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I really meant it when I said Obama was the founder of Isis, Trump insists

He’s not apologising – and he’s not explaining very much either.

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EVEN HIS SUPPORTERS concede that it’s often difficult to ascertain what Donald Trump actually meant to say, whenever his controversial comments make the headlines.

Earlier in the week, his comments about ’2nd amendment people’ potentially taking action against Hillary Clinton sparked debate – with critics of the GOP nominee contending his remarks were an incitement to violence. Paul Ryan, America’s most senior elected Republican, said it had sounded like a “joke gone bad”.

In the last 48 hours or so, Trump’s latest remarks, about Barack Obama ‘founding Isis’ have taken over US and international news cycles.

But given several opportunities to explain what he meant while campaigning yesterday, the businessman failed to do so – appearing to indicate he meant the accusation to be taken literally.

As usual with Trump, he left himself and his surrogates a little room to walk back the charged language at some later stage – but speaking to a conservative radio host in a wide-ranging interview, he declined to take the cue to broaden-out his criticism of Obama’s Middle East policies.

“I know what you meant – you meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace,” host Hugh Hewitt said, according to a transcript of the show.

“No, I meant that he’s the founder of Isis, I do,” Trump said.

“He was the most valuable player – I gave him the most valuable player award. I give her too, by the way,” he added, referring to Clinton.

Giving some extra context, he added:

He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of Isis, okay?

‘No, he didn’t' 

For her part, Clinton admonished Trump for his accusation, tweeting ”No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS”.

Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief.

A furious Democratic National Committee also called on the developer to “apologise for his outrageous, unhinged and patently false suggestions”.

The Republican nominee debuted his latest controversial assertion on Wednesday night at a rally in Florida, and repeated it several times yesterday.

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And while political pundits on both sides of the Atlantic appear, at this stage, to have given up on wondering whether he’s “gone too far this time”, at least one attendee at that rally (bottom left in the photo above) seemed less-than-convinced of the wisdom of Trump’s tactic…

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Elsewhere yesterday, the Republican told CNBC that he would either win this November’s general election with his frank, off-the-cuff style or enjoy a “very, very, nice long vacation”.

In comments that may cause further worries within the GOP establishment he said:

I’m a truth teller. All I do is tell the truth. And if at the end of 90 days, I’ve fallen short because I’m somewhat politically correct even though I’m supposed to be the smart one and even though I’m supposed to have a lot of good ideas, it’s OK. I go back to a very good way of life.

With reporting from AFP

Read: Hillary accuses Trump of “crossing the line”, so Trump accuses Obama of “founding Isis” >

Read: “Give me a break” – Donald Trump defends comments that appeared to hint at Hillary assassination >

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    Mute Tom Burke
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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:08 AM

    It wasn’t withdrawing from Iraq that gave birth to ISIS. It was going in there in the first place -Bush did it

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:20 AM

    Maybe, but no one ever heard of isis before the war supposedly ended

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:40 AM

    ISIS was formed in Iraq in 1999. America invaded Iraq in 2003.

    Unless Bush has access to a time machine, he was not responsible for the birth of ISIS.

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    Mute Pat O'Dwyer
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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:48 AM

    It must be slowly becoming clear to most people where ISIS are coming from and in whose interests this monstrosity was created.
    Now official :
    2012 Defense Intelligence Agency document: West will facilitate rise of Islamic State “in order to isolate the Syrian regime”
    Newly-Declassified U.S. Government Documents: The West Supported the Creation of ISIS
    http://levantreport.com/2015/05/19/2012-defense-intelligence-agency-document-west-will-facilitate-rise-of-islamic-state-in-order-to-isolate-the-syrian-regime/
    Here is what Ron Paul had to say : Former Republican congressman, and Republican presidential candidate, claims : New Evidence US Backed ISIS
    http://truthinmedia.com/dr-ron-paul-new-evidence-us-backed-isis/

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:54 AM

    Ron Paul? Levant Report?

    Pat, you need to broaden your horizons. Quoting those two as fact is the same as citing a Fox News article as evidence.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:01 AM

    Obama slips up… https://youtu.be/p2NkjNvwuaU

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    Mute Pat O'Dwyer
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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:12 AM

    @ Jason ; This is an official document from the Defense-intelligence-agency If you Google you can find it on many more outlets. You can hardly expect the New York Times or the Washington post to print this highly embarrassing document on their front page. Ron Paul is one of the few honest politicians left in the US.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:19 AM

    Next thing you’ll be telling us alien lizards are ruling all this up to build human farms to suck out our brains or something….

    Nuts want control of the nuthouse.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:20 AM

    This is the nut Trump trying to throw muck such as Obama is a Muslim, not an American now he is a founder of ISIS. Sadly there are unstable people commenting here agreeing with Trump

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    Mute Ciarán Masterson
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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:46 AM

    @Tom Burke

    ISIS wouldn’t have become so powerful if Nouri al-Maliki hadn’t alienated Sunni Arabs. He was ISIS’s best “recruiting sergeant”.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:59 AM

    its far to easy to say person X or Y was responsible (bush, obama or whoever), in reality there is a hugely complex matrix of fact with factors working together and against each other stretching back decades. that doesnt make a good soundbite though

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:32 AM

    ISIS went from non-existence to spreading to 34 countries on Obama and Hillary’s watch.

    When Obama and Hillary were gun running arms to the Syrian rebels from Benghazi they were in essence creating ISIS, plain and simple.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:56 AM

    Not only did Bush start the Iraq War he made the very intelligent plan of rounding up all the top high level Jihadists from Al Qaeda and the like in Iraq at the time and put them in the same POW camp were they could all congregate and discuss plans and so on. What could possibly go wrong…..

