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Updated 8.19pm
ONE OF THE architects of the 2001 American invasion of Iraq has labelled Donald Trump’s foreign policy “risky” and “disturbing”
Neo-con Paul Wolfowitz, the hawkish deputy Secretary of Defence under George W. Bush, has joined a chorus of other Republicans distancing themselves from the current Republican nominee.
Leading neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz said he would not back Trump for the US president and might vote for Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton instead, in an interview published today.
Wolfowitz, a top advisor to George W. Bush during his presidency and vociferous champion of the “pre-emptive war” in Iraq, told Der Spiegel magazine that he saw Trump as a security risk.
“I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for,” said Wolfowitz, also a former World Bank chief.
I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.
Wolfowitz, 72, criticised Trump for saying he admired Russian President Vladimir Putin and was impressed by the Chinese in economic affairs.
“That is pretty disturbing,” Wolfowitz said.
It’s important to speak up and say how unacceptable he is.
Immigrants
Trump has also come under fire from Sarah Palin, who has warned there will be “massive disappointment” if the Republican nominee backs down on his plan to deport undocumented immigrants.
The Republican presidential nominee has indicated he will soften his immigration plan, which was a central plank of his primary campaign, as part of a rebranding exercise in the past week.
Instead of sending all 11 million people living illegally in the US, he now says only criminals will go. Last January, Palin’s backing of Trump was considered a coup for the divisive property developer.
The former Alaskan governor demonstrated a rare star power as John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
Wishy-washy
On Friday she told the Wall Street Journal in her inimical way that any backtracking on mass deportations wouldn’t go down too well. She said:
“If Mr Trump were to go down a path of wishy-washy positions, taken on things that the core foundation of his support has so appreciated, and that is respecting our Constitution and respecting law and order in America, then yeah, there would be massive disappointment
Parts of the message we heard in the last week are clearly not consistent with the stringent position and message that supporters have received all along.
The controversial New York businessman made a tough line on immigration central to his win in the Republican primary contests.
He launched that campaign with a controversial attack on Mexican immigrants as “rapists”.
Mexico wall
Trump has also often attacked Republican rivals Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as weak on immigration. His plan to build a wall on the Mexican border – paid for by Mexico – became a chant at his rallies.
Yet this week, in a rebranding occasioned by his new campaign manager he has openly talked about how tough it is to break up families.
At a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, Trump said “the bad ones” who came to the US illegally have to leave, but the federal government could “work with” others with families who have lived here for years.
Palin said: “The focus needs to be not on whether an illegal immigrant is a good person or a bad person but how sustainable it is to incentivize illegal immigrants to come over our borders.
What we appreciate about Trump is that he hasn’t been a politician, and I would hope the people around him are not influencing him to be a typical politician
Trump has not backed down on the Mexican border wall, but staunch conservatives like columnist Ann Coulter and radio host Rush Limbaugh have also expressed concerns about his change of stance on deportations.
Abhorrent
While Palin remains a steadfast supporter, Wolfowitz’s defection has joined a growing coterie chorus of “neocons” distancing themselves from the current Republican nominee. During the primaries Wolfowitz had advised Bush’s brother Jeb, a former Florida governor.
‘Dump Trump’ calls have continued since the 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney trashed the brash real estate mogul’s candidacy early this year, leading to a trickle of defections to Clinton’s camp.
This month over 70 influential Republicans signed a letter urging the party to stop spending money on Trump’s presidential campaign and direct it instead to November’s congressional races.
In the letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, they said Trump’s “divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity” risked turning the election into a “Democratic landslide”.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton dismissed his new policy as a “a desperate effort” while Jeb Bush called Trump’s repositioning “abhorrent”. Bush said:
I can only say that whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they’ll be different tomorrow.
But his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, insists “nothing has changed in terms of the policies”.
Trump is expected to outline his new immigration policy next week, after postponing a speech on immigration this week in Colorado.
With reporting from - © AFP, 2016
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To be fair he said only some of them were rapists.
He was talking more specifically of the epidemic of rape and sexual assault by “Coyotes” (human traffickers) on the way to the US border. It is so prevalent it has given rise to “rape trees” along the border.
Trump should at least pretend that he’s responsible not only for what he says, but also what people hear.
