Sessions: Assad Would Have Feared Bush

Politics • September 2013 • Views: 1,166

Sen. Jeff Sessions - a Republican who has yet to say whether he’ll approve President Barack Obama’s plan for military strikes in Syria - said at a town hall Friday that the situation in the conflict-torn nation would be far different if George W. Bush was still in the White House.

Speaking to tea party activists outside Montgomery, Sessions said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would have heeded calls from the former Republican commander-in-chief to not use chemical weapons on his people.

“If President Bush had told Bashar Assad, ‘You don’t use chemical weapons or you are going to be sorry. We are coming after you, this will be a consequence you will not want to bear,’ I don’t believe he would have used them,” Sessions said, adding that he didn’t “mean to be partisan about it.”

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10 comments

HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 6, 2013 2:05:16pm

Didn’t mean to be partisan about it my ass, Sessions. This is the president who took two years to Get Bin Laden while Bush couldn’t get him in eight. I know you’re bitter that this president means it’s hard to portray the Democrats as weak on terrorism but for goodness sake stop being a pathetic jackass.

EPR-radar Fri, Sep 6, 2013 2:06:55pm

re: #1 HappyWarrior

Didn’t mean to be partisan about it my ass, Sessions. This is the president who took two years to Get Bin Laden while Bush couldn’t get him in eight. I know you’re bitter that this president means it’s hard to portray the Democrats as weak on terrorism but for goodness sake stop being a pathetic jackass.

Holy gratuitous lies, Batman.

It’s like Sessions has a form of Tourette’s where flagrant lies _must_ be uttered frequently.

Skip Intro Fri, Sep 6, 2013 4:56:59pm

He could be right. Bush/Cheney scared the shit out of me.

Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 6, 2013 4:59:32pm

Decorum, please. That’s:

Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

majii Fri, Sep 6, 2013 5:31:50pm

The bastard most certainly did mean to be partisan when he made the claim that Assad would have listened if GWB had told him not to use chemical weapons on his own citizens. There are reasons Sessions said this. First, he’s being deliberately divisive for political reasons, and second, he’s telling the group that because the president is black, he’s automatically weak on foreign policy and everything else. He’s conveniently forgetting that he’s talking about the same GWB who fucked up in Iraq and Afghanistan, who could/did not consider Osama Bin Laden worth capturing, and who was a failure in foreign and domestic policy. But, then, GWB was a white president.

I think a major source of Sessions’ repeated opposition to President Obama is 99.999% based on the president’s race. Many Americans might not think this, and I can understand that, but they don’t have the experience I have in dealing with racist southern white males.

In general, racist southern white males have no real respect for any Person of Color. Oh, they’ll tolerate us if we can assist them in some way, but forget about them looking upon us as their equals. There are some reasons racist southern white males will never accept males of color occupying the WH, and those reasons are:
*They don’t think they’re intelligent enough to work in certain professions.

*They think that any good job and/or educational attainment they had/have is because of affirmative action (although this may not be true) and not because they are intelligent and work hard.

*They have the mindset that certain persons in this country have “places” where they do/don’t belong, along with other reasons.

No matter what President Obama does, it will never be approved/good in the eyes of someone like Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III. The way he feels about Persons of Color, LGBTQ Americans, atheists, and others has, over his lifetime, almost become a part of his genetic make up. Scratch Session’s surface and underneath you’ll find that the way he feels about President Obama is also the way he feels about Clarence Thomas, Allen West, Michael Steele, and Herman Cain. These guys think they’ve earned acceptance in the GOP, but they’re deluding themselves. To understand this one only has to recall how quickly Micheal Steele was to mention his race and the GOP when high level officials in the RNC wanted to rid themselves of him. The first thing he said was that his being black meant he had to work harder than any other chairman of the RNC. If he thought that he had finally “made it,” in the GOP, why would he have ever had to mention how he thought his race was related to the way he was being treated?

Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 6, 2013 5:40:20pm

re: #5 majii

“Jefferson”, and we aren’t talking about Thomas Jefferson.

ibob Fri, Sep 6, 2013 7:15:49pm

This man is an embarrassment to Alabama and all its people. I follow his voting record very closely, and he has voted against every single bill involving women’s issues( and any other issue dealing with common human decency). Whenever I see a WTF statement from a senator in a headline, I can count on it being from him most of the time. Sometimes, it hard to believe anyone can be this dense.

Also, majii is quite correct about Sessions’s opposition to anything concerning Obama being due to his color. Although, this will also apply to anyone who is not a straight, white, evangelical Christian male. The rest of us don’t even rate the time of day from him. I know his type very well from my experience living in Alabama almost all my life. Oh, and education does not improve this viewpoint much, except to help them hide it a little better.

Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 6, 2013 7:20:36pm

re: #7 ibob

He might be our Best and Brightest, certainly better and brighter than his voters.