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:12 PM

    @Chlorine
    What do you want America to do? Right now. Its year zero and the world is as it is. What are the steps forward.
    America just backs off and does nothing? Hide behind its borders and stops helping NATO countries? This is what Trump wants. Do you think that just because America retreats from the world stage that things will get better?
    That Sunni and Shiite will live in peace?
    That Iran and Saudi Arabia will go about the business.
    That Russia wont invade anymore countries?
    That the corrupt leaders of certain African states will start treating their citizens with dignity?
    That North Korea will decide that peace is a better option than accumulating arms?

    Not that it matters what you think really because in another 2 months your profile will be gone and you will start all over again. You wont stand behind what you say because you wont put your name to anything. Makes me think you don’t really believe what you say.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:20 PM

    Stephen, America has meddled and invaded/destroyed more countries than Russia ever have, but don`t let that get in the way of your BS.
    Here, read this and educate yourself, might make you take off those uncle sam glasses
    The Special Ops Surge
    America’s Secret War in 134 Countries

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37388.htm

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:28 PM

    Also Stephen, The last time Iran invaded another nation was in 1738.
    Did you know that?? Or do you believe them to be the big bogeyman because america says so??

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:45 PM

    I recon trump is right lets face facts here the war in the east is all about business.its not about helping anybody is it.America is gone rough.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:46 PM

    Chlorines that is the problem, it is not simple, and to try to reduce it to some simple factors is either evidence of partisanship or ignorance

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:47 PM

    Motherof, did you notice that Stephen just asked questions? He didn’t make any statements. He’s just asking what would happen if America withdrew from the world. You know, since it’s last withdrawal according to one presidential candidate caused ISIS

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:20 PM

    Today I watched people arguing with the human equivalent of a brick wall and a cement wall. As of yet I am unable to determine which is the thicker structure.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:20 PM

    @ Dave he asked would Iran go about it`s business if america weren`t there.
    which is insinuating that without America Being so highly active in the ME, they would somehow run amok – I have pointed out that Iran hasn`t invaded another country in over 275 years.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:39 PM

    @Mother
    Never said anything about Iran invading….where did you pull that from? In fact I probably have an idea.
    What I said was Iran and Saudi Arabia will go about their business, meaning they will stop trying to outdo each other for territorial advantage by arming and financing factions in the middle east that destabilise it. In fact I support the lifting of sanctions from Iran and think America have been quite one sided in their approach to them.
    But look there goes me trying to look at it from other angles, something which you are clearly incapable of. I’ll name lots of things America and Europe have done that I disagree with. Can you name 2 things that the Russian government have done which you disagree with?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:28 PM

    I can name a lot of things Russia has done that i disagree with Stephen,
    I don`t agree with how Russa treated Georgia for a start, and i don`t agree with how they use their vast stores of natural gas that they can turn off at a whim to pressure other countries for start. and i do look at things from different angles,
    but in the last 10 to 15 years i can`t see much in the way of america being the good guy anywhere in the world. they are the agressors everywhere, from china to Russia to their selective picking of countries to protect in the ME , Countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia who between them have some of the worst human rights records in the world.
    I just like to debunk all this bullshit in the western world that america is somehow the great saviour of democracy and protector of freedom, when the facts are , that america destabilises, interferes, destroys and usurps any country that doesn`t follow it`s narrative or indeed has natural resources that they envy.

    If countries don`t follow americas idea of “Freedom”, they usually come up with the excuse that somehow the people of those countries are under the cosh and they will come to the rescue and “freedom the shit out of you” in the shape of bombs.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:43 PM

    @Mother
    Well at least you are honest and I have a lot more respect for commenters who will point out flaws of all sides (USA, Russia, UK, France, Saudi, Iran, etc) instead of hammering one, and lets be honest America is an easy target for this due to a relatively free press, which can investigate into government operations, and free speech.
    There are big mistakes made, and deliberate questionable actions taken by America, but to think that the world would be a safer place without them “interfering” is a big leap to make and is impossible to prove since they do put themselves in positions where there is sometimes no “right” decision.
    As for the Saudi question, yes I think its wrong to back a country that does such things to their citizens and with the Sunni link these days has to be looked into. I think that its not about oil, which again people will scream about, as the number just don’t add up to what the US receive these days from Saudi Arabia. I think its about having leverage in the Middle East. And Saudi is the power in the Middle East. But then what happens if America cuts all ties with them, will they start to throw their weight around even more? Are the US holding the rein on them in relation to Iran’s nuclear programme (that they would attack if felt threatened)? When you delve down further I think its far to intricate to assume anything.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:43 PM

    @Mother
    Well at least you are honest and I have a lot more respect for commenters who will point out flaws of all sides (USA, Russia, UK, France, Saudi, Iran, etc) instead of hammering one, and lets be honest America is an easy target for this due to a relatively free press, which can investigate into government operations, and free speech.
    There are big mistakes made, and deliberate questionable actions taken by America, but to think that the world would be a safer place without them “interfering” is a big leap to make and is impossible to prove since they do put themselves in positions where there is sometimes no “right” decision.
    As for the Saudi question, yes I think its wrong to back a country that does such things to their citizens and with the Sunni link these days has to be looked into. I think that its not about oil, which again people will scream about, as the number just don’t add up to what the US receive these days from Saudi Arabia. I think its about having leverage in the Middle East. And Saudi is the power in the Middle East. But then what happens if America cuts all ties with them, will they start to throw their weight around even more? Are the US holding the rein on them in relation to Iran’s nuclear programme (that they would attack if felt threatened)? When you delve down further I think its far to intricate to assume anything.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 4:16 PM

    Hillary is corrupt and deserves to be booted out of the race.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 6:07 PM

    @Joe Mc…….ISIS was there all along in one form or the other since IN 622 when Mohammed decided to get tough and torture,behead ,rape,enslave ,plunder,etc.,etc.,etc.,and to make all toe the line or else.

