DONALD CHUMP SUPPORTED WAR ON IRAQ IN 2003

The potential Commander-in-Chief of the United States military, presidential candidate Donald Chump (nee Trump) supported war on Iraq in 2003.

Donald Trump, who has made his opposition to the Iraq invasion one of the bedrocks of his campaign, was left scrambling during a CNN town hall when confronted with a newly uncovered interview in which he supported the conflict.

The interview, reported by Buzzfeed, was from 2002 when the real estate mogul sat down with radio shock jock Howard Stern and was directly asked whether he advocated invading Saddam Hussein’s country.

Trump replied: “Yeah I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly.”

[source : Donald Trump confronted with past support for Iraq war, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/donald-trump-confronted-with-past-support-for-iraq-war, 19th February 2016]

But a year later changed his mind.

So far so good, huh?

NO!

The worrying thing is that last year he tried to hoodwink us that he was ALWAYS opposed to the war.

“In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war in Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East," he said at the Aug. 6 Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News. "I am the only one on this stage who knew that and had the vision to say it. And that’s exactly what happened. The region became totally destabilized.”

[source : Donald Trump's Anti-Iraq War Position Wasn't As Prophetic As He Thinks, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-iraq-war_us_55f32d97e4b077ca094f05db, 14th September 2015]

And during the first week of the war he was quoted by The Washington Post as saying:

"If they keep fighting it the way they did today, they're going to have a real problem....The war's a mess,"

[source : Hollywood Partyers, Soldiering On, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/archive/lifestyle/2003/03/25/hollywood-partyers-soldiering-on/06327347-83d3-44c4-ab7b-dcd6fbda5437/?resType=accessibility, 25th March 2003]

NB He only criticised the way the war was being fought, not opposing the war itself.

The man is a businessman. He cannot be trusted. Particularly if he supports Saudi Arabia and believes Iran is the aggressor.

But he did go up a teeny weeny bit in my estimation by stating that he would declassify those 28 pages on Saudi Arabia and 9/11, even though he apparently currently supports Saudi Arabia.