So was Trump for WMD in Iraq Before He was Against It?

Flopping Aces ^ | 2/15/16 | Wordsworth

[pookie18]

Trump has exaggerated his supposed opposition to OIF. PolitiFact:

Again, Trump said he was against the war from the very beginning.

"I'm the only one on this stage that said, 'Do not go into Iraq. Do not attack Iraq,' " Trump said. "Nobody else on this stage said that. And I said it loud and strong. And I was in the private sector. I wasn't a politician, fortunately. But I said it, and I said it loud and clear, 'You'll destabilize the Middle East.' "

Trump often repeats this line, and we've rated a similar Trump claim Mostly False, because he didn't appear to take any public position on the war until after the March 2003 invasion. In this more recent version of the statement, he also said he stated his opposition to the war "loud and clear." But the public record of his positions is thin.

Trump's public opposition to OIF only seems to have started in 2004. Before that, would a President Trump have "lied us into war"?

Hat tip Marc Thiessen for these tweets by Andrew Kaczynski:

[Darksheare]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/31/sprj.irq.geraldo/

Well, with press members willing to tell the enemy what our plans were, distinct possibility that not saying what we found may have been thought a good idea at the time.
I don’t doubt that Jerry Rivers and his ilk would have drawn a friggin’ map to the stash if reported on.
Time will tell if this was a good idea or not.

[Darksheare]

;-)

[HLPhat]

>>Are some of you people think Iraq was the right War?

Ask her.

http://theregularguybelieves.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html  

That was a noble FReeping idea. The problem is the exercise was just another example of a long history of profiteering by the thing President Eisenhower tried to warn us about...

[Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance]
US National Archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

WE need to fix that.

"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men".

[Bikkuri]

LIBERAL WMD





This seems to go well with this particular subject ;^)

[Darksheare]

I remember that post.
Almost laughed my coffee out my nose.

[Drumbo]

I recall photos of fighter jets buried in the Iraqi desert. Fly that into a building and/pr load it with Sarin and you've got a WMD. Remember 9/11!


An Iraqi Air Force MiG fighter jet partially buried in the sand near the Tamous air base August 2, 2003 at Habaniya, Iraq, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Baghdad. U.S. military units hunting Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction have uncovered more than 25 of the Iraqi air force fighter jets buried there to avoid being destroyed ...

[Bikkuri]

I think that these older posts/threads could put a close on the accusations the Lib talking point posters are trying to push.. (which is why I love FR. It’s all here.. it’s all history, and there are still links).

[Darksheare]

Yup, I remember the mig 25 foxbat (more than one) with upgraded FRENCH avionics buried in the sand.
Crazy time it was.

[Darksheare]

Should, but won’t.
The talking points and goal posts will always move.

[Bikkuri]

Grr.. hate to say it, but I think Getty images are ‘out of bounds’ for posting..

[HLPhat]

Prez CRUZ for "NO MASS SHRUBERROES!

[Bikkuri]

No kidding about moving goal posts.. This election, they’ve moved the ally team goalpost to China :p

[Drumbo]

My Bad!

[Darksheare]

Yes, repost but have an a href link to the image instead of IMG src.
Haven’t heard if that is disallowed, I think it’s just posting it on FR due to Getty copyright whine.
(FR is pretty much the only place thus barred, everyone else in the world can use their images..)

[pookie18]

Darksheare showed you today’s link. Back from maybe 2004-2008 or so, I posted the images directly here in News/Activism. Due to copyright problems with a few of them, among other reasons, I stopped posting them here directly, but continued posting them directly at several other sites. A few years after that, started posting them here again (now had to post in General/Chat) by linking to one of those other sites. Probably more info than you needed. Let me know if you want to be on the ping list...

[pookie18]

Stopping illegals & being conservative are not mutually exclusive...

[Darksheare]

Thanks pookie, wasn’t sure of the details myself.

[pookie18]

Actually, I responded to the initial post & hadn’t seen the later ones which had raised the “why” question...

[Darksheare]

lol, worked out anyway!

[1Old Pro]

Colin Powell said he was mislead on WMD in Iraq, there weren’t any WMD....Trump was right.