Add Geo Pataki to the long list of R candidates

[Luddly Neddite]

George Pataki will have announcement on White House run on May 28


By Nick Gass

5/14/15 8:50 AM EDT

Updated 5/14/15 11:08 AM EDT


Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Thursday that he will announce at a May 28 event in New Hampshire whether he will run for president.


Pataki said he was not worried about the increasingly crowded Republican field of candidates.

He also said that knowing what he knows now, he would not have supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.


On foreign policy, Pataki said he is experienced, expressing confidence that he doesn’t “need any expert to try and give me a crash course.”


“Now, in defense of President [George W.] Bush, though, after the surge, we had created a stable Iraq, and it was that decision by the Clintons and Obamas to withdraw every single American troop that created the void,” he added.


Read more: George Pataki will have announcement on White House run on May 28 - Nick Gass - POLITICO


Interesting that he doesn't seem to know that it was Geo Bush who made the decision to withdraw from Iraq and that President Obama had no choice.

On CNN just now, he said he would go for a ground war on ISIS so he's ignorant about that too.

 

[LoneLaugher]

He's going to try to grab the hard right with a hawkish stance....hoping that will overcome his liberal social positions.

 

[kwc57]

Good. The broader the field, the better the candidate on the back end. Steel sharpens steel. Ron Paul never stood a chance, but his staying in the race caused other candidates to consider different approaches and change their stance. When you have only one elitist candidate with 30 years of heavy baggage awaiting coronation who won't speak to the press, you have all your eggs in one basket.......and that isn't a good place to be. the 2014 election results (all excuses and denials aside) should have been a wake up call. There are 31 Republican governors and 31 Republican controlled state legislatures as well as both houses of the US Congress being Republican controlled. There was a message in there that Democrats still haven't accepted. But go ahead, run your two elderly, white candidates with their tired old ideas. Sanders doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Neither does Hillary, but she will do better because Democrats will vote for her because of her gender. They already proved that by voting on race. O'Malley? He has about as much name recognition as Fiorina.

 

[auditor0007]

George Pataki will have announcement on White House run on May 28


By Nick Gass

5/14/15 8:50 AM EDT

Updated 5/14/15 11:08 AM EDT


Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Thursday that he will announce at a May 28 event in New Hampshire whether he will run for president.


Pataki said he was not worried about the increasingly crowded Republican field of candidates.

He also said that knowing what he knows now, he would not have supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.


On foreign policy, Pataki said he is experienced, expressing confidence that he doesn’t “need any expert to try and give me a crash course.”


“Now, in defense of President [George W.] Bush, though, after the surge, we had created a stable Iraq, and it was that decision by the Clintons and Obamas to withdraw every single American troop that created the void,” he added.


Read more: George Pataki will have announcement on White House run on May 28 - Nick Gass - POLITICO


Interesting that he doesn't seem to know that it was Geo Bush who made the decision to withdraw from Iraq and that President Obama had no choice.

On CNN just now, he said he would go for a ground war on ISIS so he's ignorant about that too.

Everyone wants a ground war but everyone that wants that has no clue as to how that would work. They think that ISIS would line up in some battle line so that our troops could just wipe them out. They do not understand that ISIS would hide among all other Iraqis and Syrians and be impossible to pick out. It would be guerrilla warfare at its best. Sure we would wipe them out eventually, but we would kill a lot of innocent people in the process, and we would lose a lot of our own. And once we were done, we would have a bunch of Muslims who were not grateful but who hated us instead.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

George Pataki will have announcement on White House run on May 28


By Nick Gass

5/14/15 8:50 AM EDT

Updated 5/14/15 11:08 AM EDT


Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Thursday that he will announce at a May 28 event in New Hampshire whether he will run for president.


Pataki said he was not worried about the increasingly crowded Republican field of candidates.

He also said that knowing what he knows now, he would not have supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.


On foreign policy, Pataki said he is experienced, expressing confidence that he doesn’t “need any expert to try and give me a crash course.”


“Now, in defense of President [George W.] Bush, though, after the surge, we had created a stable Iraq, and it was that decision by the Clintons and Obamas to withdraw every single American troop that created the void,” he added.


Read more: George Pataki will have announcement on White House run on May 28 - Nick Gass - POLITICO


Interesting that he doesn't seem to know that it was Geo Bush who made the decision to withdraw from Iraq and that President Obama had no choice.

On CNN just now, he said he would go for a ground war on ISIS so he's ignorant about that too.

Everyone wants a ground war but everyone that wants that has no clue as to how that would work. They think that ISIS would line up in some battle line so that our troops could just wipe them out. They do not understand that ISIS would hide among all other Iraqis and Syrians and be impossible to pick out. It would be guerrilla warfare at its best. Sure we would wipe them out eventually, but we would kill a lot of innocent people in the process, and we would lose a lot of our own. And once we were done, we would have a bunch of Muslims who were not grateful but who hated us instead.

Correct.

In fact, the problem cannot be addressed with conventional military tactics; once American ground forces depart the Region the terrorists will simply reconstitute and continue the killing – Americans would have once again fought in a pointless ME conflict, their deaths devoid of meaning.