Max Fisher, VOX: America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq
Donald Trump finally said something so outrageous that the other candidates onstage and even the debate audience closed ranks against him.
Here is what Trump did: He accused George W. Bush of launching the Iraq War based on a lie:
You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell you. They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.
Trump's 10-second history of the war articulated it as many Americans, who largely consider that war a mistake, now understand it. And, indeed, Bush did justify the war as a quest for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
The other Republican candidates, who have had this fight with Trump before, did not defend the war as their party has in the past, but rather offered the party's standard line of the moment, which is that Bush had been innocently misled by "faulty intelligence."
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WNU Editor: The debate on why the U.S. invaded Iraq is going to be around for a long time. But .... I was surprised by the position that Donald Trump took on this issue .... former George Bush is revered by many in the Republican Party, going after him would only make many people in the Party upset .... and upset they are. But the Iraq war is an issue that the Republican Party must face and have a debate on .... and maybe this is a start. As for Donald Trump .... I can see how taking this position will help him in a general election .... if (Donald Trump) does win the Republican nomination .... it will be difficult for the Democrat nominee to use the Iraq war as an issue against him .... for he has taken it off the table .... which is probably his long-term strategy anyway.
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