Posted on 08/26/2015 5:08:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Donald Trump believes the moment an Iraqi reporter thew a shoe at George W. Bush and Bush didn’t blink “may have been his best moment if you want to know the truth, that is very sad to say.”
Trump appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show Wednesday stated that if Jorge Ramos, who interrupted Trump Tuesday “had a microphone, he would have blasted everyone out of the room” since he was “shouting so loud.”
Hugh Hewitt: Yeah what he did, it was not professional. I’ve been doing this for 25 years. It wasn’t professional, but it wasn’t professional for him and it was also very successful for you because of the way you handled it. And I was actually reminded, do you remember when the Iraqi threw the shoe at George W. Bush and he didn’t blink and he just carried on?…
Donald Trump: Yes.
Hewitt: That’s what it reminded me of and you see why?
Trump: Well that may have been his best moment if you want to know the truth, that is very sad to say. But the truth is, I didn’t think in terms of television. I just said you know, “Who is this guy that is screaming.” I don’t think… I think when you’re doing a lot of live television, you don’t necessarily think that you are on live television, but that was live all over the place. And I just thought it was inappropriate. The first thing I thought was it was really unfair because there was so many people, with good, sitting with their hands up, wanting to ask questions and this man was standing up and really shouting quite loud. Now you didn’t hear the extent of it because he did’t have a microphone. Had he had a microphone on and yet you still heard him because he was shouting so loud.
Hewitt: Yeah.
Trump: But if he had a microphone, he would have blasted everyone out of the room. So, it worked out fine. And it probably was good for him. And actually at the end, by the time we finished, I mean I did’t think he was such a bad guy. I’m glad I invited him back because I think maybe I would have been criticized if I didn’t invite him back because you know some people, you know the concept of getting him out, which people didn’t mind but I think they wanted him back. So it was an interesting evening, that I can tell you.
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Understood.
And I am surprised at the amount of left wing bs flying around here. It was always anticipated that a residual ready reaction force would be left behind to stabilize Iraq. By both the US and Uraq and anybody saying that is not so is rewriting history with their left hand.
Dubya HUGGED our soldiers....he and his staff prayed to God...He saluted our people....
he was no pure conservative but he has more smarts and grace and integrity than Trump anyday....
but Trump is trying to start his swan song by destroying everybody in the pub party....
congrats to freepers for backing this maniac......shameful, but typical of many freepers....
Yes, you are correct there. We should have left the compassion at home and just brought the destruction. But that is no longer the world we live in.
Iraq was under control. Obamas total troop withdrawal for political purposes gave birth to ISIS and live head cutting.
Amen Cherry.
“When you see how quickly things began unraveling there after the U.S. troops left, you wonder if the people surrounding Bush in his administration were really so stupid as to think that place was ever going to be a normal, viable country. “
They were utopian liberal internationalists who never paid any attention to the underlying Islamic culture, so yeah, they really were that stupid. They believed democracy is like magic pixie dust that could transform an Arab Islamic society into, oh, Kansas.
By contrast Dubya’s father surrounded himself with foreign policy realists who understood that it was a really bad idea to grab on to the Iraq tarbaby. It was better to defang Saddam and let him continue to rule over that mess. He wasn’t going anywhere. He couldn’t even defeat Iran, he wasn’t a threat to us.
I agree. I think W is a decent guy. He was a wonderful leader after 9/11. He is also a great respecter of the troops.
That could be decades from now. But maybe it will never happen ... because as I sit here in August of 2015 and look back over the last couple of decades, I think a strong case can be made that U.S. policy in the Middle East has been orchestrated by foreign agents in high places in the last two administrations.
You are so right and the fact that Trump forgot is sad.
There’s something else that really irritates me regarding the pulling of all our troops. Many like to say Obama didn’t have a choice. BS. We fought a war and paid the price in blood and treasure for the right to set any terms we wanted. Period.
If that's the case, then we've witnessed a remarkable historical even between the two Bush administrations. One of the top people in the first Bush administration was a "foreign policy realist" Defense Secretary named Dick Cheney. And one of the top people in the second Bush administration was an incompetent fool Vice President named Dick Cheney. Pretty amazing, eh?
Bush made two big strategic mistakes and some other tactical ones. He did not SEAL the border after 9/11 and he spent too much damn money. But he conducted himself well as CIC and was loved by the troops because of that.
Obama could care less. Politics Trumps all. He is a political animal and a strategic moron.
Tinfoil hat time. And our military campaign in the Philippines lasted from 1899-1913, with a very close proximity of forces deployed there as a percent of total forces. These wars take time. A study of ten major communist insurrections (I know, not Muslim) showed an average of 5-6 years, but the government/good guys won 7/10. Lesson? These wars are completely winnable, but it takes real staying power.
Everything I've posted here comes from the exact text of the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement. If you want to sit there and tell me that this is "rewriting history," then I don't think there's anything I can do to help you. If you can cite me any documentation about another agreement about a "residual reaction force," then please do so. Until you can do that, I think you're just deluding yourself.
I know the current occupant has given it all away in Iraq (winnable) Turkey (winnable) Libya (winnable) Egypt (winnable) Syria (winnable) Venezuela, Cuba and Afghanistan , the Stan being the only one I doubted.
We have more dead, more losses and more threats under this currant chucklehead.
I know Libyans that are terrified.
I like what Trump is saying, but I also have respect for GW Bush and what he did after 911.
He also gave us Alito and Roberts (Roberts a disappointment so far on a couple biggys) but no way he (Bush) could have known that.
I remember when Roberts was appointed and it was hard to find Conservatives that were not happy at the time.
So I like GW for a number of things, I like Trump, I love Cruz
You’ve hit on a truly amazing transformation. When you hear a tape of Secretary of Defense Cheney explaining how unwise it would be to occupy Iraq you can hardly believe it’s the same guy who was VP.
I agree with a growing number of Freepers who now recognize that the U.S. was on the wrong side in the Middle East even as far back as 1990.
Lol. You make the same bs argument that Chris Hayes, the MSNBC leftist moron, made a couple of years ago. You are a joke just like that leftist puke. A Status of Forces Agreement does not forestall another Agreement pal. Are you Chris Hayes?
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