...Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S . warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks in Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq's crash program to become a nuclear power. They've got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers-more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They've got enriched uranium. All they need is the material for nuclear fission to complete the job, and, according to the Rumsfeld report, we don't even know for sure if they've laid their hands on that yet. That's what our last aerial assault on Iraq in 1999 was about. Saddam Hussein wouldn't let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where that material might be stored. The result when our bombing was over? We still don't know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I'm no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don't, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.
Salon is under my sink for plumbing emergencies, but I didn’t disagree a whole lot with what Trump said.
EXCEPT that Clinton was the reason my beautiful Towers fell (Never Forget!).
the Cole, the Kobe Towers, the 1993 attack and on and on.
he launched a few missiles at where he THOUGHT bin laden was once, but that was it.
Doubt airport surveillance would have caught box cutters.
remember, clinton cut the deficit largely on the backs of the military and being lucky enough to be in office when something called “the internet” became popular
Trump was positioning himself for the general election.
We’ve lost two elections to the community organizer - the 2nd after America witnessed the worst presidency since Jimmy Carter - to Democrats because of George W.
George W. bailed out the rich with corporate welfare and got us into Iraq.
ANY Republican nominee will have that baggage going into the general. It weighted down both McCain and Romney.
Trump has inoculated his candidacy of the Bush blunders.
It was a smart strategic move.
Trump isn’t running a a neo-con. Why conservatives now praise the Bushes is beyond me.
He’s running against Clinton/Bush/NAFTA/Iraq and appealing to independents, blue collar workers, the Nixon ‘silent majority’ hard hats that will cross over, those that never voted or haven’t voted in years, and it turns out that 35-40% voter base will show up for him consistently.
When National Review and Fox attack Trump it helps Trump prove he’s independent. When the MSNBC and leftists attack trump it helps Trump prove he’s independent.
He’s staking out ground candidates usually ignore. His support among blacks (25%) scares the heck out of Democrats. He pulls that off in a general, or anywhere close to that, and he will win.
>> As with most things conservatives support, from the Vietnam War to bans on same-sex marriage to support for segregation,
Salon argues that state sanctioned sodomy essentially equates to the ultimate sacrifice — given the things Salon says.
>> Trump is giving conservatives exactly what they need right now, which is a way to move on past the Iraq War.
I don’t need that. And I hope no other conservative “needs” that. Quite honestly, I despise the dismissal and relegation of the Iraq years.
Pot kettle black
When a Freeper is reading and posting ‘Salon’ you need to wonder why.
History’s most obscene hypocrites write: “conservatives usually have to find a way to reconcile their own positive opinions of themselves with the fact that they were very, very wrong. Usually this requires reframing the issue so they can keep preening self-righteously while quietly moving off the wrong opinion and hoping everyone forgets that they ever held it.” They know all about reconciling their highly exalted opinions of themselves (we are good! we are the best! we are superior thinkers!) with the reality of their evil consciences, evil thoughts, stupidity, and depraved actions. Equally, they know all about the need of reconciling their evil ideology with forgetfulness in order that they need not think about the genocide of millions, catastrophic destruction, and other crimes committed against humanity on its’ behalf. In this light, obscene hypocrisy is a gross understatement.
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
I really care what the fagalas think.
Salon is contemptible but there may be a kernal of truth here. Trump may have helped himself by cutting loose the Bush war baggage.
The fact is, when W decided to join the primary campaign as a partisan for his brother, he became fair game for criticism. He is no longer a lofty ex president, he is now a flack for Jeb, and deserves to be treated as such. If he can attack Trump, Trump can attack him. And that's the way it goes.
The leftists do love Trump