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To: GodGunsGuts

That’s why Trump is leading. He makes no bones that the issue is with Islam.


22 posted on 02/26/2016 5:30:02 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3402407/posts?page=5#5


25 posted on 02/26/2016 5:31:05 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: DoodleDawg

AP Fact Check

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is displaying a spotty memory about his past views on foreign policy.

Just as he claimed to have loudly opposed the Iraq invasion before it happened, which he didn’t, Trump claimed in the latest Republican presidential debate that he never called for U.S. intervention in Libya, which he did.

Some claims made in the Thursday’s debate and how they stack up against the facts:

TED CRUZ: Trump “agreed with the Obama-Clinton policy of toppling the government in Libya. That was a disaster. It gave the country over to radical Islamic terrorism and it endangered America.”

TRUMP: “He said I was in favor of Libya? I never discussed that subject. I was in favor of Libya? We would be so much better off if Gadhafi were in charge right now.”

THE FACTS: He actually argued on numerous occasions, and fervently so, that the U.S. should intervene to stop a humanitarian disaster in Libya. He said the U.S. would have a “major black eye” if it didn’t take out Moammar Gadhafi, the autocratic leader.

In a February 2011 video captured on BuzzFeed not long before the U.S. and NATO stepped in, he said, “Gadhafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is.

“And we’re sitting around, we have soldiers all over the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage. And that’s what it is. ... We should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick, we could do it surgically. ... This is absolutely nuts, we don’t want to get involved.”

True to his business principles, Trump proposed sending Libya’s successor government a bill for the U.S. intervention: “From your oil, we want reimbursement.”


31 posted on 02/26/2016 5:34:12 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: DoodleDawg

American Dogs have received a fatwa via ISIS- http://www.eutimes.net/2015/12/isis-issues-fatwa-calling-for-mass-killing-of-american-dogs-and-puppies/


75 posted on 02/26/2016 7:25:40 PM PST by magna carta
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