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Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power: Trump
Reuters ^ | October 4th, 2015 | by Emily Stephenson

Posted on 10/04/2015 11:31:04 AM PDT by Mariner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday the Middle East would be more stable if Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were still in power in Libya and Iraq, saying it's "not even a contest".

Trump mentioned the countries in comparison to current efforts to drive Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of power.

"You can make the case, if you look at Libya, look at what we did there, it's a mess," Trump said on NBC.

"If you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there, it's a mess. It's going to be the same thing" in Syria, he said.

Asked by NBC's Chuck Todd if the Middle East would be more stable with Gaddafi and Saddam in power, Trump replied, "Of course it would be."

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To: toddausauras

We need energy independence to rid ourselves from dealing with that god-forsaken region.


61 posted on 10/04/2015 12:23:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: marron

Who it was how it was...


62 posted on 10/04/2015 12:23:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: EagleUSA

Sort of. I supported getting rid of Saddam, but only as long as we didn’t get into nation building. Of course, under Bush we DID get into nation building, but now I see if you break something like that, you can’t just leave it or the head choppers will have free reign. Bush at least made the effort for that not to happen, but always in America your friends are only good for as long as until the next election.


63 posted on 10/04/2015 12:23:40 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Mariner

Sadly true. Those third world morons need an iron hand to rule them.


64 posted on 10/04/2015 12:26:04 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Mariner

Saddam was a horrible animal...by decent people’s standards...by ME mussiscum standards he is just another guy!

Most of us remember what he was...but we also know how mussie scum think!
Ef em all!


65 posted on 10/04/2015 12:27:57 PM PDT by rrrod (Jhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3343827/reply?c=1ust an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: Alberta's Child

YUP...we was lied to so we’d do their dirty work for them.

How stupid are we??? And now we’re importing them and the Muslim Brotherhood is throughout the White House and it isn’t “politically correct” to say anything negative about Muslims....i.e. “clockmed”.

The world is upside down!


66 posted on 10/04/2015 12:28:12 PM PDT by Aria
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To: marron

I’m with you. Saddam had to go. He VIOLATED the agreements with the UN from 1991 that let him stay in power. The others, I’m still trying to figure out WHAT RIGHT we had to depose them - were they threatening us or our interests?

And I TOTALLY REMEMBER being warned about “US Imperialism” from my days at ESU. I guess that concern only applied when a Republican was in office.


67 posted on 10/04/2015 12:28:48 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: toddausauras

You’re right, but at some point, the Hussein dynasty would have had to be removed. Saddam was starving his people and I don’t think he would have been able to keep a lid on things forever.


68 posted on 10/04/2015 12:30:42 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Mariner

True.


69 posted on 10/04/2015 12:33:10 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Aria

The West should have listened to Churchill. I fear it’s too late now.


70 posted on 10/04/2015 12:34:03 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DoughtyOne

What was Hussein”up to”, other than brutally keeping his boot on the jihadists? We took him out, and chaos ensued


71 posted on 10/04/2015 12:34:17 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: EagleUSA

What was right in principle?


72 posted on 10/04/2015 12:35:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Mariner

We had Iran surrounded before Obama took over.

Obama sided with the Muslim Brotherhood.


73 posted on 10/04/2015 12:35:14 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat (Not one convinced me they want the job yet)
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To: toddausauras; dfwgator
"ISIL or whatever the hell they’re called now have the rape rooms too and maybe worse. The MIddle East: good people there I’m sure but always controlled by ANIMALS. Let’s get the hell out of there."

"We need energy independence to rid ourselves from dealing with that god-forsaken region."

It is enough to make you take a second look @ Rand Paul.

To much slop on K-Street, for this sadly. Don't think they are "nudging" us in the direction they want as well. Did ya see one of the Major Airlines will not fly to Israel anymore, hmmm. Talk to some airline pilots on the down-lo about that one and hear what they really think.

On the energy....

We have so many things at our disposal to make us independent or exporters of energy that it would even kick Putin in the privates as he tries to get all the pipelines he wants and to bring back the Russian Bears hegemony.

A freeper last week brought up Zapping Garbage with a Plasma to break it down and get it's energy and clean it up, their is Fracking, and where is our R & D Program to go with a LFTR Liquid Florine Thorium Reactors?

We don't have any of the above, and frankly I think Cruz and Trump wouldn't make the Garbage zapper and LFTR a national R & D priority. The whole flippin country is still enamored with the socialist alterative construct which is a falsehood and is in itself industrial Marxism the false profit of wind and solar...

74 posted on 10/04/2015 12:36:21 PM PDT by taildragger (It's Cruz & Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: ichabod1

As somebody put it well, by invading Iraq, George Bush hit a hornets nest with a baseball bat.


75 posted on 10/04/2015 12:37:09 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: CorporateStepsister

“many suffered in his rape rooms and there was endless suffering at the hands of Uday as well”

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.


76 posted on 10/04/2015 12:37:12 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: EagleUSA

I agree absolutely. As bad as Saddam and Quaddafi were, the alternative are all worse.


77 posted on 10/04/2015 12:37:52 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: laplata

Kingdom seems to be all they understand. I could see sense in replacing Hussein with a Shah-type figure, but a democracy is going to be a joke.


78 posted on 10/04/2015 12:38:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

A shah-type figure might have worked.


79 posted on 10/04/2015 12:39:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Since they’re so nuts about pig’s blood I don’t know why we don’t use it against them like what was done in WWII.


80 posted on 10/04/2015 12:40:01 PM PDT by Aria
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