    —” It was after the hijrah that Muhammad for the first time became not just a preacher of religious ideas, but a political and military leader. That was what occasioned his new “revelations” exhorting his followers to commit violence against unbelievers. Significantly, the Islamic calendar counts the hijrah, not Muhammad’s birth or the occasion of his first “revelation,” as the beginning of Islam, implying that Islam is not fully itself without a political and military component….”
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260019/hijrah-europe-robert-spencer

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    Aug 12th 2016, 6:23 PM

    hi Patrick is it waking up time in Alberta?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:07 PM

    Simon

    At least I am not posting from Tel Aviv with multiple accounts like yourself.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:51 PM

    @Jester VonDoom….dedicated posters never sleep so…………………

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:58 AM

    Been embarrassing to watch these threads over the past year turn from sensible to daily mainly level right wing crap, most comments on trump articles seem to be pro trump.
    You jumped the shark journal commenters

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:01 AM

    Daily mail that should read, a comment the other day saying ‘we all hate Muslims’ was upvoted by the majority

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:02 AM

    ” most comments on trump articles seem to be pro trump.”

    Thanks for the laugh Foghorn, if it wasn’t for me and a couple of others the Hillary trolls would have free reign of the place!

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:06 AM

    try making a comment about the rights of offenders or migrants Chlorines and see how balanced the response is

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:06 AM

    Ah here.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:11 AM

    Dunno what you’ve been reading Chlorine but there has definitely been a shift.
    I hate radical Islam as much as anyone, am anti immigration in its current form and I’m vocal about it…but it’s gotten bad here, it’s deteriorated into generalisations about all Muslims, exactly what daesh wanted to happen.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:44 AM

    There are plenty of people who support the rights of genuine migrants Jester. I’ve no issue with economic migrants who enter Europe through the proper immigration channels or genuine refugees. So long as they integrate with our society and become contributing members of their host state they’re more than welcome.

    It’s the economic migrants who try to exploit the asylum channel or those who refuse to integrate and create social issues that draw ire on this site.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:44 AM

    This place has been taken over with the likes of the vvankers that one would find on Facebook pages like – “‘Irish” “Patriots”"..

    Any article on here about people with different skin colour-and the comment sections become a place where you would have to put a clothes peg on your nose …

    Just a couple of weeks ago on here- there were plenty of vvankers that were liking a vvankers comment for saying -’that it was immigrants that carried out the rape of that woman in Dublin …’

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:00 AM

    To be fair, the attitude towards women is appalling too

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:03 AM

    any mention of feminism and lads literally froth at the mouth

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:05 AM

    Irish people, great at being themselves…. Anonymously

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:58 AM

    Oh ffs….really?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:31 AM

    He’s clueless but what he should say is the actions of his fellow Republican Bush contributed massively to the conditions for ISIS to form and grow to size they are today. The imbecile doesn’t realise the Republican hawks in Washington created this mess and Clinton et al just continued fanning the flames.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:38 AM

    ISIS formed already in 1999. They were a relatively small player in Iraq and were well contained by the 2007 troop surge. It was the Syrian Civil War and Obama’s insistence that the US pull out of Iraq against the advice of the Pentagon that created the environment for ISIS to thrive.

    Trump is wrong in claiming that Obama is the founder of ISIS, but he played a huge role in opening up Iraq to ISIS’ lightning assault.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:44 AM

    Bush signing the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement meant the U.S. had to pull out of Iraq by the end of 2011. If the U.S. were to retain troops there it would have to have been at the request of the Iraqi government.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:57 AM

    But would they have rose to such prominence without Bush’s invasion? I highly doubt it.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:00 AM

    Iraq was at least as opened up (arguably) by removing Saddams internal security structure

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:04 PM

    There would be no ISIS worth talking about if Bush had not invaded Iraq and destabilised the entire region thereby allowing ISIS the room to grow. Criticising Obama for pulling US troops out of Iraq on the basis that this allowed ISIS to grow is missing the point entirely. The real reason that ISIS exploded onto the world stage instead of remaining a bit player on the margins was down to the invasion of Iraq by Bush on a false premise (weapons of mass destruction) and the destabilisation of the region. This can be allied to the insistence by republican party hawks that the region could be democratised in the face of criticism to the contrary by the likes of France (the “cheese eating surrender monkeys”) who proved to be right. Republican party policies created the space and the means for ISIS to grow. But in typical fashion they blame Obama for the consequences of their own imperialist policies. They take responsibility for nothing.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:25 PM

    The invasion of Iraq wasn’t under false pretenses per se:

    http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-new-york-times-reports-wmds-found-iraq/

    While Iraq didn’t have an active WMD programme at the time of the invasion, it still had large stockpiles of chemical weapons stored away in hidden caches and military bases. Ballistic missile components and chemical stockpiles which could be turned into chemical weapons were also found, which meant that Iraq had all the hardware it needed to kickstart a WMD programme with some active weapons ready to go.

    Was the US wrong in saying that Iraq had an active WMD programme? Absolutely. Were they wrong in saying that Iraq had WMD’s? No and indeed plenty were found to justify that claim.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:49 PM

    Jason that is some incredibly after-the-fact justification even if i was to agree it is not specious. further ‘political insider’ is overtly politically aligned

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:54 PM

    Give me one source which isn’t overtly politically aligned Jester and I will happily prove you wrong. Every source is politically aligned. The key is taking information from multiple points and sifting through the rubbish to get to the facts.

