Posted on 07/07/2014 9:06:51 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Rand Paul sided with President Obama over some of his more hawkish conservative colleagues, saying the recent surge of violence in Iraq at the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists is not the White House administration’s fault.
“What’s going on now, I don’t blame on President Obama,” Mr. Paul said during a “Meet the Press” interview. “Has he got the solution? Maybe there is no solution. But I do blame the Iraq war on the chaos that is in the Middle East. I also blame those who are for the Iraq war for emboldening Iran.”
Mr. Paul’s statements counter those of some of his fellow Republicans. Sen. John McCain, for example, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham have been consistent in their insistence that the United States needs a strong military presence in Iraq — one that remains on ground for some time, Time reported.
They’ve also placed blame for the uptick in violence in the region on the White House’s telegraphing of troops’ withdrawal.
“I predicted this fully and completely and did it time after time after time,” Mr. McCain said weeks ago, Time reported. Mr. McCain hasn’t yet called for more ground troops, but has pressed for the arming of Syrian rebels — something the White House has begun mulling — and for airstrikes over Iraq, Time reported.
Mr. McCain also said many in the Republican Party agree with him.
“I talk with them constantly,” Mr. McCain said in the Time report. “They understand what Sen. Graham and I are pushing. Most of them that I can see agree.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, said at an event last year: “I consider myself somewhere in between those two poles,” of foreign policy put forth by
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He snivels constantly, like he was just dumped by the girl. How long we going to be hearing from this clown, same thing over an over again
Scratch Mr. Paul. He now joins Ryan, Rubio, and other assorted members of the GOP establishment.
With deductive skills this bad how did Paul get through medical school? His father’s legacy?
Rand Paul has been taking some incredibly weird positions. Is he trying to piss off folks who might have voted for him ?
A little weird I can handle. Sucking along with Obama, nope.
Yeah right. Both Iran and Iraq were using WMD on each other during that war. They also fired Ballistic missiles into each others cities. Just because it was state sponsored, does not mean it was not terrorism.
Iraq and Iran fighting each other weakened them, and helped us. Iraqis and Iranians killing each other was fine. The Reagan admin agreed.
We now have transnational threats being created out of the crisis in Iraq other hot spots because of the lack of a powerful central authority.
George W Bush and his advisers who thought Iraq can be democratized do not understand Islamists from middle-east.
IMO Iraq was the biggest blunder of American foreign policy in 100 years. Thousands of Americans killed or maimed, Trillions spent with borrowed money from China which we can not pay back, so will be paying interest for ever...
But the real question is have we learned from this experience? I doubt it. Neocons are eager to start a war with Iran next.
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