In 2002, Donald Trump Said He Supported Invading Iraq

Just a fly by comment, waiting for the flyby comment being opposed to the war.
 
klamath said:


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.”

Trump has repeatedly claimed that he was against the Iraq War before it began, despite no evidence of him publicly stating this position. On Meet the Press, Trump said there weren’t many articles about his opposition because he wasn’t a politician at the time.

“Well, I did it in 2003, I said it before that,” Trump said of his opposition to invading Iraq. “Don’t forget, I wasn’t a politician. So people didn’t write everything I said. I was a businessperson. I was, as they say, a world-class businessperson. I built a great company, I employed thousands of people. So I’m not a politician. But if you look at 2003, there are articles. If you look in 2004, there are articles.”
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Problem with Trumpster is that he is not consistent, in 2002 he tells notorious Howard Stern " Yeah , I guess so" when asked about operation Iraqi Freedom but then in 2004 , 2005 and 2015 calls Iraq a huge blunder?

He needs to explain this.

How does he expect to take command of US nukes, drones controls with such consistency?


Trump In 2005: Families Of Soldiers Killed In Iraq Should Sue NYT For WMD Reporting

“It’s one thing to get a bad review, it’s another to lose more than 2,000 lives because of false or inaccurate reporting.”
In the mid-2000s, when he was an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and the Iraq War, Donald Trump wrote that the families of U.S. service members who died in Iraq should sue the New York Times for faulty reporting on weapons of mass destruction.
“I think anyone who has lost a son, a daughter, or a loved one in the war in Iraq should sue The New York Times for Judith Miller’s false reporting about the so-called ‘weapons of mass destruction’ as a premise for that war,” wrote Trump on his Trump University blog in 2005. “It’s one thing to get a bad review, it’s another to lose more than 2,000 lives because of false or inaccurate reporting. Imagine having the Judith Millers of the world working for you and getting away with things that are inconceivable to a journalist. We have to draw the line somewhere, and that’s where I draw the line.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczyn...raq-should-sue


Trump tells Bush: 'You're fired'
July 13, 2004 - 11:22AM
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Donald Trump.
The billionaire host of NBC's The Apprentice has weighed in on the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, terming it a "brutal mistake" that would "make it very hard for Bush to get re-elected".

"Look, the war is a disaster. The war should not have been entered into," he told The Dallas Morning News while his fiancee, Melania Knauss, looked on.

"To lose all of those thousands and thousands of people, on our side and their side. I mean, you have Iraqi kids, not only our soldiers, walking around with no legs, no arms, no faces. All for no reason. It is a disgrace."
The Bush campaign declined to comment but noted that the president in a speech today had forcefully defended his decision to go to war.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...484339401.html

Trump says US made mess of Iraq & Libya (video)
Mon Dec 7, 2015 2:35PM
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says the Middle East would be safer if the US had not “made a mess” by attacking Iraq and Libya.Trump has likened Washington’s current approach to the Syrian conflict to the same failed policies and predicted that the result would be “the same thing.” While addressing a crowd of some 1,500 in Franklin, Tennessee, the reality TV star said there were “no terrorists in Iraq” during Saddam’s “vicious” rule. He also blamed the White House for the emergence of Daesh terrorists in Iraq, calling them “the leftovers that didn't get taken care of.”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12...ess-Iraq-Libya



Trump to Jeb: Your brother gave us Obama
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...ve-us-obamaThe Hill
Sep 16, 2015 - Donald Trump on Wednesday evening said that former President George W. Bush was to blame for the election of Barack Obama, during a ...
 
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He supported it until it was shown to be a failure, then he was against it. By that point a large majority of Americans were against it. Ok fine mistakes are made but Trump coming back and supporting the Libyan war is undeniable interventionist. There is nothing antiwar about Trump. He may comes out against a war after it is determined to be a failure and then only because of the way it was conducted.
 
