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Trump: If GOP Doesn’t Admit Iraq War Was a Mistake, We’re Not Going to Win the General Election
Breitbart ^ | 02/14/16 | Pam Key

Posted on 02/15/2016 12:28:07 AM PST by Enlightened1

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned if the Republican Party isn’t willing to admit the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a mistake, then the party will be defeated in the upcoming general election.

Trump said, “The Iraq war was a disaster. It was a mistake. We spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives, thousands of lives, wounded warriors who we love all over the place. What do we have? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Iran is taking over Iraq as sure as you’re sitting there. And that’s the way it is. We get nothing. They get the oil, they get everything. We get nothing. So it was a huge mistake. Whether people like it or not. and I’m the only one with the vision to have said don’t do it. And I wasn’t even a politician when I said that.”

He added, “Something’s going to have to happen with the party or we’re going to lose yet another election. I’m not even doing it to win election, I’m doing it out of common sense. The war was a horrible thing. If we’re not going to admit that, you’re going to have yet another election where the Democrats are going to win.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; blunders; iraq; mistake; trump; trumpwasright; war
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To: grania
No, we didn't win. As long as we were there, we stalled the inevitable while we suffered the consequences of misplaced priorities.

NO you are wrong!

We were stabilizing Iraq and then came along OBAMA who undermined the entire process.

Reminder...

TRUMP and OBAMA were on the SAME SIDE OF THE IRAQ issue.. so now FREEPERS join with OBAMA and PELOSI and REID??? I must be dreaming...

121 posted on 02/15/2016 6:39:54 AM PST by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
BTTT
122 posted on 02/15/2016 6:42:13 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Gene Eric

>>> The total Iraq effort was outstanding. The promise was real.

The effort was outstanding, on the part of our soldiers. And indeed Obama went out of his way to blow it to smithereens. But I would argue that the promise was not real. GWB sold (or tried to sell) us on two notions: Islam was a religion of peace; and Iraqis were freedom loving people.

I think careful observation reveals those promises to be false. Islam is not peaceful and the first instinct of a Muslim is to impose his will on everyone else.

Were these notions knowingly false on the part of GWB, or did he truly believe them at the time? It doesn’t really matter, does it. In retrospect, they were sadly mistaken and we still pay the price to this day for them. I would only add in closing that, even if the two notions were truthful, an honest reading of American politics would say that we as a nation did not have the singular purpose of mind to stay the course long enough to make it so.


123 posted on 02/15/2016 6:44:47 AM PST by XEHRpa
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To: chris37
Bush won the war and Obama lost the peace.

Until we admit that Obama’s foreign policy has been a complete and utter epic failure of such monumental proportions we are doomed.

Libya is in total chaos. Syria is in total chaos. Iraq is total chaos. Afghanistan, just chaos. Half a million people killed in Syria. Millions of Muslim male refugees are pillaging and raping in Europe. Russia is now the leading power in the Mideast. Iran can now fund their terrorist organizations not to mention bringing their nuclear weapons online. This is not Bush's Fualt. IT IS OBAMA'S FAULT!

124 posted on 02/15/2016 6:52:39 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: pollywog

We’ll never agree. You believe in regime change and global manipulation. I believe in an independent and self-sufficient US, protected from invasion and from global manipulation of our activities.


125 posted on 02/15/2016 6:55:08 AM PST by grania
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To: grania
What do you call Iraq War 1? The No Fly Zone?
126 posted on 02/15/2016 6:56:00 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: pollywog
Agreed. Trump loses me on Iraq.

Bush won the war and Obama lost the peace.

Until we admit that Obama’s foreign policy has been a complete and utter epic failure of such monumental proportions we are doomed.

Libya is in total chaos. Syria is in total chaos. Iraq is total chaos. Afghanistan, just chaos. Half a million people killed in Syria. Millions of Muslim male refugees are pillaging and raping in Europe. Russia is now the leading power in the Mideast. Iran can now fund their terrorist organizations not to mention bringing their nuclear weapons on line. This is not Bush's Fault. IT IS OBAMA'S FAULT!

127 posted on 02/15/2016 6:58:14 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Mastador1
Bush won the war and Obama lost the peace.

Until we admit that Obama’s foreign policy has been a complete and utter epic failure of such monumental proportions we are doomed.

