Despite his words to the contrary on the campaign trail, Trump said he favored invading Iraq one month before Congress voted to authorize the use of military force and continued to praise the invasion in its first months. “I don’t think that the Bush White House wants there to be much planning”.
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Recent polls show the race for the presidency has narrowed.
Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump Thursday for his condemnation of American military generals and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying her Republican opponent had “failed” at proving he can be commander in chief.
“Here’s what we have to do – we can’t lose our military edge”. “It’s not a serious presidential campaign”.
Mr Trump even cribbed one the former president’s favourite phrases, “peace through strength”, when explaining why he was in favour of across-the-board increases in U.S. military spending.
He said, “In a Trump administration, our actions in the Middle East will be tempered by realism”.
“Here is what is important, I now have more endorsements from retired flag officers than any Democrat other than an incumbent president has ever had”, Clinton said.
Trump will deliver another speech Wednesday evening, at the convention of New York’s Conservative Party. Reagan made appeals to the military and security-minded voters a key part of his winning electoral strategy in the 1980s.
“I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America’s core national interests, promoting regional stability, and producing an easing of tensions in the world”.
“Getting al-Baghdadi will require efforts at the top levels, but it will send a resounding message that nobody directs or inspires attacks against the United States and gets away with it”, she said.
“Our adversaries are chomping at the bit”, he added.
A senior adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the speech, said Trump would ensure the additional spending is fully paid for.
He also called for US Nato allies to meet their obligations to spend 2% of national income on defence.
A flood of Republican national security experts have instead chosen to back Clinton, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable.
That Mr Trump says he will ask U.S. military leaders how to defeat IS appears to be a change of approach.
“Last spring, I asked for a briefing on what the planning was”.
A Trump campaign aide said in a call with reporters Tuesday night that the Republican presidential nominee will call for repealing the budget sequestration act that slashed defense spending and passing a new budget to rebuild what Trump has described as severely damaged and underprepared.
The forum, to be hosted by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, will include questions from an audience of military service members. “She’s trigger happy, and very unstable, whether we like it or not, that’s what’s going on”.
“Every Republican holding or seeking office in this country should be asked if they agree with Donald Trump about these statements”, Clinton said in a morning news conference.
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She added: “They view him as a danger and a risk”.
