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So was Trump for WMD in Iraq Before He was Against It?
Flopping Aces ^ | 2/15/16 | Wordsworth

Posted on 02/16/2016 3:59:49 AM PST by 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:

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blamecanada; bushliedpeopledied; iraq; wmd
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To: xzins

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.


81 posted on 02/16/2016 6:35:39 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Bikkuri

;-)


82 posted on 02/16/2016 6:36:02 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: scooby321
>>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".




83 posted on 02/16/2016 6:55:43 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Darksheare; Steve Van Doorn
LIBERAL WMD


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This seems to go well with this particular subject ;^)
84 posted on 02/16/2016 6:59:20 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: Bikkuri; Steve Van Doorn

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


85 posted on 02/16/2016 7:11:46 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare
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 ...
86 posted on 02/16/2016 7:13:03 AM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Darksheare

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).


87 posted on 02/16/2016 7:16:23 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: Drumbo

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


88 posted on 02/16/2016 7:16:45 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Bikkuri

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


89 posted on 02/16/2016 7:17:44 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Drumbo

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


90 posted on 02/16/2016 7:18:28 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: scooby321

Prez CRUZ for "NO MASS SHRUBERROES!



91 posted on 02/16/2016 7:19:14 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Darksheare

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


92 posted on 02/16/2016 7:19:46 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: Bikkuri; Admin Moderator

My Bad!


93 posted on 02/16/2016 7:27:29 AM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Bikkuri; Drumbo

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..)


94 posted on 02/16/2016 7:31:19 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Bikkuri; Darksheare

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...


95 posted on 02/16/2016 7:49:15 AM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

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


96 posted on 02/16/2016 7:50:38 AM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: pookie18; Bikkuri

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


97 posted on 02/16/2016 7:52:12 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare; Bikkuri

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


98 posted on 02/16/2016 7:57:00 AM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: pookie18; Bikkuri

lol, worked out anyway!


99 posted on 02/16/2016 7:58:15 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: pookie18

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


100 posted on 02/16/2016 8:00:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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