Saddam Hussein was not an imminent threat.

Look, half the people who voted for it later expressed regrets. That does not alter what their position was prior to the invasion. Same goes for Trump. He did not speak out against invading Iraq, he did in fact say he supported the invasion. The man had cameras and microphones and he did not say 'Saddam is not an imminent threat'. He said he supported invading since we didn't get it right the first time.

Iraq is a mess now that may never be cleaned up.

of war goods in perpetuity.

And that benefits a few in our "economy", gives them enough power to perhaps influence this, keep the status quo...

but just to be against trump some people will not support the iraq war. shameless, no wonder people don't vote. And now we have have ISIS.


And you're correct, this supports the MIC and we can't oppose that

Neither is "he was good at killing terrorists" an excuse for slaughtering his own people and paying off the families of suicide bombers.

I opposed the Iraq invasion from the get-go. It doesn't mean I thought the Iraq regime was a model of good government.

“Are you for invading Iraq?” Howard Stern asked him, and Trump answered, “Yeah, I guess so.”

Details with audio file at the link:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-2002-donald-trump-said-he-supported-invading-iraq-on-the?utm_term=.urWBRbGrn#.ihBnOo5VR

triangulation. Hopefully he loses all credibility in the process.

he is going to take a beating over the next 6 months.

But, the memory of the country (and our worthless as media) is REAL short, like a couple seconds.

Either way, even if it ends up brutally bad for the Rs in November, come January 1, he will go back to being the golden boy.

It would be delicious if he was voted out over his support of Don the con.

I can dream at least.

Ryan has to keep cleaning up after the stupid comments Trump says.

unless we were over there.

Neither the form of government any other sovereign nation takes nor the relationship between that government and it's citizens is any of our business whatsoever, nor should the relationships between any other nations be unless we are part of an international coalition.

I also think it was not the focal point of terrorism that it is now.

Poor Paul Ryan. Here he is again, stuck in the middle, playing dodge ball with Trump. Well, maybe he should have listened to his inner self from the start and "passed" on the job of Speaker of the House. He certainly hasn't figured out the job so far, and also hasn't done much of anything to solidify or unify the ranks of the GOP. But then, how can he with Trump on one side and the Teabaggers on the other?
Lately, not a day goes by where I don't laugh my tail off at the complete and utter disarray in the Republican Party. This is entertainment at its very best, and Paul Ryan, in his own way, is just as entertaining as Trump.
What a great year it has been so far!!!!

center politics to seem to be the "reasonable" party. Every election.

They let the crazies be their foil as they re-establish their bullshit "adult" cred.

Only this time they'll have to do it until the Democrat is sworn into office, at which point they "pivot" to crazy and unleash the media kraken again.