Sometimes you feel like a nut. But usually you don't.FURP!!
Rand Pauls old man was a real idiot when it came to foreign policy and national defense issues. Apparently the nut doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
Libertarians, the gift that keeps on giving.
Romney/Paul 2016!!! Yay! Yay! Yay!
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It's pretty crazy but crazy is normal for them, it seems. Someday, maybe, they'll work out their differences. It's up to them.
It looks like I will have to revise the family budget. I’ll strike the planned contribution to the Rand campaign.
They claim to be Conservatives but poke Conservatives in the eye every chance they get!!
I Obama had left an American Coalition on the ground in Iraq, the sunni muslims would not be so brazen!
Yeah, it was so stable and peaceful up until then.
Sometimes you feel like a nut. But usually you don't. Nonsensical. When you win a war, that war isn't "unwon" because the defeated nation falls into civil war later on.
You may question whether we should or should not have gone into Iraq in the first place, which I think we probably did not have a choice - I still believe there were WMD and the Saddam was playing footsie with terrorists. Once we did, and you permanently altered the balance of power in the region, it is a given that you have to stay for a good long while. Because if you leave prematurely, there is no doubt that really bad folks who hate us will fill the vaccuum. Choose your poison: ISIS, Al-Queda, Iran. None are good choices. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Why is staying for the long haul such a foreign thought? We are still in Korea, Japan, Italy and Germany. This emphatically is Obama’s fault because we should have never left.
Yes there were, and it's about damn time someone grew the balls to say so.
Was democracy easily achievable?
It is *never* easily achievable. Which is not relevant anyway. We should have cleaned out Hussein and the weapons, installed some sort of western friendly autocratic regime and left.
It is not our job, nor is it achievable, to nation build. Ditto in spades for Afghanistan. Three months after we took out the guts of the Taliban we should have, as I suggested above regarding Iraq, just left.
Our job was to remove the near term threat to our own national security (Iraq), and to eradicate those Taliban bastards to the maximum degree possible (Afghanistan) and get the hell out both countries as expeditiously as possible.
That is all. Period (as Dear leader would say).
Rand Paul, you have really disappointed me.
I rest my case with that turdbrain Rand Paul. What in blazes will he come out with next; That Osama bin Laden was a poor misunderstood Eagle Scout?! Rand Paul may be O.K. as a surgeon, but as a legislator he’s in a class with John McCain; and I’d never risk him doing surgery on me!
DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL!!!!!
What is it with these liberal Republicans that they seem to believe they need to defend democRATs?
“United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 passed in April 1991 established formal cease-fire terms at the close of Operation Desert Storm. The controversies over enforcing this and subsequent resolutions would lead to the outbreak of another war 12 years later.” So reads the wikipedia article on the Iraq/Kuwait War (Desert Storm) The WMD controversy that has been cemented over the years gives the dims and the UN that voted for this mess cover, while leaving Bush and Cheney as the sole responsible parties - according to the Rand Pauls of the world. He’s just doing anti-war simpleminded lip-service to gain that all important “independent” voter. What does Rand Paul know about anything outside of his fantasies?
What should have happened since we were hell bent on going to Iraq in the first place, when we caught Saddam, tried and hung him it was time to saddle up and head for the house and let the rag heads sort their own s*** out.
So why did Rand Paul do that filibuster if Obama has no control of military decisions?
Typical....Another R begging for the votes of anti-Americans on the backs of those who love this country dearly.
Dead to me.