    The Political Insider is biased but the facts remain. The US did in fact find WMD’s and the components to make them in Iraq. That’s undeniable fact. What they didn’t find is an active programme to make new WMD’s, merely the components needed to start one.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:06 PM

    While you are correct in WMD`s being found Jason “per se”
    the rest is absolute Bullchit Jason,
    once again you manipulate the truth and omit key parts in order to make your story more plausible.
    Here, this will debunk your articles play on words.
    This is just a couple of excerpts from this rather excellent article.

    Much of the conservative media has seized on the Times articles as long-awaited, sweet vindication of Bush’s case for war. According to Rush Limbaugh, it is now proven that “Saddam Hussein was doing and had done pretty much everything he was being accused of that justified that invasion.”

    And the conservative glee is understandable: after all, Bush said Iraq had WMD, and here they are. Unfortunately for the right, however, they are just as wrong about this issue now as they were in 2003 — but for a peculiar, little-understood reason: Saddam Hussein was not trying to hide the chemical munitions found by the U.S. Just the opposite,

    And another piece…

    The chemical ordnance described in the Times series falls into two categories:

    The first was munitions that had been sealed in bunkers at Iraq’s Al Muthanna weapons complex by U.N. inspectors during the 1990s. The inspectors destroyed enormous quantities of chemical weapons at Al Muthanna between 1992 and 1994, including 480,000 litres of live chemical weapons agent, but some could not be incinerated because it was too dangerous to move it. The U.N. and U.S. knew these chemical weapons were there, Saddam Hussein knew they knew, and there was no way for the Iraqi military to access them without the world immediately finding out. But after the invasion the U.S. failed to secure the site, and insurgents broke into the bunkers to retrieve some of the munitions. This is well-known to anyone who follows this issue closely. However, the U.S. media, as Duelfer puts it, periodically “rediscover this and get excited about it.” (The Intercept explained some aspects of the remaining Al Muthanna munitions last fall.)

    By manipulating and omitting important parts, you make yourself a more dangerous liar than anything else.
    Time and Time again i see this with you.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:07 PM

    Sorry, i forgot the link for anyone interested in reading the full article..
    https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-media-still-cant-get-iraqi-wmd-story-right/

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:18 PM

    I’ve already read the article you posted. Shame you couldn’t post a link to it for people to make up their own minds.

    This article here goes into detail about how the climate at the time made it very easy for the US to say that Iraq had an active WMD programme. Iraqi generals believed they had an active WMD programme, hell even Bernie Saunders admitted at the time that Iraq most likely had a WMD programme active:

    http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/02/21/show-this-column-to-anyone-who-claims-bush-lied-about-wmds-in-iraq-n2122278

    This article you refer to also fails to take note of Operation Avarice: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have-bought-and-destroyed-iraqi-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0

    Note that the article specifies that these were Gulf War era weapons that were unaccounted for, meaning the bunkers you refer to would not have contained these weapons.

    You accuse me of selective posting, however it seems you’re just behind on your information.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:23 PM

    Err, i posted the link 11 minutes before you wrote this jason…

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:25 PM

    Bernie sanders admitted that they “MOST LIKELY”" ad a programme – see the words in capitals??

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:28 PM

    Your second link without even clicking on it reads,
    Ths Cia is “SAID TO HAVE BOUGHT” – again not proven to be true .

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:37 PM

    Jason: The munitions that were found were not ‘hidden’ but were lost during the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s which even the CIA have concluded. The main case for war was not that Iraq had old weapons from pre-1991 but that they had a WMD program in operation in violation of UN security resolutions. This in addition to the false claims about Saddam and his deep connections with Al-Qaeda make it undeniable that the Bush administration misled the American public to support a brutal and illegal war.

    To claim Obama is more responsible for the rise of ISIS than Bush is pure fantasy. US withdrawal in 2011 was proposed by the Bush administration in 2008 and was strongly supported by the Iraqi people who viewed the US as illegal occupiers. If they didn’t withdraw, another uprising would have been inevitable as the Iraqi people harboured a lot of hostility for the US military. The reason ISIS have been so successful in Iraq is because of the deep divisions between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims which the US fomented when they invaded in 2003; the de-bathification of Iraq coupled with the installation of a deeply sectarian prime-minister provided the conditions for Al-Qaeda to exploit. It wasn’t the withdrawal of US troops that led to ISIS but the increasing extremism from the Al-Malaki government that alienated a significant number of Sunnis in Iraq. It was the Bush administration that put him there, not Obama. I would agree that Obama turned a blind eye to what Al-Malaki was doing because he wanted to forget about Iraq.

    Charles Duelfer, head of the CIA’s definitive post-war investigation of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs, explained that “Saddam didn’t know he had it … This is stuff Iraqi leaders did not know was left lying around. It was not a militarily significant capability that they were, as a matter of national policy, hiding.”

    https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-media-still-cant-get-iraqi-wmd-story-right/?comments=1#comments

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:39 PM

    Are you that desperate Jebus? Operation Avarice was declassified and is fully proven to have taken place. The fact that you’re desperately trying to use wordplay to pretend that it didn’t happen is laughable.

    There are multiple sources verifying that Operation Avarice took place.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:41 PM

    “But defense officials said that the weapons were not considered likely to be dangerous because of their age, which they determined to be pre-1991.

    Pentagon officials told NBC News that the munitions are the same kind of ordnance the U.S. military has been gathering in Iraq for the past several years, and “not the WMD we were looking for when we went in this time.”

    http://www.salon.com/2014/10/15/no_bush_was_not_right_about_iraq_how_conservatives_misread_new_times_bombshell/

    To suggest the presence of those munitions exonerates Bush for his lies is a complete distortion of that Times piece. You seem fond of mendacity, Jason.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:16 PM

    Those Borak rockets you refer to contained Sarin. Who helped Saddam use chemical weapons against the Iranians in the 80s?

