Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush: "Taking Out Saddam Hussein Turned Out To Be A Pretty Good Deal"

[EarlG]

Jeb Bush: "Taking Out Saddam Hussein Turned Out To Be A Pretty Good Deal"

Costs of Iraq war

Casualty figures

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[valerief]

1. All that money, guess where it went. To rich people. So for them it was a good deal. nt

[wordpix]

29. great job, EarlG, except you forgot to include how many Iraqis were made homeless

I think around a million.

[rhett o rick]

51. According to the wicked Wiki, 2.8 million Iraqi's displaced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internally_Displaced_Persons_in_Iraq

[SpankMe]

2. Really good pic of the moment...

The facts stated in the picture are, indeed FACTS. They are in-context and completely un-distorted. They are provable by anyone of any political persuasion. Yet conservatives still nuance and lie their way into believing twisted and illogical versions of these facts. And these conservatives vote and donate to Republican candidates.

We have to support Democrats with our $$ and with our activism. Get out the vote. Pick Hillary, or Bernie or whoever reflects your views and donate and vote. We cannot afford a Republican in the White House. It would be unthinkable.

[nichomachus]

3. And yet

Bibi Netanyahu is more bloodthirsty and more dangerous than Saddam ever dreamed of being -- and US politicians line up to suck his dick on a daily basis. And Bibi does have WMDs.

[zebonaut]

4. Oh; my daily life is just so much better. Yeah right.

[merrily]

5. If de-stabilizing Iraq and the rest of the Middle East was the goal, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Jeb! selfie

[hibbing]

6. Idiot #2

Yeah, keep living in some delusional world with your trust fund and your sociopath brother. Good deal for the Iraqis for sure since they do not have basic things like electricity, clean water and any other aspects of "normal" life they had before the immoral war based on lies.

Peace

[SoapBox]

7. Billboards, billboards, billboards!

Nationwide.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Jeb is forever imbued with the scent of Chimp

The scent of Chimp permeates his every molecule and follows him everywhere, wherever he goes. He can say or do anything but he will carry the scent of Chimp forever.

[tavernier]

9. Jeb just now gave out his personal email addy

in Iowa, no doubt as some sort of "gotcha" to HRC.

Perhaps we should all send him a copy of the OP?

[JackInGreen]

10. He's out of his damn mind

[merrily]

22. Who knew Dimson's brother was even dumber?

[wordpix]

30. he's been proving this for quite awhile, thus the name, "Dimmerson"

coined by someone here at DU

[LittleGirl]

32. LOL, I love that! eom

[merrily]

36. Good one!

I had decided that, henceforth, I will refer to him exclusively as Jeb! However, I renege on that. I will, from time to time, use Dimmerson.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. A bit rough on the little people, but hey, sometimes you gotta break some eggs ...

... not to make an omelet or anything, just to get some eggs broken.

[yuiyoshida]

12. His brother the

"war President".

[barbtries]

13. he's always had this reputation of being the smart one.

i think he's every bit as stupid as his brother and as craven as his mother. fuckall the bushes.

[Martin Eden]

23. With some of these RW bastards it's hard to tell if they actually believe their own rhetoric

Telling the truth is not an option, so they have to count on teabagger types being stupid enough to believe the lies.

Of course there is no shortage of real lunatics like Ghomert & Bachmann.

[erronis]

14. Can't they just blame it on the brown president who didn't "clean up" after Georgie's messes?

[notemason]

15. Getting the feeling

that Mommy sent Jeb out not to win but to try to perfume Bubba's stink.

[merrily]

31. Not enough febreeze in the world.

[JDPriestly]

16. K&R.

[C Moon]

17. Jeb has no choice but to be a spin doctor: his brother screwed us under as bad as he could.

Let's see if this spinning sticks. The media doesn't seem to be concerned with him spinning things.

[ffr]

18. A clear and present danger to America

The Bush Crime Family.

Register. And vote for Democrats. At every level. It's your civic duty to protect this nation from those who are here to destroy it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. The casualty figures are even higher if you count wartime diseases....

Cholera and dysentery just for starters.

Then there's the stupidity of thinking everyone in jail was a political prisoner of Saddam. They "liberated" a bunch of people who sought revenge against those that sent them to jail. In some cases is was husbands who went home to rape and murder their wife.

[Babel_17]

40. Iraq was a developed nation

We see what happens to communities when they're hit hard by a devastating disaster. Loss of the lives of loved ones, jobs, homes, schools, means a rise in depression, suicide, and a plethora of other mental health issues.
How do you weigh the cost of it all? Saddam is gone, and so is his family. But look at what's replaced his rule in that region. How dare a Bush minimize the pain that's been endured by these people.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. Wolfowitz predicted the Iraqis would build a grand square to honor Bush for liberating them.