“What he meant to say was.. ” will be inscribed on his headstone.. It’s like the beatitudes scene from The Life of Brian with Trump…
Patrick ,
Have you any links to prove that that is what Trump was actually 100% on about ?
No doubt, Trump “was being sarcastic” again.
Francis speaking to Fox News Bill O’Reilly in late June Trump “quoted statistics about immigrants in US prisons and a figure from a report done by news outlet Fusion saying that 80 per cent of Central American women and girls travelling to the US are raped during their journey”…http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3145436/Donald-Trump-comes-fighting-prime-time-Tycoon-says-controversial-comments-Mexicans-rapists-totally-accurate-Univision-no-right-cancel-Miss-USA.html
“From beheading to kidnappings, there seems to be no limit to what the Mexican drug cartels are willing to do to assert their dominance—and they deal not only in drugs, but also in humans. The majority of the coyotes who help undocumented immigrants cross the border are affiliated with the cartels. Although many politicians would like to believe that the violence will stay to the south of the border, the reality is that it has already begun to affect South Western states. The revelation that Phoenix is now the “kidnapping capital” of the United States only affirms what many residents already believe. Now, a new method of marking territory has crossed over into the United States. “Rape trees” are popping up in Southern Arizona and their significance is horrific. These “rape trees” are places where cartel members and coyotes rape female border crossers and hang their clothes, specifically undergarments, to mark their conquests “…http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/rape-trees-found-along-southern-us-border
“Patrick”, you’re quoting from a Bill O’Reilly stage show – do you really expect to be taken seriously?
Lol Francis that entire “fact Check” was an exercise in splitting hairs! Ridiculous rebuttal on your behalf.
So Trump doesn’t promise to invade and bomb all over the place and this guy is upset as” defence” manufacturers/contractors would lose $ wheras they made $ billions under his watch.
Patrick, none of the crimes you mentioned happened in America, nor do the people you claim he was referring to live in America
Gregory, Trump has stated several times that he will bomb the Middle East and the families of terrorists and suspected terrorists
Rubbish Dave. He said he would move the focus from World cop to focus on U.S. he also indicated co-operation w Russia to crush isis. Sounds good to me.
Crushing ISIS without the military? That’ll be some feat. In short he’ll never go to war but he’ll attack ISIS without the use of force. Seems legit
Oh yeah, he also wants to massively increase military spending
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/pants-fire/. Trump is a racist and a liar.. Or worse hes not and only saying things he doesnt believe to get elected. The fact neo cons are backing clinton is also troubling… ‘Merica f**k yeah.
Surprise, surprise, the Open-Border Extremists support war, anti-worker GATT, TTIP corporate exploitation and the banker establishment.
This is globalist establishment like the neo-cons, the Clintons, Soros, all pushing for mass-immigration and wars to create more refugees against Trump and nationalism.
you still throwing that open border extremist whatsit about?
After the criminals who murdered JF.Kennedy, who wished to destroy the FED and in his own word “ smash the CIA to pieces” the USA was hijacked by this same criminal element.
Problem today is, if this extremely aggressive Land which was built on murdering millions of indigenous people have at the moment no more false flags such as Tolkan Bay (Vietnam) and 9-11 this aggression will turn inwards and destroy the US completely. The majority of people today know that the US and Israel created ISIS and the Gulf States financed this monstrosity, so people are slowly becoming less and less afraid of this bogeyman. 35 percent of American people do not now believe in the official version of 9/11 and this number is growing. So a new enemy must be created.
The so called (self inflicted) war on terror cannot extract enough money from congress to increase military spending so the next bogeyman and false flag is impending. My prognosis is that the inevitable financial crash in the next few months, much worse than 2008 will be blamed on a hack from Russia or China. This will provide justification for further extraction of hard working American taxpayer money for much larger and more expensive arms that will provide the military industrial complex with lucrative profits, even at the cost of murdering millions of innocent people.
Then we will all be informed: Muslims are not so much of a threat after all. It’s the Chinese, the Russians, the Hottentots or whatever. So prepare yourselves for whom you will be taught to hate next .
Interesting thoughts Pat. I would agree that in future warfare Cyber War will feature prominently.
