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Rand Paul on Syria: I can’t see sending my son to fight on the same side as al Qaeda
Washington Examiner ^ | August 30, 2013 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 08/30/2013 6:13:06 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged

Paul also explained that he had difficulty seeing any American interests in the Syrian conflict.

“I can’t see fighting to impose Sharia law in Syria,” Paul said. “I can’t see sending my son to fight with Islamic rebels against Christians. I also can’t see my son going to fight on the same side as al Qaeda.”

Under Sharia law, Paul noted, Christians would be persecuted for blasphemy, citing a woman in Pakistan who was jailed for blasphemy after she drank from a cup shared by Muslim workers.

“That is not something I want to send our boys and girls to die for,” Paul added.

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To: theruleshavechanged
England also feels the same, most of our tried and true allies are out or hanging back from this POTUS community organizer
101 posted on 08/30/2013 9:52:17 AM PDT by yoe ("They Come To America" order it now: http://www.theycometoamerica.com/buy-dvd/)
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To: tennmountainman

indeed.


102 posted on 08/30/2013 10:04:10 AM PDT by novemberslady (Texas For President)
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To: KeyLargo

Wow. Thanks for the news bit.

So now the choice is to go to war with Russia over a country that we have no interest in, or

back down and look weak, which will only encourage future attacks on Americans, a la Jimmy Carter.

All because Obama made a threat he had no intention of backing.


103 posted on 08/30/2013 10:09:11 AM PDT by kidd (No blood for ego)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
I respect your opinion, that was never an issue. But your assertion that somehow our soldiers must bow to the whim of homosexual opinion isn’t based in fact in my own experience and I notice you do not defend that statement in your reply.

I've never felt obligated to address every point someone makes, but since you persist...

Let him openly affirm that his faith (presuming it is) condemns homosexual behavior, while he's in uniform or in the presence of his fellows, and let me know how it goes.

If we've not been attacked, how is anyone protecting my freedom by going to Syria? That's a rhetorical question, btw.

104 posted on 08/30/2013 10:09:50 AM PDT by HomeAtLast (Galt's Gulch: it isn't Valley Forge.)
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To: tennmountainman
The Brits took it seriously enough to have a vote. Where is our congress?

Here they come to save the day...
105 posted on 08/30/2013 10:19:59 AM PDT by novemberslady (Texas For President)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Good catch!


106 posted on 08/30/2013 11:18:58 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Sarah hit the nail on the head with that statement.

Let these muslims and Allah sort it out...it's their fight and none of our own. And, yes, men, women and children will suffer, but as muslims, it is their fate as that of people who follow the dictates of a “religion” as it's called, and not a political ideology, which it really is, that tells them death to infidels and other muslims who may be of another muslim faction, and not of their own. They do cover all the bases, don't they.

These people are the ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
Stay out of it, obozo. We the People will not allow you to help out your muslim terrorist buddies by taking our children, the young men and women of the US military, to fight and die for the politics of a traitor president of the USA. We the People will draw our own RED LINE..we will not let our soldiers bleed for your traitorous cause.

107 posted on 08/30/2013 12:34:36 PM PDT by itssme
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To: HomeAtLast
Oh, I agree with every thing you've said. These young men willing to risk their lives, for what? It is utterly heartbreaking! And many of them are Christians. They don't understand that they are fighting on the side of a group who will torture and murder Christians when they get into power.

(My father served in WW2 also, and I've never questioned US motives going into war. All that has changed..)

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I have several friends (in three different families) who have young sons either enlisted or planning to enlist in the military.

In each case I have personally known these boys since they were babies. It’s sickening to think of them doing this. They are willingly submitting to an unworthy, America-hating commander-in-chief.

Moreover the rules of engagement these days are not favorable to survival. Nor will these young men be encouraged to profess their faith. They will however be encouraged if not obligated to profess approval of homosexual behavior.

They just don’t see that this is no longer their fathers’ America, nor his armed forces.

They don’t see that there’s no good reason to risk one’s life for any political faction in Syria or Afghanistan or any other foreign country, especially with Obama calling the shots.