[Babel_17]

46. I hope you don't mind me replying by way of this B5 quote that your post brings to mind

Elric: Well, take this for what little it will profit you. As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds–the sounds of billions of people calling your name.
Londo: My followers?
Elric: Your victims.

P.S. This video almost demands the viewing of the one wherein Mollari unwittingly has his first dealing with a representative of the Shadows. It goes to the vanity and insecurity behind the quest for glory and grandeur, the siren call of which lured those who pushed us into war.

I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power. I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to—to look back, or to look forward. I want us to be what we used to BE! I want…I want it all back, the way that it was!

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Babylon_5

[Spitfire of ATJ]

54. Vir handled him best....

[Babel_17]

55. Lol, not the only fan, I see

That show was ahead of its time. President Clark and the Nightwatch, the bending of the media to support the administration. JMS has a lot of insight.

In case you missed it:

And the authorized forum: http://jmsnews.com/forums/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

56. This wasn't so much a TV series as it was an extended movie.....

I have all of the episodes. They have to be watched in order for it to make sense.

The ending was cool. The most advanced fleet of warships in the galaxy reassigned to peacekeeping.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

57. I remember the criticism Michael Moore received, including a lot of critics here

for the 20 seconds or so in Fahrenheit 911 for showing Iraqui people living normal lives under Saddam Hussein, kids on swingsets and flyng ki.tes. That was called a distortion of reality when in fact Iraquis were living like many in the west, playing in heavy metal rock bands and women showing heir faces and hair in public and wearing make-up and western clothes.

[Babel_17]

59. It was a straight up dictatorship, but that's not an excuse to destroy a nation

Greece not that long had a military dictatorship, Russia has something of a dictator in Putin. And of course :cough: Saudi Arabia :cough:.

(By way of ineptness and malfeasance) Render any of those nations into barbarism and you'd be called the worst kind of dangerous criminal.

No one mourns Hussein and he was a thorn in everyone's side. His murders and tortures, his bellicosity and plots, were reason to want him gone. Our best minds thought up a strategy to eventually win out over the Russian bloc without taking down civilization while doing so. It's a sad commentary that the Bush administration didn't have the wherewithal to match their kind of vision against such a relatively insignificant, and already hemmed in, country like Iraq.

All the resources of the CIA couldn't fund and organize a leadership to eventually supplant Hussein's clique in the Ba'ath party? Even when the writing on the wall was clearer every year?

[mudstump]

20. An easy thing to say

when you don't have any skin in the game and you are a war profiteer.

[gordianot]

21. Not written by the Onion or Borowitz I assume?

[MattP]

24. Cant believe he said mission accomplished!

[Babel_17]

41. I think you hit on the caption that should be used (nt)

[cindyperry]

25. he's went

fucking crazy

[malthaussen]

26. If one were Haliburton or some other corporate person.

It simply depends on whom one is serving.

-- Mal

[jwirr]

27. And you did not even include the destabilization of the whole ME. Good

points.

[WillyT]

28. K & R !!!

[Enthusiast]

33. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

The Jebster!

[polynomial]

34. So very true Jeb is caught in his brother’s lies…

With family tradition all the lies in the last millennium of the Bush Crime Inc. these are family lies of Jeb. Besides something smells fishy and the media just ignores it.

The catastrophes of the Bush Crime Inc. include the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 and lasted 87 days, releasing about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the ocean from a mile deep well.

Halliburton a key player admits to cover up, the key player here is long time Crime Inc. friend Cheney skipping away with million if not billions in profiteering.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lessons-from-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-2012-12#ixzz3iochn0De

This oil spill is categorized as the largest oil spill in American history and the effects on public health and food supply are determined and kept in silence.

Ground Zero is a war monument of Bush Crime Inc. Profiteering in your face, they made money on the new Twin towers and slapped America in the face sending the bulk of twin tower salvage to China, was that move used to cover up the details of crime? Details surface on the Internet that the complicit media avoids talking about the material for a new war ship. Never forget the corruption...

The biggest media complicity is Bush Crime Inc. long time business partnership with the Bin Laden family that has been going on for decades in the last millennium.

What is really striking is the complete silence by mainstream media in Bush’s long time association with Nazi finance during world war two.

Today history repeats itself with arrogance and defiance Bush Crime Inc. along with Jeb covered up a massive air lift of the Bin Laden family days after 911. A secret air lift so the Royal Arab family would not be jeopardized. Yet nineteen Arabs are identified as 911 terrorist.

