Posted on 02/18/2016 6:37:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Surely, to all but Donald Trump's ardent supporters – which, sadly, probably is all of them – there can be no doubt, after Saturday's Republican debate, that except on the sole issue of immigration, Trump is a Democrat. Space and the need to stay on point preclude listing all of the Democratic talking points Trump parroted in South Carolina, so this essay focuses on the most egregious one – the "Bush lied, people died" libel – and on Trump's view, unfortunately shared by many Republicans, that, the Iraq war was, in Trump's words, a "big mistake" and that "we got nothing out of it."
First, as Powerline's Paul Mirengoff writes, there is no evidence that Trump opposed the Iraq pre-invasion (emphases added):
Last night, Donald Trump repeated his claim that "I'm the only one on the stage that said we should not go into Iraq." As I've pointed out before, however, there is no credible evidence that Trump said any such thing.
Trump voiced public opposition to the war for the first time… in the summer of 2004… [by which time] he was following a fairly large pack.
[O]pposing our actions in Iraq once they went pear-shaped is just Monday morning quarterbacking — a Trump specialty.
Second, the Democrats' (and Trump's, but the writer repeats himself) accusation that Bush ordered the Iraq invasion knowing that there were no WMD is flat-out false. In fact, Bush was skeptical until then-CIA director George Tenet assured Bush that, based on CIA intelligence, Saddam's possession of WMD was "a slam dunk."
As to Trump's criticism that Bush "failed to prevent 9/11" (and was therefore responsible for 9/11?), here is Tenet again (emphasis added):
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Thanks for the information.
As I tell my liberal friends when they used to whine about Bush: I don’t know what you’re complaining about, Bush is the best Democrat the Republicans ever elected!”
First of all, thanks for your service!
I don’t think we have a disagreement. In my post, I was referring to the time right after Baghdad fell. I acknowledged that once Petraeus convinced “W” to implement the “surge” things were turned around; however, then, Obama threw it all away.
The media has been on the side of our enemies ever since the Vietnam War ...some would argue since the Korean “Police Action.”
Regards,
Geoff
In that case, I guess W should have invaded the moment after his inauguration then since Iraq had the same old WMD then as when we invaded in 2003.
Oh,wait... That’s right..the neocons needed 9/11 in order to sell it.
Yes or no question:
Sarin is a WMD, yes or no.
Are you a Truther? You sound like a kook.
“Oh,wait... That’s right..the neocons needed 9/11 in order to sell it.”
Please, tell us how the “neocons” “ needed” 9/11.
Explain this please, if you are honest.
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