Donald Trump Had Wanted George Bush To Get Impeached For 'Lying' The U.S. Into War With Iraq

By R. Siva Kumar - 01 Sep '15 08:49AM

A decade ago, the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump wanted to have the last U.S. Republican president, George W. Bush, impeached due to his foreign policy decision to invade Iraq in 2003, the Daily Caller noted Monday.

He had been surprised in 2008 that the Democratic House speaker at the time, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, made no attempts to impeach Bush, according to cnn.

"I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said.

"It just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which, personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing," he added.

He said that Bush should have been punished for involving the US in a war with a bunch of lies. "He got us into the war with lies," Trump said.

"I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense," Trump continued. "And, yet, Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true."

He refuses to believe that his decision was based on "faulty intelligence".

"I don't believe it. And I don't think you believe it either, Wolf. You are a very, very intelligent young man. I don't think you believe it either," Trump said. "The fact is that he lied. And he got us into a war that was a horrendous mistake. And, any way you take it, that was was a mistake."

He added: "Look, it was not Saddam Hussein that attacked the World Trade Center, OK? In fact, those people, when they sent their families back, most of them went back to Saudi Arabia," Trump said. "It was not Saddam Hussein that took down the World Trade Center. And, in fact, Saddam Hussein killed terrorists. They had very few terrorists, because he didn't let terrorists into Iraq, and he killed terrorists. So, we go and attack Saddam Hussein. Now, Iraq now is the number-one breeding ground for terrorists. All the terrorists go to Iraq to learn the trade. You know, we all have trades, right? And they go to Iraq. But you didn't have that when Saddam Hussein was running Iraq with an iron fist. Now you do. Now, we took out Saddam Hussein. What have we created? A mess. And the day we leave Iraq, it is going to be - forget it."