Which does not mean he thought it such a swell idea he would have started it, himself.
So maybe not a lie, in the end.
Trump: If I Had Been President, Khan's Son Would Still Be Alive
DONALD TRUMP:
I can say this.
If I was president, because his son died 12 years ago, if I were president, his son wouldn’t have died, because I wouldn’t have been in the war, if I was president back then.
There would have been no war for Iraq, I can tell you that, because I think it’s ridiculous, the whole thing.
And to be in that war was, as you know, as — ever since I’ve known you, I’ve been against that war.
Which is not to say it's fair to blame GW.
Captain Khan was by no means a draftee, after all.
And accounts of his service and death show him a supporter of the American effort.
P.S.
Some so-called liberals persist in the idea of forcing on the government and the military a draft they do not want to supply "civilian soldiers" they do not need, in order to cause civilians to oppose our current and possible future wars as they did Vietnam.
A few remarks.
First, the civilian opposition did not stop the Vietnam War, but only the use of draftees in it and then the draft - whereupon massive civilian opposition collapsed.
Second, using an entirely unnecessary temporary slavery to stop or impede undesired wars is as unscrupulous and absurd as using temporary enslavement to discourage infrastructure projects, though exactly that has always appealed to so-called liberals in connection with The Peace Corps and other forms of "alternate service."
Third, just as it would be unwise and harmful to the nation to tie the undertaking of infrastructure projects to slavery by lot, it would be just as harmful to so burden policing, fire-fighting, public education, and other public services to the use of slaves.
Much less would this be an acceptable way of supplying cheap but skilled or specialized labor for private contractors in government service.
So phooey.
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