Op-ed: Liar, Liar...Trump's Pants are on Fire By: Diane Sori/ The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on http://www.americanpbn.com/
“I thank God everyday that George W. Bush was our president on 9/11 and
not Al Gore.”
- Senator Marco Rubio chastising Donald Trump's
assertions at the last Republican debate
Last Saturday on the debate stage in South Carolina, presidential
candidate Donald Trump adamantly stated during an altercation with
fellow candidate Jeb Bush that no WMDs were found in Iraq. Saying that
George W. Bush lied to to the American people in order to justify his going into Iraq,
Trump went into a tirade of what amounts to nothing but far-left talking
points and innuendos. But no matter the words said, the bottom line is that it was Donald
Trump who lied not George W. Bush.
Now for a bit of history...Saddam Hussein never tried to hide the fact that
he had chemical weapons...remember he openly used them against the
Kurds for all the world to see. And Saddam had some of these
weapons...including 2,500 sarin-filled 122mm rockets...stored at the
Al-Muthana Complex...the very complex that coalition warplanes bombed on
February 8, 1991, damaging or destroying the
rockets stored there.
Also, as per a New York Times report from last year, between 2004 to
2011, both American and coalition troops found over 5,000 chemical
weapons in Iraq...weapons that included warheads, shells, and 'aviation'
bombs, and that on at least a half dozen occasions our troops were
exposed to chemical weapons during 2003's Operation Iraqi Freedom. And
know that these weapons were left over from Iraq's eight-year war with
Iran in the 1980s... weapons that were not accounted for by UN inspectors
after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
And ignored by Trump is the fact that as Operation Iraqi Freedom came to
an end, 400+ 122mm al-Borak warheads packed with sarin gas with a
concentration of close to 25% purity were 'purchased' by CIA operatives
through a secret Iraqi 'intermediary'...purchased to help assure that
old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of
terrorists or militant anti-government forces. And with sarin being one
of the most deadly of all nerve gasses...so deadly that just one to 10
milliliters on the skin is fatal...warheads with a concentration of up
to 25% purity becomes lethal, and would indeed classify as a weapon of
mass destruction.
And lest Trump forget that discovered in Iraq during the same above
mentioned time period was first, a 152mm binary sarin artillery
projectile containing a 40% concentration of sarin, which insurgents
tried to use as an IED...an Improvised Explosive Device...and second,
thousands of barrels of pre-cursor chemicals buried in camouflaged
barrels labeled 'insecticide' were found near Iraqi military
installations. And of special note here is that with the discovery of
this one single binary weapon means there is always the possibility that
more binary weapons...whose ingredients stay active longer than
conventional chemical weapons...still exist undiscovered in Iraq today.
And why are binary chemical weapons so dangerous besides their having a long 'shelf
life'...it's because the toxic agent in its 'active state' is not contained
as a whole within the weapon, but instead is in the form of two chemical
precursors, physically separated within said weapon, with the
precursors designed to be less toxic than the agent as a whole...that is
until they are mixed during launch. And this design, while just as deadly as a
standard chemical weapon, allows for the weapon to be more easily
transported...in other words more easily transported to high density
population areas.
But Trump said there were no chemical weapons found in Iraq, so I guess
since Trump claims he's always right about everything...there were
none...tangible proof be damned.
During this same debate Donald Trump also blamed George W. Bush for 9/11
after Marco Rubio said that Bush had "kept us safe" on his watch. Those
three words had Trump shooting back with, "How did he keep us safe when
the World Trade Center came down?" adding that, "I lost hundreds of
friends, the World Trade Center came down during the reign of George
Bush...That is not safe, Marco, that is not safe." Well it seems that
once again Donald Trump needs a bit of a history lesson as to who is the
true cause of 9/11...and it is the very man whose permission he needed
to run against Hillary...none other than Bubba himself...William Jefferson Clinton.
But first let's preface it with the undeniable fact that after 9/11
changed our country forever...and remember that 9/11 happened a mere
eight months into the George W. Bush presidency...Bush's ensuing actions helped to
improve security in these United States. And if you want proof just
understand that there have been no attacks of 9/11's magnitude anywhere
within our country's borders since then. And if truth be told Trump's blaming Bush
for the attack and making it a pivotal part of the 2016 presidential
primary campaign is just another move to try and cover for the fact that
he, Donald Trump, knows absolutely nothing about national security or foreign
policy issues. But hey, he's doing what he does best...he's
calculatingly and deliberately dragging the level of political discourse down yet
again, and the 'Trump-drunk' are lapping it up just like Obama's sheeple
do every time Obama opens up his big lying mouth as well.
