George W. Bush Breaks His Silence and Lashes Out at Obama on Middle East Disaster
George W. Bush and his family will criticize Donald Trump with no problem or pause.
However, up until now, Bush has been as quiet as a church mouse regarding Obama and his treacherous policies.
Now, all of a sudden he’s speaking out.
From Bloomberg:
In a closed-door meeting with Jewish donors on Saturday night, former President George W. Bush delivered his harshest public criticisms to date against his successor on foreign policy, saying that President Barack Obama is being naïve about Iran and the pending nuclear deal and losing the war against the Islamic State.
One attendee at the Republican Jewish Coalition session, held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas with owner Sheldon Adelson in attendance, transcribed large portions of Bush’s remarks. The former president, who rarely ever criticizes Obama in public, at first remarked that the idea of re-entering the political arena was something he didn’t want to do. He then proceeded to explain why Obama, in his view, was placing the U.S. in “retreat” around the world. He also said Obama was misreading Iran’s intentions while relaxing sanctions on Tehran too easily.
According to the attendee’s transcription, Bush noted that Iran has a new president, Hassan Rouhani. “He’s smooth,” Bush said. “And you’ve got to ask yourself, is there a new policy or did they just change the spokesman?”
Bush said that Obama’s plan to lift sanctions on Iran with a promise that they could snap back in place at any time was not plausible. He also said the deal would be bad for American national security in the long term: “You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. That’s how Americans should view the deal.”
Bush then went into a detailed criticism of Obama’s policies in fighting the Islamic State and dealing with the chaos in Iraq. On Obama’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of 2011, he quoted Senator Lindsey Graham calling it a “strategic blunder.” Bush signed an agreement with the Iraqi government to withdraw those troops, but the idea had been to negotiate a new status of forces agreement to keep U.S. forces there past 2011. The Obama administration tried and failed to negotiate such an agreement.
Bush said he views the rise of the Islamic State as al-Qaeda’s “second act” and that they may have changed the name but that murdering innocents is still the favored tactic. He defended his own administration’s handling of terrorism, noting that the terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who confessed to killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was captured on his watch: “Just remember the guy who slit Danny Pearl’s throat is in Gitmo, and now they’re doing it on TV.”
Obama promised to degrade and destroy Islamic State’s forces but then didn’t develop a strategy to complete the mission, Bush said. He said that if you have a military goal and you mean it, “you call in your military and say ‘What’s your plan?’ ” He indirectly touted his own decision to surge troops to Iraq in 2007, by saying, “When the plan wasn’t working in Iraq, we changed.”
“In order to be an effective president … when you say something you have to mean it,” he said. “You gotta kill em.”
Bush told several anecdotes about his old friend and rival Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bush recalled that Putin met his dog Barney at the White House and then later, when Bush went to Moscow, Putin showed him his dog and remarked that he was “bigger stronger and faster than Barney.” For Bush, that behavior showed him that Putin didn’t think in “win-win” terms.
Bush also remarked that Putin was rich, divorced his wife and loves power. Putin’s domestic popularity comes from his control of Russian media, according to Bush. “Hell, I’d be popular, too, if I owned NBC news,” he said.
Regarding his brother Jeb’s potential run for the presidency, Bush acknowledged that he was a political liability for Jeb, that the Bush name can be used against him, and that Americans don’t like dynasties. He also said that foreign policy is going to be especially important in the presidential campaign and that the test for Republicans running will be who has got the “courage” to resist isolationist tendencies.
Regarding Hillary Clinton, Bush said it will be crucial how she plays her relationship with the president. She will eventually have to choose between running on the Obama administration’s policies or running against them. If she defends them, she’s admitting failure, he said, but if she doesn’t she’s blaming the president.
For George W. Bush, the remarks in Vegas showed he has little respect for how the current president is running the world. He also revealed that he takes little responsibility for the policies that he put in place that contributed to the current state of affairs.
’bout time Georgy boy…
AMEN
About time GWB came out of his shell, after sitting silently by while Obama attempted, & in some cases, succeeded, in destroying OUR country…
Not like Bill Clinton remained silent about trying to get his disastrous wife into office so he could continue his evil act…
Too little too late
Most Definitely! Why wait until now? He should have started on the FIRST time Bill Clinton started to stick his beak into the media for his corrupt wife! Too Little Too Late is right! For this reason is why I have distanced myself from the Bush Family.
