Trump's Biggest Lie: "I'm the Biggest Warmonger"

OK. The Donald didn't actually say that specifically. What he said was, “I’m the most militaristic person there is.” But that's what he was getting at.

Coming from a guy who has also said, ”I’m, like, a really smart person;” and, ”I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” it can be difficult to pick out the biggest lie from The Donald.
However, I still think his brag about being most militaristic is the tops. Not because of what The Donald has or has not said, but because of what the rabid, drooling warmongers he's running against have said.

When it comes to the GOP race, the Donald can’t begin to match his competitors in warmongering bluster. “Most militaristic?” In this field? These guys have blood coming out of their eyeballs, blood even coming out of their… wherevers.

Senator Lindsey Graham may have the lilt of a southern dandy in his voice, but his words would make General Patton blush.

Here is the first thing I would do if I were President of the United States: I wouldn't let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We're not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts.

Yeh, using the military against Congress is just a bit over the top.
And let's not forget how Graham promised to assassinate anyone by drone who ever considered joining ISIS. Has Trump dared to start extra-judicial killing of Americans? I don't think so.
Then there is everyone's favorite pastime, invading Iraq.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, the saddest-looking man in politics, said repeatedly, even when the question wasn’t asked, that he would send American ground troops back to Iraq and Syria, and anyone who wouldn’t isn’t “ready to be commander-in-chief.”

Let's not forget Scott Walker. He's also won't rule out a "full-blown" invasion of Iraq, and as for Iran, well, Walker is prepared to show leadership.

"I believe that a president shouldn’t wait to act until they put a cabinet together or an extended period of time,” Walker said. “I believe they should be prepared to act on the very first day they take office. It’s very possible – God forbid, but it’s very possible – that the next president could be called to take aggressive actions, including military action, on the first day in office."

Just about everyone running for president as a Republican thinks bombing Iran is a good idea, including Jeb Bush.

Bush has now rolled out, and adhered to, a tangle of views that could be mistaken for his brother’s—void the Iran agreement and possibly attack Iran, rescind President Barack Obama’s 2009 executive order banning torture, and possibly send thousands of U.S. troops back into Iraq—and none of them is even remotely controversial among his co-partisans.

And then there is Jeb's quote, “taking out Saddam Hussein turned out to be a pretty good deal.” Which shouldn't surprise you when you consider that Paul Wolfowitz has Jeb’s ear.
Face it Trump, you just aren't in the same class of warmonger that Jeb Bush is.

Who can forget Florida senator Marco Rubio. Marco made a name for himself a few months ago when he decided to channel Liam Neeson.

"When people ask what our strategy should be on global jihadists and terrorists, I refer them to the movie, 'Taken,'" Rubio said. "Have you seen the movie 'Taken'? Liam Neeson, he has a line -- this is what our strategy should be: We will look for you, we will find you, and we will kill you."

Marco should tell Obama that, because its totally not what we've been doing for 14 years.
What does he think was Obama's mistake in Libya? He didn't bomb sooner.

Mike Huckabee actualy had to come out and officially deny being a warmonger and created a new daisy ad to stop the Iran deal. To me, that puts Mike in the lead.

Let's not leave out Bobby Jindal. He thinks that gun control means “hitting your target.” Bobby has strong opinions about how to win against ISIS.

Gov. Bobby Jindal said we were losing the war on terror because President Obama refuses to call our enemy “radical Islamic terrorism.” (Presumably ISIS will be vanquished, like Beetlejuice, when President Jindal utters these words three times.)

The truly scary thing is that these guys are the sane and informed ones, on a Republican relative scale.
For instance, consider Rick Perry.

Rick Perry, who probably came to the debate fully prepped to recite the three cabinet departments he’d abolish, said that thousands of Americans have died in Lebanon and Iran—among several other incoherent statements. He also said that he’d send Fiorina to renegotiate an Iran deal—thus sending a signal that she would probably make a better president than he would.
George Pataki, who somehow believes that having been elected governor in “the blue state of New York” makes him a favorite to defeat Hillary Clinton, said that he would go after homegrown Islamic terrorists by “shutting down their Internet capability.”

Maybe we should combine these two strategies and shut down Iran's internet, thus saving thousands of American lives in Lebanon.

Meanwhile Ted Cruz has his own plan for defeating ISIS, and it starts with killing Americans.

Sen. Ted Cruz ridiculed Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for recently testifying that there is no military solution to defeating ISIS, and that the socio-political conditions on the ground need to change. “That is nonsense,” Cruz said of what specialists in the region regard as a basic truism. His solution for crushing ISIS: Kill Americans who join any jihadi movement, and elect a president unafraid to utter the words “radical Islamic terrorists.”

No need for that talky-talk thingy. Just kill 'em some bad guys.

Everyone of the Republican candidates believe the myth that we had actually won the war in Iraq.

The legend of the surge has become this era’s equivalent of the legend that America was winning in Vietnam until, in the words of Richard Nixon’s former defense secretary Melvin Laird, “Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975.” In the late 1970s, the legend of the congressional cutoff—and it was a legend; Congress reduced but never cut off South Vietnam’s aid—spurred the hawkish revival that helped elect Ronald Reagan. As we approach 2016, the legend of the surge is playing a similar role.

Not to be outdone

While the Republican candidates beat the drums of war, they are being upstaged by that weak, mom-pants-wearing Democratic President known for saying that he is "really good at killing people."
That's not an idle boast. President Obama has launched nine-times the number of drone strikes that President Bush did and has bombed no fewer than seven countries (which is two more than Bush).
In fact, the carnage he has unleashed in Iraq and Syria has just hit a new high and the disaster we are helping to create in Yemen might be the worst yet.

This list cannot be complete without mentioning the current Democratic front-runner, Hillary.

For her part, the leading Democratic contender has rarely met a war she didn’t love...
In 2011, Hillary urged President Obama to bomb Libya. That hasn’t worked out so well for Libya, but at least it gave the then-Secretary of State the opportunity for a classic Schwarzenegger-style sendoff. Upon hearing that Qaddafi had been killed by a rebel mob, Clinton cracked, “we came, we saw, he died.“ That’s pretty hardcore—especially when you consider that Colonel Q. slipped this mortal coil while being sodomized with a combat knife. The best Trump could do at the time was brag how, this one time, he bilked Qaddafi on a real estate deal.

Of all the candidates running, only two can honestly be said not to be warmongers, Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders, neither of which are close to leading their respective parties at the moment.
As it currently stands, the candidates are warmongers because that's what the American people want.

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