Political Quotes

“No regime-change wars. No regime-change wars. I heard it from leftists. I heard it from rightwing people. I heard it from Bernie Sanders. I heard it from Tulsi Gabbard. I heard it from Donald John Trump: No regime-change wars. And yet here we go again. Almost 25 years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney cooked up claims of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction to justify going into Iraq. Last month, just 2 weeks before ordering the capture of Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump designated fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. Fentanyl is terrible. It is not a weapon of mass destruction. It was Donald Rumsfeld all those years ago who falsely claimed there was 'bulletproof evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.' Marco Rubio has spent the past few months accusing Maduro of leading a cartel that even our own DEA doesn't recognize. Just like the Bush administration insisted earlier on that oil revenue, not American taxpayers, would cover the cost of reconstruction in Iraq, Trump is hoping people will buy the fantasy his incursion into Venezuela will be cost-free. The parallels to Iraq are alarmingly obvious. In fact, according to Trump himself, here is the only way in which the situations are different: The difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn't keep the oil. We're going to keep the oil. 'We're going to keep the oil.' He could not be any clearer. The Justice Department can dress this up in charges of narcoterrorism.…”