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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:27 PM Mar 2016

Trump has decided not to torture,killing families out too.

Donald Trump said Friday that he would not use torture if elected president—a complete reversal from statements made just the night before, during Thursday’s GOP debate, in favor of committing war crimes. In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, Trump now says he would not order the U.S. military to break international laws, despite previously proclaiming he would authorize the military to kill family members of terrorists and that he would use torture techniques a “hell of a lot worse” than waterboarding. Trump now would “use every legal power that I have to stop these terrorist enemies,” but he understands “the United States is bound by laws and treaties and I will not order our military or other officials to violate those laws and will seek their advice on such matters.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/03/04/trump-flips-i-won-t-break-torture-laws.html






Tomorrow,who knows?

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Trump has decided not to torture,killing families out too. (Original Post) sufrommich Mar 2016 OP
He must've heard what Michael Hayden said with Bill Maher intrepidity Mar 2016 #1
Hey remember when Kerry ran for president? Takket Mar 2016 #2
Yep. I remember them mocking his Purple Heart too. sufrommich Mar 2016 #3
Until the taxpayers hire a great lawyer who tells him he can. dogman Mar 2016 #4
looks like he finally cracked open a book on international law 0rganism Mar 2016 #5
Those same treaties and laws were in place when Bush was in office. Solly Mack Mar 2016 #6
Until his next flip flop. JonathanRackham Mar 2016 #7

intrepidity

(7,294 posts)
1. He must've heard what Michael Hayden said with Bill Maher
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:30 PM
Mar 2016

Hayden said if a Prez Trump ordered the military to do such things, they would refuse.

Takket

(21,563 posts)
2. Hey remember when Kerry ran for president?
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:36 PM
Mar 2016

and Bush basically destroyed his entire campaign by calling him a flop flopper? And people were following Kerry around in flip-flop costumes? And people when asked why they voted for Bush says Kerry is a flip flopper? And no one ever actually pointed out any sort of pattern in Kerry's history of constantly changing his mind, but everyone believed he was a flip-flopper anyway?

so............. is trump a flip flopper? and if so how can those braindead teabagger types that wore the flip flop costumes possible support him?

THESE IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!! I bet they are voting for trump!

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. Yep. I remember them mocking his Purple Heart too.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:38 PM
Mar 2016

While wrapping themselves in the flag and praising " our brave soldiers".

0rganism

(23,944 posts)
5. looks like he finally cracked open a book on international law
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:41 PM
Mar 2016

hey, never to late to start studying, right?

unfortunately, statements like this will set him back in the primary.

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