Republicans: Never Wrong About Anything

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Republicans: Never Wrong About Anything
by Jaime O'Neill | June 21, 2014 - 9:38am

They say that if you live long enough, you’ll see everything. But I’m beginning to doubt I’ll live long enough to hear a Republican say they’ve ever been wrong about anything. Remember that disastrous war in Iraq, the one that put so many young men and women in VA hospitals, the one that was never funded, that ballooned our national debt, all while doing nothing at all good for our nation?

That was the war where we were going to be “greeted as liberators,” the one the neo-cons promised “would be a cakewalk.” That was the war we were lied into fighting, with whoppers like this one from Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, when he said: "We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons...including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. ...large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox."

That lie was compounded by Bush II (George the Dim-Witted) who blamed 9/11 on a nation that had absolutely nothing to do with that attack (and he knew it). Still, he told us this bald-faced lie: “... for the sake of protecting our friends and allies, the United States will lead a mighty coalition of freedom-loving nations and disarm Saddam Hussein. See, I can't imagine what was going through the mind of this enemy when they hit us. They probably thought the national religion was materialism, that we were so selfish and so self-absorbed that after 9/11/2001 this mighty nation would take a couple of steps back and file a lawsuit.”

Instead, he launched a hasty and ill-planned invasion, putting soldiers at unnecessary risk because, according to Rumsfeld, “you go to war with the army you have, not with the army you want.” There was no urgency, no clear and present danger, but we went ahead and sent troops into Baghdad in very expensive but unarmored Humvees, and lots of those soldiers suffered unnecessary deaths or life-changing injuries because Dubya, Cheney, and Rummy wanted to hurry things up.