{"id":15748,"date":"2016-07-06T15:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15748"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:18:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:18:01","slug":"trump-gives-love-to-saddam-hussein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15748","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives love to &#8230; Saddam Hussein!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15749\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/trump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/trump.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if this is correct.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump says in one breath that Saddam Hussein was a &#8220;bad guy, OK?&#8221; and then heaps praise on the one-time tyrant because he killed terrorists without reading them their rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican presidential candidate thinks the world would be better off if Saddam and Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi were still in power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-gives-saddam-hussein-a-shout-out\/ar-AAi914h?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-gives-saddam-hussein-a-shout-out\/ar-AAi914h?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gadhafi was pretty tough on his enemies, too, so I reckon he&#8217;d be getting some love from the Trumpenator if the moment presented itself.<\/p>\n<p>Saddam Hussein brought zero redeeming quality to the world&#8217;s geopolitical situation. Do I agree with the decision to invade his country in 2003 on a phony pretext that he possessed weapons of mass destruction? No. But there can be nothing worth praising about the guy.<\/p>\n<p>As for whether we&#8217;re tough enough in our war against international terror, I believe we&#8217;ve been quite ruthless in the hunt for Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorists lurking in the Middle East and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Osama bin Laden&#8217;s corpse was dumped into the ocean after our commandos took him out. We&#8217;ve been launching drone strikes and manned air strikes daily against terrorists since we went to war with them after the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, though, is blathering utter nonsense if he thinks Saddam Hussein presented the model for fighting terrorists.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see if this is correct. Donald J. Trump says in one breath that Saddam Hussein was a &#8220;bad guy, OK?&#8221; and then heaps praise on the one-time tyrant because he killed terrorists without reading them their rights. The Republican presidential candidate thinks the world would be better off if Saddam and Libyan dictator Moammar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump gives love to &#8230; Saddam Hussein!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,222,1424,2334,2362,5855,3458,4069],"class_list":["post-15748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-95","tag-al-qaeda","tag-donald-trump","tag-iraq-war","tag-islamic-state","tag-moammar-gadhafi","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-saddam-hussein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15750,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}