...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.
I personally believe that Trump made a big mistake with his line of attack in the debate over WMD, but I am only one person. I am sure someone will be along soon to tell me I am a fool for not recognizing such a brilliant strategy for the general election and now he will get the code pink vote or something to that effect.
If he wins the nomination I will vote for him in the general because the alternative is far worse, but then again I almost got zotted here on FR for making the same argument for Romney because anything was better than the present administration to me, but Romney was more evil than Obama according to a few around here.
Trump is not going to change so I guess we should get used to it, but his bombastic style has alienated more than a few people that I know including some who have already said they would never vote for him. That was my fear with his rise at the beginning and all the meat and potatoes bravado won’t make me feel any better the morning after we get another progressive/socialist President because he ticked off enough people.
Will see how it plays out and I am guessing this thread will get nasty due to Salon article. Telling quote from the book though! Keep on posting and ignore the ugliness - they are just ideas after all and most of us come here to partake of them.