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Bush Lied About WMDs? Trump’s Outrageous Accusation
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ^ | 15 Feb 16 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 02/15/2016 8:46:46 AM PST by elhombrelibre

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To: BeadCounter

“That video was uploaded in 2006.”

Lying is stretching the truth as well. Read the bleeping article.


21 posted on 02/15/2016 8:56:56 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: elhombrelibre

Donald has jumped the shark.


22 posted on 02/15/2016 8:57:04 AM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: elhombrelibre

Personally I think it’s crap.

However, the majority of voters appear to believe it.

That’s what W reaps for a decade of refusing to stand-up and defend himself.


23 posted on 02/15/2016 8:57:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jennychase
"..and it turns out he didn't"

It was not a lie, it was bad intel.

Members of both parties had access to that intel and a majority of Dem Senators voted for authorization, including Hillary & Kerry.

You can't call something a lie a year later, based on new information.

That is just dishonest.

24 posted on 02/15/2016 8:57:16 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: jennychase

No. He’s confirming that they were mistaken. As were our allies in Europe.


25 posted on 02/15/2016 8:57:21 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Just read that Colon Bowel is going to release his new book stating when he went to the UN stating their were WMD, he didn’t truly believe that himself.

I also read that there was info available that wasn’t shared inside the Bush admin doubting WMD assertion.

All I know is men got killed, Hussein was a monster, but Bin Laden not Hussein was responsible for 911

Now would be a good time to declassify the Saudi Arabian material the 911 commission won’t let us see if SA was involved lets know the extent.


26 posted on 02/15/2016 8:57:42 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (A)
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To: elhombrelibre
Attack Jeb by attacking W.

We had just been attacked by terrorists. Saddam had been challenging the UN 17 resolutions for years. Yes, 17 resolutions. Iraq had used WMDs in its war with Iran. We had already been at war with Saddam under HW (first Gulf War).

Etc.

27 posted on 02/15/2016 8:58:03 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: samtheman

"He tried to kill my father, man. I don't play that s--t!"

28 posted on 02/15/2016 8:58:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: HarleyLady27

Laughable source....no bias there!


29 posted on 02/15/2016 8:58:47 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: elhombrelibre

This is one area I have to disagree with Trump on. The WMDs are still in Iraq to this very day.


30 posted on 02/15/2016 9:00:51 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: jennychase

Here Bush confirms , he lied .
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A lie is when you say something you know is untrue at the time you say it. It requires a deceptive state of mind. I do not believe Bush lied. I do not know if U.S. intelligence knew and mislead him. The whole discussion is murky because Saddam had some chemical weapons at the time.


31 posted on 02/15/2016 9:00:55 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Scirparius

Also, another reason we know Saddam had WMDs is because we gave him WMDs.

32 posted on 02/15/2016 9:01:05 AM PST by Scirparius
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To: Zenjitsuman
Are Redstate, Spectator, CR, NR, all written by the same person.

No. And you forgot The Federalist and the Resurgent.

They never seem to print that Trump has been ahead for 7 months

Only in popular polls, which don't take into account the reality of states voting. And if you think a ceiling of about 1/3 of (R) votes is "ahead," well, perhaps it is. But about 70% wouldn't vote for him.

anything positive about his remarkable career.

Inheriting millions, then building casinos and filing for bankruptcy? Bilking gullible people with fraudulent universities and MLM schemes? Marrying nude models? Donating to Democrats who hate us? He even managed to give $25K for McAwful to get elected in Virginia. Please tell me more about this remarkable career.

They don't even print that he is winning with every demographic. Or he won all the debates.

He "won" with online algorithms. Totally fake, and democrats who love him vote on those, too.

When are they going to get it.

Trump would lose handily in a 2-man Republican primary. The GOP is fractured, but Trump is not the answer. He does, however, count on thousands of votes from Democrats who are crossing over.

33 posted on 02/15/2016 9:01:18 AM PST by agrarianlady
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To: elhombrelibre

Trump is wrong on this issue.
Those weapons were all over the place. The water in the river was contaminated from the dumping of those chemicals into it. They found tons and tons of those weapons in Iraq. Granted, many were not able to be used, but many were, and were used on THE KURDS! The weapons that may have been reliable were taken into Syria.

My best friend is suffering from the disposal of some of those weapons. Two tours in Iraq.


34 posted on 02/15/2016 9:01:59 AM PST by crz
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To: elhombrelibre

My memory was that there was NO NUCLEAR PROGRAM though they found some duel use stuff.
They found ancient yellowcake.
There were chemicals not classified as MWDs found, but if you mixed various things you could get there.

Most believe Sadam never backed down hoping the threat would keep people out.

I think the 11 month warning allowed many things potentially to move out of Iraq.

At this point I think Bush wanted an excuse to go in because Saddam made an assassination attempt on Bush #1.

Bottom line was we either needed to ignore the UN to go right in or stay out altogether.
We disrupted the tribal warfare of the Middle East and gave Russia and Iran a go in card.


35 posted on 02/15/2016 9:02:15 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Bush admitted there were NO WMDS.

What part of Bush saying there are no WMDs in Iraq does not compute?


36 posted on 02/15/2016 9:02:57 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Rumplemeyer

No, Ted jumped the shark after Rubio destroyed him in the debate!!


37 posted on 02/15/2016 9:03:17 AM PST by stratboy
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To: jennychase
Iraq had WMDs
38 posted on 02/15/2016 9:04:19 AM PST by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: Jim 0216

President Bush is not the only person who believed there were WMD in Iraq. Let’s not rewrite history. Also, Barack Hussein is the one who surrendered Iraq.


39 posted on 02/15/2016 9:04:20 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: jennychase
On-the-Run Terrorist Group ISIS Seizes Non-Existent Stockpile of WMDs in the "Over" Iraq War

Saddam era WMDs captured in Iraq by ISIS

Do Reports of WMD Found in Iraq Vindicate George W. Bush? WMD were found in Iraq but does it matter?

40 posted on 02/15/2016 9:06:03 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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