    Wouldn’t have been your beloved US government, would it Jason?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:37 PM

    Thank you Monty, very well said, I`m glad i am not the only one trying to sine a light through Jason

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:15 PM

    Jason I think they told everyone that there was an active program and as you say there wasn’t so they did start a war under false pretenses.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:01 PM

    @Jason Culligan……….Hussein Obama’s dastardly mistake in recklessly running out of Iraq definitely gave ISIS a decisive boost…
    …”ix.
    ISIS is “the Islamist phoenix,” in the description of the oil and energy specialist, Loretta Napoleoni. It has arisen from the depredations of the Iraq War and the worsening conflict inside Syria following the “Arab Spring” uprising of 2011. The difference between al Qaeda and ISIS is that the former remained a network of jihadi warriors and the latter is a state in formation….”
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5956/isis-saudi-arabia-iran

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:02 AM

    Trump is one very, very, very sick individual. He is hardly the only father in the world who has an attractive daughter, but he is really very far out of line when he almost boasts of his incestuous feelings for her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWxkauh6lyA It is clear that he is either unaware of or unconcerned about the difference between truth and lies, because the origins of ISIS go back a lot further than President Obama’s incumbency.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:05 AM

    You are one very very sick individual for even implying that.

    This is the level Hilary trolls are going to now..pure unbridled desperation.

    Rotten to the core.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:10 AM

    “Chlorines”, Trump said that about his daughter, nobody needs to imply it. Go do something about your hard on for Trump.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:13 AM

    Chlorine just accept it, you’re backing a loser. You really are, believe me.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:15 AM

    Yeah, think of Hillary naked or something.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:15 AM

    Trump has said this several times so who’s implying what?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:21 AM

    While USA Today noted that Trump’s comment drew laughs from the crowd, Trump’s representative nonetheless felt the need to issue a statement after the episode aired to make absolutely sure that people knew The Donald was just joking:

    [Donald Trump] was absolutely joking. He was making fun of himself for his tendency to date younger women. It’s a sense of humor that people don’t see [from him] all the time.”

    http://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-date-daughter/

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:18 AM

    Chlorines, we get it was a joke. It is just a very disturbing joke to say on national television. Just plain creepy thing to say. There is no defence to it because it just is how feel about the suggestion whether a joke or not.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:03 AM

    This one is worse https://youtu.be/zqE4hKIP4n0

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:33 AM

    the statement made by reagan’s daughter is well worth reading, she makes very good points even taking trump’s explanation/excuse at its height

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:10 PM

    Three lawsuits against him for sexual assault of a minor don’t seem to be getting much news… http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/third-woman-alleges-she-was-sexually-assaulted-donald-trump ..

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:53 AM

    Will the journal be publishing an article on the fact that top level officials in Obamas DOJ overruled three FBI field offices in wanting to open a public corruption investigation into the Clinton foundation?

    The FBI wanted to launch an investigation after receiving notifications from a bank of suspicious activity from a foreigner who had donated to the Clinton Foundation, according to the official.

    It might be significant, since recently released emails have unveiled the alarmingly close relationship between Hilary Clintons state department and her foundation.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:02 AM

    They don’t need to now you have.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:13 AM

    Also,why not give the reason that they said no? The DOJ said they looked into it a year ago and found insufficient evidence and no grounds for a wider investigation.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:42 AM

    5 times now the Clintons have escaped federal charges.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:46 AM

    Dave, if new evidence comes to light after that ruling wouldn’t you agree that it’s grounds to re-open an investigation?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:55 AM

    Without a doubt. If beware compelling evidence come out absolutely.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:56 AM

    You should go to the gardai with this information and they will contact the fbi directly.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:34 AM

    id hop a taxi to garda HQ immediately tbh before youre assassinated like that fellow who had couriered wikileaks info

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:32 PM

    He might be able to set up a Skype call to the fbi directly from Garda hq…

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    Aug 13th 2016, 2:50 PM

    DT is barking mad…

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:07 AM

    Trump is a complete basket case, only his money protected him for nor being sectioned years ago.
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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:14 AM

    This is the really sad part, the simple people who have been taken in by his bullshit.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:17 AM

    They are like the most willing sheep I’ve ever seen and I, sadly, include some good friends in that bracket. I can’t believe how vociferous they are in support of him. Can’t see the forest for the trees. (Hillary sucks too)

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:40 AM

    I honestly believe most people go to his rallies just to hear and see what dumb sh#t he’ll pull next! It’s a modern day circus. Roll up roll up… the freak shows in town Trump trump trump…

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:51 AM

    Spot on Polly – reminds me of that scene in the Howard Stern movie, Private Parts, where the Radio Manage has the stats on Stern’s Radio Show and found that a larger proportion of people who listened to his show actually disliked Stern more that those who liked him – number one reason? “I want to hear what he’ll say next”. Trump doesn’t appear to realise there’s a huge difference between entertaining a country … and leading a country.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:09 AM

    Leave him at it. He is talking himself out of the White House with every speech. Great comedy

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:46 AM

    I think he talked himself out of the White House many months ago, Dave. You’d almost have to seriously, and I don’t mean this as a glib anti-Trump statement, question the man’s state of mind at this rate? He’s got to the stage where Clinton effectively has to say nothing, and Trump, in order to remain in the spot-light, has to utter increasingly bizarre, outrageous, incendiary statements just so the Media picks them up. It’s a vicious circle for him. Republicans are now very worried about losing the House and Senate being associated with him.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:54 AM

    Yes, a precipitate withdrawal from Iraq gave a boost to al Qaeda in Iraq and later DAESH.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:00 AM

    I have to imagine going into Iraq in the first place and then firing the army had more to do with it.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:00 AM

    Don’t think the US and Irish media like Trump
    While they just ignore Clinton
    She must be saying something

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:01 AM

    It wasn’t their departure that caused it,it was their arrival

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:11 AM

    Read the comments on Hilary’s very own Facebook page.

