President Donald Trump has based nearly his entire political identity on positioning himself as the opposite of former President Barack Obama – the racist birther movement was the beginning of Trump’s foray into politics, and his obsession with disassembling the Affordable Care Act is probably his most publicized.
However, a former adviser to President George W. Bush seems to think that Trump’s desire to undermine his predecessor becomes most frightening when dealing with the Iran nuclear deal. He claims Trump, and complicit Republicans, will lead us into a deadly war with Iran.
Retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff to Bush’s Secretary of State Colin Powell, appeared on MSNBC’s AM Joy and stated that Trump and his congressional apologists are deliberately setting up for years of war with North Korea and the Middle East. He told MSNBC host Joy Reid:
“I think we are doing the same thing as we did in 2003, and I was very intimate with that process in Iraq. We are marching down the road to war. If you think Iraq was a bad war wait until you see Iran.”
Wilkerson argued that Saudi Arabia, a country which Trump’s team has shown all manner of favor towards, is actually the country destabilizing the Middle East, claiming:
“The Saudis are far worse than Iran and we are getting ready to make that situation even worse, more profoundly destabilizing, by taking on Iran militarily.”
Wilkerson was heavily involved with Bush’s war against Saddam Hussein, and he knows a thing or two about twisting intelligence and public perception to lead a country into war. He left Reid speechless with this ominous warning to our troops:
“I will tell every GI out there: You have had 17 straight years of war, get ready for 17 more.”
Watch Wilkerson’s conversation with Reid below. Is America great again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zts2UisrtmM
Featured image via YouTube screen capture.
