Sometimes, I really appreciate Donald Trump’s big mouth. During Saturday’s Republican debate, Trump brought up the GOP elephant in the room – that despite Republicans constantly screaming that the Democrats are weak on security, both 9/11 and the Iraq war (which led to IS) happened on their watch.
Trump attacked Jeb Bush, saying that he was wrong about the Middle East. Bush responded with a barb saying that Trump “gets his foreign policy from the shows.” Trump then talked about Jeb’s brother George, and Jeb responded “I’m sick and tired of him going after my family!”
Trump countered, saying “The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign. Remember that. That’s not keeping us safe.”
Then Marco Rubio defended Bush, claiming that 9/11 was Clinton’s fault. “The World Trade Center came down because Bill Clinton didn’t kill Osama bin Laden when he had the chance to kill him. I just want to say, at least on behalf of me and my family, I thank God all the time it was George W. Bush in the White House on 9/11, and not Al Gore.”
Trump responded, “How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center–the World Trade–excuse me. I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George W. Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe. That is not safe.”
I always wonder if somewhere, deep in the Republican psyche, they realize how stupid they sound when they keep repeating that Bush kept us safe. Not just 9/11, but anthrax attacks after that, and lying us into a disastrous war in Iraq? Do they really think that they can just keep repeating that nonsense and people will give them a pass for the worst terrorist attack on America ever?
6 Comments
Do they really think that they can just keep repeating that nonsense and people will give them a pass for the worst terrorist attack on America ever?
Why not, it’s worked for them so far.
The biggest irony was in debate (very close to this back and forth) when Jeb said, I am sick of Obama blaming his brother for bad economy, and then Clinton was being blamed for 9/11.
Whether or not 9/11 would have happened under a Gore presidency can never be known, of course. But what we can say with absolute certainty is that under Gore (who won the popular vote, thank you SCOTUS) we would not have unilaterally invaded Iraq under the false pretenses and cherry-picked intel that Bush/Cheney/Rummy drummed up. Like him or not, Gore was no chicken hawk.
That Republicans now try to pass the blame on Obama for all the subsequent blowback (ISIS, Syria, Iran, etc.) and the cratering economy in ’08 is exactly the kind of tantrum you would expect from a small child who breaks the cookie jar and then points a finger at his more mature brother showing up on the scene a few minutes later.
Remember, we had the whole world on our side after 9/11 (even Iran, look it up!) up until “Shock and Awe”. Watch the 2005 documentary sometime, “Why We Fight”. As relevant now as then, perhaps even more. Ike must be spinning in his grave. http://bit.ly/1TjuARd
Republican politics is never having to say you’re sorry when there’s always a liberal to lay the blame on. Especially a secret Muslim alien, faithful Christian voters.
He kept us _in_ a safe.
He kept us safe because war is peace, slavery is freedom, and ignorance is wisdom.
GOP – the party like it’s 1984!
“I always wonder if somewhere, deep in the Republican psyche, they realize how stupid they sound when they keep repeating that Bush kept us safe. Not just 9/11, but anthrax attacks after that, and lying us into a disastrous war in Iraq? Do they really think that they can just keep repeating that nonsense and people will give them a pass for the worst terrorist attack on America ever?”
In a word: “Yes.”