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‘Millions’ of Republicans Say Iraq War was a ‘Disaster’: Laura Ingraham Supports Trump
Impulse today ^ | Feb.15, 2016 | Derek Flynn

Posted on 02/15/2016 2:38:30 PM PST by AuntB

Laura Ingraham, who is a conservative radio host, gave a warning to the GOP presidential candidates that they should stop defending the actions of President George W. Bush because "millions and millions" of Republican voters believe the Iraq War that he got the United States into was a mistake.

During the CBS hosted GOP Republican presidential debate last Saturday night, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump accused George W. Bush of lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

"Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake, all right?" Trump said. "They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none, and they knew there were none."

These comments by Trump come just two days before George W. Bush goes out to campaign for his younger brother, Jeb Bush, in South Carolina.

The hosts of Fox News were told by Ingraham that Trump's criticism of Bush was risky, but also a very calculated strategy.

"He's thinking that there are millions and millions of Republican voters who have had the luxury of time to look back on whether the war in Iraq was really a good idea," Ingraham explained. "And all the money we spent, and all the men and women we lost. And I think a lot of Republicans -- the establishment doesn't like to hear this -- millions and millions of Americans probably agree with Trump."

"This was a disaster for the United States," Ingraham added. "We've lost influence in the Middle East; we've toppled dictators who probably had their finger on the dice of what was going to be a flood of tumult. And he's betting that people aren't going to just reject the Republican Party of today, they're going to reject the Republican Party of the Bushes.'"

"If they think they are going to re-litigate the Iraq war throughout the United States in this primary process and that's going to end well for them, I don't think it is."


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; elections; iraq; repositorytrump; trump; trumpwasright; war
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To: AuntB

Trump echoed Medea Benjamin from Code Pink. I expect more from a republican nominee.


61 posted on 02/15/2016 2:59:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: babygene
He correctly said that Bush did not keep us safe.

And that was in response to Jeb trying to fool people into thinking he would be just like his brother and keep the country safe, which was a falsehood. It was Jeb that brought it into play in the first place.

62 posted on 02/15/2016 2:59:54 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: jimbo807
Cruz support the War and George W. Bush immigration plan
63 posted on 02/15/2016 3:00:10 PM PST by scooby321
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Code pink doesn’t ‘own’ language.


64 posted on 02/15/2016 3:00:13 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB

The Iraq war WAS a disaster

BUT

That is NOT the same thing as accusing W of LYING about WMD’s! (only a bat poop leftist fringe lunatic would believe that!)

The Iraq war was a HUGE success... UNTIL W tried to turn the whole thing into nation building.


65 posted on 02/15/2016 3:00:48 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: TBP

Sleaze is accepting the digusting reason to start the opening salvo of the Arab spring. Iraq was a disgrace that many of us bought for all the wrong reasons. What did we get for the massive lost of human blood and treasure? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Obama picked up where Bush left off. That is the globalist way.

Now we have a bulging hornets nest of savages that are out to destroy us and a sleazy government who will sell our souls and freedom for money and world power.

Bush is a joke that left the borders wide open while going the unconstitutional direction of the damn patriot act that only aided Obama in further destruction.

Frankly, I have never been more ashamed of falling for the NWO BS than I am now.


66 posted on 02/15/2016 3:01:17 PM PST by dforest
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To: Wissa

All politicians are liars. Every damn one of them.


67 posted on 02/15/2016 3:01:49 PM PST by jimbo807
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To: scooby321

Cruz supports whatever he thinks can advance his ambitions.


68 posted on 02/15/2016 3:02:41 PM PST by jimbo807
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To: AuntB
But Trump claimed Bush *lied* about WMDs.

From the New York Times
Feb 14, 2016

Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate

TRUMP: You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell you. They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/politics/transcript-of-the-republican-presidential-debate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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NY Times discovers that Saddam did have WMDs after all

By Thomas Lifson

President Bush "lied" about Iraq's WMDs - thus goes the article of faith among liberals, endlessly repeated by the likes of Ron Fournier and Jon Stewart as a kind of progressive catechism.  Except that it is a libel, as even the New York Times indirectly acknowledges today.

