Posted on 08/22/2015 8:49:54 AM PDT by all the best
A lot of democrats were saying the same thing at the time. This was before the surge. And someone like Wolf Blitzer, who probably agrees with Trump is not going to challenge him on anything.
While I don’t think Trump is a conservative, and fully expect him to do his own thing if ever elected (like endorse Canada’s health care system), I do find his anti-PC stance and his calling out “news” people refreshing.
I generally agree with you.
Was the leader of IRAQ encouraging terrorism against the Untied States or other Western nations?
Thank you.
Actually, I would have to accept your premise for each of your arguments about why we went to Iraq or what happened while we were there before I accept your argument. Surprise, I don’t.
I’ve listened to about ten Trump presentations and in one he directly addressed Obamacare.
He is not in favor of single payer.
He wants a robust private sector replacement.
He wants to eliminate state lines that prevent insurance companies from competing in all markets.
He thinks this will lower insurance premiums.
He thinks this will result in more diversified insurance policies.
He does think the 45 million uninsured must be provided for. I am not a big fan of that.
On the plus side, he also wants to see how much private sector involvement can impact this.
Two other things to consider.
How many of that 45 million will be repatriated to their nation of origin?
People don’t realize it, but that 45 million still gets emergency services, and even some services after that. The government has reimbursed hospitals for this care. It did a rates that barely if it did at all, covered the costs of services. That’s why many hospital trauma centers have closed. Hospitals can’t provide a gateway to extended services.
Ideally Trump could send illegals packing and spur the economy so most of those 45 million go back to work.
Put them on a list, and place them in illegal immigrant slots in the work-force. Then come up with plans that cover at least half of the catastrophic risk.
This gives them minimal coverage, and an incentive to move up the ladder.
If we cover it all, there is no incentive.
very good response, agree with you completely. send it to trumps people, maybe someone will read it.
That’s okay.
Compared to how Carter destabilized Iran, Bush’s actions in Iraq were brilliant.
We may not want to agree with it, but our intervention in Iraq did have a positive outcome.
Some people will say that the region had a stake in that game, but we didn’t. I think we have a stake in whatever happens around the world. The world is too small today to think that violence in one place won’t spill out into Europe or the U. S.
When we leave a vacuum, we leave a place for Russia, China, Turkey, or another less than admirable player to enter and game the situation.
That is surrendering one square on the chess-board to the opposing team.
Surprisingly enough, many of the troops who folks thought they were defending, thought the cause in Iraq was worth fighting for. Many didn’t too, but enough did to reveal they saw positive results, they didn’t want to see reversed.
Only by pulling out our 10-15,000 troops, did Obama give them reason to think it was all in vain.
That was the biggest mistake IMO.
Thank you.
He was so calm and articulate in this interview. Why can’t he be a little more like that now?
He has so many good things to say why must he almost always wipe out 10,000 atta-boys with one aw Ship now? He says biting things that just don’t need to be said about others that just makes him look small. There is nothing wrong with being critical of the actions of others that are wrong but no need to be ugly about it.
NO, he was there for one reason, and one reason only, to make Bush look bad, by CNN and the Blitzer.
He was being used there, and he ate it up, thinking they actually cared what he said.
Canada is privatizing it’s health care system, bit by bit. It stinks compared to our’s before Obamacare.
I hear what you’re saying, but Trump, over the past 10 years or so, has taken about every possible position on a myriad of issues. I don’t know what his core beliefs are, and I fear that, because we like the way he is saying things, that we are reading our own beliefs into what we think he will do if elected.
It’s not like we don’t have alternatives in the present list of candidates, who have a track record of governing, even if we don’t always agree.
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