Marco Rubio: Iraq invasion 'was not a mistake'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet


© Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters before the senate luncheons in the Capitol
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Sunday that he thought former President George W. Bush had acted correctly by authorizing the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on facts known at the time.

“It was not a mistake for the president to go into Iraq based on the information that he was provided as president,” Rubio told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

“He wasn’t dealing with a Nobel Peace Prize winner,” Rubio said of the second Bush administration’s struggles with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

“The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein is not there,” Rubio added of the invasion’s aftermath.

Rubio, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said that the second Bush administration acted on the best available intelligence it had at the time.

That analysis, he added, initially implied that Iraq had obtained weapons of mass destruction.

“It was governed by a man who in the past had committed atrocities with weapons of mass destruction,” Rubio said of Hussein’s regime in Iraq.

Rubio said it was unfair to criticize former President George W. Bush’s decision simply because Iraq’s stockpile of weapons of mass destruction never materialized.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rubio-iraq-invasion-was-not-a-mistake/ar-BBjTt0s

[tularetom]

1. And the winner in the "even dumber than jeb bush" category is...

[FrankAB]

2. Basically, a kid

This guy is barely 40 years old and acts like he knows anything. He was a teacher and now mouths off about things he knows nothing about.

"The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein is not there,” Rubio added of the invasion’s aftermath."

Yes, it's a better place for you, Mr. Rubio, as long as you let others do the dirty work.

"Rubio, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said that the second Bush administration acted on the best available intelligence it had at the time."

I guess the "best" intelligence includes lying.

[muntrv]

3. The world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Forget that overthrowing him led to the creation of ISIS, the world is better off.

[hatrack]

9. Well, yeah, ISIS, one million dead on site, 4,500 dead Americans . . . .

Tens of thousands of wounded Americans, $3 trillion burned in a gigantic money pyre . . .

Other than that, you betcha, Marco!

Fucking pantload.

[sadoldgirl]

4. I wonder why he is kissing Jeb's butt?

A future promotion into a repug cabinet?

[bluesbassman]

7. He's angling for VP.

He knows he has little chance of securing the GOP nomination.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Shit, Rube, we all knew that...

It was intentional, thus not a "bad intelligence" based error.

The PNAC crowd have wanted to invade Iraq for years and years. They finally found a figurehead pretzledent stupid enough to buy into their bullshit and actually do it. And Congress followed along like good little corporate shill sheep.

Not a mistake, just a world class clusterfuck from the word go.

[Thinkingabout]

6. Perhaps he is jealous of the attention Jeb is getting from msm. Just when I think I can see

A light on in Marco's house he shoots the light out.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

8. all Rubio did

was drag out the old lies, dust 'em off and used them again. What a maroon!

[JaneyVee]

10. Thank you Jeb Bush for bringing the Iraq War back to the forefront.

[bemildred]

11. It was a disaster, a catastrophe. nt

[think]

12. If Bernie is the nominee the Iraq war is a salient issue since he voted NO

on this epic atrocity against humanity.

[Gothmog]

13. Rubio is a neocon and an idiot

[Javaman]

14. Rubio believes he and pass through walls...

that's the only way I can explain his wanton ability to keep bashing his face into one.

that man is a moron.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. "It was the biggest strategic blunder in the history of the republic."

We had Saddam in a box with the no fly zones and he was too weak to threaten his neighbors but strong enough to be a bulwark against Iran.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Of course it wasn't. It was quite intentional. The stated reasons were all bullshit. n/t