    She is reviled.

    https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:15 AM

    Chlorines, how’s your source in Brooklyn?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:19 AM

    Obama botched the withdrawal from Iraq totally. He gave them a time table for withdrawal to start with an then failed to negotiate a status of forces agreement to allow for any residual force to aid the transition this created a vacuum in Iraq. Not happy with that he and Hillary decided to depose Gaddafi and turn Libya into an unstable hell hole. Obama and Hillary are to blame for ISIS.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:20 AM

    Her emails reveal she is truly wicked !
    Can’t say I admire Trump though

    https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:29 AM

    Dave its obvious to me where you are from and where your true loyalties lies. It isn’t America thats for sure!

    In fact you hate the thought of Trump putting America first and making it great again.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:31 AM

    Could you put a link to one of the truly wicked emails. They all seem fairly innocuous?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:50 AM

    Those who blame the US invasion of Iraq for creating ISIS seem to struggle with the concept of linear time.

    ISIS as an organisation first appeared in 1999. Their stated goal at the time was the overthrow of the Iraqi government then headed by Hussein and it’s replacement with an Islamic Caliphate. The US invasion in 2003 gave ISIS more room to grow than it would have otherwise had, but it was still nowhere near the size that it is now.

    ISIS were growing until the 2007 troop surge which saw a massive increase in the number of US troops available to crack down on extremism. This kept them down until the US withdrawal, which saw ISIS branch into Syria (gaining a large amount of equipment and recruits), splitting from Al-Qaeda and launching an offensive into Iraq.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:00 AM

    While Bush or Obama mightn`t have created them, they have definitely made the ground a lot more fertile for them to grow and grow, there is no doubt about that.

    The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
    The CIA first aligned itself with extremist Islam during the Cold War era. Back then, America saw the world in rather simple terms: on one side, the Soviet Union and Third World nationalism, which America regarded as a Soviet tool; on the other side, Western nations and militant political Islam, which America considered an ally in the struggle against the Soviet Union.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:03 AM

    Also Jason,
    The 2003 American invasion and occupation of Iraq created the pre-conditions for radical Sunni groups, like ISIS, to take root. America, rather unwisely, destroyed Saddam Hussein’s secular state machinery and replaced it with a predominantly Shiite administration. The U.S. occupation caused vast unemployment in Sunni areas, by rejecting socialism and closing down factories in the naive hope that the magical hand of the free market would create jobs. Under the new U.S.-backed Shiite regime, working class Sunni’s lost hundreds of thousands of jobs

    Upper class Sunni’s were systematically dispossessed of their assets and lost their political influence. Rather than promoting religious integration and unity, American policy in Iraq exacerbated sectarian divisions and created a fertile breading ground for Sunni discontent, from which Al Qaeda in Iraq took root.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:06 AM

    BTW, This in`t my work, but i am taking excerpts from another article which perfectly explains what the hell is going on, and just how much of all this has been created by your pin up poster child of International terrorism – AKA the good old US of A

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:17 AM

    @Sam Hunt …………And all on the advice of her so very close friend and ‘confidante!’ Muslim Brotherhood connected-to-the-hilt Huma Amedin whose advice on Mid-East Policy was always sought as former State Sec. Hillary Clinton readily admitted.
    There will be no more Muslim Brotherhood moles/confidantes in the White House with Donald Trump as President. You can be sure of that!

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:59 AM

    Patrick, you could at least propelled people’s names properly when you insult them. You do also love to omit that Huma Abedin is married to a Jewish man.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:04 AM

    *try to spell (the irony isn’t lost on me)

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:24 AM

    This her Dave???
    New emails show Huma scheming for Hillary

    Another 296 pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails were released Tuesday — exposing key Clinton aides doing favors for billionaires and, on one occasion, leaving the then-secretary of state’s daily schedule in an unlocked hotel room.

    The documents were released by Judicial Watch, which is suing to recover Clinton’s emails under Freedom of Information Act laws.

    In an April 2009 email to Clinton’s State Department aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, President Clinton’s former body man, Doug Band, the founder of corporate consultant Teneo, urgently asked them to set up a meeting with an ambassador for a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.

    http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/new-emails-show-huma-scheming-for-hillary/

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:28 AM

    Huma Abedin Partial Bio-Read and decide for yourselves……….
    —”When Huma was two, the Abedin family relocated from Michigan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This move took place when Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure who served as vice president of Abdulaziz University (AU), recruited his former AU colleague, Syed Abedin, to work for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), a Saudi-based Islamic think tank that Naseef was preparing to launch. A number of years later, Naseef would develop close ties to Osama bin Laden and the terrorist group al Qaeda. Naseef also spent time (beginning in the early 1980s) as secretary-general of the Muslim World League, which, as journalist Andrew C. McCarthy points out, “has long been the Muslim Brotherhood’s principal vehicle for the international propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology.”

