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BY JOSH ISRAEL
POSTED ON MAY 17, 2015 AT 10:04 AM
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ROSS D. FRANKLIN
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) refused to make clear his view as to whether the Iraq War was a mistake in a Fox News Sunday interview. Repeatedly pressed by host Chris Wallace on whether in hindsight the Bush administration should have invaded Iraq, Rubio continued to dodge the question.
Wallace began by noting that former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) had “a tough time” this week answering whether, given what we know now, he would have invaded Iraq in 2003. He played a May 13 clip of Rubio saying neither he nor President George W. Bush would have backed the war and a March 20 clip of the Senator saying that the war was not a mistake, as “the world is a better place because Saddam Hussein doesn’t run Iraq.”
Asked by Wallace to explain the flip, Rubio — who announced last month that he will seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 — denied that they were the same question and noted that “based on what we know now, I wouldn’t have thought Manny Pacquiao was gonna beat [Floyd Mayweather Jr.] in that fight a couple of weeks ago.”
Wallace multiple times asked Rubio whether, given current knowledge, the war was a mistake. But Rubio each time dodged the question, saying it was “not a mistake, given what the president knew at the time.”
Watch the video:
The two sparred for several minutes, with Wallace asking “Was it a mistake?” and Rubio attempting over and over to defend President Bush’s decision as right based on his knowledge at the time.
President Bush and his top officials made 935 demonstrably false statements in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/05/17/3659821/rubio-iraq-war-dodge/
POSTED ON MAY 17, 2015 AT 10:04 AM
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ROSS D. FRANKLIN
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) refused to make clear his view as to whether the Iraq War was a mistake in a Fox News Sunday interview. Repeatedly pressed by host Chris Wallace on whether in hindsight the Bush administration should have invaded Iraq, Rubio continued to dodge the question.
Wallace began by noting that former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) had “a tough time” this week answering whether, given what we know now, he would have invaded Iraq in 2003. He played a May 13 clip of Rubio saying neither he nor President George W. Bush would have backed the war and a March 20 clip of the Senator saying that the war was not a mistake, as “the world is a better place because Saddam Hussein doesn’t run Iraq.”
Asked by Wallace to explain the flip, Rubio — who announced last month that he will seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 — denied that they were the same question and noted that “based on what we know now, I wouldn’t have thought Manny Pacquiao was gonna beat [Floyd Mayweather Jr.] in that fight a couple of weeks ago.”
Wallace multiple times asked Rubio whether, given current knowledge, the war was a mistake. But Rubio each time dodged the question, saying it was “not a mistake, given what the president knew at the time.”
Watch the video:
The two sparred for several minutes, with Wallace asking “Was it a mistake?” and Rubio attempting over and over to defend President Bush’s decision as right based on his knowledge at the time.
President Bush and his top officials made 935 demonstrably false statements in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/05/17/3659821/rubio-iraq-war-dodge/
