(Sen. Tom) Coburn Says Iraq War 'Probably A Mistake' ("How we got there is (the) past")

[sabra]

Source: AP

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Sen. Tom Coburn, who was an advocate for President George W. Bush's decision to take the country to war against Iraq, now says going to war was "probably a mistake."

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"I will tell you personally that I think it was probably a mistake going to Iraq," he said. He made it clear he did not believe the U.S. could withdraw but had to stay.

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"I personally think we have to finish this," Coburn said. "People who are running for president saying 'Bring our people out' are wrong."

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Last weekend, Coburn said "we are on a glide path in the Muslim world" to creating a sustainable democracy and warned that withdrawing would "expose 570,000 people to genocide."

"How we got there is (the) past," he said.


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[saigon68]

1. Ass-Clown

[ckramer]

13. Exactly

Tens of thousands of Iraqis are dead today because of this invasion and he said it as if this a game.

[truthisfreedom]

2. "How we got there is (the) past," he said. Another "brush it under the rug" rethug.

Sickening.

[bunkerbuster1]

3. I'm thinking of that scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

"Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who..."

[Deny and Shred]

10. Yeah, because US oil comapnies now "have huge tracks of land" in Iraq

Coburn says we should stay until we finish...
What exactly does "finish" mean, Tom?
Oh, and freedom and democracy for all Iraqis is not a legitimate answer.

[Tom Joad]

4. I think he borrowed clinton's line ""How we got there is (the) past,"

[acmavm]

5. Well, if he scrapes up every warm body in the circle of his family

and friends and heads on down the recruiting office, I'll give a shit what the SOB has to say. Otherwise he can drop dead.

[idovoodoo]

21. His daddy gave Oral Roberts 20 million dollars back in the 1980s

in what was probably an abortive attempt to buy eternal bliss.

[ozymandius]

6. The past? Does he mean like this?

Ex-Nazi Guard Jailed in Italy After Extradition

ROME—A former Nazi guard extradited from Canada arrived in Italy on Saturday to serve a life sentence for war crimes committed there during World War Two.

Michael Seifert, who had lived in Canada since 1951, landed at Rome's Ciampino airport before dawn on Saturday.

Italian TV footage showed the 83-year-old, wearing a baseball cap and walking slowly with the help of a cane as local police escorted him out of the airport.

An Italian military tribunal convicted Seifert in absentia in 2000 for torturing and murdering at least 18 people while serving as a guard at a prison camp in the northern city of Bolzano between December 1944 and April 1945.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-2-21/66338.html

[Hissyspit]

7. Fuck you, Coburn. There is no statute of limitations on murder.

:grr:

[librechik]

8. so if a conman lies, cheats and defrauds Tom Coburn out of his retirement nest egg--

NEVER MIND--That was all in the past.

[DRoseDARs]

9. WW2 was probably a mistake (for the German people). The rise of the Nazi Party is in the past...

...and therefore irrelevant.

What a clown. :eyes:

[BadgerKid]

11. Hey..let's ignore the past so we can repeat it again!

Signed,
Republicant Logic

Grrr....:mad:

[Downtown Hound]

12. No Tom, it's not

I will remember the lies told to get us there to my dying day, and I will never forget your betrayal of America.

[rpannier]

14. Yeah...I ran over those third graders in the crosswalk and kept on driving

Probably should have stopped to see if I could have helped them

But it's over with

How it happened is a thing of the past

[mr_hat]

15. "Glide path in the Muslim world"!?

Really - glide path?

[LynnTheDem]

16. "we have to finish this"; yes, they didn't want us to invade & occupy them, we did anyways.

They don't want us to stay. We stay anyways.

Finish WHAT, exactly...killing off the rest of the people of Iraq???

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. "we are on a glide path "

That term again. Some other repub used it, last year maybe. Who was it?

[damntexdem]

18. And if someone socked him in the jaw ...

would Coburn accept the defense that the hit was, by then, in the past?

[Roland99]

19. The American presence *IS* the reason for much of the divide and the violence.

Ugh...these brain-dead rhetorical morans.

:banghead:

[struggle4progress]

20. Oh, it's jest like when y'finds yerself goin th'wrong way up th'interstate. Sure, th'folks in th'car

all wants y't'pull off th'road an' stop NOW!. But deeps in yer heart, y'knows th'mistake already done been made. There ain't no sense cryin about it nor tryin t'point no blamin fingers: th'manly thing t'do is t'deal without spillin yer beer cuz that WILL BE A MAJOR PISSOFF!!. Also too there is all them maniacs with 18 wheels rushin toward ya, threatenin like. So y'reach into th'glovebox for yer 45 ... well, y'now ... could happen t'anybody

[FVZA_Colonel]

22. It's not "the past" you dumb little shit.

At least, not as you meant it.

[sakabatou]

23. Kiss-up rethuglican.

[xxqqqzme]

24. how we got there may be the past

but we are still occupying a country that posed no threat; we destroyed their infrastructure, their schools, hospitals AND people are still being killed. So, you gomer, what do we do about TODAY?