Bipartisan Group of Senators: Quit Arming Syrian Rebels

American Prowler ^ | 6.20.13 | Matt Purple

[nickcarraway]

What can bring a New England liberal and a southern Tea Partier together, other than the theme song from “The Odd Couple”? Staying out of Syria’s messy civil war.

From Sen. Rand Paul’s press office:

Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Mike Lee (R-UT), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced bipartisan legislation to prohibit the President from using any funds on activities that would escalate U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war.

The bill would ban the Department of Defense, the CIA and all other intelligence agencies from funding any military, paramilitary or covert operations in Syria. The legislation would not affect humanitarian aid.

[Ben Ficklin]

Bipartisan Group of antiwar pacifist democrats and isolationist republicans.

[MestaMachine]

As IF oh bama will pay any attention. We have too many alternate realities going here simultaneously.

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Benghazi Index

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“It would please the Resident’s Saudi patrons greatly to expand the Grand Caliphate through Syria and beyond.”

Yup! Lebanon and Jordan next! Batter up!

[DuncanWaring]

Dream on.

[MHGinTN]

His lowness will ignore it. The heavy weapons are already in Turkey for delivery.

[Gator113]

Fine, now arrest the bastard.

[FreedomPoster]

It was a bipartisan group in the House that stopped the Farm Bill (80% welfare funds) today.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

If Assad Pest Control, Inc. is spraying a few of those cockroaches, he is doing us a favor...

[SJackson]

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[Wuli]

to this bipartisan group of Senators, all I can say

thanks for reading my posts here and on the wsj-online oped comments blogs FOR TWO YEARS NOW,

defining how and why the “Syrian opposition” is an externally created, externally put-togethher, externally supported “regime change” agenda we have allied outselves to but that, on the ground operationally and in the core of the “opposition” leaders, is a Sunni Islamist putsch and those leaders (like the Mujahadeen and the Taliban between 1979-1989 in Afghanistan) are NOT going to be our friends and allies in the long term.

Assad is no saint, sure, we got that, but the “opposition” movement core leaders are no better.

WE (yes WE) were “present at the creation” of all of this in Syria and now the neocons are trying to use recent activities of Russia and Iran as cause for MORE support for “the rebels”; and yet, WE have been part of creating the events that caused Syria to seek closer military cooperation with Russia.

For somethings the neocons say are unwelcome to us, they are ignoring that the “Syrian rebellion” (our creation - yes OURS) was what drew the Russians into its recent moves with Syria in the region. We could not have done more if we had directly and publicly invited them.

[ZULU]

Finally. Some intelligence.