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riversedge

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Tue Apr 11, 2017, 03:29 PM Apr 2017

Candidate Trump OK when dictator Hussein 'throws a little gas' but strikes back as president

Everytime I read something about Trump-it gets worse!


Candidate Trump OK when dictator 'throws a little gas' but strikes back as president

http://abcnews.go.com/International/candidate-trump-dictator-throws-gas-strikes-back-president/story?id=46656098

By Paul Blake

Apr 8, 2017, 10:01 AM ET

Stephen B. Morton/AP Photo
Watch Candidate Trump on Hussein's use of 'a little gas'
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...............Shortly after the attack, Trump explained his decision to launch a direct attack on the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying the strike was in the "vital national security interest" of the United States.

Trump's post-strike comments were a radical departure from the isolationist views he often espoused on the campaign trail.



Making the case for a more isolationist U.S. foreign policy, Trump, during a December 2015 rally in Hilton Head, South Carolina, lamented that "Saddam Hussein throws a little gas. Everyone goes crazy."

"You had Iraq and you had Iran. And I said, they fight, they're always fighting for decades and decades, for generations. They fight, that's what they do. They fight. How we ever got involved in this mess is hard to believe," Trump said during the rally in Hilton Head. .........................

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Candidate Trump OK when dictator Hussein 'throws a little gas' but strikes back as president (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2017 OP
But that was before Ivanka set him straight! 50 Shades Of Blue Apr 2017 #1
They don't give a fuck. They really don't. Initech Apr 2017 #2
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