Home
Archive
Newsletters
Video
Blogs
Discuss
About
Search
Donate
Advertise
  • AlterNetYour turn

Support AlterNet
Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation.


Feedback
Tell us how we're doing.

Advertisement
Advertisement

Every GOP Presidential Candidate (Except Ron Paul) Pledges Allegiance to Iraq War [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 1:01 PM on January 25, 2008.


McCain, Romney, Huckabee, and Giuliani think the Iraq war was a GREAT idea
Every Republican Running for President (Except Ron Paul) Thinks the Iraq War Was a Great Idea

Share and save this post:

      

      

Share on Facebook       

AlterNet Social Networks:
follow us on twitter
find us on Facebook

Got a tip for a post?:
Email us | Anonymous form

Get War on Iraq in your
mailbox!

 

During Thursday's Republican debate in Florida, moderator Tim Russert asked the candidates: Was the war in Iraq a good idea and has it been worth the blood and treasure we have lost? Watch their answers their answers in the video to your right. With the exception of Ron Paul the Republicans give mind bogglingly ignorant responses. Giuliani's bullshit about not letting polls (how about the feelings of the majority of Americans Rudy?) push you around might be the worst. Whatever the flaws of the Democratic contenders, not a single one of them would try to argue now that the war was a "good idea", which makes them at least on that level preferable to any of these fools. How could they all be so out of touch?

Digg!

Tagged as: iraq, mccain, giuliani, romney, huckabee, paul

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Breaks Ranks, Admits "The Green Economy Is Coming"
Finally, one member of the GOP has a slice of reality pie.
Post by Staff. November 5, 2009.
Iowa Wingnut Steve King Lauds Lobbyists as American Heros for Bussing in Health Reform Protesters
Astroturfing earns praise from the GOP rep.
Post by Lee Fang. November 4, 2009.
GOP Loon Goes Off the Rails: Health Reform Greater Threat than Terrorism
The government's trying to put you to death, don't you know.
Post by Faiz Shakir. November 2, 2009.
Advertisement
Comments Turn comments off sitewide Give us feedback »
Comments closed.
The comments for this story have been closed. Thank you to everyone who participated.
View:
900+ Lies and still going strong!
Posted by: williameon on Jan 25, 2008 2:10 PM   
Current rating: 3    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Paul is the only one with a Pair of B***s big enough to
Tell the Truth and
Stand up to these:
Torturous, lying, spying, murderous, cowards.
Pathetic Cor‘pirate’clones.
Yes they lied and millions died.
Again!
What no Holocaust?
All worship the never ending WAR!
Bend over for GREED.
One more time for the Gipper!
We have no money for:
Health care,
School lunches,
Homeless,
Vets,
Education,
Jobs!
Infrastructure,
Green energy,
But,
WE GOT WAR!!!
A Dick Chainey,
Halliburton/Carlyle
Dirty War!
What a sham.
Enough is enough.
Shut it down and
REBOOT!
A Mob is control of our Government.
Hit Men of
The Cor'pirate Mafia'.
Assassins!
How do they sleep at night?
Get back to the basics!
Re-institute The Constitution and Bill of Rights!
Kick the Crooks out of Government.
End Corpirate corruption and influence NOW.
The system is horribly broken.
And
They broke it!
In more ways then one.
Financially and structurally.
The Criminals are in control.
Impeach Dead Eye and The Shrub!
Accountability is
JOB ONE

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

2 legs of 1 empire
Posted by: timemachinist on Jan 25, 2008 2:39 PM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
"Every GOP Presidential Candidate (except Ron Paul) Pledges Allegiance to Iraq War."

That's why I respect the Republicans more than the Democrats --because they tell us what they are really going to do. The Democrats, who are also 100% committed to the war and, more fundamentally, also 100% committed to the war economy --well, they lie and waffle about it, occupying the space that an opposition party should take but instead just functioning as the occasional change of hat. They actually block any genuine alternative from coming into possibility. Democrats should admit their total uselessness and merge with the Republican Party. Vote Schmote.

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

» RE: 2 legs of 1 empire Posted by: MyLeftFoot
I urge you all to read the following link
Posted by: davesilvan on Jan 25, 2008 4:29 PM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Which I stumbled across late last night/early this morning.

NewsTarget.com-Upcoming Economic Collapse of the US

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

Where's JohnGary, Ellie1 and Sissy
Posted by: meetmeineleusis on Jan 25, 2008 5:45 PM   
Current rating: 1    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
To kick off the anti Ron Paul circle jerk?

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

» RE: "Present" meetmeineleusis Posted by: VZEQICVA
» RE: "Present" meetmeineleusis Posted by: buddyedgewood
» somebody's projecting Posted by: meetmeineleusis
» and luckily Posted by: meetmeineleusis
So Does Every DEM candidate...
Posted by: Propaganda...Noise on Jan 25, 2008 6:42 PM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
With Kucinich and Gravel effectively blacked out of the MSM race only war mongers are left standing.

