In recent debates and town hall meetings, Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the Iraq War of 2003 was a bad idea and has destabilized the entire Middle East. Specifically, at the February 6 GOP debate, Trump declared:
“I’m the only one up here, when the war of Iraq — in Iraq, I was the one that said, ‘Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East.'”
But as with virtually all things Trump, the truth is a much different story, because in 2002, during an interview with Howard Stern, Trump was asked:
“Are for invading Iraq?”
Trump replied:
“Yeah I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly.”
Two years prior to that, Trump wrote the following in his book, The America We Deserve:
“We still don’t know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I’m no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don’t, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.”
Keep in mind that line was written even before the war plans had been drawn up by the always-ready-to-bomb Bush-Cheney Administration. It was written before the September 11 attacks! Sounds like a tacit endorsement of war to me.
Yet when confronted with this information earlier today on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Trump again tried to deny that he had said such things in support of invading Iraq. He was asked:
“You said many times during this campaign that you were against the Iraq war before it began, and no evidence turned up to support that, and yesterday Buzzfeed received this clip from The Howard Stern Show in September 2002 which showed you supporting the invasion.”
Trump tried desperately to dance around the question by telling another lie:
“No, that was long before the war began and by the time the war began I was saying and I’m on record as saying that we shouldn’t go in…”
But the interviewer, George Stephanopoulos, was not about to let Trump get away that easily, telling him:
“But you’re not on record at all opposing the war before it began. There’s simply no evidence of that, sir.”
Not a problem, according to Trump, because:
“Well, there is evidence and I’ll find evidence because I was against the war and you can see the way I said that, that was long before the war started and that was an interview that was the first time I was ever actually asked that question.”
Doesn’t matter if it was the first or the hundredth time you had been asked, Donald. You said you supported it.
Stephanopoulos fired back:
“You said you were for the invasion.”
“You could see I was not exactly strongly in favor. That’s the first time it was ever asked but that was long before the war started. By the time the war started I was against and in 2003 you have evidence that I was against and I’ve been against it for years.”
But you said you were for it! You said it clearly and even wrote lines to that effect in your book!
Donald just hates when people bring up old quotes that prove what a vacillating liar and sack of crap he really is. He says he’s not a politician. No, he’s worse. He’s a predatory businessman playing the role of a politician, and that makes him doubly dangerous.
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