Rubio Balks On Answering Iraq Question
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Marco Rubio tried to avoid answering whether he’d have invaded Iraq knowing what we know now when questioned by Chris Wallace.
Wallace repeatedly asked Rubio whether he would have invaded Iraq knowing what he knows now, and Rubio continued to answer according to the intelligence available in 2002. They went around this loop about half a dozen times.
“It was not a mistake for the president to have invaded Iraq based on the intelligence he was presented,” Rubio said, a virtual repetition of the oopsy-daisy his state-mate Jeb Bush made during an interview with Megyn Kelly last weekend, jumpstarting this whole thing.
“Presidents don’t have the benefit of hindsight,” Rubio finally said. “You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that’s before you at that moment.”
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Obewon May 17th, 2015 at 4:17 pm
GOP “Presidents don’t have the benefit of hindsight” or foresight, Rubio’s dim candidacy aims to not intimidate his uninformed GOP TV lemmings. Ask him why he’s a scientific illiterate Koch Oil & Coal lover! ‘97% of climate scientists agree modern global warming is caused by human burning fossil fuels, 20% caused by human deforestation’-NASA, NOAA, UK MET, et al http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker May 17th, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for showing the chart.
It tells a horrible story of the impact of our industrial age and our destructive corporate selfishness.
Obewon May 17th, 2015 at 4:56 pm
Thanks! Rube’s Florida sinks with decreasing levels of climate denial, echoed by the declining remaining 1/4 of American GOP dinosaurs.
GOP like to pretend they’re more intelligent than NASA, NOAA, the Global and American Scientific Societies. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2015 at 7:13 pm
That quote cannot be shown enough.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker May 17th, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Look at the young man tap dance and pirouette.
Aside from the fact that he’s on Faux Snooze with Wallace who always give republicans a huge pass, he sure didn’t learn a thing from Jeb’s terrible week answering the same damn question.
What a Dufuss!
Anomaly 100 May 17th, 2015 at 4:49 pm
Sooo, he said the same thing Jeb did regarding ‘hindsight’.
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2015 at 7:10 pm
That should of been a softball question and if rubio had a brain cell, it would of been.
labman57 May 17th, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Marco seems to be unaware of the old adage — those who refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past …
Of course, the first step must be to actually acknowledge that mistakes were made.
So Wallace intentionally tosses a series of hanging curve balls … and Rubio manages to whiff each one.
You’re outta here!
William May 17th, 2015 at 5:12 pm
…whether he would have invaded Iraq knowing what he knows now,
“knowing what he knows now”
Easily the most loaded question of this decade.
StoneyCurtisll May 17th, 2015 at 5:35 pm
“gotch ya”~!!!
oldfart May 17th, 2015 at 5:29 pm
Oh, just give him a bottle of water with a nipple on it, he’ll be just fine.
Gadea May 17th, 2015 at 5:58 pm
Top 10 Activist Errors By David Swanson
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41862.htm
robert May 17th, 2015 at 6:19 pm
so rubio says invading iraq was NOT a mistake based on information we had ?
add one more to the list of candidates for the 2020 election
StoneyCurtisll May 17th, 2015 at 6:24 pm
Rubio said, ‘the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein”..
Iraq is such a wonderful place now without him..
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Does he know bush wasn’t in office when he was killed? All these idiots probably think Reagan was President at the time.
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2015 at 7:08 pm
Pretty bad when any entire party leadership is stumped by the phrase “what we now know”.
bpollen May 18th, 2015 at 5:22 am
It was not a mistake for the president to have invaded Iraq based on the intelligence he was presented…”
But, Mr. Rubio, the intelligence he was presented wasn’t the intelligence he based his rationale on. THAT intelligence was filtered, massaged, and outright made up. To fit a predetermined plan of action.
allison1050 May 18th, 2015 at 7:08 am
Does anyone remember the “let’s not call french fries french fries” assholes (as if that was really going to seriously injure the country)? Europe new better than to believe that lie.
bpollen May 18th, 2015 at 3:30 pm
That’s why I call Tater “pomme frites.”