“He just made a mistake….”
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The former senator again declined to criticize Trump. There were none. And they knew there were none. “Trump even talked bout the cost of war and how the trillions we wasted on war could have bee used to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure – -a theme we have been harping on all these years with a campaign called ‘bring our war dollars home.’ It was wild”.
Jonathan Bachman/REUTERS In 2008, Donald Trump was in favor of impeaching President George W. Bush for the Iraq War. But during Saturday night’s debate, he took it a step further, directly accusing the Bush administration of concocting the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction for the purposes of invading the country.
“If they think they are going to re-litigate the Iraq war throughout the United States in this primary process and that’s going to end well for them, I don’t think it is”.
Trump then touted his own opposition to the Iraq War, but when asked why there was a lack of evidence of Trump’s opposition prior the war’s beginning, he cited as he has in the past, articles from 2003 and 2004 and said that he “said it before” but that voters shouldn’t forget that he “wasn’t a politician, so people didn’t write everything [he] said”. After the candidates were asked their opinion on Scalia’s death, the issue of the Iraq War was brought up and sparks quickly followed.
“I thank God all the time it was George W. Bush in the White House on 9/11 and not Al Gore”, he said.
All Trump had to do was lay low and absorb the insults and attacks of others, while steering clear of controversial topics.
“I can say this”, he continued, “it may not have been impeachable because it was a mistake”. “I only wish that the bed was as YUGE as Trump’s bank account”.
“He made a disgusting mistake”. I lost hundreds of friends.
George, your reaction to the debate and to a different part of it, which was Donald Trump’s apparent search and destroy mission against Jeb Bush and his brother.
“The time for the circus and the reality show is over”, he said. “He was a state sponsor of global terrorism, and I’ll never forget his missile attacks on Israeli civilian targets in the first Gulf war”. A Republican couldn’t even hint that Bush was responsible for 9/11 without being accused of parroting the sort of attacks that Moveon.org and Code Pink launched against the former president.
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he disagreed with the decision to go to war in Iraq, adding that the last Republican president was “able to stabilize the situation” in the Middle East. Ohio Gov. John Kasich defended the decision to move on intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in the region, saying “the fact is we got ourselves in the middle of a civil war”.