C.J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt write:

The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.

The extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States' acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

Note that despite the firestorm of slander the Bush administration endured over its "lies" on WMD, the president never acted to declassify the information on the CIA buyback program, and as a result today it is an article of faith on the left that he lied us into war.

At the time of the invasion of Iraq, there was no way to know that:

These munitions were remnants of an Iraqi special weapons program that was abandoned long before the 2003 invasion,

But:

 they turned up sporadically during the American occupation in buried caches, as part of improvised bombs or on black markets.

American Thinker reported on the WMD evidence found in Iraq 11 years ago.  

The CIA's program appears to have put at risk soldiers who were not warned of the risks they faced in handling these potent weapons:

Not long after Operation Avarice had secured its 400th rocket, in 2006, American troops were exposed several times to other chemical weapons. Many of these veterans said that they had not been warned by their units about the risks posed by the chemical weapons and that their medical care and follow-up were substandard, in part because military doctors seemed unaware that chemical munitions remained in Iraq.

In some cases, victims of exposure said, officers forbade them to discuss what had occurred. The Pentagon now says hundreds of other veterans reported on health-screening forms that they believed they too had been exposed during the war.

Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the belated acknowledgment of a chemical-rocket purchases, as well as the potentially worrisome laboratory analysis of the related sarin samples, raised questions about the military's commitment to the well-being of those it sent to war.

We have been fed a line of bull over Saddam and WMDs.

President Bush "lied" about Iraq's WMDs - thus goes the article of faith among liberals, endlessly repeated by the likes of Ron Fournier and Jon Stewart as a kind of progressive catechism.  Except that it is a libel, as even the New York Times indirectly acknowledges today.

C.J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt write:

The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.

The extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States' acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

Note that despite the firestorm of slander the Bush administration endured over its "lies" on WMD, the president never acted to declassify the information on the CIA buyback program, and as a result today it is an article of faith on the left that he lied us into war.

At the time of the invasion of Iraq, there was no way to know that:

These munitions were remnants of an Iraqi special weapons program that was abandoned long before the 2003 invasion,

But:

 they turned up sporadically during the American occupation in buried caches, as part of improvised bombs or on black markets.

American Thinker reported on the WMD evidence found in Iraq 11 years ago.  

The CIA's program appears to have put at risk soldiers who were not warned of the risks they faced in handling these potent weapons:

Not long after Operation Avarice had secured its 400th rocket, in 2006, American troops were exposed several times to other chemical weapons. Many of these veterans said that they had not been warned by their units about the risks posed by the chemical weapons and that their medical care and follow-up were substandard, in part because military doctors seemed unaware that chemical munitions remained in Iraq.

In some cases, victims of exposure said, officers forbade them to discuss what had occurred. The Pentagon now says hundreds of other veterans reported on health-screening forms that they believed they too had been exposed during the war.

Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the belated acknowledgment of a chemical-rocket purchases, as well as the potentially worrisome laboratory analysis of the related sarin samples, raised questions about the military's commitment to the well-being of those it sent to war.

We have been fed a line of bull over Saddam and WMDs.

source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/ny_times_discovers_that_saddam_did_have_wmds_after_all.html


69 posted on 02/15/2016 3:03:00 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: AuntB
ISIS might already have their hands on the WMDs that our 'friends' (according to the FR Putinistas) in Russia snuck out of Iraq and into Syria just prior to the war.
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"Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa alleged that an operation for the removal of chemical weapons was prepared by the Soviet Union for Libya, and that he was told over thirty years ago by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Yevgeny Primakov, about the existence of a similar plan for Iraq.