And so it seems that Donald Trump and Barack HUSSEIN Obama have yet
another thing in common...they both have made lying into an art form,
and sadly the uniformed and the misinformed could care less.
But now for that bit of a history lesson and hopefully Trump and his
blind-following Trumpers might learn something. The events of September
11, 2001...the three almost simultaneous attacks on the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania...did indeed change
our great nation forever, but they were events that could have been
prevented if only previous Democratic President Bill Clinton had done
his job as Commander-in-Chief and as steward of America's ship.
“The World Trade Center came down because Bill Clinton didn't kill Osama
bin-Laden when he had the chance to kill him.” - more of Marco Rubio's words
said during the last Republican debate.
And how right Rubio is for Bill Clinton had many opportunities to kill
or capture Osama bin-Laden, but passed on opportunity after opportunity
as each presented itself. In fact, 9/11 happened because al-Qaeda was
allowed to grow stronger after each act of terrorism they committed went either unpunished or
received just a slap on the wrist from the Clinton administration. Let's
start with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...a dry run for
9/11...that killed six innocent people and left one thousand injured.
Clinton did not even have the attack 'officially' investigated until two years
later after military investigators found that Osama bin-Laden had been in charge
of said attack.
Now when you remember those facts, remember too that when the news broke
about bin-Laden, the government of Sudan told Clinton they could “get
bin-Laden” if he wanted to bring charges against him. But what did
Clinton say...“Osama bin-Laden is not a threat to the United States,”
thus knowingly and willing letting bin-Laden get away with murder. And
who did he take action against instead of bin-Laden...in 1998...five
years after the first WTC bombing...Bill Clinton bombed a Sudanese
aspirin factory, which he claimed held chemical weapons but is a claim
that has never proven to be true, killing hundreds of innocent factory
workers. In other words, Bill Clinton made Sudan the fall guy to cover
for his own lazier-faire attitude towards bin-Laden and al-Qaeda.
And al-Qaeda and bin-Laden were emboldened and grew stronger.
And lest we forget that after George H. Bush defeated Saddam Hussein in
1991, Clinton ordered UN officials to be stationed in Iraq to make sure
that Saddam would be incapable of creating WMDs, but also remember that
his orders were quickly rescinded when he told said UN officials to
leave the country immediately, thus giving Saddam more than enough time
to finish his chemical weapons building...which we now know he did.
Now for another chance Clinton missed to get bin-Laden occurred on
August 7, 1998, when explosives hidden in a pickup truck wrecked the
U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, while another bomb went off at the U.S.
mission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and did so almost at the same time.
And what was Clinton's response to those acts of terror...acts that
killed 224 innocent people amongst them 12 Americans and had 4000 others
affected with non-life threatening injuries...not a damn thing even with
those two bombings marking the birth of Osama bin-Laden's al-Qaeda as
the premier global terrorist network. And while four men with ties
to al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad were convicted by a U.S.
federal court for their role in the attacks and are serving life
sentences, Bill Clinton had nothing to do with either their capture or
trial, and has remained mum on the subject to this day.
And bin-Laden and al-Qaeda again got away with murder and grew even stronger.
And let's not forget that the bombing with military grade explosives of
the Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in Aden Harbour, Yemen, on
October 12, 2000, killed 17 U.S. sailors and injured 39 others and that
it too happened on Bill Clinton's watch, with Osama bin-Laden's al-Qaeda
claiming responsibility for the attack. And what was Clinton's
response, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a
despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and
hold them accountable.” “If this was an attack of terrorism...” a US war
ship is bombed and all Bubba can say is “If...” And while four
Yemenis
and two Egyptians were caught, tried, and convicted for
the bombing by Yemeni courts...not U.S. courts as should have been the
case...Osama bin-Laden was not one of them, and Bill Clinton's lack of a
tangible response for the bombing can be thanked for that.
And so like twice before Osama bin-Laden and al-Qaeda again got away with murder,
and thanks to Bill Clinton not George W. Bush, 9/11 was the ultimate outcome.
