{"id":19980,"date":"2018-09-21T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19980"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:16:45","slug":"president-trump-bushs-invasion-of-iraq-was-the-single-biggest-mistake-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19980","title":{"rendered":"President Trump:  Bush&#8217;s invasion of Iraq was the single biggest mistake in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy of Buck Sexton and the Hill, President Donald J Trump lobs a rocket into Fort Bush<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/407398-trump-slams-bush-for-worst-single-mistake-in-us-history\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/407398-trump-slams-bush-for-worst-single-mistake-in-us-history<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe only reason I saw this was it was mentioned in the Infowars newsletter.  The limited reaction seems to be that people question the $7 trillion number that President Trump put out.  They respond with &#8211; but the Pentagon says we only spent $1.5 trillion, completely missing the President&#8217;s point.  President Trump is counting the economic damage and lives lost of all parties, not just government expenditures.  \r\n\r\nHere is the source of the $5.6 trillion in direct US government expenditures\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2017\/us-budgetary-costs-post-911-wars-through-fy2018-56-trillion\">https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2017\/us-budgetary-costs-post-911-wars-through-fy2018-56-trillion<\/a>\r\n\r\nWhile this analysis only talks about the expenditures after 9\/11, the events of 9\/11 alone were around $1 trillion.    At least in part, President Trump is a 9\/11 truther, which is why Alex Jones was very close to the campaign.  While I don&#8217;t believe the elaborate Alex Jones conspiracy, I do believe the 9\/11 attack was a direct consequence of the older Bush&#8217;s decision to liberate Kuwait in 1991.\r\n\r\nIn 2000, I was making management at NASDAQ  uncomfortable by pointing out that our computer center was extremely unprepared for a terrorist attack, and our backup facility plan was little more than a show for the SEC with gaping holes like assuming key people were not killed in the attack, and it was possible to fly on a commercial flight from Connecticut to Maryland carrying magnetic tapes that would be created in the facility after the truck bomb destroyed the computer center.  While the events of 9\/11 were staggering in their success, I apparently was less surprised than most.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Buck Sexton and the Hill, President Donald J Trump lobs a rocket into Fort Bush https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/407398-trump-slams-bush-for-worst-single-mistake-in-us-history The only reason I saw this was it was mentioned in the Infowars newsletter. The limited reaction seems to be that people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}