With any luck Pat – Trump will win creating untold internal havoc to the inner workings of the American system stopping any nefarious moves with Russia, China, etc. Plus we know little hands would rather build relationships with both, which in turn would be blocked by the inner workings of the system.
Love it – your dead right
You can never defeat ISIS , Isis is a representation of Islam ,but you can keep radical Islam away from our borders
Trump is a liar , Hilary is a sweet old lady ..lol
“Donald Trumps foreign policy is risky and disturbing – says the man who planned the Iraq war”
Hahahaha
I generally don’t concentrate on what she says due her being a hottie
Hockey moms hubba hubba
Unfortunately, Goldberg, your attitude is what has this immensely dense and obnoxious woman in the position of influence she’s in.
Trump is and has always been wishy washy…He has no clue.
Sam – she’s hot I trust her
Ah, Goldie, but would you respect yourself the next morning?
No – I really hope no
Couldn’t blame you.
We have had mass-immigration of people with no right to be in Europe, so mass-deportations is the exact reversal of that. The right thing to do.
Is anyone over the age of 6 on here? She is a politician an deserves to be treated as such and not treated differently cause she’s a woman right?
Gregory, most of the accounts posting here on TheJournal are alt-right troll accounts – account which post broadly sexist, pro-Trump, pro-Putin, pro-hate, pro-white supremacist views.
It’s impossible to know which of these accounts are real – if any.
TheJournal will need to address its massive trolling problem sooner or later as, frankly, the comments sections are a youtube-level joke these days.
Steven, people who have no right to be in Europe? As opposed to Europeans who never travel outside there own borders is it?
Fair point Sam but so hard to implement imho. I disagree w/ Hillary on policy issues but she deserves to be treated as any man would be. Her case is doubly complicated by fact she is married to a former President. Baggage. Com!
I take offence at you putting Putin in that list Sam… Only people that have no real idea about Russia and Putin think he is any kind of threat.
True, Putin is only really a threat to Russians.
@Dave
Are we talking about tourists or mass-immigration Dave. Great you can hold an honest mature adult debate….
@samsmith . Says the left wing troll ???
Take your pick, Europeans have done both
War-hawks and Wingdings are making distance between themselves and Donald Trump. How lucky can Donald Trump get!
Cheers Donald!
Neo-con Hawks 4 Hillary
Hillary would start a war with Iran well before Trump could figure out he was even dumb.
he looks a bit like an orange prune
Warmonger sociopath voting for Clinton. No surprise there.
It would be a laugh if hillary got in. Seeing the americans panicking to hide her health problems. Hillary will probably be dead for 6 months and they will be rolling out her corpse with puppet strings
No doubt you got your assumptions of Mrs Clinton’s ill health from that bastion of “free and fair” coverage, Fox News. The same organisation that portrayed Cliven Bundy as a true American. .
O’Callaghan Stephen, do you have anything positive to add to this discussion or do you just want to promote more pro-Trump hate?
any right minded person wheter left or right can see from the unedited videos that theres something wrong. hillary has a date with grim sweeper ;)
Please show me where I mentioned trump Sam??
O’Callaghan Stephen, where did I quote from Trump?
I said that you have posted “pro-Trump hate” – a claim which I stand by.
Btw, O’Callaghan Stephen, you do realise that here in Ireland, your name is usually written “Stephen O’Callaghan”
I’m only mentioning this in case you’re a trollbot account with bad localisation.
Hope this helps!
erm my account is real. so what is the trump hate give me an concrete example. all ive got so far from you is being called a troll and my name is back the front.? So please indulge me?
Wasn’t one of the leaked emails about Hillary asking for meds which have 2 purposes, one of them being for Parkinsons?
Look don’t go personal on her that ain’t right. If she’s getting super pac wall Street support, if she’s getting dodgy $ from clinton foundation funded by ME tyrants; if she likes destroys libya because of her foreign policy, or other concrete policy concerns fair enough. But personal attacks are not o.k.
Gregory – Trump has won the Republican candidacy because he filled his campaign with idiot-level bile and white-hot hatred.
It’s only to be expected that he and his supporters will continue spewing like this until voting day.
It would be good to hope that it will stop after that, though it probably won’t.
