Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), perhaps the only sincerely honest senator other than Elizabeth Warren who actually serves the interests of the people, brought his famously blunt rhetoric to CNN this past Sunday. Even if he always seems to look like a guy who just discovered a massive government cover-up and sounds like Woody Allen on steroids, Bernie always tells it like it is.
In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, the fiery senator spoke candidly on the ridiculously vague clusterf*ck in the Middle East that not even Stephen Hawking can properly explain. And although Sanders said that ISIS needed to be brought down, he channeled the frustration that most Americans have with he US always being the policeman, while other middle eastern countries just sit back and watch us do all the heavy lifting.
“The people of America are getting sick and tired of the world and region — Saudi Arabia and the other countries — saying, ‘Hey, we don’t have to do anything about it. The American taxpayer, the American soldiers will do all the work for us,” said Sen Sanders.
But the critical moment in the interview came when Sen. Sanders quickly reminded us that it was Bush that created the ISIS monster when he foolishly invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam, then walked away and figured everything will be cool and everyone will love us.
“It is very easy to criticize the president,” Sanders replied. “But this is an enormously complicated issue. We are here today because of the disastrous blunder of the Bush-Cheney era, which got us into this war in Iraq in the first place, which then developed the can of worms that we’re trying to deal with right now.”
Watch the entire interview below:
H/T: Raw Story | Image: Senator Sanders speaks to CNN’s Candy Crowley via screengrab
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Both of my state’s Senators Klobuchar and Franken serve their ordinary folks extremely well, thank you. I’ve no doubts that Senators Sanders and Warren do outstanding work for us, but you might want to curb the tendency toward over-generalizations.
ALL this while having to deal with the obstruction of the very dicks that got us here,,,,,,
hey greg, to which over-generalization are you referring? looks like nothing but the truth to me
There
were no ISIS OR HAMAS or ANY of the
religious military group operating in Iraq
Saddam wouldn’t allow it he considered them a threat to his power,,THAT
was before GEORGE W BUSH invaeded and
killed Saddam….ISIS was at one time called the muhajadin,,,,and this is what
happened to them…….
Freedom Fighters in
Afghanistan ‘In 1982, Ronald Reagan dedicated the Space Shuttle Columbia to
the resistance fighters [Taliban] in Afghanistan.’
In 1983
Reagan along with Col Oliver North ,,,ARMED,, FINANCED and TRAINED WHAT
IS NOW KNOWN AS THE TALIBAN. YES this does
include OSAMA BIN LADEN
1983, when Reagan and the
CIA were dancing around the idea of arming Mujahadin fighters in order to fight
back against Soviet incursion in Afghanistan. The result was a well-armed, well-trained group of jihadis who resisted (some say defeated) the onslaught
of superior Soviet weaponry.
Once the Soviets retreated,
the U.S. lost interest and pulled the funding. Osama bin Laden took interest,
and filled the vacuum, later fathering the Taliban.
MISS ME YET
?,,Saddam Housein
As much as I am glad that Sadam is dead ,,,,THE WORLD NEEDED
HIM,,,,,WHY? He kept his people in check (yes brutaly) and MORE IMPORTANT,, the
kept the counties around him in check,, with threats of violence if any of them
ever got out of line,,,,BUSH said why we went into Iraq AND he said it
publicly,,,, SADAM TRIED TO KILL MY DAD….. George
W Bush used the entire United states military force and eight long years of war
to find Osama Bin Laden,,,,,two years later Obama sends just two helicopters
and about a dozen men and the worlds most wanted terrorist is found AND KILLED
Yup ! I agree 100%.
I have never seen so many stupid people on the same page.
“Your OPINION has been duly noted
and properly filed”
GET BACK TO ME WHEN YOU HAVE
,,,,FACTS that is if you know of ANY Some people
can build an entire philosophy from stupidity.
Warren and Sanders 2016
No. Warren would be completely wasted as VEEP; it is only a symbolic position. She would be far more effective as the US Attorney General where she’ll have real teeth for biting and not just a voice for barking.
Republicans hate, History, Facts, Truth and reality!!!
OweBama walked away — but yes taking out Saddam left the vaccume that ISIS (and our tax dollars ) filled — yes follow our money and arms through BEngazi to fight Assad in Syria to supply ISIS
Nice fairy tale, but you might want to do some independent thinking and top it off with a Google search or two. I know this is what the Reich wing echo chamber is feeding you, but if you would look somewhere else other the FOX you might find the facts. Dubya signed the Status of Forces agreement with Iraq in 2008, which required that all of our forces would be gone by the end of 2011. Iraq is a sovereign nation, and we could not leave, or reinsert, forces there without their approval, which they would not give as they wanted us out.
Nice bobbing and weaving to arrive at a misleading conclusion, martintfre. And it comes from the conservative media that gave us a possibility of a Trump administration, tipped the conservative hand no longer couched in bland platitudes and disgusting innuendo. The conservative media that the GOP created and now admits is conservative and which the GOP regrets.
Oh do tell what Rand Paul has uncovered?
So many people know this to be true dog, but the radical right scream so loud and long that the real facts are being lost too their din. The left just has to keep screaming back and showing facts. That is something the tea-partiers can’t deal with. Kind of like holding a cross up to Satan.
Is there some reason the author felt the need to insult Bernie Sanders in the beginning of the article? One might think he does not take Sanders seriously.
St. Ronnie Raygun had a big hand in getting us to the dance also.
WAR PIGS
It’s the Democrats who are the war mongers. Wilson got us sucked into WWI by supporting the British, FDR got us sucked into WWII by supporting China causing Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Truman got us sucked into Korea to stop the communist bogey man, JFK got us sucked into Vietnam to continue stopping the communist bogey man. Conservative theology is based on minding our own business by staying out of other people’s wars. Bush Jr. and Sr. were acting more like Democrats when they got us sucked into the middle east. Real Republicans like Hoover, Ike, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan kept us out of war.
I know for a fact that JFK was not the one who put troops on the ground in Vietnam. From 1961-1963, our military was only involved in reconnaisance and advisory roles. When Johnson became president in 1963 following JKK’s assissination, our troops were fully deployed. In light of your obviously skewed memory,, I would tend to question anything else you have to say, Joe.
We left Germany too early after WWI
we left Afghanistan too early after driving out the Russians
We left Iraq too early after Saddam called “Time-out”
we left Iraq too early again after Obama surrendered.
anyone else noticing a theme here?
I’m no Bush fan but it wasn’t him that “walked away” despite military advisers strongly opposing the pullout. Memories are pretty short for some folks I guess.
I guess it was bush that caused Terrorism in Syria, Eygt, or gave weapons to the terrorist that is now known as Isis, oh sure everything is bush’s fault, this is the first president that is not accountable for anything, it’s all Bush’s fault.