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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb Bush on refugees: 'Majority should be kept in region....our focus should be on Christians...'
Doubting how this can be possible, the more this fool opens his mouth, the uglier he becomes.
via TheNation (AP Photo / Nati Harnik)
NBC News, November 15, 2015
"I think we have a responsibility to help, but ultimately the best way to deal with refugees is to have a strategy to take out ISIS and Assad and act on that strategy immediately," he said.
More Bush bellicosity:
That strategy should include a no-fly zone over Syria, arming the Peshmerga forces in Iraq, reengaging with tribal leaders, embedding with the Iraqi military and garnering support of European allies, according to Bush who said in the most basic terms the strategy is leadership.
The Republican presidential candidate maintains that the issue of ISIS is yet another opportunity for voters to consider whom they want sitting behind the "big desk" in the oval office directing American policy - a consideration he feels will tilt in his favor.
Remember, according to Jeb Bush on terrorism, "It's not a law-enforcement operation."
Meanwhile, the large-scale law enforcement operation continues in multiple countries in the aftermath of the Paris attacks:
Investigators Hunting for 8th Paris Attacker, Official Says
Hunt for Paris attack accomplices continues
Arrests made in Belgium in connection with Paris attacks
All of Bush's dark money and bellicose rhetoric will not get him what he lusts after, and that is, the seat "behind the big desk".
We the people will not allow it.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)so they can stay in their homelands.
It's much better to let the indigenous Christians stay in the birthplace of Christianity where they managed to survive for 2000 years, rather than uproot their communities.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)Christian Iraqis had it good under Saddam as well.
"Good" is a relative term, of course, meaning "better than under the radical Islamists."
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)In the secular arab states their ideology was based on "Arab Nationalism" not religion, so muslims and christians were similar.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)(shakes head)
underpants
(182,901 posts)How brilliant of him. All of the brass at the Pentagon must have looked at each other and said, "Hey great idea! We need a PLAN!"
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)You got to be kidding. The Stupid cup runith over.
dhill926
(16,364 posts)very much enjoying his flameout in the repub race....
seafan
(9,387 posts)So, Jeb Bush apparently thinks displaced, terrified Muslims are not deserving of rescue from the hellhole his brother created in the Middle East.
Time and again, Jeb Bush shows us who he is. Spiteful, imperious, self-entitled and bursting with contempt for anyone not matching his personal views.
HuffPo:
"I think we need to do thorough screening and take in a limited number," Bush said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now. They'll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. We should focus our efforts as it relates to the refugees for the Christians that are being slaughtered."
The White House's plan to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees has come under attack from Republican presidential candidates in the wake of Friday's terror attack in Paris, which claimed at least 129 lives and wounded at least 350. Officials say one of the attackers held a Syrian passport and appears to have come through Greece among the throngs of refugees, increasing fears that ISIS is using the crisis as a way to infiltrate Europe.
Bush said that the U.S. should use a careful screening process to ensure refugees are in fact Christian, saying "we need to be obviously very, very cautious."
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Wallowing in his own contempt and arrogance, is his fancy that he is king.
To the world: Jeb Bush does NOT represent the people of America.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)And succeeding.