Sure, Hillary, Obama and Edwards occasionally blather on about "peace" and "justice" but it's barely pretense. Fact is, a monopoly "piece" of the action for their global corporate masters is what matters and America be damned.

The rest is empty slogans and toxic cotton candy for naive suckers (a.k.a. most Americans).

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

Go good Doctor!
Posted by: williameon on Jan 26, 2008 3:18 AM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Only Paul the obstetrician can extricate the Republic out of this mess.
Now the MOB is ruining our Government.
Dead Eye and The Shrub!
The Cor'pirate' Mafia destroys everything they touch.

Go good Doctor!

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

» RE: The flag Posted by: rhbee
A new pledge – anybody have any others?
Posted by: monkeywrench on Jan 26, 2008 11:00 AM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I pledge allegiance, to the war,
By the United States of America.
And to the phantom "republic,"
which never appeared,
In one nation,
Betrayed Iraq,
With liberty and justice for none.

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

Democrats not as bad? Hillary is One, too.
Posted by: herbal on Jan 26, 2008 8:22 PM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Ron Paul is a Republican and Dennis Kucinish is a Democrat who go beyond any Democratic candidate in repudiating war as a tool to implement foreign policy. Why? Because imperial war is the only way to steal oil and other natural resources from weak countries. THAT IS WHAT THIS WAR III IS ABOUT. The Democratic front runners, including Edwards, have been careful not to repudiate war itself.

This article is misleading in its smug confidence in the Democratic contenders are distinct from the Republicans on the Iraq/terrorist front.

But HIillary Clinton stands alone in her extremism and endorsement of invasion as a means to corporatist ends.

For people hungry for peace, there is no more urgent issue than this concerning the Primaries, because Israel provides the emotional excuse for war:

Hillary addressing AIPAC (3 min.):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVWagtd8uwM&mode=related&search=

Hillary's "No options left on the table..." nuclear threat.

Then consider the company she keeps at AIPAC:
Rev. Hagee the self-described Christian Zionist. rapture cultist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRxmqOn7x4&mode=related&search=

"The Israel Lobby (excerpt from Tikkun newsletter)
"In this Issue Tikkun Editor Rabbi Michael Lerner responds to the recent publication of The Israel Lobby by John Walt and Stephen Mearsheimer by giving an in-depth analysis of one of the most important issues in U.S. politics today: The power of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to control the relationship between the United States and Israel.

"He comes to one conclusion: AIPAC is bad for the Jews, bad for the U.S., and bad for the world and he tells why.
This is not only a Jewish issue. Lerner presents ideas for how the Network of Spiritual Progressives can become the interfaith alternative to the Israel Lobby and shows that it can only do so with the help of non-Jews as well as Jews.

"Walt and Mearsheimer will be speaking at a series of Tikkun forums. The first will be held September 19th in Berkeley, California at 2345 Channing Way at 7:00 p.m. (reservations through Cody's bookstore)."

Editorial comment: Will US foreign policy continue to be directed by AIPAC under Hillary Clinton? All the candidates need to be asked if they have accepted donations from foreign agencies and lobbies like AIPAC. It is time to join with the Jewish peace activists here and in Israel, and not fear the Lukid zionist backlash of AIPAC. Israelis are deeply divided over war and peace issues; we simply don't get their news past the US corporate media censors. Hillary Clinton represents a travesty of an added 4 to 8 years of the same world hegemony as Bush Jr. Let us not forget her perfect Bush agenda voting record up until the day her campaign began! There should be no options left on the table to defeat Hillary Clinton in the Primaries. We certainly must remember the Republican media campaign to declare all candidates as "unelectable" with the exception of Kerry (Yale, Skull and Bones, Wall St.) in 2004. This article seems to be cast in that mold that we see being cast in the TV "debates"; downplaying the most progressive candidates while focusing on the least threatening to the status quo. What do Carl Rove, Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton have in common? Invasion of Iran fixation.
John Edwards may provide the best hope for an open nominationg convention this Fall. He deserves our support for this reason alone. Certainly, Latinos need to be challenged on their unquestioning endorsement of Hillary Clinton. She is simply not the same person she was 8 or 16 years ago. Obama and Edwards are a men of the people of a quantum difference above the sold out Clinton's ticket may be facing her old friend and compatriot Lieberman as a vice-presidential rival in the general elections. God forbid!

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

Ron Paul should leave the Republicans
Posted by: metamind on Jan 27, 2008 2:34 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Ron Paul should support an Article V Convention to create a new political and economic system.

As long as Ron Paul is a Republican he appears as a "sham" or a trick to get people to believe in Republicans. The notion that the Republican party can be "reformed" by Ron Paul is ridiculous.

Republicans have made their decision. The great majority of Republicans supported the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and still do so.

The Republican party needs to go away ... forever.

[« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]