Posted on 10/05/2015 7:26:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, when asked if he believes the Middle East would be better today if Moammar Gadhafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq were still in power, responded, "It's not even a contest."
He related the situations in both of those countries with what is currently happening in Syria and seemed to endorse a stronger President Bashar Assad, even while admitting that he is "probably a bad guy."
"You can make the case, if you look at Libya, look at what we did there — it's a mess — if you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there — it's a mess — it's [Syria] going to be same thing," the real estate mogul said.
This is a sentiment that Trump took with him on Saturday to a rally in Franklin, Tennessee where he recalled our strategy with arming rebels during the days of Qaddafi's reign. Trump told about 1,500 in an event hall: "Then the rebels killed our ambassador in the worst way, what happened to him. And three other people, and many other people by the way. Okay? Remember that."
In regards to Iraq, Trump echoed a familiar line from his campaign: "Don't forget, ISIS came out of Iraq," Trump recalled, calling the terror organization "the leftovers that didn't get taken care of."
He also told the Franklin audience that during the time of Saddam Hussein's "vicious" rule in Iraq "there were no terrorists in Iraq." "You know what he used to do to terrorists?" Trump polled the crowd. "A one day trial and shoot him…and the one day trial usually lasted five minutes, right? There was no terrorism then."
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Amazing how people dis Trump...then he says this and a few thousand people with the same thought sign up for Trump.
BHO did that. GWB secured Iraq reasonably well after the surge went into effect.
All true also.
Bush was not a realist, but had good intentions.
Obama is a Muslim radical sympathizer.
That is a joke. That secure Iraq would have lasted only as long we were willing to borrow more money from China to police Iraq. As soon as we leave, you get what is unfolding now.
When will the stupid American leaders realize that democracy can not be imposed on Muslim countries? May be in another 200 years Muslim countries will evolve into democracies, but it has to come internally.
Yes, Iraq war was totally legal.
Yes, it was totally stupid because we had to borrow money from China to fight the war.
Yes, it was even more stupid because the debt added by Iraq war can not be paid any time soon, because we have no budget surpluses to pay any principle.
The maximum stupidity of Iraq war is...we will be paying interest on that $2,000,000,000,000 debt for ever.
Who says I want to impose democracy in the Middle East?
I don’t even like it here in the U.S.
I’m saying the US should reserve the right to take down any dictator who plots to assassinate US presidents, invades other countries, fires missiles at Israel, and harbors international terrorists.
I’m not into nation building or imposing democracy on anyone.
Duh!
Well, we can't be wrong forever.
Avoid any war on borrowed money from foreigners.
That is more important than any notions of revenge.
Because we have budget deficits as far as the eye can see.
These war debts are costing us interest payments for as far as the eye can see.
Stupid by orders of magnitude.
The only time we should start a war with borrowed money from China is....
If our motherland is directly attacked by an enemy.
Saddam never sent any airplanes to attack our country.
If our leaders had an ounce of brains, they should have figured out that Saddam was a good resistance to the radical regime by Mullah’s in Iran. If anything, we should have helped Saddam against the more powerful Iran.
I believe that military spending is a legitimate federal expense and that it needs be dramatically increased IMHO.
As for our colossal national debt-—which I agree is perfectly insane and unsustainable-—nearly all of that can attributed to out of control entitlement programs. Military spending is miniscule in comparison.
You are correct. If Saddam was still in power, he would already have the bomb.
We agree there....our military should be kept powerful,
IF WE CAN CUT OTHER SPENDING!
I am not for spending more on military by borrowing more money and adding to our humongous national debt, approaching Greek levels.
Ask the Greeks if they want more military or jobs and food.
The higher the debt gets, the higher are the costs of servicing the debt in forms of interest. We can’t work our way out of it by printing more money. Germany tried that, Argentina tried that, Zimbabwe tried that, Japan tried that, and it was a disaster in each case.
Pakistan has 200 bombs with an extremely fragile government.
North Korea has plenty of nukes with an insane dictator in charge.
If you think Saddam was going to attack United States with his nukes, there is something wrong in your water.
I’m in total agreement.
We need a very strong military.
Most other federal spending is bankrupting U.S. and-—moreover-—unconstitutional.
It seems that 10th Amendment has been routinely ignored since the days of the New Deal.
The world is a much safer place for the rest of us when Islamic morons are kept safely suppressed.
Well at least they had some dope outfits LMAO
There have been more attacks on the US than just those involving airplanes.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp?page=1
If anything, we should have helped Saddam against the more powerful Iran.
What, and catch hell for it like McCain is catching hell for the FSA? Actually, we did help Iraq, in a very limited way, for the purposes of screwing both Iraq and Iran. We gave Iraq the locations of targets in Iran relating to Iran's nuclear program and Iraq took them out, which set back Iran a few years. But we did not want to aid the regime because it was after all a Soviet client state and then a Russian and Chinese and French customer, and it had a nasty habit of gassing people, imprisoning and torturing the children of dissidents, killing American army rangers, supporting hijackers like ANO, terrorists like the PFLP, and Ansar al islam and its European terror cells, and Abu Sayyaf which was in the 90s decapitating tourists including Americans in the Philippines, working with Sudan on illicit programs, hosting terrorist conferences in which clerics called for global jihad, running a doozy of a spy network in Europe that had a keen interest n targeting NATO and it was also stocking its embassies with weapons ...
Now there's a fellow or two no one in the press or the Democratic party ever wants to talk about - one is Ali a Timimi... who was handed a huge sentence that the press barely mentioned... and Hikmat Shakir, who had some of the most interesting pocket litter for a guy who was able to escape to Iraq ...not to mention the guy who prepared the explosives for the first attack on the World Trade Center who ended up with a nice retirement package from Saddam and a house until we came along and started bombing Baghdad...
What a Biden-level stupid boneheaded comment- I hope he was misquoted but fear he wasn't.
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