GOP Iraq Hypocrisy Hits Overdrive
Michael Tomasky
POLITICS 06.16.14
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And as a side note, let’s not forget the decision by Bush’s man Paul Bremer to disband the Iraqi army. That left a lot of unemployed officers who, according to regional expert Fawaz Gerges, went and joined…ISIS.
And finally, we have to ask: Is there anything, anything at all that the Republicans wouldn’t use as a political sledgehammer to pound Obama with? What would it take for that hypocrite McCain, who tweeted back in 2010, when the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq, that Bush deserved “some credit for the victory,” to say something like: “Hey, you know what? We’re all responsible here for this problem. I haven’t supported the president’s approach, but I voted for this war.
Maybe all of us who voted for this war should work with the president to figure out how to solve this problem.”
That you are laughing at how naive that sounds isn’t a reflection on me. It’s a reflection on today’s Republican Party. It shouldn’t be such a ludicrous notion, especially given their history as the people who brought us this epic disaster, that a Republican might say such a thing.
Could you imagine that? The opposition working with the White House, trying to solve a problem that everyone one way or another bears some kind of responsibility for? I didn’t think so.
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