I would agree Sam. Problem is the U.S. is at boiling point. Loss of Blue collar manufacturing jobs to Asia, loss of office jobs (accountancy, purchasing) to Asia (“shared services”). Astronomic student loans. As a result major search social issues, while way too much $ is wasted in military spending. We are at a turning point in U.S. politics. Inequality was never as bad. The status quo will not hold.
More stereotypes, and more demeaning insults. Ironically, I would bet their average individual wealth exceeds your own, Sam. And is there any wonder they reject an ideology that demeans them, just as you have. The irony here is that leftist like yourself pretend to be the parties of “tolerance”. Then we can read your hate filled pejorative laced comment and see how “tolerant” you truly are. You put them down because your station in life is so low, demeaning others with a different worldview is the only thing that can make you feel better. You feel joining the Left somehow gives you intellectual gravitas. I hate to be the one to inform you: it doesn’t.
Pádraig, you’ve just done everything to Sam that you claim he has done, with threaded element of making massive sweeping assumptions about him.and his personal life. Fairly reprehensible behaviour to be honest.
@Dave, thanks for the supportive note.
But don’t worry – it’s always the same here on TheJournal’s comment section with all the troll accounts – point out that Trump is a self-obsessed lunatic, that Putin is an ongoing threat to world peace (ask any Ukrainian), or that Gerry Adams should come clean, and all you’ll ever get is conversational mooning, fist waving and abuse. Classic projection!
Sam, I just spoke the other day to an American friend who is a paid up Democrat. Said person is in a real dillemma, told me for the time ever they can not in all conscience vote for their party’s presidential nominee.
It’ll be very interesting as many Republicans feel the same about their candidate
Palin obviously missed Hillary’s speech yesterday, she assured America it was Trumps intention to establish a “deportation force” to go rounding up illegal aliens. Hillary Clinton wouldn’t lie to the American people would she?
the Neo Cons originally came from the Democrats. they are evil f3ckers, Trump will take them out to the wood shed
They are all bit wishy washy at the moment. Trump doesn’t know if his coming or going.
Hilary with her tin foil hat on.
Trump attacking Hilary.i
Hilary attacking trump
Every day something else pops up.
No story yet on the breaking news earlier of deleted emails by clinton in relation to Benghazi.
Judicial Watch today announced that a federal court has ordered the State Department to review newly found Clinton emails and turn over responsive records by September 13. And, in two other Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the State Department is scheduled to release additional emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s non-state.gov email system beginning September 30. In a court filing this week, the State Department admitted it had found Benghazi-related documents among the 14,900 Clinton emails and attachments uncovered by the FBI that Mrs. Clinton deleted and withheld from the State Department.
I doubt one Republican in a thousand could put Benghazi on a map!
F**k the emails. What about all the dead people in Libya. The destroyed economy. The rubber dingis to Italy to escape. What about regular Joe in Libya whose life is destroyed by misguided U.S policy backed by Hillary Clinton? Nothing learned from Iraq?
Trump would have do e the same thing, he even said so in 2011 https://youtu.be/zuvZQMY9WNw
In looking forward when the election is over and ww3 starts…
Sarah Palin makes Donald Trump look like the Dalai Lama!
Must have tattooed make up on him then ;)
Is trump anti Semitic ?? Watch this https://youtu.be/U2G9MR1n7Es
Hillary Clinton and her party have been quietly working towards total abandonment of the state of Israel. Jews in the US should take note of the rising tide of anti-Semitism within the Democrat party.
Totally agree , Hilary’s main advisor is outspoken anti Semitic , she has taken donations off radical Muslim’s including Saudi Arabia . Jew’s especially European Jew’s should be extremely worried
???
The total abandonment of Israel (i.e. stopping funding) is anti-semitic now, is it? God, words have really lost their meaning.
Explain Malachi ?
Well, “Patrick” seemed to imply that anti-semitism is on the rise in the Democratic party because they are less friendly to Israel than previous Republican presidents.
Thus, I am questioning why the abandonment of Israel is being labelled anti-semetic.
