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imanamerican63

(13,798 posts) Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:25 PM Oct 2012

Romney drank the cool aide again!

He was so hyped up on WAR again today! I think he is drinking Cheney cool aide! Cheney was able to get Bush Jr to do the same which put us in a war, we had no business to be in. I wander what Cheney wants, to get back into the politics or have an influence over Romney's ideas?

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Romney drank the cool aide again! (Original Post) imanamerican63 Oct 2012 OP

there's money to be made in war. iemitsu Oct 2012 #1

But!!! imanamerican63 Oct 2012 #5

of course, you are correct. iemitsu Oct 2012 #13

This is the guy who did not think it important enough to acknowledge the troops in their convention still_one Oct 2012 #2

He's focussing on the upcoming debate. Indpndnt Oct 2012 #3

Is he barking up the wrong tree??? imanamerican63 Oct 2012 #7

Mitt didn't just drink the Kool Aid, he mixed up the batch. nt. OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #4

MAYBE!!!!!! imanamerican63 Oct 2012 #6

''Mitt Romney Foreign Policy Team: 17 of 24 Advisors Are Bush Neocons'' Gabi Hayes Oct 2012 #8

from the comments section of the above link....if accurate, sounds like some campaign fodder: Gabi Hayes Oct 2012 #9

ho! ''Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney'' Gabi Hayes Oct 2012 #11

Cheney and Rumsfeld! imanamerican63 Oct 2012 #12

More like shit out the cool aide. Diarrhea of the mouth Autumn Oct 2012 #10

Kool Aid---you must be young...... panader0 Oct 2012 #14

49?? imanamerican63 Oct 2012 #15

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)

1. there's money to be made in war.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:27 PM

Oct 2012

romney just never got so close to the source before.
he is salivating.

imanamerican63

(13,798 posts)

5. But!!!

Reply to iemitsu (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:40 PM

Oct 2012

We did not have the money and the middle class will pay for it again! I do agree that there is money to made, but for wealthiest!

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)

13. of course, you are correct.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:11 PM

Oct 2012

the money is not there but for war they will borrow.
there is always money to be made off the backs of workers.

still_one

(92,209 posts)

2. This is the guy who did not think it important enough to acknowledge the troops in their convention

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:28 PM

Oct 2012

Indpndnt

(2,391 posts)

3. He's focussing on the upcoming debate.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:34 PM

Oct 2012

Wouldn't want to be accused of not devoting attention pre-debate to foreign affairs. Not that the nonsense he spouts will help him in any possible way, so let him spew.

imanamerican63

(13,798 posts)

7. Is he barking up the wrong tree???

Reply to Indpndnt (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:42 PM

Oct 2012

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)

4. Mitt didn't just drink the Kool Aid, he mixed up the batch. nt.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:40 PM

Oct 2012

imanamerican63

(13,798 posts)

6. MAYBE!!!!!!

Reply to OldDem2012 (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:41 PM

Oct 2012

It's hard to swallow!

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

8. ''Mitt Romney Foreign Policy Team: 17 of 24 Advisors Are Bush Neocons''

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:44 PM

Oct 2012

http://www.policymic.com/articles/11219/mitt-romney-foreign-policy-team-17-of-24-advisors-are-bush-neocons

In a must-read article this week in Foreign Policy, Rep. Adam Smith is smart to point out that of “Romney’s 24 special advisors on foreign policy, 17 served in the Bush-Cheney administration.” And yet, mixed in with that decidedly neoconservative crowd are a number of very thoughtful and moderate voices.

Any foreign policy advisory board that seeks the counsel of Cofer Black, Michael Hayden, Dan Senor or John Lehman, to name just a select few, is a real cause for concern. Of that crowd, Black is the most worrying. Cofer “the gloves come off” Black was one of the most brutal figures in CIA history, heading the agency’s Counterterrorism Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks. Think Obama’s counterterrorism program is perverse? Black is about as “dark side” as you get, an American exceptionalist in the worst sense of the word, and perhaps the most vocal advocate for extraordinary renditions and so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

The public may have trouble with Obama’s use of armed drones, but with Black whispering in his ear, Romney’s counterterrorism policy would be a frightening true return to those heady, Bush-era days of CIA black sites and waterboarding sessions.

Michael Hayden you will remember was at the helm of the National Security Agency during the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping and Dan Senor, one of the most right-wing pundits on Romney’s list, is a regular contributor to Fox News. From 2003 to 2004 he was the spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority and managed to paint one of the rosiest pictures of a post-Saddam Iraq that in reality was rapidly descending into chaos (thanks, in large part, to the incompetence of the CPA itself).

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

9. from the comments section of the above link....if accurate, sounds like some campaign fodder:

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:51 PM

Oct 2012

Romney called Cheney a "great American leader" – Romney has embraced Cheney in the past.

Last year, he told an Arizona town hall that Cheney's "wisdom and judgment" would provide a model for choosing his own vice president.

WOOF! I want to see that spread far and near

what are Cheney's approval numbers these days?

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

11. ho! ''Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney''

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #9)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 08:56 PM

Oct 2012

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/#

When Vice President Dick Cheney left office, his approval rating stood at a staggeringly low 13 percent. Few political figures in history have been so reviled. As his memoir, In My Time, hits bookstores today, and he does a series of friendly interviews in the press, some Americans with short memories might wonder, "Why is it that so few were willing to endorse his performance in office?"

MUCH much more at the link. wonder where he's been at this crucial juncture in the campaign, Mitt.....gonna pull him out of his coffin Halloween week?