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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 06:26 PM Apr 2016

Maureen Dowd praises pro-Iraq invasion Trump for having had "good judgment" to oppose war

Once a beltway hack and a tool, always a beltway hack and a tool...

From a typically shallow piece today, where she hails Trump and pal, tinfoil hat Alex Jonser loon Roger Stone, as being the new "Rat Pack"

"Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk"
You can actually envision a foreign policy debate between Trump and Clinton that sounds oddly like the one Obama and Clinton had in 2008, with Trump playing Obama, preening about his good judgment on Iraq, wanting an end to nation-building and thinking he could have a reset with Russia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html?smid=tw-nytimesdowd&smtyp=cur&_r=0

The woman who mocked Gore's suit colors and shilled endlessly for Dubya in 2000 is trying her best to set the false narrative that Donald was arm in arm with the Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore in 2003, opposing a war that he actually outright supported and called a "tremendous success" that year.

All the Times needs to do now is trot out Judy Miller, and we'll be in full deja vu.
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Maureen Dowd praises pro-Iraq invasion Trump for having had "good judgment" to oppose war (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2016 OP
I'd say someone spiked her brownies again. Gomez163 Apr 2016 #1
Politifact on whether Trump opposed the Iraq War: pampango Apr 2016 #2
MoDo is actually considered relevant? WTF??? madinmaryland Apr 2016 #3

pampango

(24,692 posts)
2. Politifact on whether Trump opposed the Iraq War:
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 07:28 PM
Apr 2016

Last edited Sat Apr 30, 2016, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)

We rate this statement False.

Donald Trump did not warn the Iraq War would 'destabilize the Middle East' before it started.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr/27/donald-trump/donald-trump-iraq-war-destabilize/

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