    It is vital to note that IMMA’s “Muslim Minority Affairs” agenda was, and remains to this day, a calculated foreign policy of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, designed, as Andrew C. McCarthy explains, “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West.” For details about this agenda, click here.—’
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259805/huma-abedin-security-breach-hillary-still-hiding-frontpagemagcom

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:39 AM

    Motherof, yes, a former employee of Clintons asked a current employee to set up a meeting for someone else. I fail to see what the problem is. Just because it was asked for doesn’t mean it happened. Also since when are charities not allowed to meet donors?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:41 AM

    @Dave O Keeffee… What insult? The evidence is overwhelming that Huma Abedin is well-conected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
    —-”Abedin has the ability to leak highly sensitive state secrets; she is closely associated with her Muslim Brotherhood family; she even joined Clinton at an event with Saleha at Dar El-Hekma College in Saudi Arabia and another leader who appeared on the list of 63 as an associate of Saleha Abedin—Suheir Qureshi. Huma’s brother—Hassan Abedin—has also collaborated with an al-Qaeda godfather Omar Naseef and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, two of the most influential terror supporters in the world.—”
    http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/04/walid-shoebat-tells-us-why-huma-abedin-daughter-of-a-muslim-brotherhood-member-would-marry-anthony-weiner-a-jew/

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:44 AM

    Patrick, so because her father was once employed by a guy that later may have had ties to bin laden she’s a risk? All the quotes are about somebody unrelated to her

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:07 PM

    President bush invading iraq in the first place and the Syrian civil war created Isis.And withdrawing from iraq was actually Obama keeping and election promise the Americans wanted out he took them out, be careful what you wish for I suppose.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:20 AM

    It won’t be long now until he says “Hillary is a Muslim”. And his supporters will genuinely beleive him!

    The guy is having, and will continue to have a major mental meltdown. It won’t be pretty. But hopefully his supporters will finally wake up.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:27 AM

    I dunno Sean, I’m starting to wonder if there could be some truth in it…

    http://ummid.com/news/2015/October/27.10.2015/hillary-clinton.jpg

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:41 AM

    what about Hillary’s birth cert, why havent we seen it??

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:12 PM

    I think it’s being audited

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:51 PM

    If trump is heading for a mental meltdown so am I and at least 40% of American voters. The rights of American and European people have been taken away in the space of a few years. They want too climate change supporting candidates, but failed to get it. That’s the fact. Hillary is a criminal, a security risk and has the blood of a lot of innocent people on her hands. Yet modern Irish see nothing wrong with her. We really are a pussy people

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:18 AM

    What he means is that Obama and Clinton created the conditions for ISIS to exist. Iraq is still a mess, they then wiped Libya off the face of the earth having not learned anything from the mistakes of Iraq and now Syria is in total chaos. The actions of Obama and previous presidents created the conditions for groups like that to exist, I would imagine that’s what he means.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:27 AM

    Did you read the article? He made it perfectly clear he is being literal. He is saying Obama actual founded the organisation. The same way he insisted Obama was Muslim and not american which he still hasn’t rolled back on. There are conspiracy theories being linked up here to stoke more

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:15 PM

    None, Obama did not create ISIS and is not responsible for its current size or capacity. George W Bush and his administration destroyed the State structures which curtailed ISIS. They also disbanded the Iraqi army in the face of contrary advice with calamitous consequences. Their arrogance, ignorance and hubris have largely created the modern ISIS. Obama’s decision to remove US troops from Iraq was entirely in line with his own stated policy on re-election and his desire to remove US troops from the region. Subsequent to that removal the Iraqi army, trained and equipped by the US, proved unable to defeat ISIS. Political competence, corruption and rampant sectarianism in Iraq (previously curtailed by the Sadaam regime) and elsewhere also provided fertile ground for the growth of ISIS.

    So many grounds for the growth of ISIS but none really related to Obama unless you want to criticise him for not continuing the failed .policies of the former Republican President and the worst President in modern American history, George W. Bush.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:26 AM

    God Bless Donald Trump and the United States of America.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:15 AM

    Is the Arabic equivalent of “God bless” is Allah akbar?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:22 AM

    At the end of the day it’s the big corporations that run America not the president or political parties

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:08 AM

    its an era where you can just make bald statements that people like the sound of, and thats the new truth. no need for explanations.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:19 AM

    If he were to get in he’d automatically start thinking about re-election and therefore follow through on what he’s promised.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:07 AM

    Ha, that would ensure he doesn’t get a second term

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:21 AM

    Where’s the story about Malia Obama smoking pot at a rock festival?
    Barack should be worried.
    His daughter’s out of control.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:17 PM

    It was legal where she smoked it…

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:15 PM

    So she’s being a teen big deal just cos her Dads POTUS doesn’t mean she can’t have fun I’m sure she’s not the first presidential kid to do so

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    Aug 12th 2016, 5:06 PM

    @ Joey-Westland

    “Where’s the story about Malia Obama smoking pot at a rock festival?”

    It is a grasping at straws, a lucky dip from the rectum, a forte of Republicans in their bubble parallel universe when they are not seeking excuses for a narcissistic, unstable, crook, loser and liar who wants to bonk his own daughter and has hinted that he wouldn’t mind seeing his main opponent murdered..

    Shock horror! A teenage girl may (and may not) have had a toke, and she danced —- gasp! gasp! gasp!

    In fact, she probably took only a puff from an ordinary cigarette (you know, one of the legal ones that give you cancer). It’s explained rather well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vCVdcVnXs

    Joey, I hope Trump isn’t paying you too much to troll on his behalf, becasue he isn’t getting value. If I were him, I’d send you a message with justtwo words: “You’re fired!”

