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Last week, Jeb Bush, the all-but-announced GOP presidential candidate, stirred up a fuss when he privately told a group of Manhattan financiers that his top adviser on US-Israeli policy is George W. Bush. Given that Jeb has tried mightily to distance himself from his brother, whose administration used false assertions to launch the still highly unpopular Iraq War, this touting of W.even at a behind-closed-doors session of Republican donorsseemed odd. But perhaps more noteworthy is that Jeb Bush has embraced much of his brother's White House foreign policy team. In February, the Jeb Bush campaign released a list of 21 foreign policy advisers; 17 of them served in the George W. Bush administration. And one name stood out: Paul Wolfowitz, a top policy architect of the Iraq warfor the prospect of Wolfowitz whispering into Jeb's ear ought to scare the bejeezus out of anyone who yearns for a rational national security policy.
Wolfowitz, who was deputy defense secretary under George W. Bush, was a prominent neocon cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq. He was also the top conspiracy theorist in the Bush-Cheney crowd. As Michael Isikoff and I reported in our our 2006 book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, Wolfowitz, prior to the Iraq War, was a champion of a bizarre theory promoted by an eccentric academic named Laurie Mylroie: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, not Islamic extremists such as Al Qaeda, was responsible for most of the world's anti-United States terrorism.
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Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Wolfowitz is a horrible human being
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)THAT is bit of news we should sharing with people every single day, with no let up.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Isn't this the sleazy, grease-ball that got photoed sucking on his comb??
yeeccchhhh....
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)I wish all these retreads from previous administrations -- on both sides -- would just go away.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)This bastard should be "swinging" along with the rest of Dubya's criminal cabal.
Hey Jebbie...there's a saying: "The people you surround yourself with mirror who you are".
The "advisers" you're bringing in from your idiot brother's admin says a LOT about YOU.