So while Donald Trump continues to have melt downs and whines ad-nausem
about those who tell the truth about his poor
debate performance last Saturday, and as he continues to spew lies about
his fellow candidates and insinuates that everyone in the
world...including past presidents...is a liar but him, paranoia has
become the hallmark of Trump's nothing but reality show campaign. And
those pesky little things know as facts prove it...much to Trump's and
his Trumper's chagrin. So maybe now with Trump's lies exposed
common sense will triumph over empty-suit bloviations...'We the People'
can only hope
so.
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3 comments:
cimbri
said...
President Bush himself famously made fun of the fact that no WMD that was a threat to the United States was ever found. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew Saddam had no WMD because presumably, Bush would have bombed any locations where materials would have been secreted. Why would you yammer on and on about WMD, knowing the dictator had a year to unload the stuff. The whole exercise was preposterous. The UN inspectors looked and looked and couldn't find anything. Before they could offer their final opinion that nothing existed, Bush prematurely pulled the trigger and launched the war that opened Pandoras Box in the Middle East.
I won't even go into Bush's blatant lie in his SOTU regarding Saddam supposedly buying yellowcake in Africa. There's so much there to indict the Bush admin that it would take a multi volume book to cover it all.
Thank you Mr. Trump, you are easily the most politically brave man to run for president in my lifetime.
Regarding 9-11, once again, another Bush's fingerprints are all over that disaster. The seeds of 9-11 were planted in the first Bush admin when Bush 41 saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam's 400,000 man army, by dropping the 82nd Airborne into northern Saudi Arabia. That was the tripwire which blocked an Iraqi attack. The rest is history, the US invaded and returned Kuwait to her authoritarian monarchy. Also invaded Iraq, defeated Saddam's forces and established no fly zones after inadvertently allowing an Iraqi massacre of Kurds.
But what would have happened if we had followed an old and traditional American foreign policy and stayed out of it? There would have never been a 9-11. The Iraqi Army would have crushed the extremist Saudis, by killing their regular soldiers and irregular jihadis for many years. There never would have been US bases in Arabia and so not only would there have been no backlash by jihadis, to launch a WTC attack, they would have been killed or fighting for their lives against the secular Iraqis.
Yes folks, the Bushes are responsible for 9-11 and Iraq and their poor and foolish leadership has cost us trillions and many thousands of soldiers and civilians lives. Hopefully Jeb will quit soon and we can heal the wounds inflicted by terrible leadership.
3 comments:
President Bush himself famously made fun of the fact that no WMD that was a threat to the United States was ever found. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew Saddam had no WMD because presumably, Bush would have bombed any locations where materials would have been secreted. Why would you yammer on and on about WMD, knowing the dictator had a year to unload the stuff. The whole exercise was preposterous. The UN inspectors looked and looked and couldn't find anything. Before they could offer their final opinion that nothing existed, Bush prematurely pulled the trigger and launched the war that opened Pandoras Box in the Middle East.
I won't even go into Bush's blatant lie in his SOTU regarding Saddam supposedly buying yellowcake in Africa. There's so much there to indict the Bush admin that it would take a multi volume book to cover it all.
Thank you Mr. Trump, you are easily the most politically brave man to run for president in my lifetime.
Regarding 9-11, once again, another Bush's fingerprints are all over that disaster. The seeds of 9-11 were planted in the first Bush admin when Bush 41 saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam's 400,000 man army, by dropping the 82nd Airborne into northern Saudi Arabia. That was the tripwire which blocked an Iraqi attack. The rest is history, the US invaded and returned Kuwait to her authoritarian monarchy. Also invaded Iraq, defeated Saddam's forces and established no fly zones after inadvertently allowing an Iraqi massacre of Kurds.
But what would have happened if we had followed an old and traditional American foreign policy and stayed out of it? There would have never been a 9-11. The Iraqi Army would have crushed the extremist Saudis, by killing their regular soldiers and irregular jihadis for many years. There never would have been US bases in Arabia and so not only would there have been no backlash by jihadis, to launch a WTC attack, they would have been killed or fighting for their lives against the secular Iraqis.
Yes folks, the Bushes are responsible for 9-11 and Iraq and their poor and foolish leadership has cost us trillions and many thousands of soldiers and civilians lives. Hopefully Jeb will quit soon and we can heal the wounds inflicted by terrible leadership.
Excellent analysis and remarks from cimbri.
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