in Syria."
"Will we be welcomed as liberators again? Or," asks the man.
"Right now we have 3,500 soldiers and Marines in Iraq already," replies Bush. President Obama has deployed them in groups of a few hunded every few months since 2013. "We have no startegy, it jsut kind of creeps up, we're responding incrementally to the problems that exist rather than having a strategy," Bush says.
"What I've heard from the advisors is, first of all, the Iraqis want our help..." Bush began.
"They wanted us out in 2011," the Iowan voter yells.
"Excuse me?" Bush says. "
We) didn't have to get out in 2011."
"Your brother signed the deal!"
President Bush planned the 2011 withdrawal before 2007 because it was safely outside his term limit.
"It could have been modified and that was the expectation. Everybody in Iraq and everybody in the administration knew this deal could have been expanded."
"Your brother signed a bad deal!"
"And now we have to do something else," suggests Bush. "Deal with the fact that we have Islamic terrorists organized as a caliphate."
Bush's policy: more weapons to Iraqi "moderates."
"Rebuild the Iraqi military, arm the Kurds, reengage with the Sunnis... And we need to do the same thing in Syria."
Jeb is NOT HAPPY with this line of questioning from the masses.
And, it is now emerging that Jeb Bush lied about the "meeting" he claims he had with Black Lives Matter activists before his speech in Las Vegas. Didn't happen.
Apparently, only AFTER he was questioned by BLM during his presentation, and avoided answering, did a spontaneous chant arise from BLM in the audience. Then, his campaign puts out a statement that claims that Bush met with BLM BEFORE his speech. Clearly, that didn't happen.
WASHINGTON -- A Las Vegas campaign event for GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush came to a sudden end this week as activists, unhappy with how Bush addressed a question on racial injustice, chanted, "Black Lives Matter."
After the confrontation, the Bush campaign said the candidate had privately met with advocates for the movement before the event, an assertion that appeared in multiple articles about the disruption.
But that description is misleading, The Huffington Post has learned.
There was a meeting, but no activists from the Black Lives Matter movement participated. Instead, Bush met with a local elected official, a GOP lobbyist and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization.
Kevin Hooks, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Urban League, told HuffPost he set up the meeting at the Bush campaign's behest. His organization focuses on providing job opportunities for low-income residents. Hooks said that while he respects Bush for reaching out, he would not characterize the people at the meeting as Black Lives Matter activists. "It's a little disingenuous," he said.
There were three people at the table with Bush. Hooks confirmed that a member of his staff was one of them. North Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Pamela Goynes-Brown was the second, and she said the third attendee was Sean Fellows, a registered lobbyist for a communications firm who once ran as a Republican candidate for state assembly. The Las Vegas Sun once reported that he wore through his New Balances campaigning, and the photo accompanying the article showed him sporting pleated khakis.
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The Bush campaign did not comment on whether it stood by its statement that the candidate met with Black Lives Matter advocates. The campaign said that advocates were invited, and couldn't speak to why people might not want to attend.
.....
Jamie Hall, who supports Black Lives Matter, stood up during the Q&A session and listed statistics about racial disparities in police killings. She asked Bush how he planned to address issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline.
Bush responded that there are "serious problems," and that "there is racism in America, no one should deny that."
Tenisha Martin asked Bush, "How do you relate to it?" She told HuffPost that she is a single mom with a teenage son whom she sends out every day, "nervous he may not come home."
Bush, visibly annoyed at the interruption, pivoted to discussing his plan for education reform and took no more questions. Jeanne DuBose told HuffPost, "We weren't interrupting; we were listening. And once (Hall) asked her question, that was it. He turned around, he started to walk away," she said. "We stood up and we started chanting, 'Black Lives Matter.' He just ignored that."
Attendees described the chant as a spontaneous outbreak. "We weren't happy or satisfied or any of that with his answers," Martin said.
After the confrontation, the Bush campaign said the candidate had privately met with advocates for the movement before the event, an assertion that appeared in multiple articles about the disruption.
But that description is misleading, The Huffington Post has learned.
There was a meeting, but no activists from the Black Lives Matter movement participated. Instead, Bush met with a local elected official, a GOP lobbyist and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization.
Kevin Hooks, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Urban League, told HuffPost he set up the meeting at the Bush campaign's behest. His organization focuses on providing job opportunities for low-income residents. Hooks said that while he respects Bush for reaching out, he would not characterize the people at the meeting as Black Lives Matter activists. "It's a little disingenuous," he said.
There were three people at the table with Bush. Hooks confirmed that a member of his staff was one of them. North Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Pamela Goynes-Brown was the second, and she said the third attendee was Sean Fellows, a registered lobbyist for a communications firm who once ran as a Republican candidate for state assembly. The Las Vegas Sun once reported that he wore through his New Balances campaigning, and the photo accompanying the article showed him sporting pleated khakis.
.....
The Bush campaign did not comment on whether it stood by its statement that the candidate met with Black Lives Matter advocates. The campaign said that advocates were invited, and couldn't speak to why people might not want to attend.
.....
Jamie Hall, who supports Black Lives Matter, stood up during the Q&A session and listed statistics about racial disparities in police killings. She asked Bush how he planned to address issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline.
Bush responded that there are "serious problems," and that "there is racism in America, no one should deny that."
Tenisha Martin asked Bush, "How do you relate to it?" She told HuffPost that she is a single mom with a teenage son whom she sends out every day, "nervous he may not come home."
Bush, visibly annoyed at the interruption, pivoted to discussing his plan for education reform and took no more questions. Jeanne DuBose told HuffPost, "We weren't interrupting; we were listening. And once (Hall) asked her question, that was it. He turned around, he started to walk away," she said. "We stood up and we started chanting, 'Black Lives Matter.' He just ignored that."
Attendees described the chant as a spontaneous outbreak. "We weren't happy or satisfied or any of that with his answers," Martin said.
All of this is very easy to understand when viewed in the context of a question asked of Jeb Bush during his failed campaign for Florida governor in 1994.
He would have been President of the United States before his brother George but the first time Jeb Bush ran for governor in 1994 he lost. During the campaign Bush was asked by reporters what his administration might do for Black Floridians. He made a tactical blunder. He gave an honest answer. He said, "Probably nothing." Jeb Bush got 4% of the African-American vote and Lawton Chiles beat him in a close race.
We Floridians had this early clue in 1994 as to what kind of governor Jeb Bush would be for minorities.
He has not changed in the least.
....while he, a PNAC signatory, is trying to rewrite history and whitewash his brother. 
