Trump warns 'blue wave' would bring 'crime and open borders'

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

14. True. "I don't want our next warning of a terrorist attack to be a mushroom cloud" was a favorite

trope among members of his administration -- especially Condi Rice. They also made a point of saying, "chemical, biological and nuclear weapons," leaving the nukes lingering at the end of the list, even though they represented the least lethal of the group. Dubya and his minions knew that warning about a nuclear weapon would create the image of hydrogen bomb tests during the 50s, while the truth couldn't have been further away. A terrorist group would have used high explosives (HE) to blow up the device, which wouldn't cause the mushroom cloud but rather distribute a radioactive cloud in the immediate area.

Dubya's most egregious lie, however, was the way he sold the necessity of attacking a country which posed no immediate threat to the U.S. He would always say that Saddam Hussein sponsored terrorists, "just like those who attacked us on 9-11." What his audience heard was that Saddam was responsible for 9-11, which couldn't have been further from the truth. The gambit worked, and a sizable majority of people believed Hussein was directly responsible for the attacks, and thus Dubya started an illegal war which has resulted in thousands of American servicemen and women killed, five times that many suffering serious debilitating injuries, like multiple amputations, and tens of thousands of veterans with such severe mental trauma that the suicide rate among that group is three times the national average.

And that doesn't include the estimated 100,000+ Iraqis who died, the injured civilian casualties, including children, and the million refugees who fled the country in a desperate attempt to stay alive.

Now Trump has announced U.S. troops will not leave Iraq "until the job is done."