One thing I have absolutely no tolerance for is people who supported the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and now refuse to apologize. For this reason, I have less than no use for Michael Bloomberg.
With U.S. and allied forces bracing for renewed military conflict in the Persian Gulf, Democratic presidential candidate Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday that he had no regrets over supporting the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
“I don’t live in a regret world, and I didn’t make the decision,” the former New York mayor told The Times in an interview in downtown Los Angeles.
He can run as many commercials as he wants talking about the importance of health care and it won’t make the slightest difference to me, and I’ll still say “fuck off” to my television every single time.
Bloomberg recalled that most Americans supported President George W. Bush’s decision to go to war with Iraq in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“America wanted to go to war, but it turns out it was based on faulty intelligence, and it was a mistake,” Bloomberg said after celebrating the opening of his campaign office near Pershing Square.
“But I think the people that made the mistake did it honestly, and it’s a shame, because it’s left us entangled, and it’s left the Middle East in chaos through today.”
I don’t know how anyone can respond to this with anything less than sputtering rage. I don’t know whether I come closer to having an aneurism when I read him saying the evidence was presented honestly or when I hear him refer to the ensuring disaster and loss of life as “a shame.”
Michael Bloomberg can go to hell.
“But I think the people that made the mistake did it honestly”
He’s either a moron or a monster
“and it’s a shame”
OK, monster it is.
One would hope this billionaire’s bullshit hasn’t the slightest hope of flying with the Dem primary electorate. A perfect billionaire, “no regrets”. Of course.
But then, I hesitate to inquire as to exactly where cadaverous Uncle Joe is at on his current Iraq War Revisionism Campaign, since he was just recorded gassing on (in some town hall or other) that he was “against the Iraq war from the moment it began”, or some-such. Has he ever apologized for his pro-invasion vote? When? Does he think Bush’s War resulted from an “honest mistake”, like Moneybags Mike? Has Biden said he “regrets” his vote or that it was an error by him?
I can’t remember, and part of the reason I’m against his sickening and moral-destroying candidacy is I have no stomach for looking into his appalling performance as chair of the senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2003. The rotten baloney can only be sliced so thin, even if Bloomberg perhaps slices it slightly worse….
With you 1000%.
Way to revise history, Mr. Bloomberg. We were lied to and deceived. Colin Powell lied to the U.N. about the “evidence” of WMD. Oh, and who can forget the Nigerian yellowcake nothingburger?
Nothing honest about the neocons. Liars the lot of them.
He and a bunch of others just might. Great post!
And to think that this little egomaniac and his partner in self-importance Steyer have already poured around $200 million(!) down the Narcissist Rathole in an attempt to jump start their (constituent-free) campaigns, when that money could have been of real use by a legitimate candidate in defeating the scourge of National Trumpalism. Beyond nauseating.
Yeah, these great bizness strategist moguls can REALLY see the Big Picture! Trumpism of the left, basically.
If Michael Bloomberg should somehow become the democratic nominee, I will enthusiastically work for and vote for him. At this point beating Trump is almost the only thing that matters.