Jeb Bush Is Rewriting The Iraq War To Cover Up His Brother’s War Crimes
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/jeb-bush-is-rewriting-the-iraq-war-to-cover-up-his-brothers-war-crimes-2/
Shortly following the launch of his presidential campaign, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush struggled to answer questions about whether or not he would have followed in brother George W. Bush’s footsteps and invaded Iraq in 2003. At the time, Bush had responded, “Knowing what we know now, I would have not engaged.” It almost sounded like Jeb was aware of the fact that his brother had plunged our nation into a catastrophe.
He has then embarked on a misinformation campaign to rewrite the narrative and gloss over his brother’s war crimes that were committed during the Iraq War- the countless civilians that lost their lives to American contractors, the widespread use of torture and abuse of prisoners of war, the American soldiers that were knowingly sent into contaminated and toxic sites.
If a moment of clarity was what brought Jeb Bush to that statement, it didn’t last long. It seems that the Republican presidential candidate has had a change of heart this week, because he flip-flopped…again. During a speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in California, Bush watered the Iraq War down to a simple “miscalculation” and then had the audacity to blame President Barack Obama for ISIS and every other consequence that followed. Claiming that the real mistake was taking U.S. troops out of Iraq in 2011, Bush said:...
Bush strategically left out one very important piece of information in his version of history: the fact that it was his older brother who made the decision to withdraw U.S. troops in 2011. Obama was simply honoring those negotiations, and allowed some U.S. military to stay behind in Iraq for support. Obama’s intentions weren’t able to be carried out completely because the Iraqi government pushed for the majority of the U.S. troops to withdraw by the end of the year, but to this day thousands of U.S. soldiers and military contractors remain in the Middle Eastern country.
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