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Trump in 2002: "I guess" I'd invade Iraq
Hotair ^ | 02/19/2016 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/19/2016 6:35:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Trumpinator
"...including firing the old Iraqi army and police."

So you're saying that in order for Iraq to have a chance at success after Saddam, the Baathist's (Saddam supporters) should have been allowed to remain in the military and police forces?

I'm curious, you, as a Trump supporter; Are you not calling for Trump to remove any vestige of socialists, communists, liberals, etc. from our government in order for the US to have a chance at rectifying the damage done by them?

We saw how well that worked out when President Bush kept some of the Clinton cronies and liberals in place...

81 posted on 02/19/2016 8:17:29 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: AC86UT89

No he flat out claimed in the last debate he was against it from the start and told everyone it was a bad idea. The man is a liar. He will say whatever his audience wants the hear and claim that is what he always believed.

Listening to him off-script he sounds like an idiot. I will do great things. ____ will be fabulous. We will have the best ____. It sounds like he has no idea at all but he will make whatever great.

Build a wall.


82 posted on 02/19/2016 8:19:25 AM PST by pas
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To: SZonian
So you're saying that in order for Iraq to have a chance at success after Saddam, the Baathist's (Saddam supporters) should have been allowed to remain in the military and police forces?

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You know, I assume to get your conservative membership card a conservative has had to have watch the movie Patton once in their life and gotten a life lesson from it.

If keeping God cursed Nazis in critical jobs was good enough for Patton (most of which joined the party to get a job) then keeping the Ba'athists in their jobs to help with the occupation is preferable then the rise of Shia political parties that were owned by Iraq.

And this is why people who think like you and the candidates who they support need never come close to holding power again.

Trump 2016!

83 posted on 02/19/2016 8:20:40 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator
If keeping God cursed Nazis in critical jobs was good enough for Patton (most of which joined the party to get a job) then keeping the Ba'athists in their jobs to help with the occupation is preferable then the rise of Shia political parties that were owned by Iraq Iran. - damn autotype on my tablet!
84 posted on 02/19/2016 8:21:40 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Kahuna

So, trump talks from the both sides of his mouth. And blows hot air from all ends.

He is a deal-maker. Having consistent, principled stance is NOT his thing. He cannot be trusted.

Only TrusTED!


85 posted on 02/19/2016 8:22:01 AM PST by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Kaysick, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please read my comment was about those pieces of Shiite that you illustrated with. Nothing more then.

But I didn’t support Iraq war 2 as Iraq was at the time not an aggressor. We needed to finish Afghanistan. North Korea and likely Iran have weapons of mass destruction but we are going to war there. The hijackers and Osama were Saudi but we didn’t invade there either.


86 posted on 02/19/2016 8:23:45 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: nclaurel

RE: likely Iran have weapons of mass destruction but we are going to war there.

There you go, speculating ... where’s your intelligence report?

The fact is there is (and was ) NO CERTAINTY regarding what Saddam had or did not have.

The point is not to argue that the invasion of Iraq was a good decision, the point is to argue that contra-Trump’s insistence in the debate -— BUSH DID NOT KNOW that there were no WMD’s in Iraq.

Just like today -— we DO NOT KNOW whether or not Iran has the bomb or any other WMDs.


87 posted on 02/19/2016 8:27:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Trumpinator

Fail on your part, sport.

Didn’t take you but the first sentence to go straight to the personal attack because I had the audacity to question/challenge your statement. So typical of the behavior that is now part of the well worn and tiresome tactic for certain posters on FR. I suppose every good liberal has had to read and study up on Alinsky...

I suppose you don’t understand the tribal loyalties component of that whole system and the fact that the MINORITY were in control of Iraq, subjugating the majority.

Patton kept those who were not considered a risk at undermining the post war efforts in Germany. I’m sure, in your way of thinking, that the Baathists were going to be just as helpful...which has been shown to be demonstrably false. Time and time again, the coalition were betrayed by people in positions of trust and power in Iraq and it cost us American lives.

You have a nice day now.


88 posted on 02/19/2016 8:31:38 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind
We do know North Korea does or did you miss that. Hope you are correct in your assumption about Iran. They have been a loose cannon since 1979.
89 posted on 02/19/2016 8:33:20 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: SZonian
I question your judgment not a personal attack. Your thinking on the Ba'athists - removing them - left Iraq open to becoming a colony of Iran - the stupidest geo-strategic mistake the USA has ever made.

The Ba'athists were and are bastards but they were multi-confessional secularist bastards.

90 posted on 02/19/2016 8:36:45 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator

You folks just can’t help yourselves...

0bama pi$$ed it away, the region was quite secure, without the Baathists.

Like I said before, have a nice day.


91 posted on 02/19/2016 8:41:12 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Trumpinator; SeekAndFind
But what that does tell me is that the paid operatives can't discredit Trump

Paid operatives? You, who sings up for Free Republic about the same time Donald Trump announces his candidacy and uses the name "Trumpinator" as a handle and who spams the threads making excuses for Donald Trump's inconsistencies and fabrications accusing others of being "paid operatives"?

That's hilarious. I guess it takes one to know one, eh?

How much are you being paid?

92 posted on 02/19/2016 8:46:52 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: P-Marlowe

I am talking about people who write the articles - clearly. But of you think I am good enough to be a professional then I thank you for the compliment.


93 posted on 02/19/2016 8:49:13 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator

Do you get paid by the word or by the post?


94 posted on 02/19/2016 8:53:33 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: SeekAndFind

All other issues in this election are secondary to immigration.


95 posted on 02/19/2016 8:54:33 AM PST by QuigleyDU
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To: P-Marlowe

Do you get paid to regurgitate obvious opposition research as news? Who spent the money to dig through Howard Stern tapes?


96 posted on 02/19/2016 9:02:52 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“What Trump should have said in the interest of accuracy was the invasion was a mistake”

I wasn’t talking about Trump’s recent statement that Bush lied. I was talking about his earlier statement in support of the war.


97 posted on 02/19/2016 9:08:30 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: SeekAndFind

For the most part, this seems to be a non-story. He opposed it later than 2002. Big deal.


98 posted on 02/19/2016 9:30:40 AM PST by No Dems 2016
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To: Trumpinator
It's called vetting. Are you against vetting the candidates? Should we just take a candidate's word without any investigation? Why should we put our unwavering faith into what Donald Trump is telling us today? If you were sitting across the table from him in a negotiation regarding a real estate transaction would you trust that everything he was saying was the God's honest truth? Or would you have your lawyers fact check it before signing on the dotted line?

trump has a way of twisting inconvienient facts. But he really has nothing on some his sychopants here on Free Republic.

99 posted on 02/19/2016 9:42:02 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: P-Marlowe

This is not vetting its distortion and to me it was done by opposition and fed to hotair so it can be spun in an inaccurate manner.


100 posted on 02/19/2016 9:43:58 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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