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Robert Reich
I'm here in Florida visiting my father, Ed Reich, who, at the young age of 100 and a half, just came up with one of the most incisive assessments I've heard of what's happened in Iraq: "George W. Bush and the crooks he hired are responsible for this. If they hadn't lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction we wouldn't have lost nearly 5,000 American lives and god knows how many Iraqi lives, and stirred up this hornet's nest. Obama has spent his entire administration cleaning up Bush's shit, like someone with a giant pooper scooper." Dad has lived during the administrations of 17 presidents. "Bush was the worst," he says. "Reagan the second worst."
malaise
(269,237 posts)Immediately
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SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)What a joke!!! This member is a new member today and this is the only post. I didn't think you could advertise on this site. If you go to the site all the posts are good posts. No idea what it costs, or what is involved, other than supplying an email address.
Your gig is up - go elsewhere and quit preying on innocent people. This has SCAM written all over it.
Sorry, but right after I posted, the original post was removed.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Bush and his band of criminals did this, own this and should be prosecuted.
malaise
(269,237 posts)as a symbol of ReTHUG folly and punishment for war crimes
MANative
(4,113 posts)Hooray for Ed, and Happy Father's Day to both of them.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Not only is Mr. Reich spot on, he is feisty as well. Love it!
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Huge K&R
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)said it from the beginning. And he is right about Bush and Reagan. They were both stupid as fence posts.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)lastlib
(23,352 posts)Their purpose was to fuck us all over to enrich the top 1%ers. In that, they succeeded brilliantly.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Yes, he and his cronies are, and it can't be said too often.
Obama is like that poor bastard in the circus, coming behind that continuously shitting elephant with the bucket and shovel.
lastlib
(23,352 posts)"...The same can be said about politics."
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)should be inscribed on a bronze plaque!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Experience speaks.
K and R!
sarge43
(28,946 posts)dem in texas
(2,674 posts)Way to go - Happy Father's Day!
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)to pretend that Obama has been 'cleaning it up' is beyond misleading.
The "Wars on Terror" gave us the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, NSA mass spying on Americans, secret laws, secret courts, the murder of due process and multiple Constitutional amendments, and the war on journalism, whistleblowers, and dissent.
Obama declined to punish the perpetrators and has been complicit in defending and vigorously extending all of these.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)And Iran tried to help by getting Bin Laden before Iraq. Obama can return to this place, and set up peace talks in the northern Middle East. Atroscities cause by Bush are still occurring, which adds up to, there is no way this is Obama's fault. The World is still compling the list to Bush's Watch. Let Obama and the peace talks procede, which may be part of keeping the elected govrenment in tack in Baghdad.
calimary
(81,555 posts)That's EXACTLY how it went, and EXACTLY what happened. This dad oughta know, with a frame of time-reference like that. I can remember back as far as Kennedy. I was an Eisenhower baby but way too young to remember much of that at all, except there'd be news stories about some old dude who used to be somebody who kept having heart attacks. But I was a KID. Just completely unaware with no context or anything. Too young to remember anything besides what Mom fixed me for breakfast. Had no idea who or what Ike was til I studied about him later. And I don't remember a LOT about Kennedy either, except how he brought a new youth to the White House after the Grandpa/Grandma era in there had ended. THIS new President had kids who not only lived in the White House but were LITTLE kids, kinda like me. And their mom had brown (not gray) hair and no wrinkles and was young and fashionable and smart-looking like my mom was. I could relate to that, personally. And I did. I now have lived during the administrations of 11 presidents, and remember 10 of them.
Our elders sometimes have eyesight (and memory) that fades. THIS dad still sees (and remembers) things VERY clearly.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Are we going to get someone even worse than Bush?
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)as a sign to go hard right.
Then in 2016 when the Millennials show up to the polls and for the first time outnumber boomers at voting the legitimate rape party will get the every loving shit slapped out of them.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)If you aren't a lib why are you even here?
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)Owl
(3,646 posts)Yes INDEED
Hekate
(90,927 posts)Happy Father's Day, Mr. Reich.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
IkeRepublican
(406 posts)Heez goin' ta hayulll anyway.
Don't tred um mee! Wee hoo!
Please note this is complete sarcasm. Robert Reich has done a fantastic job of getting the word out about income inequality.
Cha
(297,885 posts)bush and President Obama.
"Obama has spent his entire administration cleaning up Bush's shit"
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)what i like about our elders who are more elder than myself is there is no hesitancy to say it as one sees it and not mince words. no time for bullshit.
Cha
(297,885 posts)Lexicon, hopemountain.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)If you don't follow Robert on fb yet, I highly recommend it
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Hopefully this story will spread
Skittles
(153,249 posts)I too believe in damage done, Dubya was the worst and Reagan a close second
JI7
(89,281 posts)Anewhope32
(5 posts)Wasn't Bush's evidence the same thing that led President Clinton to also condemn Iraq and Saddam? Didn't Hillary vote for military action after receiving the same intel? Wasn't it Saddam who lied and covered up in part to avoid looking weak to the Iranians? Iraq lost the Persian Gulf war and wasn't abiding by any of the stipulations in the agreement they made General Schwartzkopf? I'm sincerely wondering here.
babylonsister
(171,104 posts)dimson over phoney intel they trumped up. Lots of people died, lots of neocons made lots of money. No one else actually started a war and it was all about the oil. Lots of info on DU using that search button up on top.
And welcome to DU.
Anewhope32
(5 posts)We know now that Saddam Hussein was doing a lot of bluffing and obfuscating when it came to possible WMD in order to keep the Iranians from sensing weakness. After September 11 the US had to take threats more seriously than before. The Iraqi military had been targeting US and Allied flights that were enforcing the no fly zone from the Persian Gulf War. Also Hussein was fomenting terrorism by doing things like paying families of suicide bombers that targeted Israelis. Of course the Strategic interest of the US relates to oil as our economy depends heavily on oil as a component of our energy costs. These energy costs relate directly to GDP growth which in turn impacts lives all over our country..
Are you claiming Iraq didn't destroy their WMD chemical stock? Bush's "evidence" related, among other things, to Iraq developing nuclear weapons and long range missiles. Bush's "evidence", in part, related to Al Qaeda presence in Iraq. Etc. All false.
In short, not the same as Bill Clinton.
Hillary voted based on the Intel that filtered through the Bush administration, not the raw data.
I too am wondering here.
I replied to both of the replies to me in the post above.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)That Iraq did in fact do so is an important part of any discussion of the Bush administration's misleading the world into invading Iraq. The same applies to an atomic weapons program and long range delivery systems.
The misinformation about them, creating a fiction wherein they existed, trace back to the Bush administration. It sounded like you don't agree with that.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Saw a conservatives response to this quote from Reich On FB and it was full of crazy. Basically still believes that Saddam hid WMD in Syria and that this whole mess is the presidents for withdrawing and releasing the five top terrorists in the entire world for Bergdahl. There are some seriously delusional fox fed nutcases out there folks. Be careful!
Robert Reich's father is spot on. We were lied into Iraq.
airplaneman
(1,240 posts)Reagan was the worst president until George W came along where I believed he stole the title of worst president.
-Airplane
emsimon33
(3,128 posts)imthevicar
(811 posts)He paved the way with Ideas for both Regan and BUSH! All there should have their graves violated!
Stellar
(5,644 posts)I couldn't agree more. And, thanks for sharing.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Well, if he does decide to run, I may consider registering as a Dem, rather than an Independent so that I could actually vote in MD's primaries.