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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (852716)	4/27/2015 9:57:36 PM
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (852716)	4/27/2015 10:11:53 PM
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look who crawled out from under his rock George W. Bush Trashes Obama’s Iran Deal Because He’s So Great At Foreign Policy Over the weekend, George W. Bush trashed Barack Obama’s Iran deal behind closed doors before a group of Jewish Republican donors. This breaks with a decades-long custom of past presidents staying silent on the policies of current presidents to preserve civility. As recently as Nov. 2014, Bush II told Sean Hannity from Fox “News” he avoids bashing Obama out of respect for his former office, as mentioned by Mediaite: “I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president; I think it’s bad for the presidency for that matter,” Could the fact that pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Adelson spent a whopping $13.2 million in the 2014 midterms have something to do with Bush’s change of heart? After all, the GOP’s pretty danged desperate to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. The New York Times reports Bush gave an hour-long Q&A session at a Republican Jewish Coalition event hosted by Adelson at his Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas. While Bush demurred on questions about his brother Jeb, he showed no such restraint when it came to his thoughts on President Obama and the Iran deal. The event took place behind closed doors, of course, but one of the people present managed to transcribe many of Bush’s statements. Despite the abject failure of Bush’s costly and criminal war in Iraq, he doubled down on supporting the GOP’s hawkish policy in the Middle East: Mr. Bush, whose war in Iraq eventually became deeply unpopular and fueled President Obama’s 2008 candidacy weighed back in on the Middle East Playing to a room full of people who are mostly pro-Israel and who mostly oppose the deal with Iran, Bush sneered at Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani: “He’s smooth. And you’ve got to ask yourself, is there a new policy or did they just change the spokesman?” Bush added that giving Iran any access to nuclear technology at all would make the Middle East more chaotic — as if decades of GOP foreign policy had nothing to do with creating Al Qaeda or Isis: “You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. That’s how Americans should view the deal.” Successful foreign policy requires delicately nuanced negotiations, but the GOP prefers to see things in black and white. In fact, Bush II quite aptly sums up his party’s foreign policy in a nutshell. “In order to be an effective president … when you say something you have to mean it,” he said. “You gotta kill em.” The Iraq war was a disaster for nearly everyone involved, except for contractors who raked in $138 billion. In 2013 The Financial Times also reported former Veep Dick Cheney’s Halliburton alone made at least $39.5 billion. At the time, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) — who chairs and helped create the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight (PDF) — declared: “These numbers are staggering. In the last decade, we’ve seen billions in taxpayer money spent on services and projects that did little – sometimes nothing – to further our military mission.” The problem is, we can’t keep propping up brutal regimes in the Middle East so we can take their oil and have access to their oil. We spend way too much blood and treasure defending our oil interests, the world hates us for it, and being evil foments terrorism. And, unfortunately, the brutal regimes we prop up include our allies in Israel. After World War II and the Holocaust, creating a safe haven for the Jewish people seemed like a good idea. It still would be if Israel were also a safe haven for the Palestinians in Gaza, who also have a history with and claim to that land. Despite what the GOP and Fox News would have us believe, Obama has never shied away from using force when necessary. He just gets that if we want to uphold our American ideals of freedom, justice and prosperity, we can’t be all stick and no carrot all the time. __________________