ATTEMPT TO HIDE CLINTON WAR-MONGERING RECORD

TRUMP DID NOT SUPPORT IRAQ WAR

APPLES AND ORANGES:TRUMP ON-AIR MUSING NOT EQUAL TO FORMAL VOTE OF SENATOR

The Clinton camp is attacking Donald Trump for his supposed early support for the Iraq War. Forty days from the election why does this seem so important to them? The reason: they would like to nullify their candidate's well-deserved reputation for war mongering. They want the voters to forget her Senate-Iraq war-vote and her persistent support of that disastrous conflict, her position in favor of toppling of Syrian dictator Assad and the humanitarian crisis which ensued there, and her warring efforts in Libya and the resulting political, humanitarian and economic basket-case that resulted in that now failed nation. They would like to make the false claim that the musings of private-citizen Trump were equivalent to the formal vote and powerful support of a US Senator and the US Secretary of State. They would like to claim that Trump supported the Iraq War too, so as to muffle and obscure the use of that issue against her.

Let us be clear, Trump's pre-Iraq War conversations on the air with Howard Stern, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity..in the distant past, were simply those of a PRIVATE CITIZEN. Reviewing those transcripts one come away with the impression that Trump was NOT a war-supporter. He is at times uncertain, and unclear, speaking as he does in his New York syntax, but clearly no flag waver. Significantly, the reason why he was chosen as a subject of interview by these TV and Radio hosts was the very fact that he WAS NOT a war supporter, at a time when most celebrities were wrapping themselves in the flag and beating the drums for an attack on the "evil" Saddam Hussein. Trump was making news as an interesting dissenter from the mainstream view. Furthermore, Trump was not a member of Congress or a political figure...he was a businessman and an entertainer at the time. He didn't take his opinions too seriously, and we should not either. His musings had no impact other than as making news as a minority view about the impending war.

We can not compare the rambling radio and TV conversations of Mr. Trump with the FORMAL VOTES of Ms Clinton who was a sitting Senator at the time of the Iraq War vote, or the Secretary of State during the Benghazi affair and the Libya fiasco. Mrs. Clinton held the responsibility of a representative of the people and as a high government official to make the fearful decision of sending our young men and women into a terrible war to face death or horrible mutilation. It is these decisions of Mrs. Clinton as a Senator and as Secretary of State on war that interest the voter, fearful of her past missteps on matters of use of force. Most significantly, after the Iraq War proved to be one of the most devastating mistakes in US history, she continued to support it and other conflicts in the same region. She continued making similar mistakes concerning use of military force, apparently not learning from her earlier experiences.

Mr. Trump on the other hand, may have been an uncertain and wobbly opponent of the war in his on air ramblings, early on...but his position on Iraq evolved. When he entered the competition for the Republican nomination, a position in support of the war would have been a more tenable political position. The GOP at that time held that Iraq was a "necessary war". During the nomination process Trump held firm, stating that the war was not justified. He alone spoke of the mistake of the Iraq War. He had the courage of his conviction. Among the 16 other candidates, he was the only one who firmly opposed the Bush-Cheney Wars. He took heat for that position at first, but he held to it, often stating: "The Iraq War was a disaster."

Don't let the Clinton lie-machine get away with it. Clinton can not be trusted wielding the vast power of the military. She has proved her incapacity, by consistently making the wrong decisions.