“Where was Secretary of State Clinton in all of this?”
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Though horrifying to liberals, the approach may prove a way of unifying Republican opposition to Obama’s peace overtures in Iraq, Iran and Cuba with a fresh line of attack on Hillary Clinton, whom Bush is most likely to face in 2016 if he wins his party’s presidential nomination.
After opting not to respond to Clinton two weeks ago when she trashed his record as Florida governor shortly before he appeared on the same stage, Bush is eager to engage the likely Democratic nominee over her tenure as secretary of state during Obama’s first term.
Later in the 15-second Instagram video, the Trump campaign takes Jeb Bush dramatically out of context.
As he did during a week-long trip to Europe in June, Bush plans to call Tuesday for a U.S. foreign policy based on “restoring” American leadership in the world after the Obama administration’s concerted effort to limit the country’s involvement in conflicts overseas. “It’s like Alice in Wonderland foreign policy, it’s all backwards, it’s all upside down”. “We should pursue the clear and unequivocal objective of throwing back the barbarians of Isis, and helping the millions in the region who want to live in peace”.
While the Status of Forces agreement signed by then-President George W. Bush and Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki set a timetable for the drawdown of U.S. troops, Mr. Obama’s former Central Intelligence Agency director and secretary of state, Leon Panetta, said he was uncomfortable with pulling out all the troops, and he wrote in a book that Mr.Obama “failed to heed his advisers who wanted to leave troops in Iraq past December 2011, which may have contributed to the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”.
Clinton, he says, “stood by as that hard-won victory by American and allied forces was thrown away”.
Bush also took to his campaign website to condemn the education plan, arguing that it would “raise the cost of college even further and shift the burden to hardworking taxpayers”.
Bush will dismiss the White House’s idea that “the tide of war is receding” as just “wishful thinking by the administration”.
“In all her record-setting travels, she stopped by Iraq exactly once,” he will say.
Asked by Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly: “Knowing what we know now, would you have invaded Iraq in 2003?” They say this so often and with such fervor that one has to assume they actually believe that the words “radical Islamic terrorism” constitute some sort of magical incantation, one that would turn our enemies’ guns to dust and cause the terrorists themselves to disappear in a puff of smoke if only it were spoken by the commander in chief.
Bush is scheduled to deliver a major foreign policy speech in California today. He also said terrorists are on the offensive and “gaining ground”.
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“ISIS grew while the United States disengaged from the Middle East and ignored the threat”. Like many other GOP presidential candidates, he’s called for the U.S.to join with other Arab nations to create an alliance that goes after ISIS.