Informative read on it here Malachi…http://observer.com/2016/05/theres-no-room-left-for-a-pro-israel-democrat/ … An exerpt “This shift in culture on the American left has already, under the Obama administration, manifested itself in policy. In early 2009, the president chose to re-join the UN Human Rights Council, a virulently anti-Israel body. The president famously wanted to put “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel, which led to flotillas trying to break the legal blockade of terrorist-controlled Gaza and a green light from the U.S. for European countries to begin their own boycott efforts. In the summer of 2014, during Israel’s war with Hamas, the administration closed Ben Gurion Airport to American air travel—an unnecessary move so outrageous that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg personally flew to Tel Aviv to show it was safe. During the war with Hamas, the president also personally intervened to stop a shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel. And then, of course, there’s the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran.”
Yeah I’m still missing the anti-semitism there, Patrick.
The Obama administration has taken a dimmer view of the actions of Israel than many Republicans. That doesn’t make Obama (or Clinton) an anti-semite. Indeed the funding Israel still receive under the current administration is so eye-watering, the suggestion that there’s a growing tide of anti-semitism from the people in power is quite ludicrous.
The state of Israel doesn’t represent all Jews, and cutting ties with Israel is not anti-semetic.
It’s clear Obama has abandoned Israel , Hilary following suit . That’s fair enough , but to help Iran in their nuclear programme is totally dangerous and careless . To allow Muslim’s to settle in Europe and America if Clinton wins is a direct attack on Israel . What do you think will happen when Europe becomes Islam and joins with turkey ?
Trump needs to reach out to the Jewish population in the states , Jew’s need to listen to reason instead of Jewish celebrity sell outs who are tied to get democratic party
“The Jews” won’t go near Trump… they know exactly how his kind of “leadership” ends…
@Malachi-Abandoning Israel to the tender mercies of Hamas ,Hezebolla/Iran,ISIS,and every Jew-hating genocidal mob in the ME is not anti-semitic!
Israel gets 2.5 billion a year in aid from the US Palestinian authority 680 million
Egypt gets 1.5 billion
A myth that US only gives military aid to Israel
Hillary Clinton supported a policy in Libya that failed in Iraq. But the rubber dingis and refugees land in Eu not U.S.A. She is dangerous and destroyed Libya, sadly for the people there. So easy to bomb it and walk away leaving vacuum for isis etc
Trump supported the same policy in Libya and only said war in Iraq was a bad idea after it started to look bad.
Trump conveniently forgets https://youtu.be/zuvZQMY9WNw
John003, where did you see anyone make the claim that the US only gives aid to Israel?
Hillary looks a bit mad to me?
https://www.rt.com/usa/357281-clinton-trump-russia-putin/
It’s going to be fun to see the Republican Party cannabilize itself as its electoral base slowly realises that Trump has sold it a pack of lies.
Blue collar U.S.A. is so pissed like u wouldn’t believe. Inequality. Manufacturing jobs to Asia etc.
“Shared Services” based in China/India. ..ie. Jobs moved out of U.S. eg. Coca Cola who “used” to have lot of jobs in Atlanta GA. Typical MNC greed. The people are p*ssed majorally!!
If Hillary is pro Palistinian I am pro Hillary.
Single issue voting is, in general, a terrible idea.
Hillary is pro Hillary. She doesn’t give the slightest toss about the Palestinians, except to the extent that they can be turned to her electoral advantage. Pretty much like every other politician on both sides of the aisle.
@Arthur stewart-That makes you pro-Muslim Brotherhood as Hillary’s aide de camp and special adviser on Mid East Affairs Huma Abedin is Muslim Brotherhood true and true.
Hillary is pro herself, pro wall street and pro fracking.
Pot calling the kettle , cloak and dagger . Game , You could not make it up ! Either way it’s the same outcome , same rulers , Rothschilds, rockefellers, bushs – it’s gonna extensivefy- a war is coming – they have to dominate cause the people are waking and it’s gonna be soon !
She deported her brains a long time ago…
Some neck
So under Obama there is TPP and TTIP, now it turns out the U.S. wants to send all its nuclear waste to Chernoby…
http://ua-green.org/en/ukrainian-greens-association-warns-of-risks-for-europe-amid-violations-of-international-rules-and-standards-in-construction-of-centralized-spent-nuclear-fuel-storage-at-chernobyl.html
https://www.rt.com/news/349590-nuclear-fuel-ukraine-eu/
And all this man does is complains about Trump, that is this election for you and it is a total blame game on both sides like little children fighting?
Wake up there is worse things happening in the world now?
The Wolf telling us how to look after the sheep.. What a laugh..
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