It is 'perfectly obvious', wrote Pacepa, that the Russian GRU agency helped Saddam Hussein to destroy, hide, or transfer his chemical weapons prior to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. 'After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place.'[13]

John Loftus, director of The Intelligence Summit, said in the November 16, 2007 issue of FrontPage Magazine that many documents from Iraq point to WMD being transferred to other countries such as Syria: 'As stated in more detail in my full report, the British, Ukrainian and American secret services all believed that the Russians had organized a last minute evacuation of CW [chemical] and BW [biological] stockpiles from Baghdad to Syria.'

His researchers allegedly found a document ordering the concealment of nuclear weapons equipment in storage facilities under the Euphrates River a few weeks before the invasion.[14]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMD_conjecture_in_the_aftermath_of_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Alleged_Russian_involvement
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[13] http://web.archive.org/web/20110712102918/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/aug/20/20030820-081256-6822r/

[14] http://web.archive.org/web/20110810213451/http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F715A709-2614-4EA5-967C-F6151F94A364

70 posted on 02/15/2016 3:03:27 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Which begs the question of why he went in there in the first place.


71 posted on 02/15/2016 3:03:29 PM PST by jimbo807
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To: AuntB

Hillary voted for the Iraq war and started the war in Libya.

We need someone who can prosecute her on those.


72 posted on 02/15/2016 3:03:54 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Oil: natural, organic, and gluten free)
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To: AuntB
Here's Trump giving his support to the traitor-in-chief on his worldwide apology tour...

TRUMP [on the Larry King Show (April 15, 2009), referring to the then newly elected communist president (Obama)]: "Well, I really like him. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. I mean, we really have lost a lot of reputation in the world. The previous administration [GW Bush] was a total disaster, a total catastrophe."

CNN LARRY KING LIVE Interview with Donald Trump
April 15, 2009

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/15/lkl.01.html

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The President's Apology Tour
Great leaders aren't defined by consensus.

By Karl Rove
April 23, 2009

President Barack Obama has finished the second leg of his international confession tour. In less than 100 days, he has apologized on three continents for what he views as the sins of America and his predecessors. ..."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124044156269345357
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"Well, I really like him. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world."--Trump, April 15, 2009

73 posted on 02/15/2016 3:04:37 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: jimbo807
All politicians are liars. Every damn one of them.

You'd have to look long and hard to find one that isn't also corrupt.

74 posted on 02/15/2016 3:04:38 PM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: AuntB

There was nothing wrong with the war. It was the post-war political bumblehumping that went sideways.


75 posted on 02/15/2016 3:05:24 PM PST by karnage
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To: TexasFreeper2009

WHAT about the Iraq war was a success?

Most Americans disagree with you.

CNN) — Ten years after the start of the Iraq war, most Americans say the war was a mistake and that it was dumb to send U.S. troops into the conflict, according to a new national survey.

And a CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday also indicates that more than half of the public says that President George W. Bush’s administration misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and more than half describe the more than eight and a half year long war as a stalemate.

As Americans mark the tenth anniversary of the conflict, 59% of those questioned in the survey say the decision to originally send U.S. troops into Iraq was dumb

http://fox4kc.com/2013/03/19/poll-many-americans-believe-iraq-war-was-a-mistake/

Google it...there’s much more


76 posted on 02/15/2016 3:06:08 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: TBP

There you go again. Just because you don’t understand Trump’s methodology and battle plan you say “The Don is a sleazy character, if you ask me.” It’s an ignorant statement. Trump’s giving a lesson in Sun Tzu Art of War applied to politics.

Get up to speed and then keep up man.


77 posted on 02/15/2016 3:06:20 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Slavery is. No slavery, no Obama.


78 posted on 02/15/2016 3:07:14 PM PST by EEGator
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To: TBP

And he donated to Cruz. Don’t conveniently forget that.


79 posted on 02/15/2016 3:07:23 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: karnage

“There was nothing wrong with the war. I”

Tell it to them....

After 4,486 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and 2,345 U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan, 1 million U.S. soldiers wounded in both wars, and a potential cost of up to $6 trillion, a new group like ISIL now causes havoc in the Middle East


80 posted on 02/15/2016 3:07:35 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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