Gdb is a chicken shit coward also is a traitor to his oath of office as president of this country good ridence to him and his crooked family which by the way benefitted from the Clinton foundation
President W Bush,
I am thankful you are posting your opinion about President Obama’s history , in governing our Country.
Most Americans have been internally upset because we know and have known that the present President is and has never been a man that has any honor for our Country.
It has been chilling how he has played not only our Republic, but also our Democratic Government as fools. His deceit is reprehensible.
He has been a volunteer pawn for the Middle East Muslim Religion the entire time. Nothing he has accomplish for the USA has been in our best interest.
Please, I understand that President Elect Trump has a different way of communicating
but we know he does want the best for our Country. We, as your past Republican Party need You to become more Inclusive with him.
Your Father, your Brother, and You are needed to engage with him Donald Trump. We need solidarity of you all together. The World is Watching! I know you know exactly what we are trying to say. Thankyou, and God Bless our Country, Bonnie
Omg, you are SOOOO blind and ignorant! Yeah, Obama is such a Muslim lover the HE’S the one that went after bin Laden and took him down! Unlike Bush who starts a war with the WRONG country! It wasn’t Iraq that attacked us on 9/11!!! DUH!
That has to be one of the most idiotic comments I have ever read. Please educate yourself with fact before putting yourself out in public…..OMG
Sorry Bonnie I was replying to Lamar above your comment, not sure why it appeared as a reply to you…..I actually agree with you.
My apologies
Worried about his donors, puts his mouth where his money is, not much different than the Clintons . They depend on handouts because they’re a bunch of Lazy stupid idiots , who use manipulation and lies rather than creativity (since they have none) to get what they want, unlike Mr. Trump who , is creating ways to make America great not Donald great.
Amen to that.. Right now Donald Trump is fresh to the White House none of those politicians have had the chance to try to get through to corrupt him yet if they can. But I do strongly belive he does want what’s best for our country no matter how he says it or puts it or there u can tell that he is sincere about what he says and that he’s not just in it for the power or the money. Hell he don’t even want to stay at the White House and said that he didn’t even want that little 200 and something thousand pay they give you for being president that he didn’t need it and that he would rather stay at his penthouse that should say something. I also want to state that Donald Trump may not act like it or people may thank he’s not the brightest color of the rainbow but he’s allot smarter than allot of people think he didn’t get as rich an as far as he has in life for being stupid..
Lamar
Please either educate yourself with fact or be quiet, you are only revealing how completely ignorant you are.
All I can do is lmao at this comment!!
Thank you President George Bush, for stating your opinion regarding Iran, and Netanyahu…..we as a country need to be much stronger on defense, and protecting Israel!
His New world order fell apart and the final blow was Trump getting in. Might as well join the Trump train as the stooges running your New World Order wreaked it and the country too. We don’t need your middle east Muslim friends now because the global warming hoax is over and now we will cultivate a alliance with a new Russia and they got tons of oil. Thanks for nothing Bush’s, Clinton’s and Obama the Muslim… Time for you guys to go away.
All you people above my post, quit being so stupid. You’re doing exactly the same that people, (conservatives) did for decades. You are believing and bullshit drivel you read that sounds like what you WANT to hear.
Fact #1. It all sounded a little fishy, almost from the top, but the second from last paragraph gave it away. “Regarding Hillary Clinton, Bush said it will be crucial how she plays her relationship with the president. She will eventually have to choose between running on the Obama administration’s policies or running against them.”
Fact #2. This is not a new article, not even recent. So start checking. Go to the top and mouse over that “From Bloomberg:” link above the first paragraph, and click to open in a new tab. Then read the date of that article. Which is, APRIL 26, 2015 9:21 PM EDT
Fact #3. This whole story is fake news people, You can’t believe anything Truthfeed prints anymore and Amy Moreno should be ashamed.
Now he says that!! He is a member of the SWAMP that Trump wants to dump……
This is a bullshit article quoting Bush as if it is current, then later quoting him concerning the upcoming election, and what Clinton’s strategy should be! A disgrace to journalism , this is a gross deliberate misrepresentation . it’s junk.
All y’all r hater. Y’all mad because he black mix with white bread n he the first black men n history that been n the office 4, 8 years. Yessssss go head Obama. GOOD job.
Please don’t reply, I said what I said, n mean what said. Thank U.
Bush is a Snake, just like Donald Trump rat liking ass. We need a women n the office c what a women can do. Everybody should have a Change 2 do something.
Wild Kat….EXACTLY!!!!!!!