Donald Trump has backed off from his charge that the Bush administration lied the country into war against Iraq, telling a CNN town-hall broadcast Thursday night that he doesn’t know why Bush invaded. “I’m not talking about lying. I’m not talking about not lying,” he said. “No one knows why we went into Iraq.”
Still, whether George W. Bush lied or not, “it was a horrible decision,” Trump said—perhaps “the worst decision any president has made in the history of this country.”
Trump’s shameful wimping out under firm questioning from a voter may reflect troubles in the polls, writes Sheldon Richman. Trump was campaigning in South Carolina, where George W. Bush and anything military are popular. But it’s a blow to the badly needed public discussion of the disastrous war. As for Trump, who seems willing to take whatever position serves his purpose at the moment, we now know that he told radio host Howard Stern on September, 11, 2002, six months before Bush started the war, that he favored the mission. Asked by Stern if he approved of the coming invasion, Trump said, “Yeah, I guess so,” adding, “I wish the first time it was done correctly.”
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