Pearls before swine, that’s what MY father would have said. And he was proud to have served his country honorably in WW2.

108 posted on 08/30/2013 1:04:57 PM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 94)
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To: HomeAtLast
Let him openly affirm that his faith (presuming it is) condemns homosexual behavior, while he's in uniform or in the presence of his fellows, and let me know how it goes.

I persist because you brought it up. It so happens he's quietly assisting a member of his platoon to receive Christ. Homosexuality hasn't entered into the conversation and it's not going to.

He's protecting your freedom to do quite a bit, actually, whether or not he's in Syria. But you know that.

109 posted on 08/30/2013 2:27:19 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Army dad. And damned proud.)
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To: txrefugee

So,....where are the rest of the spineless GOP?


110 posted on 08/30/2013 2:31:43 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: theruleshavechanged
The only historical event that even comes close is the Spanish Civil War, but in that case US citizens took up arms to fight with the Communists and it was never sanctioned by the government I understand? Then there was the Democrats who funded the Sandinistas, but in that case, no US citizens were involved.
111 posted on 08/30/2013 2:34:06 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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Less than $2.4k to go!!

We can do this!!

112 posted on 08/30/2013 4:45:07 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: theruleshavechanged

President Rand Paul


113 posted on 08/30/2013 5:14:19 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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To: o2bfree; DoodleDawg
I'm with you, o2bfree. Let's sit this one out.

Besides, how do we know that Assad gassed these people? There is evidence that it was the rebels --- that is, either a rogue Baathist faction, or a false-flag jihad team ----who gassed these people.

There is no threat to our country from Syria. Instead, the threat is that our ill designed policy will put radical Muslims in power in Damascus.

People funded and armed by the Obama administration are killing Christians, desecrating Christian Churches, have kidnapped the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan and Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Aleppo and tried to assassinate the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

114 posted on 08/30/2013 6:09:14 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("In Christ we form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
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To: theruleshavechanged

My sentiments exactly...


115 posted on 08/30/2013 6:38:22 PM PDT by Iscool
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Oh look — he’s a lying sack.

Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts

Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.

[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]


116 posted on 08/30/2013 7:09:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Can the house call an emergency session re: articles of impeachment?


117 posted on 08/30/2013 11:33:02 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray/Penance. Isa 5:18-21,10:1-3 "Tempus faciendi, Domine, dissipaverunt legem tuam")
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To: Gaffer

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- Just watch

When Obama leaves the White House he will demand free Secret Service protection for life for himself and his family - (Affirmitive Action on steroids)

That is now limited to a certain number of years after Slick Willie Blythe-Clinton

- When (Iran born) Valerie Jarrett vacations on Cape Cod she has at least six Secret Service agents with her at all times -

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118 posted on 08/31/2013 4:43:00 AM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- B Hussein Obama is not fit to be a rodeo clown ----- ----- -----)
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To: devolve

I guess you haven’t heard that Obama recently issued an executive order that requires SS protection for any president holding office after 9/11/2001 (IIRC) until some later date (after his 2nd term).....he had to include Bush, but the order was specifically meant to protect his worthless ass in perpetuity.

My guess is that when he does eventually die, there is some secret EO out there that will replace MLK in his tomb with Obama.....


119 posted on 08/31/2013 4:46:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

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- Yup - I did miss that - Thanks

I do not pretend to be up on things as much as I used to be

- OPERATION 2-DAY MAX DESERTER CLOWN -

Obama takes forever to make a commitment - unless he is sure he and his friends can make huge bucks in GREEN SCAMS or get huge grants to tax-exempt schemes - like to his Muslim Brotherhood half-brother

How to you spend the debt up to sixteen trillion ($16,000,000,000) dollars in just under five (5) years

I wonder how many Americans know that Obama also has a half-brother that has lived in Commie China for many years

I read somewhere that Vlad Putin has now called Obama an “ape” after Obama called him a “bored kid” after a meeting they had

I need to look that up

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120 posted on 08/31/2013 5:35:11 AM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- B Hussein Obama is not fit to be a rodeo clown ----- ----- -----)
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