Posted on 04/16/2011 8:59:59 AM PDT by ejdrapes
(CNN) – Business mogul Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have sought to impeach President Bush when she had the chance. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Trump said the president and his administration deliberately lied about the Iraq war, and congressional Democrats missed an opportunity to impeach him when the party took control of Congress in 2006. "I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said. "It was almost - it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing." Pressed why he feels Bush deserved the punishment faced by only two other commanders-in-chief, Trump said the president misled the country in the run-up to the Iraq war, and that his actions were considerably more objectionable than those which led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. "He lied. He got us into the war with lies," Trump said. And I mean - look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true." Trump: I wanted Bush impeached
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
You Really Have to Listen to Donald Trump Talk About IraqTrump: I always heard that when we went into Iraq, we went in for the oil. I said, "Eh, that sounds smart."
WSJ: So you would keep troops in Iraq after this year?
Trump: I would take the oil.
WSJ: I don't understand how you would take the — does that mean keeping troops there, or staying involved in Iraq?
Trump: You heard me, I would take the oil.
Trump: We have thousands of people that died, our great soldiers. They died. Men and women, lots of people. We have thousands of people all over this country that are wounded, horribly wounded, with legs and arms. And lots — WSJ: I think that they thought they were —
Trump: Excuse me.
WSJ: Sorry.
Trump: And I would not want to be the one that would tell their parents that your son, your daughter, has died in vain, been wounded in vain. But I would not want to be the one who goes up to somebody that has a son or daughter that died in Iraq and tell them, "By the way, Iran has taken over Iraq, because we have so weakened that nation that they essentially don't have an army that can fight back as they have for hundreds of years." So I would absolutely keep the oil ...
WSJ: I think that the soldiers fighting in Iraq were also fighting for freedom, not necessarily fighting for oil.
So in 2008 Bush deserved to be impeached over Iraq but now in 2010 we went in there because of oil and that was a 'smart idea'.
bttt
LISTEN:
Mark Levin on Trump (Audio): http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/sound-trumpet.html
I had serious issues with Bush43’s big government domestic agenda and his liberal spending policies. But his efforts in the WOT while not perfect, where in America’s best interests. Bush43 was a patriot and stood his ground after 911.
Trump’s nothing but an unprincipled political neophyte, an opportunist who will say anything to get attention. Not to mention being a liar, a phony and a fraud.
I honestly don’t care what he said last week.. or even yesterday. As long as he pounds Obama today.
What is with our side trying to stop Trump. He’s a useful tool as far as I’m concerned.
He has no shot to win the nomination. Sorry. His views are too far out there (take over countries for oil, default on China loans). When the bluster wears off and he has to get specific, he will fade.
But for now let him roll.
Yes, thanks for posting. We can eat popcorn while we listen to The Donald raise the birther issue. He has done a lot of good with that one.
But he is not a conservative, and he cannot be trusted any further than you can kick him. He is not our friend.
Either he was put up by hillary to undermine Obama, or he is preparing to pull a spoiler on us and run as an independent, pulling votes away from the Republican and/or Tea Party candidate—who I hope will be a true conservative.
It is suspicious that the networks have given him so much face time on this. Even Fox has assiduously avoided the birther issue, until Trump burst on the scene.
So, by all means lets applaud him while he is spreading doubt about Obama. But don’t be sucked into believing that he represents us—either true conservatism or fiscal sanity—in any way, shape, or form.
In other words, let him do good. But don’t be suckered into helping him do evil.
HE IS NOT OUR FRIEND. He is not a true conservative. He is not a true patriot.
No way - he's a total embarrassment.
Well, Bush might have been impeached, but not for that reason. How about the one worlder leaving our borders wide open so that the indigent could come in to suck off our economy, and the enemy to infiltrate the country? That is, IMHO impeachable!
And we have no business in Ira1 or Afghanistan....or Libya! Those people will never change. Bring our boys home and put them on our borders!
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as “vigilantes.”
3-23-05
By 3-24-05 I was ready to impeach his ass as well.
While I share your concern, Bush was a horrible President. Bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Zawahiri are still alive roaming NW Pakistan. In no uncertain terms the whole NW Pakistan area should have been quarentine and every living thing exterminated. As well as the Taliban areas of Afganistan. The message would have been received by our enemies. Instead we invaded multiple countries, propped up corrupt governments, and the threat still exists. We have bankrupted this country. We have allowed our manufacturing base to go to China through a failed dollar policy... Nice Job Clinton, Bush, and Obama. They should all be in jail.
Bush should have been impeached ... for his failure to protect the states from invasion.
WTF are you babbling about?
October 15, 2008
Has Obama had congress vote on Libya yet?
I cant believe people on FR are attacking GWB while ignoring Obamas lawless ass.
Absolutely right regarding a Republican nomination, I’m concerned with him running as a third party candidate and splitting the votes we need to throw the current clown out of a second term. Perot Redux
That said, I do like the attention he is giving to the natural born citizen issue.
Trump is scum
Good point. I don't want to tie my hands. Just in case he rises in the polls. LOL
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