Bush Crime Inc. ethos or integrity of lies continues to penetrate todays very depreciated transportation railroad company the Union Pacific. I intend to prove that Union Pacific company safety managers are still tied to old fashion retaliation or retribution with the ability to make employee’s as victims rather than assets.

My true story will convince America will be another Bush Crime Inc. victim.

[SmittynMo]

35. Looks like a deer in the headlights.

Totally clueless. And I thought GW was a dingbat. WOW.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

48. Jeb must have just read My Pet Goat

[SmittynMo]

53. Where's the antlers?

Or are they hidden like "My favorite Martian". Hmmmm

[TBF]

37. Smh. K&R nt

[AZ Progressive]

38. That quote should sink him

Proves that he's no less clueless than his brother.

[Babel_17]

39. Great post. I'd like to add mention of the people made into refugeees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_Iraq

By 16 February 2007, António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said that the external refugee number fleeing the war reached 2 million and that within Iraq there are an estimated 1.7 million internally displaced people.[10] [11] The refugee traffic out of the country has increased since the intensification of civil war.[10][12]

This is a demonstration of one of the reasons why it's considered a war crime to use false pretenses, and no credible threat, to invade a country and destroy its ability to maintain the peace. And it flat out stinks that our Congress doesn't allocate more money to take care of these people. To talk more of that would be to head to an off topic rant.

[StevieM]

43. I think to many in the GOP it was a success because they like #11--Iraqi infrastructure destroyed.

I think many Republicans saw Iraq as a potential future regional power. It had a ton of oil, including long-term oil reserves. And it had a senior military leadership that gained tactical skills in the Iran-Iraq war.

Saddam's state was quite pathetic towards the end. 12 years of sanctions, along with the air campaign against Iraq during Desert Storm, had left the country a shell of its former self. But many Republicans saw long-term potential in Iraq to become a future regional power.

The war has left Iraq decimated. I think that this was exactly what many of the war's proponents wanted.

[Initech]

44. Hopefully Jeb! is the end of the BFEE.

We know what they did, and they can't bank on election theft anymore.

[niyad]

50. isn't there yet another member of this sick and twisted family in politics in texas?

[monicaangela]

45. Excellent Pic....Perfect!

This is a perfect example of how some in this country are led down the path of insanity. JEB!...Short for Just Elect Bernie is trying to rewrite history while it should be still fresh in the minds of we the people who just, by the way, lived through this disaster, and are still suffering the effects of the havoc his sibling and his administration brought to this nation...How about we give JEB (Just Elect Bernie) a History lesson every time he has a rally...Evidently he has been attending a Charter school in Texas since retiring from the Governors Mansion in Florida where he also did mischief to help get his brother elected in the first place.

[niyad]

47. is he trying to imply that he or his lackwit brother had anything to do with removing hussein?

[niyad]

49. and let us remember that the numer of troops killed only counts those who died immediately on

the field. it does not count the ones who died later in hospitals elsewhere, does not count the ones who came home and committed suicide (sometimes, after killing loved ones). it does not count the devastation wrought on the families, there and here.

[Stuart G]

52. Perhaps the dumbest thing, and most insensitive thing.. said about "The Iraq War" -2003

A "good deal" sure, for Dick Cheney..
not for the dead and wounded.....on all sides.
.Jeb's comment will define his stupidity...

[Herman4747]

58. I would add to the list:

1) Millions of Iraqis displaced, some becoming refugees
2) Undermining of International Law

[Laura PourMeADrink]

60. brilliant Earl just brilliant! nt

[YOHABLO]

61. I also would like to add to the list: The amount of money unaccounted for; STOLEN!

[RiverNoord]

62. Rotten, heartless, stupid son of a bitch.

I would have thought his brother was the one blessed with the lion's share of those traits.

Looks as though they are spread around quite abundantly among the Bush brothers...

[enid602]

63. mommy

Just like his mommy said katrina victims had it pretty good. If you look at the photo in the OP and add a fuzzy gray wig and pearls, who do you have?

[VA_Jill]

64. Did you ever see the website

"Hungover Owls"? http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com
And don't you think Jeb belongs on that page?

[EEO]

65. Jeb Vows to Reinstate Iraq War, Torture, Lies, All Other Mistakes Brother Made and More

Jeb Vows to Reinstate Iraq War, Torture, Lies, All Other Mistakes Brother Made and More

[47of74]

66. Fuck them. Fuck them all.

All the warmongers. Jeb. Dubya. Cheney.