PSA: Jeb Bush is a signatory co-founder of neoconservative foreign policy (PNAC).

[theeedude]

Which prioritized regime changes over fighting terrorism, and gave us 9/11 and Iraq.

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

Signatories to Statement of Principles[edit]
Elliott Abrams[5]
Gary Bauer[5]
William J. Bennett[5]
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush[5]
Dick Cheney[5]
Eliot A. Cohen[5]
Midge Decter[5]
Paula Dobriansky[5]
Steve Forbes[5]
Aaron Friedberg[5]
Francis Fukuyama[5]
Frank Gaffney[5]
Fred C. Ikle[5]
Donald Kagan[5]
Zalmay Khalilzad[5]
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby[5]
Norman Podhoretz[5]
J. Danforth Quayle[5]
Peter W. Rodman[5]
Stephen P. Rosen[5]
Henry S. Rowen[5]
Donald Rumsfeld[5]
Vin Weber[5]
George Weigel[5]
Paul Wolfowitz[5]

Quite a company right there.

 

[trenchfoot]

I think we can safely assume then that Jeb is indeed a Neocon whether he admits to it or not.

What really scares me even more is that most if not all of those guys are still alive and anxiously waiting for another chance to do that same kind of shit they did in Iraq all over again to prove they were right.

But as far as the USA is concerned, regrettably, history does have a habit of repeating itself so for me, it's not a matter of if, it's just a matter of when they'll get to do it over.

 

[Blackjack200]

Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donny Rums, who's who...

Looks like you haver a picture of John Bolton but he's not on the list?

 

[Brian Stirling]

Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donny Rums, who's who...

Looks like you haver a picture of John Bolton but he's not on the list?

Not sure if Bolton was one of the PNAC guys, but he's easily among the dumbest fucks around.


Brian

 

[theeedude]

Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donny Rums, who's who...

Looks like you haver a picture of John Bolton but he's not on the list?

Only so much room on that clown bus.

 

[trenchfoot]

Only so much room on that clown bus.

I thought that Bush sending him to the UN as our "Ambassador" after Bolton specifically stated that the UN needed to abolished was astonishing at the time.

But now that a string of history has played out after that fact, his appointment seems to be right in line with the neocon agenda.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...epublican-neocon-response-20150403-story.html

 

[Brian Stirling]

I thought that Bush sending him to the UN as our "Ambassador" after Bolton specifically stated that the UN needed to abolished was astonishing at the time.

But now that a string of history has played out after that fact, his appointment seems to be right in line with the neocon agenda.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...epublican-neocon-response-20150403-story.html

The harm the Bolton and the Bush/Cheney group did to the American standing in the world is mind boggling. At the end of the 90's, the end of the Clinton admin, the US was near it's zenith in prestige but within a few short years the Bush boys had undone all the good works that generations of Americans had built up. We are still digging out from them and even though the current admin has made efforts to correct what Bush/Cheney/Bolton had done the Repubs have fought every effort in this regard.

There's something in the righties nature that thinks giving the middle finger to the rest of the world is the right thing to do...


Brian

 

[master_shake_]

Written before the September 11 attacks, and during political debates of the War in Iraq, a section of Rebuilding America's Defenses entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" became the subject of considerable controversy. The passage suggested that the transformation of American armed forces through "new technologies and operational concepts" was likely to be a long one, "absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."[45] Journalist John Pilger pointed to this passage when he argued that Bush administration had used the events of September 11 as an opportunity to capitalize on long-desired plans.[48]

i mean hoping you get attacked just to get things you want. that's pretty low.