Trump 2006: Don’t forget that Hillary’s vote for war in Iraq was based on lies given to her

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Allah:

You have to admire the sheer efficiency of a Republican nominee who can let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her Iraq vote and attack the last Republican president for having “lied” in the span of a single sentence.

Here’s why it’s so hard to stomach the pro-Trump argument that Hillary would be a disaster for the country. Between this and the many other flattering things he’s said about her over the years, starting with the claim that she’d make a great president, Trump himself obviously doesn’t agree.

The comments came in an interview with Maureen Dowd of the New York Times titled “Trump Fired Up,” in which Trump also said the then-New York senator might be the next president

Wrote Dowd:

“He thinks John McCain has lost the 2008 election by pushing to send more troops to Iraq but that Hillary should be forgiven for her ‘horrendous’ vote to authorize the war. ‘Don’t forget that decision was based on lies given to her,’ he says. “She’s very smart and has a major chance to be our next president.’”

Her Iraq vote is the linchpin of his argument to come, echoing Bernie Sanders, that her judgment is too poor for voters to trust her with the presidency. It’s the single most effective pander he has to anti-Hillary Democrats, notwithstanding his own pro-war comments in the first years after the invasion. What’s left of that now? He went on to say in the same interviewwith Dowd, “Bush will go down as the worst and by far the dumbest president in history.” That won’t hurt him (much) with Republicans but it’s more ammo for Clinton to say that Bush bears the blame for her Iraq vote, not her, and the Republicans’ own nominee agrees. This is what happens when your judgment of people turns entirely on whether they’re personally cordial to you or hostile. You’re apt to say all sorts of things in their defense during the cordial periods that you might think better of later.

Here he is in early 2012, three years into her tenure as Secretary of State and more than a year after the disastrous Libya intervention she championed, reminding everyone how terrific she is. You’re apt to see this in an ad or two before November.

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‘Don’t forget that decision was based on lies given to her,’ he says.

Hence the reason he has yet to get and may never get my vote. However, I may change my mind when I see his detailed plan to pay off the debt in four years, all $19,000,000,000,000 plus of it.

@another vet:

I may change my mind when I see his detailed plan to pay off the debt in four years, all $19,000,000,000,000 plus of it

He has given a hint. Just renegotiate with the banks and lenders to get a better deal. Or, just make more money. Or, just default.

@another vet: Seems Trump 2016 may need to debate Trump circa 2006-08 before he takes on HRC .I’ m looking for a candidate to support but it sure as hell won’t be HRC or DT.
Cubs best M.L. start since 84 Tigers.

@another vet #1 –

Trump walked away from saying he could wipe out the $19T debt in 4 years, saying it would take 8 years. Then, he said it might be next to impossible. Then, he walked back the impossible part. Then, he said it might take longer. If this is the best he can do, it says he doesn’t think much of anything through.

And, that lil’ war in Iraq, he also said the US military was incapable of making any headway with the surge. While that chorus was pretty large regarding the surge, we showed pretty well. (Again, for the millionth time, we militarily crushed AQI. Reconstituting as ISIS, that is all on Obama.) And, working off that success, we pretty much silenced the Shiite militias as well. (They too reconstituted while Obama looked the other way.)

@David:

Trump walked away from saying he could wipe out the $19T debt in 4 years, saying it would take 8 years. Then, he said it might be next to impossible. Then, he walked back the impossible part. Then, he said it might take longer.

Chalk it up to one of those days to where he was talking from an orifice other than his mouth.

And, that lil’ war in Iraq, he also said the US military was incapable of making any headway with the surge.

And let’s not forget how Hillary criticized the architect of the Surge demonstrating she is even more clueless. If elected, hopefully Trump will listen to the military instead of his own “expertise” when it comes to ISIS etc. Then again, there is no telling how degraded the military has become since they’ve become a social experiment and have had their ranks decimated. There is a Pentagon report showing that the troops in Afghanistan are confused as to what their mission is over there. Not a very good reflection on senior leadership.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-afghanistan-military-idUKKCN0Y00FX