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Carson: al Qaeda Was Not A Threat In 2003
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Posted on 11/16/2015 10:51:48 PM PST by springwater13

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To: nopardons; TigersEye

I feel like I’m watching The Taming Of The Shrew.

It’s the moon!
No it’s not!
Yes it is!

/ad nauseum


41 posted on 11/17/2015 12:08:42 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: grania

I don’t like Trump bashing. I don’t like Carson bashing. I don’t like Cruz bashing.

Carson has brought a lot to this campaign, as has Trump.

Carson has stood up to Obama in person to his face in a way no other public figure has (at the prayer breakfast).

Carson does not deserve the scorn those here heaped on him in response to leftist media distortion in the manner of liberal-type emotionalism.

It is hysteria at best. Pure irrational emotionalism of the sort that accompanies liberal mindset.

If you actually examine Carson’s statements they in no way differ from Trump’s position on the Iraq war.

What are you objecting to that Carson said?


42 posted on 11/17/2015 12:09:32 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Salamander

LOL...well, sort of.
Love that play!


43 posted on 11/17/2015 12:10:41 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Salamander

LOL

Well, you only need to watch about 45 seconds to hear
him say it.

Do you think he operated without a general anesthetic?

“OK, I want you to count backwards from 100 while I
tell you about my life. I started out as an angry young boy...”


44 posted on 11/17/2015 12:11:39 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: ifinnegan
"But here's the problem, Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda at that time was not an existential threat to us."

No one distorted that. It's a direct quote.

45 posted on 11/17/2015 12:13:34 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: ifinnegan

Is Dr. Ben Carson friends with Louis Farrakhan? Does Dr. Ben Carson endorse the Nation of Islam?


46 posted on 11/17/2015 12:14:02 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: ifinnegan
Oh piffle !

Who is "bashing" Carson?

He's like Biden....extremely gaffe prone and is NOT presidential timber at all. He may have been an excellent surgeon, but he in no way brought anything of value to the campaign.

How is it "bashing" him, to point out the fact that he is wrong about al-Qaeda, in 2003 and afterwards?

I wonder if he even knows that they bombed the WTC waaaaaaaaay before 9/11; in Clinton's first year as president?

47 posted on 11/17/2015 12:17:41 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Do you know what existentialist threat means compared to simply threat?

It means a Qaeda was not a threat at that time to the existence of the US.

That is also Trump’s opinion.

No pardons, you never make sense or say coherent or rational things.

In your zeal, you make yourself in to a group think lemming which is the hallmark of the left. It is a function of stupidity and lack of intellectual rigor as well as visceral emotion over rationality and even handed ness.

We do not need that on our side and more calm and reasoned and thoughtful input on your part would be more beneficial in supporting Trump.

As it is you do him more harm than good and that is not a good thing.


48 posted on 11/17/2015 12:18:15 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: RedHeeler

Worse...he claims that he has the SAME goals as Al Sharpton!


49 posted on 11/17/2015 12:19:02 AM PST by nopardons
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To: RedHeeler

No and no.


50 posted on 11/17/2015 12:19:04 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: TigersEye

“No one distorted that. It’s a direct quote. “

The headline distorted it.

“But here’s the problem, Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda at that time was not an existential threat to us.”

As far as the quote, do you disagree with it?


51 posted on 11/17/2015 12:20:51 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

Swingin’ at those damn bats, are ya? Good.


52 posted on 11/17/2015 12:23:23 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: ifinnegan
Listen n00b, I know what an "existential threat" is, but YOU don't...which you prove with every post on this.

I am far from "irrational", a "lefty", and I make far more sense, with more coherent and concise posts than you ever shall, if you are around here, as long as I have been. Tour impugnations and name calling of me, prove that you are the irrational one, without a coherent thought!

Trump never mentions al-Qaeda. He says that he didn't think that we should have gone into Iraq, but al-Qaeda never falls from his lips.

Facts bother you; pity that.

53 posted on 11/17/2015 12:24:11 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
So do I.

Sometimes, I make a snarky crack to Himself, though he be Shakespeare-impaired.

;D

54 posted on 11/17/2015 12:26:51 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: TigersEye
Do you think he operated without a general anesthetic?

For himself or the patient?

55 posted on 11/17/2015 12:27:29 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: TigersEye

“You now say you only disagree with the part about al Qaeda not being an existential threat but agree with him about his criticism of Obama’s withdrawal?”

I didn’t say that but I do believe it.


That’s not clear. Try to be coherent.

You agree with Carson about Obama withdrawing troops?

If so, you only are objecting to the part of the statement that al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were not existential threats.

Which is interesting in that Trump fully agrees with Carson on that.


56 posted on 11/17/2015 12:27:54 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: D-fendr
Carson is a good man

If I hear or read Carson is a good man one more time, I'm gonna barf.


57 posted on 11/17/2015 12:28:14 AM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: ifinnegan

I don’t give a damn what the headline said. Yes, I disagree with that. It’s idiotic to say that Al Qaeda was not an existential threat.


58 posted on 11/17/2015 12:28:23 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: 867V309

Carson is a good man.

>:-)


59 posted on 11/17/2015 12:30:01 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: nopardons

I didn’t say you are a lefty. I don’t think that.

I am saying your intellectual (or lack thereof) approach and ability is the same as the liberal left.


60 posted on 11/17/2015 12:30:16 AM PST by ifinnegan
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