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 ...
George Bush should have taken control of Iraqi oil to pay for the taking down of old Saddam... Now look who has control of that oil...
It was the biggest blunder in US history. It gave the ME over to the very worst elements of Islam.
AND... it elected Barak IslamoFanatic Obama as President of the United States.
In other words:
A BIG FAT MISTAKE
We went to Iraq to look for suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction. We never found any.
We found WMD, we also found 500 tons of Uranium yellow cake which we shipped back to the US via Canada.
http://www.nationalreview.com/feed/3960/pentagon-completes-secret-shipment-500-tons-uranium-iraq-canada-greg-pollowitz
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/05/17/sarin-mustard-gas-discovered-separately-in-iraq.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/05/19/tests-confirm-sarin-in-iraqi-artillery-shell.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33082-2004May17.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4997808/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/bomb-said-holddeadly-sarin-gas-explodes-iraq/
And the press had a short, millisecond short, bout of honesty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/isis-chemical-weapons-_n_5987106.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/saddam-era-chemical-weapons-now-under-isis-control-reports-1705144
http://m.nydailynews.com/news/world/isis-seizes-chemical-weapons-depot-baghdad-sarin-gas-rockets-article-1.1859934
The search for WMD was just an excuse to justify the war. It was one of a few excuses given.
Bush is a loser in the general election.
These clowns are completely clueless about what Trump is doing.
Don’t forget the thousands of dead or maimed soldiers. Plus, by invading Iraq, we basically let Iran take control of the region.
“it elected Barak IslamoFanatic Obama as President of the United States.”
That is technically incorrect bullshit!
Ok class......One Question Quiz today:
Who would you rather have in-place in IRAQ?
ISIS? or SADDAM?
RE: We went to Iraq to look for suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction. We never found any.
WE DID.
Please look at Post #5.
Michael Moore - Bush lied. People died.
Donald Trump - I agree.
Code Pink - We agree with Trump.
The American people disagree.
Tell me again..... why did we “liberate” Iraq?
And not just Saddam, but a pinned-down Saddam, with the US controlling air-space and the Kurds operating an autonomous region.
And not just ISIS... ISIS and Iran.
This guy is just so wrong its painful.
Says the clown car tRump supporter.
“Bush is a loser in the general election.”
So, you’re saying that Bush will win the nomination but will lose the election in November?
RE: Who would you rather have in-place in IRAQ?
ISIS? or SADDAM?
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Why is it an either/thing? Isn’t it possible to have an Iraq that it better than Saddam while defeating ISIS?
Now we are letting Iran have nukes (certainly categorized as a weapon of mass destruction). Are we going in there next?
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