control and the care of our nuclear forces. And he mentioned the triad. The B-52s are older than I am. The missiles are old. The submarines are aging out. It’s an executive order. It’s a commander-in-chief decision. What’s your priority among our nuclear triad?” TRUMP: “Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible; who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important. And one of the things that I’m frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you’re going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important.” [Republican Presidential Debate, Las Vegas NV, 12/15/15] AFGHANISTAN 2011: Trump Said Withdrawing From Afghanistan Was Not A Problem Because The Taliban Was All In Pakistan. O'REILLY: “Afghanistan. Do you pull out of Afghanistan and let the Taliban take over?” TRUMP: “I don't know that Afghanistan is much -- as much of a problem as Pakistan. Because everyone is telling me they're all in Pakistan. They're not in Afghanistan.”O'REILLY: “But they're going to come back.” TRUMP: “Well, they may. I mean, they may. That's Pakistan. If Usama bin Laden is in Pakistan, why are we paying them hundreds of billions of dollars a year?” [The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, 4/1/11] 2011: Trump Called Karzai A Crook. DOOCY: “Do you think Karzai -- is Karzai a crook?” TRUMP: “Well, he's a crook and he's mocking us. He's laughing at us and he's -- and the diplomat that just left was saying how horrible and how embarrassing it is. The horrible things he says and how our soldiers react to his statements that we're an occupier.”[Fox & Friends, Fox News, 6/13/11] TRUMP SUGGESTED THAT GOING INTO AFGHANISTAN WAS A MISTAKE, THEN WALKED BACK HIS COMMENTS 10/6/15: Donald Trump Believed Entering Afghanistan Was A Mistake And Worried About U.S. Forces Getting Stuck There. “Trump told CNN's "New Day" on October 6 that he believed entering Afghanistan was a mistake and worried about U.S. forces getting stuck there. ‘At some point, are they going to be there for the next 200 years? At some point what's going on? It's going to be a long time,’ Trump said, when asked about Afghanistan. ‘We made a terrible mistake getting involved there in the first place. We had real brilliant thinkers that didn't know what the hell they were doing. And it's a mess. It's a mess. And at this point, you probably have to (stay) because that thing will collapse about two seconds after they leave. Just as I said that Iraq was going to collapse after we leave.’" [CNN, 10/20/15] Headline: “Donald Trump Backtracks On Afghanistan War: Not A Mistake.” [CNN, 10/20/15] • 10/20/15: Donald Trump: “I've Never Said We Made A Mistake Going Into Afghanistan." “Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. was right to invade Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- a reversal of his position earlier this month when he called the war a ‘mistake.’ ‘We made a mistake going into Iraq. I've never said we made a mistake going into Afghanistan,’ Trump told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on ‘New Day,’ when pressed about his comments earlier this month. Trump told CNN's ‘New Day’ on October 6 that he believed entering Afghanistan was a mistake and worried about U.S. forces getting stuck there.” [CNN, 10/20/15] Confidential Page 84