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Trump's Dishonest Iraq War Revisionism
National Review ^ | 2/15/2016 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 02/15/2016 4:17:11 PM PST by gwjack

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To: ETL

I really think it’s ego driving him. He’s getting old and wants some form of immortality. They can take his name off of the buildings, but if he becomes President he’ll be remembered forever.


41 posted on 02/15/2016 4:44:00 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: kiryandil

So then you suggest what? FR should only accept articles posted from a dozen pro-Trump blogs and Breitbart.com? (until they turn on Trump ofc)

Or should we devolve into a site were you can still post articles from other sources but the entire comments section shall be a chorus of “why did you post this trash?”


42 posted on 02/15/2016 4:44:01 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Liz

Hi Liz,

I appreciate your response, and the facts it contains. I’ll study it/them.

I appreciate your dealing with the issues.

Gwjack


43 posted on 02/15/2016 4:45:03 PM PST by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: gwjack

NR has no one to blame but themselves for their lack of credibility. So if they ever have vital information they will be ignored by many people.


44 posted on 02/15/2016 4:46:22 PM PST by Donglalinger
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To: lodi90

Bush, W, was a joke. I wanted to believe. He never defended himself. He set us back. He religion of peaced us!


45 posted on 02/15/2016 4:47:31 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: ETL

Great, except that the Iraq War was sold on the threat of nuclear wmds. Not biological or chemical. I haven’t forgotten that dire talk about mushroom clouds over American cities.


46 posted on 02/15/2016 4:47:57 PM PST by Romulus
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To: wny

The democratic party was totally on board with the war. They guzzled the kool-aid along with the Bush neocons. They own it too.


47 posted on 02/15/2016 4:50:40 PM PST by Romulus
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To: heights

Look, there’s plenty of evidence more could have been done to prevent 9/11 from happening. The Cole and the 93 tower bombing weren’t exactly ambiguous overtures. Had W reeled back his “compassionate conservatism” a tad and clamped down on likely suspects -like Trump is proposing- who knows, maybe it wouldn’t have happened.

Still, Trump is not blaming Bush, and Cooke is smart enough to know it.


48 posted on 02/15/2016 4:51:05 PM PST by moehoward
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To: lodi90

Hi lodi90,

I hope you are well. You pose some good questions to ask Mr. Cruz. Maybe someone will aske him.

Oh, I didn’t write the article, so I didn’t “smear” Trump with MM or CP. I was careful to not express an opinion. But I know you weren’t suggesting that I was doing a smear.

Frankly, I’ll be glad when this year is over, and things can get back to normal.

Stay safe, my FRiend.

Gwjack


49 posted on 02/15/2016 4:53:01 PM PST by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: ETL

Their agenda also is to rescue the tattered remnants of their reputation. They will not succeed.


50 posted on 02/15/2016 4:53:19 PM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus
Great, except that the Iraq War was sold on the threat of nuclear wmds. Not biological or chemical.

So then are you agreeing with Trump, Code Pink, and the rest of the commie left, that GW "lied" to get us into the war?

In any case, as I've shown above many leading democrats, based on the same exact intel, believed the same thing.

51 posted on 02/15/2016 4:53:50 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

In 2003, Saddam didn’t have WMDs but he said he had them because he wanted to appear tough to Shi’ites in Iraq and the Iranians. We know from what happened with the Arab Spring of what happens to a dictator once he gets overthrown by his subjects.


52 posted on 02/15/2016 4:58:04 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: The Right wing Infidel
You do know that is a photoshop, right?

Is that what you resort to to make your lame points and start dissention here?

53 posted on 02/15/2016 4:59:24 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: ETL

Dude, no one reads your endless spam.

Please save FR the bandwidth.


54 posted on 02/15/2016 5:00:52 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: ETL

To make things worse, once we invaded Iraq, we banned Ba’thist Party from power in Iraq. We could had picked one of Saddam’s Generals and the country would be more like Egypt with Sisi in charge. All those Sunni Insurgents would had kept their jobs as soldiers in the Iraqi Army and they wouldn’t had established the core of the Sunni Insurgency which manifests itself in the Islamic State today.


55 posted on 02/15/2016 5:01:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
In 2003, Saddam didn't have WMDs

I just provided you above some evidence that he DID in fact have WMDs then. Maybe not nukes, but at least chemical, if not also biological.

56 posted on 02/15/2016 5:02:01 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL
Another pre-war quote.

Trump in his book in 2000:

"Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S . warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks in Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq's crash program to become a nuclear power. They've got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers--more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They've got enriched uranium. All they need is the material for nuclear fission to complete the job, and, according to the Rumsfeld report, we don't even know for sure if they've laid their hands on that yet. That's what our last aerial assault on Iraq in 1999 was about. Saddam Hussein wouldn't let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where that material might be stored. The result when our bombing was over? We still don't know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I'm no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don't, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us."

57 posted on 02/15/2016 5:02:14 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

It is? did not know that.

Anyway Bush is pro muslim , he supported the stealing of Kosovo therefore creating a muslim state in europe.

The muslims in Kosovo have been kidnapping christian serbs and organ harvesting them, thats the people Bush supported to create a nation state

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/kosovo/9534691/Former-Kosovo-rebel-describes-removing-prisoners-heart-for-black-market-sale.html


58 posted on 02/15/2016 5:03:22 PM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Dude, no one reads your endless spam. Please save FR the bandwidth.

Stick your "Dude" up your u-know-what, you hopelessly stupid moron.

59 posted on 02/15/2016 5:03:24 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: gwjack

RE: Please read the article before beginning to flame.

You’re not going to get your wish when it comes to those who will vote for Trump even if he is seen shooting someone in the middle of fifth avenue.


60 posted on 02/15/2016 5:04:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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