Discussion: In First Debate, Trump Still Lying About His Support For the Iraq War

I’m going on the record and saying that Donald Trump is against going in to all wars, personally.

He wants some ISIL time now though, because he could play soldier and take OPA, other people’s assets, because spoils.

“In First Debate, Trump Still Lying About His Support For the Iraq War”

Really? I thought he was effective in defending his position as against the Iraq war. Don’t know where he stood on the war but he did mention easy to check detailed media reports/articles on it.

The real question is why is his position on the Iraq war even relevant?

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Dude, if you’re going to hog the bong, at least share some of your mushrooms with those of us who aren’t high yet.

No, he was a disaster. His stuff about “I spoke to Hannity about it at the time! Talk to Hannity! He’ll confirm everything I say!” was total amateur hour. Hilarious, though.

You’re Hillary High and like Trump, short on facts.

Hey, you’re the one who’s claiming Trump was effective on the question of his support for the Iraq war. If you think those were winning exchanges for Trump, then yeah, I think you must be high.

True, but he also mentioned a couple of articles/interviews he did where he argued against the war. Perhaps tomorrow someone will fact check those. But still Clinton owns her vote for war and Trump’s opinion on the war his irrelevant.

“Perhaps tomorrow . . .” LOL. Try to keep up, friend – those lies by Trump have already been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked. The Esquire article he keeps babbling about happened nearly 2 years AFTER the war began. Have you been on a remote island somewhere until tonight?

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Okay, say where both high, what relevance does his opinion on going or not going to war have anyway? Zero. But Clinton owns her vote.

Bedtime whisperings to Sean Hannity who just happens to be a massive Trump supporter to the extent he appeared in an ad for Trump, and lands all the prime softball interviews with Trump is clear evidence that Donald was opposed to the war, never mind his public comments that he was in favor, prior to the war.

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Let’s say it is irrelevant. Then why does he goddamn lie about it all the time?

Even if his opinion has no value (actually, he has no opinions, and what he says and believes changes depending on which audience he is trying to please at the moment, so indirectly, I agree with you…whether Donald Trump supported or didn’t support the war is irrelevant, because he would have said whatever the person he was speaking to would find more agreeable), the fact that he insists on lying about it is relevant.

We could have avoided the whole Nixon debacle, if we decided brazen liars shouldn’t be elected PResident, and Trump takes it to a different level of lying I didn’t even think existed.

Hillary owns her vote? What does that even mean? Has she ever denied the way she voted? She has on multiple occasions stated that the vote was a big mistake, and she was wrong to do so. I would love to have a PResident who was never ever wrong, but in the absence of that, I’d much rather have one who has the ability to accept their mistakes and ensure they don’t repeat them.

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He was for it, then it tanked, haha, then they didn’t get the oil so he was against it.
HO was a big backer of Dick and still is I hear.

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“Let’s say it is irrelevant. Then why does he goddamn lie about it all the time?”

Where’s the lie? As I said I didn’t know his opinion on the war but everyone else seems to know for sure - w/o of course citing one source.

“and what he says and believes changes depending on which audience he is trying to please at the moment,”

True but that’s also been Hillary’s same response for decades as well.

" I’d much rather have one who has the ability to accept their mistakes and ensure they don’t repeat them."

We’re talking about a vote to go to war, not a vote on IRS policy.

“Have you been on a remote island somewhere until tonight?”

No, and I’m not too lazy as you appear to be to check the validity of the ‘general consensus’ as ‘facts’.


Nowhere does he say he was for the war.

Are you on crack? You’re like Trump, throwing out one nonsensical, self-contradictory bit of idiocy after another. Try to pay attention – The Esquire interview is the one Trump keeps citing for his claim that he was opposed to the invasion before it happened – but that interview didn’t happen until 2004, nearly 2 years AFTER the invasion. See the problem with Trump’s claim? Politifact actually did a decent job on this issue: In 2002, for example, before the invasion, Trump stated on Howard Stern, heard by millions of listeners, that he supported invading Iraq. He now claims he was always opposed to the invasion. That is a lie. Even Politidact rates his claims as just plain “False.”

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You’re desperate using his Howard Stern interview as a serious interview. There is no where in either article. I got the time line thing but still there is no where in either article where Trump says he is for the war. What both articles are saying is Trump lied when he said he was against the war as there is no documentation to prove his statement. But there is also nothing stated in either article where he states he was for the war. Hopefully you’re able to make the distinction.

Lol
He publicly stated support for the war, after it was obvious it was going badly. Those are his only public statements until it became an absolute disaster. His defense is “Call Sean Hannity”.

Are you seriously that daft or just trolling?

His only real problem with the Iraq war was that it wasn’t done properly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/09/26/caught-in-iraq-war-lie-donald-trump-cries-hannity/

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Chiselin’ Trump, channeling John Kerry: “I was for invading Iraq, before I was against it.”

Win, win for Hannitytrumpity. Not so much for anyone else. They should get fucking married.