Ivanka Trump went on “Fox and Friends” early Monday to complain about the “level of viciousness” in Washington. She said in effect that she did not expect the “intensity of the experience.” She was primarily referring to the pushback her father has been receiving since the inception of his presidency.
Well, Stephen King had the perfect response to that.
“If Ivanka Trump had grown up in farm country, like some of us, she’d know her father is reaping exactly what he sowed.”
Mr. King’s words couldn’t be any truer. Remember – it was Trump who went below the belt when Obama was president. He accused him of not being born in the United States and was an illegitimate president.
The other thing that doesn’t make much sense, is how can she be so oblivious to everything her father has said during the presidential campaign? Has she even met her own father?
Remember – It was Trump who called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up and jailed at campaign rallies. It was Trump who incited violence by repeatedly saying “get him out of here” and even offered to pay for the legal defense of people accused of assaulting protesters. That’s only the half of it.
In any case, social media tore her apart for her comments:
![iv111](<p>We’ve known for awhile that the Iraq war was based on a series of massive lies. The 9-11 Commission Report showed that, along with various declassified documents and other investigations and reports. The CIA, however, has now declassified most of the primary report that Bush & Co. used to justify invading Iraq, and it further destroys their talking points, and some conservative talking points now. If we invaded Iraq based on lies, then the truth is, we should have stayed out. How is ISIS Obama’s fault?</p>
<p>Well, the simple answer to that, which we’ll no doubt keep hearing, is that he should have cleaned up Bush & Co.’s mess properly by keeping our troops there until the region was “stable.” However, we also have this issue: If we hadn’t invaded Iraq to begin with, what would be happening there now?</p>
<p><a title="Vice: The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion" href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion?utm_source=viceanzfb" target="_blank">According to </a><em><a title="Vice: The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion" href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion?utm_source=viceanzfb" target="_blank">Vice</a>, </em>the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Bush & Co. kept citing as their justification for invading Iraq, and that the CIA “released” before but redacted nearly everything in it, shows conclusively that our intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was not especially trustworthy. The same is true of Iraq’s connection to Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>As <em>Vice </em>reports, as the NIE went up the chain of command, its shaky conclusions were increasingly treated as concrete. In other words, it sounds like the higher it went, the more officials read or listened only to the parts they wanted. In fact, former CIA analyst Paul Pillar said that very few officials and members of Congress actually read the report itself. Most of them just read the five-page summary.</p>
<p>Pillar also said the NIE didn’t influence Bush & Co.’s decision to invade Iraq. They’d already made that decision.</p>
<p>Even so, the NIE itself was deeply flawed. It was thrown together too quickly. Despite the flaws, as <em>Vice </em>puts it, “[T]he magnitude of the questionable evidence had the effect of making the NIE more convincing and ominous. The basic case that Saddam had WMDs seemed more plausible to analysts than the alternative case that he had destroyed them.”</p>
<p>In other words, not only did we not take the time to do our homework properly, but we also put forth a massively flawed report that admitted its conclusions were questionable as concrete fact. Now, the vacuum left when we pulled out of Iraq gave rise to a group that, <a title="USAToday: Kirsten Powers: Iraq crisis not Obama's fault" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/06/17/kirsten-powers-iraq-crisis-not-obamas-fault/10702321/" target="_blank">according to </a><em><a title="USAToday: Kirsten Powers: Iraq crisis not Obama's fault" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/06/17/kirsten-powers-iraq-crisis-not-obamas-fault/10702321/" target="_blank">USA Today</a>, </em>is too extreme for even al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Kirsten Powers pointed out a pertinent fact in <em>USA Today</em>, which is that if we needed to keep troops there for more than a decade to maintain stability, then Iraq was anything but stable. All the cries of upsetting Iraq’s newfound stability are ridiculous in the face of that.</p>
<p><a title="Newsmax: Hayden: Obama Pulled Out of Iraq Too Soon Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hayden-Iraq-Obama-ISIS/2014/06/23/id/578674/#ixzz3V3gyxJpl Urgent: Rate Obama on His Job Performance. Vote Here Now!" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hayden-Iraq-Obama-ISIS/2014/06/23/id/578674/" target="_blank">General Michael Hayden spoke to </a><em><a title="Newsmax: Hayden: Obama Pulled Out of Iraq Too Soon Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hayden-Iraq-Obama-ISIS/2014/06/23/id/578674/#ixzz3V3gyxJpl Urgent: Rate Obama on His Job Performance. Vote Here Now!" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hayden-Iraq-Obama-ISIS/2014/06/23/id/578674/" target="_blank">Newsmax</a>,</em> and said the vacuum was Obama’s fault as well. Obama, he says, didn’t continue to mentor the new Iraqi Prime Minister the way Bush did. The implication is that the mentoring would have helped to continue stabilizing Iraq, and may have caused Nouri al-Maliki to sign a new Status of Forces Agreement in 2011. The fact that we pulled out then was because al-Maliki refused to sign a new agreement, so we had no choice but to pull out.</p>
<p>Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Leon Panetta also criticized Obama for pulling out of Iraq too soon. <a title="CBS News: Leon Panetta criticizes Obama for Iraq withdrawal" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/leon-panetta-criticizes-obama-for-iraq-withdrawal/" target="_blank">CBS News reports</a> that he “feared” the situation was still too unstable there. In fact, everyone who believes that ISIS is Obama’s fault says something about pulling out of Iraq too soon, or failing to support and supply Syrian rebels in a timely manner (as Hillary Clinton has said).</p>
<p>The fact remains, however, that as terrible as Sadaam Hussein was, he was pretty secular, particularly for the region. ISIS may never have gained a foothold in Iraq if we’d left bad enough alone, and concentrating on fighting against those who were actually responsible for 9-11.</p>
<p>Instead of working to find solutions to ISIS, the war hawks who hate having a peacenik in the White House are busy laying blame. Perhaps they should look at the full history of the situation, and make decisions accordingly, instead of playing the blame game.</p>
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<p><em>Featured image by Helene C. Stikkel for the Department of Defense. Licensed under Public Domain from <a href="http://www.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=4805" target="_blank">DoD website</a> </em></p>
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