David Sadler
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A working list of Donald Trump's foreign policy statements on Iraq. It will be added to over time.
The interview is in 2011; the year of publication of Trump's book, "Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again."
In the interview, Trump did not nuance his position which is laid out more precisely in his book. His position is that the US should not be the world's policeman, but if we take on the responsibility, the nation we are 'protecting' must pay the cost of the effort and compensate the US and allied families for their sacrifice of death and injury.
So Trump tells us in the book WHY he would take the oil, and that taking the oil is TEMPORARY to cover the costs of the war and the suffering of the people who fought the war. It does not tell us whether he would have fought the war in the first place. I believe others have words of his saying he would not have gone into Iraq in the first place if it was up to him.
Later in the FOX interview, Trump says ...
I had not paid any attention to Trump until his announcement speech. I had not read any of his books. I had watched The Apprentice one time to see what the hype was about -- then never watched it again. All I knew about Trump was what the media had conditioned me to believe about Trump and what I was told about Trump by people who learned everything they knew about Trump from the media.
I took serious notice of him for the first time after his announcement speech and seeing how strongly he came out about securing the border and renegotiating 'free' trade and making it fair trade. I was further intrigued after watching the way he handled the fire storm created by his illegal alien and border security remarks. Wanting to learn more, I bought his book and began to watch his interviews and speeches.
I've learned that Trump sometimes speaks and writes in a confusing way by stating the position that he opposes first then he slaps it down. I've heard some people say that he didn't write the book, but the book reads just like the way he speaks. Here's an example.
Notice how he says, "So how about we make it possible for them to take over Kadafi and Libya?" This is the argument he's going to knock down ... watch. He follows this with, "And then at the end of the whole process they turn out to be worse. And that could happen. Mark my words."
This is a bit confusing to me and most likely to many others. I would recommend that Trump more clearly state the position he is going to knock down before he knocks it down. But, alas, neither Trump nor Paul care what I think.
NOTES:
IRAQ
UKRAINE
- Trump would not have gone into Iraq
The interview is in 2011; the year of publication of Trump's book, "Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again."
In the interview, Trump did not nuance his position which is laid out more precisely in his book. His position is that the US should not be the world's policeman, but if we take on the responsibility, the nation we are 'protecting' must pay the cost of the effort and compensate the US and allied families for their sacrifice of death and injury.
So Trump tells us in the book WHY he would take the oil, and that taking the oil is TEMPORARY to cover the costs of the war and the suffering of the people who fought the war. It does not tell us whether he would have fought the war in the first place. I believe others have words of his saying he would not have gone into Iraq in the first place if it was up to him.
Later in the FOX interview, Trump says ...
I had not paid any attention to Trump until his announcement speech. I had not read any of his books. I had watched The Apprentice one time to see what the hype was about -- then never watched it again. All I knew about Trump was what the media had conditioned me to believe about Trump and what I was told about Trump by people who learned everything they knew about Trump from the media.
I took serious notice of him for the first time after his announcement speech and seeing how strongly he came out about securing the border and renegotiating 'free' trade and making it fair trade. I was further intrigued after watching the way he handled the fire storm created by his illegal alien and border security remarks. Wanting to learn more, I bought his book and began to watch his interviews and speeches.
I've learned that Trump sometimes speaks and writes in a confusing way by stating the position that he opposes first then he slaps it down. I've heard some people say that he didn't write the book, but the book reads just like the way he speaks. Here's an example.
Notice how he says, "So how about we make it possible for them to take over Kadafi and Libya?" This is the argument he's going to knock down ... watch. He follows this with, "And then at the end of the whole process they turn out to be worse. And that could happen. Mark my words."
This is a bit confusing to me and most likely to many others. I would recommend that Trump more clearly state the position he is going to knock down before he knocks it down. But, alas, neither Trump nor Paul care what I think.
NOTES:
IRAQ
UKRAINE
