Bush: More troops in Iraq ‘may well be needed’

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: mcclatchy

Jeb Bush said more soldiers and marines “may well be needed” in Iraq as he laid out a muscular approach to defeating the Islamic State Tuesday night, calling for embedding troops with Iraqi forces as he sought to lay the blame for the terrorist group’s emergence on President Barack Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Iraq war has bedeviled his campaign, but Bush sought to turn the tables, blaming Clinton and the Obama administration for allowing the Islamic State to grow by pulling out troops and leaving Iraq in a “blind haste.”

“They believe in soft power,” Bush said. “I don’t have a problem with soft power, as long as there is hard power behind it.”

At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Bush laid out a more detailed plan for fighting the terrorist group than any of his Republican presidential rivals. But his speech carried risks, with Clinton’s campaign calling it a “bold attempt to rewrite history and reassign responsibility.” And he called for stepped up military involvement in Iraq and in Syria, including air strikes and enforcing a no-fly zone.

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Anyone else think I went back in time to get this headline and news story?

LOL

[yuiyoshida]

1. I have a better idea,

Lets send all the Bushes to Iraq.

[newfie11]

2. Fantastic idea

I would vote for that.

[bulloney]

3. Until these sociopaths like the Bushes get a real taste of what war involves, they'll continue

to just gin up the war calls.

Bush's MIC donors are apparently crying that they're not raking in tons of money as fast as they'd like.

This is all Bush and Cheney's fault. They lied us into Iraq and created this quagmire that will never get resolved. The fact that those clowns and other members of their administration haven't been tried as war criminals is further proof that we have a two-class system consisting of the sociopaths with all of the money and the rest of us who are little more than cannon fodder for the sociopaths.

[RoccoR5955]

5. Better yet.

Sent the ENTIRE Bush Crime Syndicate to Iraq!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Anyone else think I went back in time to get this headline"

[restorefreedom]

16. i love your student at his desk

i never saw that one before!

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Ooo! Oooo! Mister KOT-TERRRR!!!!!!!

[restorefreedom]

19. wow does that take me back. nt

[City Lights]

6. Pack your bags, Jeb, and those of your family and get the hell over there!

Lead the charge!

[billhicks76]

7. He And His Partner Hillary Should Go First

Put them both on the front lines.

[Javaman]

8. typical bush tactic, when bereft of original ideas, they double down on stupid. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Like Father, Like Sons

The apples didn't fall far from the tree

[whathehell]

10. Then send your kids, Jebbie.

[MosheFeingold]

12. He did

His son George P Bush served in Operation Enduring Freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Bush

I don't care for the Bushes, in the least (although I did respect the original Bush as a fellow serviceman in WWII, even though I disagreed with him -- they don't make many Republicans like that any more).

[whathehell]

13. Its nice to hear at least one the original Bush's 11 Military age grandchildren served..

but considering the wars they've started and want to start, I wouldn't call it a grand slam.

All five of FDR's sons served in WW11, four of them in combat.

[silenttigersong]

11. Yeah

I always wondered if Bush and Cheney had been prosecuted ,how that would have affected the situation in Irag.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Didn't I see this headline ten years ago?

It was old then, and it doesn't get any better with age.

[tabasco]

15. Republicans love to send your sons and daughters off to unnecessary wars

not their own.

[uppityperson]

17. Your comment was my first thought, HOW could this be lbn? Argh

[lark]

20. Hot damn, who would have thought of that?

A Bush wanting to send Americans to die in Iraq, oh, that would never happen. Yeah, right. Seems it's in their DNA, you get a shrub, you get a war in Iraq.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

21. Will the MSM ever correct this lie?

President Obama merely followed the SOFA. From Wikipedia:

The U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008.

It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. combat forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.[1] The pact required criminal charges for holding prisoners over 24 hours, and required a warrant for searches of homes and buildings that were not related to combat.[1] U.S. contractors working for U.S. forces would have been subject to Iraqi criminal law, while contractors working for the State Department and other U.S. agencies would retain their immunity. If U.S. forces committed still undecided "major premeditated felonies" while off-duty and off-base, they would have been subjected to an undecided procedures laid out by a joint U.S.-Iraq committee if the U.S. certified the forces were off-duty.[2][3][1][4]

The agreement expired at midnight on December 31, 2011, even though the United States completed its final withdrawal of troops from Iraq on December 16, 2011. The symbolic ceremony in Baghdad officially "cased" (retired) the flag of U.S. forces in Iraq, according to army tradition.[5]

[dhill926]

22. I am now convinced...

he is as stupid as his little brother...