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Trump allies blast decision to withdraw troops from Syria
Yahoo News ^ | 10/7/19 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 10/07/2019 10:10:16 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Graham said that he and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., plan to introduce “veto-proof” bipartisan sanctions that will call for Turkey’s suspension from NATO if it invades Syria and attacks Kurdish forces.

“This decision to abandon our Kurdish allies and turn Syria over to Russia, Iran, & Turkey will put every radical Islamist on steroids,” Graham added. “Shot in the arm to the bad guys. Devastating for the good guys.”

Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was unequivocal in her criticism. We must always have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back. The Kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against ISIS in Syria. Leaving them to die is a big mistake. #TurkeyIsNotOurFriend

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; US: Maryland; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: assadworship; chrisvanhollen; colinpowell; dylanstableford; erdogan; iran; kurdistan; maryland; mullahloversonfr; muslimworld; nato; nikkihaley; putinsbuttboys; receptayyiperdogan; russia; southcarolina; syria; trumpmiddleeast; turkey
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To: Will88

ISIS only exists because the U.S. invaded these sovereign countries and completely undermined — even toppled — the governments that were perfectly capable of maintaining order within their borders.


21 posted on 10/07/2019 10:22:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Alberta's Child

BS


22 posted on 10/07/2019 10:23:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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NIKKI HALEY AND HILLARY CLINTON SIMULTANEOUSLY BLAST TRUMP’S SYRIA DECISION: ‘SICKENING BETRAYAL OF THE KURDS’
BY JESSICA KWONG ON 10/7/19
https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-hillary-clinton-kurds-trump-1463633


23 posted on 10/07/2019 10:26:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bert

Allies in name only? The bunch that came up with INSTEX? No, they’re the with-allies-like-these-who-needs-enemies variety of ally.


24 posted on 10/07/2019 10:26:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: montag813

I don’t know if there is ever a good time to get our troops out of that region. Furthermore, there is not a good time for any decisions he makes due to his opposition in congress throwing the kitchen sink at him.


25 posted on 10/07/2019 10:26:47 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: sockmonkey
Watching the neocons squealing, Do I see a Romney/Haley ticket in the future.

Joke will be on them because the Democrats will have spent all the money on social programs.


26 posted on 10/07/2019 10:26:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

If Turkey gets kicked out of NATO, I don’t see a problem.

Remember that France on more than one occasion has not been a willing NATO member.


27 posted on 10/07/2019 10:27:51 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TangledUpInBlue

This is why all the military equipment we sell to marginally loyal allies should be equipped with a hidden remote disable device. It doesn’t have to be much, just a bit of code in the processors that permanently corrupts the operating system.


28 posted on 10/07/2019 10:28:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: mewzilla

-——with-allies-like-these-who-needs-enemies——

WALTWNE?

AINO is shorter and for me, easier to remember

But, I take your correct pint


29 posted on 10/07/2019 10:28:39 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s at least true of Iraq....

The Devil you know....

There is a special circle of hell reserved for Cheney and Rumsfeld.


30 posted on 10/07/2019 10:29:19 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: bert
There's always Axis of Weasels 😄
31 posted on 10/07/2019 10:29:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I like it!


32 posted on 10/07/2019 10:30:01 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“It doesn’t have to be much, just a bit of code in the processors that permanently corrupts the operating system.”

Yep, just like China has in all the chips and circuit boards sold to the US military. Sad isn’t it?


33 posted on 10/07/2019 10:30:15 AM PDT by setter
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To: Starboard

34 posted on 10/07/2019 10:30:37 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Your military friends apparently have extensive experience is Islamic sh!t-holes, even while this country is facing an invasion of 100,000+ peasants across our southern border every month. That alone tells me that disbanding the U.S. armed forces — certainly the Army, at least — as we know them may be necessary in the long run.


35 posted on 10/07/2019 10:31:17 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: COUNTrecount

Amen, Mr. President.


36 posted on 10/07/2019 10:31:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He got blasted by Fed Powell. Waiting for the retaliation tweet

from cnbc:

Fed Chair Powell has delivered a speech in which he quotes from a plaque emphasizing the central bank’s independence from politics: “The management of the central bank must be absolutely free from the dangers of control by politics and by private interests, singly or combined.”


37 posted on 10/07/2019 10:32:39 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: Alberta's Child
Necessity is the mother of invention.

Congress Officially Created the U.S. Military September 29, 1789 In its very first session, the United States Congress had a lot of decisions to make. One important topic the first representatives and senators needed to address was establishing the U.S. military. There already was a colonial army--the Continental Army--that had fought the British in the American Revolution and won under General George Washington. But this army was not the official army of the United States.

Finally, on September 29, 1789, the last day of its first session, the U.S. Congress passed an act to establish the United States military. However, this happened only after President Washington reminded them, twice!

SOURCE

Still wish to stand by your statement?

38 posted on 10/07/2019 10:32:41 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The Turks have been killing Kurds (vise versa) for over a hundred years.

Just sayin

5.56mm


39 posted on 10/07/2019 10:33:25 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: mewzilla
That’s why we don’t intervene militarily in Syria.

ISIS was one of the most savage and monstrous forces to emerge in the world in many decades. The Kurds did most of the front line fighting to defeat them and we provided vital support and materiel, with the commitment of a fairly small number of troops. And Trump has said much about how he smashed ISIS.

That was a worthwhile achievement and we should not abandon the folks who did most of the fighting. And it would be a pretty small commitment to keep a presence in the one area.

40 posted on 10/07/2019 10:33:58 AM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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