Trump said his 2000 book Saddam had WMD's and supported regime change

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Sunday February 14, 2016 · 11:33 PM PST

2016/02/14 · 23:33

nbc-fires-donald-trump-after-he-calls-mexicans-rapists-and-drug-runners.jpg — Trump manages to prove himself a liar and upend his foreign policy.

The text of the 2000 book Trump wrote is damning, not only did he believe Saddam possessed an active WMD program, he also supported war to topple Saddam.

In the book he refers to Saddam as a terrorist threat to the US as well.

This is like a gift from heaven to either Bernie or Hillary whoever wins. It makes clear Trump has been lying though his teeth and his view on Saddam was no different then Bush’s at the time.

Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S . warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks in Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq's crash program to become a nuclear power. They've got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers—more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They've got enriched uranium. All they need is the material for nuclear fission to complete the job, and, according to the Rumsfeld report, we don't even know for sure if they've laid their hands on that yet. That's what our last aerial assault on Iraq in 1999 was about. Saddam Hussein wouldn't let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where that material might be stored. The result when our bombing was over? We still don't know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I'm no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion.

When we don't, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.

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40-50 hostages taken in Sydney Australia by armed terrorists

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Sunday December 14, 2014 · 4:59 PM PST

2014/12/14 · 16:59

A cafe in Sydney Australia has been taken hostage by jihadis. As of right now the hostage situation is ongoing. CNN has just broken over to current news of the hostage taking.

They have forced the members of the cafe to wave their black flag banner out the window and so far no demands have been made.

ARMED men are holding 40 to 50 people hostage at a cafe in Martin Place in Sydney.
There are reports that two gunman have taken hostages, some of which are standing with their hands up at the windows in the popular Lindt chocolate shop, which has two or three entrances.

There is also a black and white flag being held up in a window. It is believed to be the Black Standard, a jihadist flag. Lindt Australia CEO Steve Loane told news.com.au he believes there are 40 to 50 people inside the cafe, including customers and staff.

http://www.news.com.au/...

The police are blocking off the area and are somewhat restricting what is known, but the reporters seem convinced its more then one terrorist and at least one of them is wearing a backpack that could be an explosive device.

Army deserters to be executed in Iraq

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Monday April 23, 2007 · 8:44 AM PDT

2007/04/23 · 08:44

Iraqi soldiers who desert their units now face execution, according to a decree by the country’s Presidential Council.

The penalties are also applicable to the cadets of military academies in the country.

Turning desertion into an offense punishable by death comes amid mounting criticism from human rights groups that Iraq has become one of the world’s highest users of death penalty.

http://www.azzaman.com/...

It will be up to the judge if the execution is done by hanging or firing squad. They took out beheading which was an option under the previous regime.

The idea that Iraq is going to become a Jeffersonian democracy in most people's lifetime is laughable. Iraqi politics today is where Rome was 100BC with a parliment of the elite families with their own goon squads.

That doesn't mean Iraqi can't be stabilized, as Saddam proved by putting down revolts and insurgencies supported by 80% of Iraqis. Those that say America can't help in stabilizing Iraq are full of it. What it does mean is that America no matter how much it gives can not change the political and social culture of a nation like Iraq.

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Wednesday April 18, 2007 · 9:46 PM PDT

2007/04/18 · 21:46

Democrats Would Make Iraq Timetable in Bill 'Advisory'

Congressional Democratic leaders are moving to make their proposed timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq "advisory" as they seek to reconcile two versions of war spending legislation into a single bill that they plan to pass next week, according to several House members.

The compromise language would keep the deadlines included in the original House bill but make them nonbinding, as the Senate version did, and would allow President Bush to waive troop-readiness standards, lawmakers said. Bush has vowed to veto legislation with timetables in it, calling it a schedule of surrender, but Democrats hope to show that they are being flexible and the president rigid by softening the terms.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

I am actually not against this idea. I have been watching the polls and a majority of Americans are on our side on every issue related to the war except I have been watching over time the support for a clear solid deadline for withdrawl has been falling since the beginning of the year.

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 9:41 PM PDT

2007/04/16 · 21:41

DUBAI, April 17 (Reuters) - The leader of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said on Tuesday he agreed with those who say the country has become a "university of terrorism" in a growing insurgency since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

"From the military point of view, one of the (enemy) devils was right in saying that if Afghanistan was a school of terror, then Iraq is a university of terrorism," the leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq said in a Web audio recording.

"The largest batch of soldiers for jihad in the path of God in the history of Iraq are graduating and they have the highest level of competence in the world," said the speaker, identified as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the group set up last year by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and some other Sunni groups.

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Saturday March 17, 2007 · 8:00 AM PDT

2007/03/17 · 08:00

Three suicide bombers driving chlorine-laden trucks struck in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, killing two policemen and forcing about 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops to seek treatment for exposure to the gas, the military said Saturday.

The attacks came after back-to-back bombings last month released chlorine gas, prompting the U.S. military to warn that insurgents are adopting new tactics in a campaign to spread panic. That was followed by a similar explosion involving a dump truck south of Fallujah in Amiriyah that killed two policemen and left as many as 100 local citizens showing signs of chlorine exposure, with symptoms ranging from minor skin and lung irritations to vomiting, the military said.

