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    Thumbs up Trump slams Bush for going in to Iraq!


    “The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush,” the president said during an exclusive interview with Hill.TV.




    “Because we spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. Now if you wanna fix a window some place they say, 'oh gee, let’s not do it.' Seven trillion, and millions of lives — you know, ‘cause I like to count both sides. Millions of lives,” the president explained.




    “To me, it's the worst single mistake made in the history of our country. Civil war you can understand. Civil war, civil war. That’s different. For us to have gone into the Middle East, and that was just, that was a bad day for this country, I will tell you.”

    https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/40...-in-us-history

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    Trump needs to play more golf with Rand Paul- I hope this is Trumps true position on war, I am a glass half full kind of a guy though so even pessimistically speaking its good that Trump is atleast promoting this idea. At worst this is Trump's drunken monkey and promoting this idea isn't his motivation but making people think he believes this idea is the ulterior motive.

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    Hindsight is always so clear. For it in 2002, against it 2004


    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...osed-iraq-war/
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    Quote Originally Posted by kpitcher View Post
    Hindsight is always so clear. For it in 2002, against it 2004 https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...osed-iraq-war/
    If he learned from hindsight we will be better off, hopefully he has.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kpitcher View Post
    Hindsight is always so clear. For it in 2002, against it 2004


    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...osed-iraq-war/
    "I was totally against the war in Iraq," Trump said during the NBC News event. "You can look at Esquire magazine from '04. You can look at before that."

    Well, we have gone back further than the 2004 interview Trump mentioned, and the record tells a different story.


    Trump has a hard time getting past a September 2002 interview with shock jock Howard Stern. Stern asked Trump if he supported the looming invasion.


    Trump responded, "Yeah, I guess so."
    LOL..

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    LOL..

    On Meet the Press, Trump said there weren't many articles about his opposition because he wasn't a politician at the time."Well, I did it in 2003, I said it before that," Trump said of his opposition to invading Iraq. "Don't forget, I wasn't a politician. So people didn't write everything I said. I was a businessperson. I was, as they say, a world-class businessperson. I built a great company, I employed thousands of people. So I'm not a politician. But if you look at 2003, there are articles. If you look in 2004, there are articles."
    "I could have said that," Trump said. "Nobody asked me that. I wasn't a politician. It was probably the first time anyone has asked me that question."

    Trump added, "When you're in the private sector, you get asked things, and you're not a politician, and probably the first time I was asked. By the time the war started, I was against it, and shortly thereafter, I was really against."
    ...

    In another interview with Neil Cavuto in January of 2003, a transcript of which was obtained by BuzzFeed News, Trump given the opportunity to comment on the war did not say he opposed it but stated "it`s sort like either do it or don`t do it."

    CAVUTO: If you had to sort of breakdown for the president, if yo u
were advising him, how much time do you commit to Iraq versus how much time you commit to the economy, what would you say?

    TRUMP: Well, I`m starting to think that people are much more focused now on the economy. They are getting a little bit tired of hearing,
 we`re going in, we`re not going in, the - you know, whatever happened to the days of the Douglas MacArthur. He would go and attack. He wouldn't talk. We have to - you know, it`s sort like either do it or don`t do it.
 When I watch Dan Rather explaining how we are going to be attacking, where we`re going to attack, what routes we`re taking, what kind of planes we`re using, how to stop them, how to stop us, it is a little bit disconcerting. I`ve never seen this, where newscasters are telling you how - telling the enemy how we`re going about it, we have just found out this and that. It is ridiculous.

    CAVUTO: Well, the problem right there.
    TRUMP: Either you attack or you don`t attack.
    CAVUTO: The problem there, Donald, is you`re watching Dan Rather. Maybe you should just be watching Fox.
    TRUMP: Well, no, I watch Dan Rather, but not necessarily fondly. But I happened to see it the other night. And I must tell you it was rather amazing as they were explaining the different - I don`t know if it is fact or if it is fiction, but the concept of a newscaster talking about *the routes is - just seems ridiculous. So the point is either you do it or you don`t do it, or you - but I just - or if you don`t do it, just
 don`t talk about it. When you do it, you start talking about it.

    CAVUTO: So you`re saying the leash on this is getting kind of short here, that the president has got to do something presumably sooner rather than later and stringing this along could ultimately hurt us.

    TRUMP: Well, he has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps, because perhaps shouldn't be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know. He`s under a lot of 
pressure. He`s - I think he`s doing a very good job. But, of course, if you look at the polls, a lot of people are getting a little tired. I think
the Iraqi situation is a problem. And I think the economy is a much bigger problem as far as the president is concerned.
    CAVUTO: Are you still bullish on the markets or you have your doubts now?
    TRUMP: Well, I think you have to see what is going to happen with Iraq. I think you have to see what is going to happen with North Korea. I happen to think North Korea may be a bigger problem than Iraq. But you have to see what is going to happen with North Korea. And a lot of things up in the air. You have a lot of balls up in the air right now.
And on
top of that you have a lousy economy.
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    First Daughter: daddy, can we bomb Syria? They are not being nice to the only non-racist democracy there where hubby's family funds settlements?

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    That said, he's not easily controllable by necon money baggers owners/blackmailers etc.







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