RonPaulMall said:
If your only evidence is a throwaway comment on the Howard Stern Show, that is pretty weak sauce.
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:rolleyes: If your only response to proof that Trump supported the Iraq war before being against is "Well he only said it on the Howard Stern Show", that is pretty weak sauce.
 
juleswin said:
Trump in 2000 in his book The America we deserve


Add this to the OP content and you see that the man has been itching to invade Iraq and just like most neocons in the republican and democrat party, they believe that Iraq was a threat that needed to be confronted.
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Shhhhh....the only Trump book you are allowed to read is The Art of the Deal and that's so that you can understand that all of the crazy stupid stuff Trump says is just so that he can make really really good deals that will make America great again. If you point out, for instance, that in that same book Trump called for an assault weapons ban, (a Trump supporter - mod edit) will call you a "liar" because.....well just because. Trump's new stance, because Trump always tells the truth, is pro gun and you must ignore the fact that he didn't come up with that pro gun stance until he decided to run for the GOP POTUS nomination. Only Trump supporters are qualified to decipher Trumpisms. Everyone else is secretly a trojan horse for the establishment!
 
Mordan said:
plz. Ron Paul supported the war in Afghanistan. But not nation building. Trump supports destroying ISIS. I think we all agree on that.
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ISIS didn't exist in 2002. What was his excuse for supporting invading Libya at the time?
 
klamath said:
Still waiting for that evidence he was against the war in 2002 when it mattered.
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Trump was a real estate developer and budding reality TV Show star in 2002. I doubt he had read up much on the Iraq War at all. "When it matters" is when he officially became a politician, and the non-interventionist foreign policy he espouses now, when he's actually running for office are far more significant than a throwaway line on a radio show where the bulk of the discussion centers around his sex life and how hot various celebrities are.
 
RonPaulMall said:
Trump was a real estate developer and budding reality TV Show star in 2002. I doubt he had read up much on the Iraq War at all. "When it matters" is when he officially became a politician, and the non-interventionist foreign policy he espouses now, when he's actually running for office are far more significant than a throwaway line on a radio show where the bulk of the discussion centers around his sex life and how hot various celebrities are.
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He lied repeatedly.
He supported the war. he supported libyian war as well when everyone should have known better. If Trump is that fucking stupid he doesn't even know about a major war he doesn't even deserve to be anywhere near the wh.
 
jmdrake said:
Please tell me you are being sarcastic.
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i wasn't. Howard Stern asks Trump in 2002 about invading Iraq. Yeah I guess so. That sounds like a ringing endorsement doesn't it. I guess so. Then Sean Shammity one of the biggest Bush Iraq war supporters around says the exact opposite. The same Sean Shammity who trashed Ron Paul for his opposition to the Iraq disaster
 
William R said:
i wasn't. Howard Stern asks Trump in 2002 about invading Iraq. Yeah I guess so. That sounds like a ringing endorsement doesn't it. I guess so. Then Sean Shammity one of the biggest Bush Iraq war supporters around says the exact opposite. The same Sean Shammity who trashed Ron Paul for his opposition to the Iraq disaster
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So you trash the guy that said Trump was against the war and then you try and use his word that Trump was against the war in the beginning. Show us Trumps quotes for the beginning of the war. "I guess so" sure as hell isn't "I was against the war from the beginning."
 
klamath said:
So you trash the guy that said Trump was against the war and then you try and use his word that Trump was against the war in the beginning. Show us Trumps quotes for the beginning of the war. "I guess so" sure as hell isn't "I was against the war from the beginning."
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I freely admit Shammity is an idiot. But he's friends with Trump. Known Trump personally for 20+ years.
 
Mordan said:
plz. Ron Paul supported the war in Afghanistan. But not nation building. Trump supports destroying ISIS. I think we all agree on that.
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You mean we all agree that it's true that Trump supports military action against ISIS?

Or we all agree with him that we should do that?
 
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