Yes we can, Yes we can!
Posted on 02/14/2016 5:34:11 PM PST by TBP
Trump certainly sound like Obama when he was talking about George Bush. If there weren’t WMD’s how did Saddam Hussein use them? Why did we keep finding left overs for many years to come? Yes, Saddam exaggerated what he had, but there was enough WMD’s to worry about. Plus I don’t know anyone even on the liberal side that blames Bush for 9-11. That was just way off. This really could be Trump’s downfall.
Check it out:
Donald Trump and Jeb Bush argue over Iraq, 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction at Saturday night’s debate moderated by CBS News. Trump addresses comments in made in 2008 where he said he was not surprised then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t try to impeach Bush over Iraq.
“The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush,†Trump said to a strong reaction from the audience. “That’s not keeping us safe.â€
“George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East,†Trump said.
“You call it whatever you want. I will tell you. They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction,†Trump ripped Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Well, Trump seems to be playing the ass... more particularly, Balaam’s ass. He’s there kicking at any untruth he thinks he sees, to the point of being quixotic.
There’s something endearing about his intent, even if not about his aim, which isn’t always accurate. You can always count on truth. It will make you free (even if it makes you miserable first).
Feb. 10, 2006A former top CIA official said the Bush administration used prewar Iraq intelligence selectively to make the public case for war after having already decided to invade the country, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Feb. 8).
“Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war,” Paul Pillar, national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, wrote in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. The administration “went to war without requesting — and evidently without being influenced by — any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any aspect of Iraq.”
“It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between [Bush] policy-makers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized,” Pillar wrote.
Pillar, now a security studies professor at Georgetown University, was considered the CIA’s top counterterrorism analyst prior to his retirement. He was responsible for coordinating assessments on Iraq from throughout the U.S. intelligence community, according to the Post.
Yes we can, Yes we can!
Trump is intentionally resurrecting the “Bush lied” talking points for the Democrats, just in time for another election. What the hell does this have to do with any issues in 2016 and frankly, nothing to do with Jeb Bush. (I am not a Jeb Bush supporter)
Does this make what he said any less or more correct? I swear. Some people on this forum have gone stupid.
Our satellites picked up Russian trucksdriving up to Iraqi weapons plants, loading up (under cover), adn driving to Syria.
Now Syria has WMDs. Remember when Israel and Syria were fighting a few years ago? Remember how the left insisted that Israel better not set foot in Syria? Could that be why?
This is an unforgivable comment by Trump, we can argue and debate the what if’s of going into Iraq but any Republican that believes that G.W. Bush did not keep us safe after 911 or who in anyway believes that truther crap about 911 is insane and won’t ever get my vote. Trump is a lunatic period.
And who cares that Israel intelligence has videos of them taking caravans of WMDs out of Iraq and into Syria. The stupid thing was that they were given plenty of time to clean house.
“Its findings were endorsed by all eight committee Democrats and two Republicans, Senators Olympia Snowe of Maine and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
The chairman of the committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), noted in a statement accompanying the report: “The president and his advisers undertook a relentless public campaign in the aftermath of the attacks to use the war against Al Qaeda as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein.”
Shame on you! Posting what the Democrats (and Hagel and Snowe) accused GWB of doing. What is next, quoting Code Pinko?
I'm coming to that conclusion myself.
Speaking of celebrities full of crap: Oprah Winfrey just joined Weight Watchers. Lol. WW has been the ONLY successful weight loss institution for EONS and Oprah JUST decided to try it. She bought stock in it.
WW depends on people have the self control to
1. Eat less and eat right.
2. Exercise every day for a minimum of 30 minutes...EVERY DAY...EVERY DAY
Oprah won't do number two because THAT is the bugbear of 99% of the Weight Watcher repeaters. They just CAN'T get off their fat a***s and move, other that to go to the refrigerator. I guess Oprah can send a lackey to bring her more food.
She told her viewers what to read. Now she's telling them that WW works. ENORMOUS duh.
Full of crap: you nailed it, plain talk.
That is not the point.... Trump said 911 happened under Bush’s tenure as if Bush caused it, MIHOP LIHOP is a post 911 attempt to destroy Bush’s Presidency who the FU@K wants someone that believes that crap running the country.... I swear after that comment last night we would be better off with Hillary than Trump
if one mexican gets shot over the “border” out of a circus cannon- just one, it will all be worth it. I’ll have a little tear streaming down my cheek as I eat my popcorn
I think the World Trade Center attack had more to do with eight years of Clinton than eight months of Bush.
www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/13/trump_vs_bush_they_said_there_were_weapons_of_mass_destruction_and_they_knew_there_were_none_they_lied.html
Wasn’t Saddam paying Palianimals something like $25k for each Israeli killed?
No you are just a good obedient slave that is never skeptical of what you are being told if it has a “R” by its name as the Founding Fathers said we should be.
This is why Obamacare happens, Fast and Furious and Benghazi happen. The slaves are never skeptical of their own parties.
The Establishment exist in both parties. Bush is a 100% certified Establishment. It’s the reason why we got Obama.
Stay away from the Bushs. They are toxic!
Since we know he used gas on them, ipso facto, gas is not a WMD.
Because everyone knows there were no WMDs in Iraq
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All my cynical self says is that
if WE absolutely knew there were NO WMDs in Iraq, we definitely would have found some on the first inspection.
As to Trump not only must he stop and put his brain in gear prior to most ‘off the cuff’ statements AND a ‘friend’ of his should tell him to take his twit/tweet/twat/twitter or whatthehellitiscalled and put it away.
Since this Bush thing just came up right after Bro W and Mommy coming to Jebthroes aid, the questions may be skewered to ‘rile Trump up’, into saying something very stupid.
I heard Bret Baier say on WMAL after the debate Trump missed that he was walking to the podium half an hour before the debates with TWO SETS OF QUESTIONS ... on if DT showed up and one if he didn’t.
Crap like that and the D debacle in NH with Bern winning by 25 or so % and Hillary getting more delegates and the coin tosses and lack of recount in Iowa, I am convinced the FIX IS IN and gazillions of dollars in manpower, fuel, TV time etc etc are being spent and the 2 that the ‘establishment’ (Both sides) want will be there come November....
Guess the ultimate goal is to have NO ONE show up to vote as they will figure it is useless anyway.
Trump should have MAMA Sheehan and Val Plame at his next event... This guy is a TRAVESTY....He went too far and anyone trying to defend him is just as nuts..... I am starting to believe this is the LEFT’s version of Operation Chaos being imposed on Conservatives...
Yes some Google prodigy 22 yr old PHD or something was watching it via their satellite as it was his job and was board and moved it over that area and saw it. I remember the story. I am sure it has been scrubbed from the innerwebs....
I am not a Bush fan. In fact I now detest him because he keeps his mouth shut as Obama destroys us. I am not sure if he is collusion or if he is merely being blackmailed and threatened but he has given Obama free reign to destroy us and make him a laughing stock.
Even without the WMD having a foot in the ME was a good idea. Look what happened when Obama pulled us out. If we would have stayed how different history would be. Obama destroyed all that was fought for with life, limb and lots of our money. He is the culprit. He is evil incarnate.
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