Posted on 02/16/2016 7:59:57 AM PST by Kaslin
He’s not close. He actually did sound like one.
This is what Trumpism has brought us. Every conspiracy loon that used to hang out on the Ron Paul forums feels like they can crawl out from under their rock and start posting nonsense on conservative forums because Trump is saying these things.
How anyone watched that debate Saturday and could still vote for Trump is beyond troubling. It is entirely clear Trump is not a conservative, yet it is also clear that about 1/3 of the right of center voting base doesn't care that he isn't. Trump said it himself, he could shoot someone and his followers wouldn't care. This is what a cult of personality looks like and it has manifested itself on our side this time.
We would be better off if Trump quit the GOP and ran as a 3rd party. What he represents is not conservatism at all, it is populist protectionism with some nationalism mixed in. Not a whole lot different than what Bernie Sanders represents.
Right! Trump said that Bush and Condoleeza Rice IGNORED WARNING SIGNS which led to 9/11. As a successor to Bubba, Bush should have known to correct more than stolen “W” keys off of computers. Incompetence and evil are two completely different things. Levin has to get of his Cruz worship and smell the roses.
“Wish he disclosed his fiance’s son worked on the Cruz campaign.”
Thousands of people work on every campaign. Who cares.
Het Levin, get off the phone you big dope! Mark has turned himself into a big fat cartoon character.
Colin Powell Saying He Was Misled Before UN Speech on WMDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTLmOoPzjs
Waiting for Trump to say that W, Cheney and Rummy worked with Israel to stage Sept 11,
That Bin Laden was a US spy, like the Jason Borne was.
To a Elites like Levin and Rush spending a trillion on a useless, insane war is Okey Dokey, but providing elderly with Prescription drug coverage is ‘Wasteful’. Just shows me the mindset of Levin and Rush.
“Levin has family working for Cruz, so I have to chalk this up to partisan politics.”
If you don’t think Levin would still be supporting Cruz regardless of who his family works for, then you obviously don’t pay attention.
Yes, there were warning. Warnings that there would be an attack everywhere but the WTC. And since GWB was only building his team because of the recounts and the democrats blocking him at every turn, Bush was behind in a lot of things.
Was the Iraq war a mistake? No. It was the right call at the time. They did have WMDs and ways to deliever them. They used them on their own people. We had the war won when Bush left. The Obama came along,stuck his dick in the soup and it all went south.
BTW...even Trump wrote the war was the right thing. But hey, don’t let facts get in the way.
FR is sounding like DU anymore. How many code pink members are here anymore?
True, Trump is just spouting Democrat talking points, not really truther material.
Not much better though.
“It’s a shame Cruz can’t run against the truth...”
Run against it? He doesn’t even seem to know what the word means.
Levin can’t shut up long enough to actually hear what Trump said but that seems to be a contagious condition in Cruz supporters. Sad the man has fallen a long way who only hears his own voice.
Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate
TRUMP: You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell you. They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.
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The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.
The extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States' acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Note that despite the firestorm of slander the Bush administration endured over its "lies" on WMD, the president never acted to declassify the information on the CIA buyback program, and as a result today it is an article of faith on the left that he lied us into war.
At the time of the invasion of Iraq, there was no way to know that:
These munitions were remnants of an Iraqi special weapons program that was abandoned long before the 2003 invasion,
But:
they turned up sporadically during the American occupation in buried caches, as part of improvised bombs or on black markets.
American Thinker reported on the WMD evidence found in Iraq 11 years ago.
The CIA's program appears to have put at risk soldiers who were not warned of the risks they faced in handling these potent weapons:
Not long after Operation Avarice had secured its 400th rocket, in 2006, American troops were exposed several times to other chemical weapons. Many of these veterans said that they had not been warned by their units about the risks posed by the chemical weapons and that their medical care and follow-up were substandard, in part because military doctors seemed unaware that chemical munitions remained in Iraq.
In some cases, victims of exposure said, officers forbade them to discuss what had occurred. The Pentagon now says hundreds of other veterans reported on health-screening forms that they believed they too had been exposed during the war.
Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the belated acknowledgment of a chemical-rocket purchases, as well as the potentially worrisome laboratory analysis of the related sarin samples, raised questions about the military's commitment to the well-being of those it sent to war.
We have been fed a line of bull over Saddam and WMDs.
President Bush "lied" about Iraq's WMDs - thus goes the article of faith among liberals, endlessly repeated by the likes of Ron Fournier and Jon Stewart as a kind of progressive catechism. Except that it is a libel, as even the New York Times indirectly acknowledges today.
C.J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt write:
The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.
The extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States' acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Note that despite the firestorm of slander the Bush administration endured over its "lies" on WMD, the president never acted to declassify the information on the CIA buyback program, and as a result today it is an article of faith on the left that he lied us into war.
At the time of the invasion of Iraq, there was no way to know that:
These munitions were remnants of an Iraqi special weapons program that was abandoned long before the 2003 invasion,
But:
they turned up sporadically during the American occupation in buried caches, as part of improvised bombs or on black markets.
American Thinker reported on the WMD evidence found in Iraq 11 years ago.
The CIA's program appears to have put at risk soldiers who were not warned of the risks they faced in handling these potent weapons:
Not long after Operation Avarice had secured its 400th rocket, in 2006, American troops were exposed several times to other chemical weapons. Many of these veterans said that they had not been warned by their units about the risks posed by the chemical weapons and that their medical care and follow-up were substandard, in part because military doctors seemed unaware that chemical munitions remained in Iraq.
In some cases, victims of exposure said, officers forbade them to discuss what had occurred. The Pentagon now says hundreds of other veterans reported on health-screening forms that they believed they too had been exposed during the war.
Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the belated acknowledgment of a chemical-rocket purchases, as well as the potentially worrisome laboratory analysis of the related sarin samples, raised questions about the military's commitment to the well-being of those it sent to war.
We have been fed a line of bull over Saddam and WMDs.
Levin being recently engaged to a woman whose son happens to work in the Senate office of Ted Cruz.
You bet! Running a campaign is A business and Levin is pushing his soon to be son-in-laws business.
So just to be clear, you support this massive new prescription drug entitlement Bush pushed through?
And you call yourself a conservative? Or maybe you don’t, I dunno.
I wonder sometimes these days if I am on Free Republic or some leftist site.
I guess it is no real surprise. Trump is not a conservative, why would we expect his followers to be. I am convinced Trump could say nearly anything, even spout more far left propaganda, and his fanatical Trumpanzees would support him. In fact, at this point, I don’t think there is ANYTHING Trump could say that would dissuade his core followers.
"Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa alleged that an operation for the removal of chemical weapons was prepared by the Soviet Union for Libya, and that he was told over thirty years ago by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Yevgeny Primakov, about the existence of a similar plan for Iraq.
It is 'perfectly obvious', wrote Pacepa, that the Russian GRU agency helped Saddam Hussein to destroy, hide, or transfer his chemical weapons prior to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. 'After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place.'[13]
John Loftus, director of The Intelligence Summit, said in the November 16, 2007 issue of FrontPage Magazine that many documents from Iraq point to WMD being transferred to other countries such as Syria: 'As stated in more detail in my full report, the British, Ukrainian and American secret services all believed that the Russians had organized a last minute evacuation of CW [chemical] and BW [biological] stockpiles from Baghdad to Syria.'
His researchers allegedly found a document ordering the concealment of nuclear weapons equipment in storage facilities under the Euphrates River a few weeks before the invasion.[14]"
Colon is a disreputable racist.
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