Trump on Iraq: How Could We Have Been So Stupid? “One Of The Worst Decisions In The History Of The Country”
At a town hall event in Bluffton, South Carolina today Donald Trump expounded on his remarks about George W. Bush, his handling of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the invasion of Iraq. Trump said all he is doing is telling the truth and he doesn’t care if Bush is insulted because he made “one of the worst decisions in the history of the country.”
“You know, if Bush is insulted, I don’t care if he’s insulted,” Trump said Wednesday. “It was a horrible mistake. We should have never been there. Somebody says, oh, that’s not good to criticize? I say criticize? It’s one of the worst decisions in the history of the country. We have totally destabilized the Middle East.”
“We spent $2 trillion,” Trump said about the Iraq war. “Could have rebuilt our country. We could have done so much with that money. And instead, we’re worse in the Middle East than we were 15 years ago. Right now, it’s a disaster.” ...
... Trump said Saddam Hussein kept Iraq in check and was good at killing terrorists and after the U.S. removed Hussein from power Iraq turned into “Harvard” for terrorists.
“Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, but you know what he was good at? Killing terrorists. He was killing terrorists,” Trump said.
“Now, Iraq is Harvard for terrorists. If you want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It’s Harvard,” Trump told the audience.
Trump said Iran is finally getting what it wants: Iraq.
Bingo
Thanks.
there is much correct in that statement,
I would personally only point out that deposing Sadaam made sense at the time because he was threatening to go to war against his neighbors,, invade them...
BUT ... IF we went in, we should have pretty much gotten out in a short time.....inho....setting up a couple bases for forward deployment purposes against the Iranian threat (which was plainly there and visible at the time) and to make sure any new dictator in Iraq didn’t try to follow in Sadaam’s footsteps
a couple of bases could, I think, have done it quiet well. I think, anyway.
No need to try to run the damned country.
Anyway those are my thoughts and nobody is gonna agree, probably, so I will drop it.
its done with anyway.
but at any event, MOST (not all) of the $$ PDJT mentioned, could have been saved this way... and if he wishes, could have been spent at home.. my thought would be to build the damned wall and return the rest of the taxpayers...and we still would have, imho, done some serious good
i disagree with trump...
pulling out of iraq was the stupidest thing. we should have built an anti culture to the jihadist there.
jmho. like the president is allowed one.
we can agree to disagree and trump cannot be right about everything, like me.