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Old 05-09-2015, 08:33 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I'm surprised he's putting his cards on the table and acknowledging he wants to take us back to the Bush-Cheney years in foreign policy.

Is this what GOP voters are looking for?

One of Jeb Bush
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Old 05-09-2015, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Gone
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I'm surprised he's putting his cards on the table and acknowledging he wants to take us back to the Bush-Cheney years in foreign policy.

Is this what GOP voters are looking for?

One of Jeb Bush
Is it what the voters are looking for, nope. Is it almost inevitable that Jeb will be the GOP candidate, I would say at this point that the answer is yes. So we get the choice between Bush or Clinton, no thanks I will Pass.
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Old 05-09-2015, 09:41 AM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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Is it what the voters are looking for, nope. Is it almost inevitable that Jeb will be the GOP candidate, I would say at this point that the answer is yes. So we get the choice between Bush or Clinton, no thanks I will Pass.
If this ends up being a dynastic election - which I hope it won't - lots of people will probably just stay home.
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Old 05-09-2015, 01:29 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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I'm surprised he's putting his cards on the table and acknowledging he wants to take us back to the Bush-Cheney years in foreign policy.

Is this what GOP voters are looking for?

One of Jeb Bush
Well, he is good at facilitating the good life for terrorists when the price is right.

The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals | World news | The Guardian

From the article:

Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.

According to the justice department in George Bush Sr's administration, Bosch had participated in more than 30 terrorist acts. He was convicted of firing a rocket into a Polish ship which was on passage to Cuba. He was also implicated in the 1976 blowing-up of a Cubana plane flying to Havana from Venezuela in which all 73 civilians on board were killed.
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Old 05-09-2015, 02:49 PM
 
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And I used to thick that Jeb was the bright one.
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Old 05-09-2015, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Johnson Creek,WI
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Is it what the voters are looking for, nope. Is it almost inevitable that Jeb will be the GOP candidate, I would say at this point that the answer is yes. So we get the choice between Bush or Clinton, no thanks I will Pass.
I would say Jeb has as good a chance at the GOP nomination as Ben Carson. Heck,Rubio has him beat in Florida. Texas will go to Cruz. What does he have? Puerto Rico? American Samoa?
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Old 05-09-2015, 03:42 PM
 
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Well if there was any uncertainty about Jeb Bush's foreign policy there isn't anymore. He will continue his brother's interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East, the same brother who helped to destabilize the Middle East with his 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
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Old 05-10-2015, 02:51 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Well if there was any uncertainty about Jeb Bush's foreign policy there isn't anymore. He will continue his brother's interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East, the same brother who helped to destabilize the Middle East with his 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
And Jeb affirmed that today:

Jeb Bush: I, Too, Would Have Authorized Iraq Invasion
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Old 05-10-2015, 03:14 PM
 
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Jeb Bush, for everyone who wanted George W Bush in for a third term, idiotic foreign policy in all. Comical Jeb Bush is taking policy advice on the Middle East from the same person who destabilized it.
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Old 05-10-2015, 05:16 PM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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Brother George learned a lot of lessons the hard way over there, but I wonder just how much and what he took away from the lessons. It seems that there are others who could possibly be more objective in their advice than GW.

I think it's pretty much agreed that we had very little reason to go into Iraq, and no matter what validity there could have been wasn't enough for the price we had to pay.
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