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:18 AM

    Its genius isnt it. Just keep repeating simple phrases like “really really bad” and “really really great”. Dont mention any detail about your policies. He will win in November. Just like Brexit there are millions of voters who never vote but will turn out for Trump. It also helps he has been on TV for decades. Total basketcase though.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:23 AM

    Don’t think he’s a basket case at all, he’s following a very well rehearsed set of guidelines, he understands the mentality of the majority of republican voters and is playing music to their ears.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:22 AM

    Del> The thing is he isn’t following the guidelines that is the problem. He says something stupid and then his handlers run around trying to solve the problem. It could be possible he could win sticking to a vacuous campaign but he is messing up that plan when he gets excited.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:57 AM
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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:43 PM

    Del

    Obama’s victims have no hears to hold ears.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:12 AM

    Total gubshite

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:13 AM

    ..can not post the gob version

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:20 AM

    Globshite works too

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:11 AM

    Numbers & symbols for for letters lads! :)

    G0bsh!te

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:17 AM

    G0bshite!

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:15 PM

    Gоbshite … Сunt … Fuсk … It’s like the Pokemon Go of expletives here…

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:24 AM

    He has quite the genius strategy to get past the controversy! Say something people don’t like and the avoid the uproar by saying something worse. Lather, rinse, repeat! Does anyone even remember what outrageous thing he said before the 2nd ammendment stuff? People only remember the current one and the one before it.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:40 AM

    hadn’t looked at it like that, im looking forward to the next outrageous statement already!

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:48 AM

    This man”s arrogance and dangerous bile is worrying.
    Time to light the candles and pray……

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:07 AM

    It’s all done for free publicity. If he gets elected it will completely stop, he’ll probably go back on most of what he has said/promised and he will conduct himself in a way that would be fitting for a US president.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:18 AM

    He has already changed his tax plan and position on gun control. Everything will change

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    Aug 12th 2016, 9:21 AM

    “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country?” some difference then and now

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:34 AM

    Everything about Donald Trump is a living nightmare

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:05 PM

    I think progress is being made. Regardless of which administration was responsible (Bush) its a step forward for americans to see that their governments waging war in the middle east is wrong. Obama isnt helping and Trump wants out. Thats something positive.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:06 PM

    Trump wants to bomb the Middle East

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    Aug 12th 2016, 8:39 PM

    Technically Trump is correct! ! Clinton supplied arms to the rebels against ASSAD – those rebels are ISIS! She is also on the board of one of the weapons companies that got a lucrative contract to supply weapons! Trump is bad but so is Shillary Clinton who appears to be more focused on enriching herself than ethics or people’s lives!! How could anyone even consider voting for either her or Trump?? Jill Stein is the best option now!!

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    Aug 12th 2016, 6:18 PM

    What will the people that are outraged on other peoples behalf do when the guy with the mad hair disappears from the news. Will they get a proper job? Will they go to Syria and confront ISIS or will they go back to be outraged at modern farming methods?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:11 AM

    Bush started Isis by invading iraq. It could be argued that Obama withdrew too soon but they were asked/told to leave by the democratically elected government of Iraq.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 12:51 PM

    Foundation date of ISIS: 1999
    Invasion of Iraq: 2003

    Linear time, not a difficult concept to grasp.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:04 PM

    Replace started with fuelled/encouraged/invigorated and Bobs your uncle

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    Aug 12th 2016, 1:58 PM

    Not saying Hilary is a great alternative. Just better. More professional. Trump? Would you buy a used car from him? Nothing matters to trump but trump.

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:41 PM

    Trump’s case is this. Iran and Iraq were finely balanced militarily for generations. War was the normal. The US should not have invaded Iraq in 2003. When they did invade, they should have handled the leaving part very carefully. By announcing an exact date to leave,they invited the establishment of a new radical Muslim group to occupy Iraq and spread from there. It was a mad thing to give a date and leave without giving any support. I thought it was a crazy thing to do at the time. However what Trump does not tell us is that it was done to get Obama elected again. He felt it would gather votes and it may have done.

    I suspect getting re-elected was the only reason, but whatever it was ,it set up ISIS and caused suffering on an unimaginable scale. I don’t think Obama gets it. I just don’t think he does. Hillary of course is just out for the money

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:32 PM

    There is something beyond creepy when a man has a long record of remarks hinting that he would like to do his own daughter. Just imagine any Irish father boasting in the pub about his sexy daughter and how he’d love to give her a good rogering if it weren’t for the fact that she was his daughter, and so on — Only with a lot of booze in him, and they say what’s in you when you’re sober comes out when you’re drunk, but that fellow would probably be told to shut up and might find it very hard to find anyone who wanted to be seen with him.

    But Trump has made remarks like this many, time times over the years. Can anyone seriously imagine a man like him in the White House? An uncouth lout and one who probably had no or little role in rearing the children he had by several wives. Most normal fathers spend a lot of time with their daughters and it is probably the Westermarck Effect that suppresses sexual desires towards them (as it does between male and female siblings), but when a child is just another possession that you know little or nothing about —

    Trump is a dangerous man, and not just to his country and the world, as this video reveals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvG3g7hEJE

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    Aug 12th 2016, 10:17 AM
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    Aug 12th 2016, 11:16 AM

    The funny thing is that his childcare plan is a tax credit. What good is that to those that don’t earn enough to get the tax credit?

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    Aug 12th 2016, 3:48 PM

    Dave , they don;t earn enough because of the green agenda promoted by Obama. Taxes on fuel and excessive regulations destroys jobs. This election really centres around Political socialist state lead democracy, where democracy is limited by regulation and the media. The big part of that is the control on burning fuel. The same way the Catholic Church tried to control human sexuality, because when you control such a basic part of nature you control the species. They know that if they control fuel use, they control the economy and the people in it.

    Simple as that. Note climate is never mentioned in election debates and is not in this one either. Trump is a threat to that and they are determined to stop him

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    Aug 12th 2016, 2:58 PM

    Absolutely no f**ks given

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    Aug 12th 2016, 5:30 PM

    ISIS, isis ! Get the last of the cream ices !

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