Max Fisher, VOX: America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq
Donald Trump finally said something so outrageous that the other candidates onstage and even the debate audience closed ranks against him.
Here is what Trump did: He accused George W. Bush of launching the Iraq War based on a lie:
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.
Trump's 10-second history of the war articulated it as many Americans, who largely consider that war a mistake, now understand it. And, indeed, Bush did justify the war as a quest for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
The other Republican candidates, who have had this fight with Trump before, did not defend the war as their party has in the past, but rather offered the party's standard line of the moment, which is that Bush had been innocently misled by "faulty intelligence."
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WNU Editor: The debate on why the U.S. invaded Iraq is going to be around for a long time. But .... I was surprised by the position that Donald Trump took on this issue .... former George Bush is revered by many in the Republican Party, going after him would only make many people in the Party upset .... and upset they are. But the Iraq war is an issue that the Republican Party must face and have a debate on .... and maybe this is a start. As for Donald Trump .... I can see how taking this position will help him in a general election .... if (Donald Trump) does win the Republican nomination .... it will be difficult for the Democrat nominee to use the Iraq war as an issue against him .... for he has taken it off the table .... which is probably his long-term strategy anyway.
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Blaming only Bush for Iraq lets many culpable Dems of the hook, including Gore, Biden and H. Clinton. In fact president B. Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998. Iraq was a totally bipartisan crime.
If you blame Bush you have to blame the public too... http://www.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-americans-support-war-against-iraq.aspx
Down thread, we have this:
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2016/02/russian-su-35s-fighter-jets-have-been.html?m=1
Oceanasia has always been at war with East Asia.
Exhibit A, Shawna Cox, from the Mahleur Standoff, Bundy Ranch's
Petition of Defence.
http://www.seditionists.com/shawna1.pdf
Bush is apparently still respected by 2/3rds of the Republicans, though some of those people STILL plan to vote for Trump, despite not liking what he had to say there. The other 1/3rd is all his though, while the real hardcore Bush fanatics were going to back Jeb or Rubio anyway.
Maskirovka
For months, Donald Trump has claimed that he opposed the Iraq War before the invasion began — as an example of his great judgment on foreign policy issues. But in a 2002 interview with Howard Stern, Donald Trump said he supported an Iraq invasion. In the interview, which took place on Sept. 11, 2002, Stern asked Trump directly if he was for invading Iraq.
“Yeah I guess so,” Trump responded. “I wish the first time it was done correctly.”
From buzzfeed.
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