Less than 10 miles away, another suicide bomber detonated a dump truck containing a 200-gallon chlorine tank rigged with explosives at 7:13 p.m., also south of Fallujah in the Albu Issa tribal region, the military said. U.S. forces responded to the attack and found about 250 local civilians, including seven children, suffering from symptoms related to chlorine exposure, according to the statement.

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Wednesday March 14, 2007 · 6:33 PM PDT

2007/03/14 · 18:33

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a "remaining military as well as political mission" in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military.

In a half-hour interview on Tuesday in her Senate office, Mrs. Clinton said the scaled-down American military force that she would maintain in Iraq after taking office would stay off the streets in Baghdad and would no longer try to protect Iraqis from sectarian violence — even if it descended into ethnic cleansing.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 7:51 AM PST

2007/02/26 · 07:51

Iraqis Fleeing Samarra Say Extremists Control City

A number of families have fled the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, saying that if the government does not intervene, their city will end up like Kabul during the Taliban era. The fleeing families say that extremists have renamed the city "the Islamic Emirate of Samarra, which is one of the emirates of the Islamic State of Iraq, declared by Al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers last year.

He pointed out that these groups "began arriving in Samarra specifically a year and a half ago. Most of their leaders hold Arab citizenships, including Syrians, Algerians, Egyptians, and Yemenis, along with some Iraqi tribesmen who assist them and offer them facilities.

Muhannad said that large areas of the farms around Samarra have been transformed into camps like those of Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. Arab fighters, who were trained in Afghanistan many years ago, supervise the new camps in Samarra. Other interlocutress agreed with Muhannad that the city of Samarra "is becoming like the Afghan cities of Qandahar and Kabul in the era of Taliban."

http://aawsat.com/...

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Tuesday February 20, 2007 · 5:45 PM PST

2007/02/20 · 17:45

The Iraqi Prime Minister advised the Mahdi Army leaders to hide in Iran, revealed a leaked letter from the office of the prime minister and posted online by the Kurdish website peyamner on Tuesday.

A letter issued by the office of the Iraqi Prime Minister, al-Maliki, with the coordination of the National Security Advisor, Muwaffaq al-Rabii, advices al-Sadr to hide the leaders of his militants, the Mahdi Army, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in case they are "arrested or killed by the American forces". Al-Maliki, in his letter states, "The current situation requires to keep the leaders of the Mahdi Army, who are affiliated to the organisation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, away from the front line."

The Iraqi National Security Advisor, Muwaffaq al-Rabii appears to be part of the operation. The letter is classified as confidential, private and immediate. The letter states the name of 11 leaders of the Mahdi Army who have links with the Islamic Guards and who are advised by the office of the Prime Minister to leave to Iran. The letter is copied to the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, the leadership of the SCIRI and the office of al-Sadr.

http://www.kurdmedia.com/...

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Friday February 16, 2007 · 11:59 PM PST

2007/02/16 · 23:59

The U.S. general commanding the security crackdown in Baghdad said Friday that he has asked for reinforcements beyond the 17,000 U.S. combat troops already committed to the Iraqi capital as part of President Bush's emergency build-up. Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, commanding general of the 1st Cavalry Division based at Fort Hood, told a Pentagon news conference that he has requested additional forces to provide attack helicopters and combat engineers to bolster efforts to regain control of the capital city of 5 million.

Fil's request, if approved, could boost the U.S. buildup planned for Baghdad by more than 7,500 soldiers — or about a 44 percent increase. "We have requested specific elements — in other words, additional attack helicopters and additional engineers," Fil said, adding that additional logistics troops also would be required.

"We have asked for more (troops) and we believe that they will be given to us over time," Fil said.

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Sunday February 04, 2007 · 1:13 AM PST

2007/02/04 · 01:13

'Martyrs' In Iraq Mostly Saudis

Before Hadi Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in "fooling around." Like many Saudis, he was said to have experienced a religious awakening after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and dedicated himself to Allah, inspired by "the holy attack that demolished the foolish infidel Americans and caused many young men to awaken from their deep sleep," according to a posting on a jihadist Web site.

Who are the suicide bombers of Iraq? By the radicals' account, they are an internationalist brigade of Arabs, with the largest share in the online lists from Saudi Arabia.

In a paper published in March, Reuven Paz, an Israeli expert on terrorism, analyzed the lists of jihadi dead. He found 154 Arabs killed over the previous six months in Iraq, 61 percent of them from Saudi Arabia. He also found that 70 percent of the suicide bombers named by the Web sites were Saudi. In three cases, Paz found two brothers who carried out suicide attacks. Many of the bombers were married, well educated and in their late twenties, according to postings.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

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Wednesday January 10, 2007 · 5:34 PM PST

2007/01/10 · 17:34

The Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, is preparing for war in Sadr City, the vast Baghdad slum.

Announcements on Iraqi TV last night said that the cleric will force every man in Sadr City between 15 and 45 to join his militia.

Sadr supporters believe they will be targeted by U.S. and Iraqi government troops after President Bush unveils his new Iraq strategy Wednesday night. The Mahdi Army is rumored to be distributing grenades to every family in Sadr City, a district already brimming with weapons.

http://www.npr.org/...

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