title: in the first  days of october trump gave just k to his own campaign
text: by hrafnkell haraldsson    am we cant do waterboarding its far too tough were fighting on a different level we have to be toughand in some cases pretty vicious   
  donald trump complains about spending a fortune on a war in the middle east that he supported a war brought to us by a republican administration that knowingly lied about the facts trump is also lying about the facts which at least brings our countrys middle east ordeal fullcircle 
  according to trump speaking at a rally in new mexico  and youve no doubt seen the barrage of commercials repeating the same lie  hillary brought disaster to iraq syria libya and every place that she touches she empowered iran and she unleashed isis by leaving that big vacuum 
  of course it was republican president george w bush who negotiated the balance of forces agreement with iraq stipulating that america draw down its combat strength reneging on that agreement would have meant not peace in iraq or a negation of isis but a second us invasion on top of the rise of isis 
  we want peace through strength trump told the crowd we dont want to be in wars but these savages are chopping off heads 
  well in fact we did want to be in that war we invaded iraq not vice versa 
  trump went on to say 
  drowning people in steel cages burying people in the sand we havent had  this is medieval times this is medieval times and then we cant do waterboarding its far too tough you know were fighting on a different level see were fighting on a different level folks and we have to be tough and we have to be smart and we have to be in some cases pretty vicious to be honest with you pretty vicious but we have to take them out and then we have to get back to building our country because our country  weve spent  trillion in the middle east  trillion and we couldve rebuilt our country twice 
  never mind for a moment that torture is illegal under international law never mind that a  senate intelligence committees report said torture doesnt work trumps argument sounds once again like a child wanting to get back at another child who has aggrieved him 
  this is trump wanting to spite his enemies on an international scale and arguing to boot that the end justifies the means 
  he doesnt because he cant prove that acting like barbarians somehow doesnt make us barbarians ourselves he certainly cant prove because that senate report says otherwise that torturing people will win the war 
  the claim of  million by the way is one trump made last week in charlotte nc as well and politifact ruled it half true at the time saying 
  trump is citing the highend estimate of credible analyses of spending associated with the wars in iraq and afghanistan yet he is confusing money thats been spent with money that researchers say will be spent 
  the point here is that this is a war begun not by obama and certainly not by hillary clinton who at least admits she supported it and has apologized for doing so while trump continued to deny he was ever for it despite the facts to the contrary 
  when trump says we have to be pretty vicious he is also saying we have to be pretty dishonest and nobody lies with such success or at such a rate as donald trump 
  trump has said he loves war he has said he likes to be unpredictable he has asked why we cant use nuclear weapons since we have them this is a man most national security experts say should not have the nuclear football in his hands 
  this is a man who no matter how much he claims otherwise does not understand how the world works and he does not understand that by promoting torture he is only fulfilling the wildest propaganda wishes of the islamic state by promising to do precisely what they want him to do