Libya is in total chaos. Syria is in total chaos. Iraq is total chaos. Afghanistan, just chaos. Half a million people killed in Syria. Millions of Muslim male refugees are pillaging and raping in Europe. Russia is now the leading power in the Mideast. Iran can now fund their terrorist organizations not to mention bringing their nuclear weapons on line. This is not Bush's Fault. IT IS OBAMA'S FAULT!

128 posted on 02/15/2016 6:59:09 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Enlightened1
Bush won the war and Obama lost the peace.

Until we admit that Obama's foreign policy has been a complete and utter epic failure of such monumental proportions we are doomed.

Libya is in total chaos. Syria is in total chaos. Iraq is total chaos. Afghanistan, just chaos. Half a million people killed in Syria. Millions of Muslim male refugees are pillaging and raping in Europe. Russia is now the leading power in the Mideast. Iran can now fund their terrorist organizations not to mention bringing their nuclear weapons on line. This is not Bush's Fault. IT IS OBAMA'S FAULT!

129 posted on 02/15/2016 7:02:24 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Enlightened1
Looking at who is in them WH, I disagree. Most Americans do not think.

Bush won the war and Obama lost the peace.

Until we admit that Obama's foreign policy has been a complete and utter epic failure of such monumental proportions we are doomed.

Libya is in total chaos. Syria is in total chaos. Iraq is total chaos. Afghanistan, just chaos. Half a million people killed in Syria. Millions of Muslim male refugees are pillaging and raping in Europe. Russia is now the leading power in the Mideast. Iran can now fund their terrorist organizations not to mention bringing their nuclear weapons on line. This is not Bush's Fault. IT IS OBAMA'S FAULT!

130 posted on 02/15/2016 7:04:42 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: pollywog

sadly you are right. The FR is sounding like a wing of Trump for President committee.
Gone are the days of thinking things thru and carefully looking at a candidates background. Now its all WWE style flash and bang. Substance be damned.


131 posted on 02/15/2016 7:05:10 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: mbrfl
Outstanding!
132 posted on 02/15/2016 7:06:10 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Enlightened1

Trump goes for another applause line.


133 posted on 02/15/2016 7:07:28 AM PST by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: Enlightened1

Well Donald isn’t being exactly shy is he...

I think we ought to own up to the fact that we might have needed to depose Saddam and even deal with terrorists in Iraq, but wishing a democracy on the Iraqi people was a big mistake. They needed a stern, if not unkind, kingdom. Democracy is getting them weakness and confusion and a fall into the power of a rabid Allah.

But we can’t let Donald get away with muddling all the issues together either. He doesn’t grasp Islam very well, and he needs to do that if he is going to be expected to deal with that problem as president.

Here’s where maybe Cruz’s light could be coaxed out from under his bushel basket. Christian faith vs. Islam is like day vs. night. IF Christian faith is done right. God (and especially so in Jesus) came to give; Islam like the devil seeks to kill, steal, and destroy.


134 posted on 02/15/2016 7:07:57 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Billthedrill
Outstanding!
135 posted on 02/15/2016 7:09:12 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Yorlik803

Well if Trump gets this corrected or clarified, will you be willing to “Think things through” again at this point? Or will you now be dug in with a grudge?


136 posted on 02/15/2016 7:09:23 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Billthedrill

Bill,

Wishing a democracy on Iraq was not the best possible move.

If it somehow turns out well in the end, maybe after a few seasons of Russia stomping on ISIS hard, we ought to be thanking God and not thanking Bush or anyone else.

I’d want to continue on and ask Donald, well if you think it was such a flub, what do you suggest doing now? Besides just blaming people, which gets old after a while and doesn’t fix anything.


137 posted on 02/15/2016 7:13:27 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Are you really WILLING to risk that ??? I’m not. I will go with a proven conservative.


138 posted on 02/15/2016 7:14:44 AM PST by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: pollywog

A proven-to-compromise conservative, you mean.


139 posted on 02/15/2016 7:15:59 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: pollywog

Face it, Polly. Both front runners have clay feet.

A miracle of God will be needed (and so far, if Cruz is that miracle, it’s a hidden one).

The old fashioned bible approach, of prayers made for kings and all who are in authority, focused especially on the future president whoever he may be, would be very apropos here. We have a dynamic situation and nobody may be able to handicap this race because the handicaps keep changing.


140 posted on 02/15/2016 7:18:34 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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