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Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds
The Hill ^ | 10/09/19 06:11 PM EDT | JORDAIN CARNEY AND REBECCA KHEEL

Posted on 10/10/2019 2:04:53 AM PDT by robowombat

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To: robowombat
Now all the Democrats want soldiers in Syria, including Ocasio Cortez?

It is fascinating to see people who claim to not equivocate, equivocate.

It is also fascinating to see who agrees with those people.

81 posted on 10/10/2019 4:31:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nathanbedford

Against what, nathan?

Military intervention, saving the Kurds, making Erdie pay if he commits genocide?

The latter two can be accomplished without military intervention. Hell, the EU alone could stop Erdie in his tracks if the EU wanted. Aren’t you curious about why the EU hasn’t acted?


82 posted on 10/10/2019 4:31:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: robowombat

What is the Senate’s battle with Trump? If they want war with Turkey over Syria then declare it. It is their exclusive right to do so.


83 posted on 10/10/2019 4:32:43 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: nathanbedford

There’s only one answer to any of this: Trump.

And we have to have his back, because our allies sure as Hades do NOT.


84 posted on 10/10/2019 4:33:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: BradyLS
...We took in Vietnamese and Cubans during that time...

Vietnamese and Cubans are actually assimilating. I have seen it with my own eyes.

Kurds are muslim and are not going to assimilate.

85 posted on 10/10/2019 4:33:31 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: nathanbedford

We shouldn’t be demanding POTUS Trump to bend to the will of globalists and the deep state. To demand of him to follow established protocols, or conventional wisdom, all set by previous globalist leaders, would effectively nullify the concept of Trump.


86 posted on 10/10/2019 4:35:30 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: robowombat

Leaving Syria is one thing, giving Turkey the OK to bomb our Kurd allies is an entirely different thing. I can no longer support President Trump. America’s honor has been stained.


87 posted on 10/10/2019 4:35:59 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: mewzilla
What "intervention?" We are not intervening we are withdrawing. We are withdrawing our very few troops, 1000 troops, who are acting with European troops as advisors of Kurdish fighters and others.

The EU wants the troops kept where they are, and where they effectively block by their mere presence the Turkish genocide you fear.


88 posted on 10/10/2019 4:37:29 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: robowombat
Maybe Congress can call on that military genius Bronco Bama for his opinions...


89 posted on 10/10/2019 4:39:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: nathanbedford

This isn’t about the withdrawal of a few score personnel.


90 posted on 10/10/2019 4:40:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: nathanbedford

And the EU doesn’t need troops to stop genocide.


91 posted on 10/10/2019 4:41:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: robowombat

“Will ask for an immediate vote to send a clear message to Turkey that it must cease and desist its military action, withdraw its fighters from the areas under attack, and stop the tragic loss of life,” he said.

Gasbag Congress.


92 posted on 10/10/2019 4:41:59 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: robowombat

“We need a full accounting and there is no time to waste. Congress must send a clear, bipartisan signal to this president that we do not condone his decision,” he added. “And it has to go beyond tweets and statements. We need action.”

So declare war against Turkey.


93 posted on 10/10/2019 4:43:50 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: mewzilla; KobraKai
Your comments take me back to my first reply in this thread which is we have to decide whether to back Trump right or wrong or to judge the matter on the merits. I prefer to judge this matter on the merits. In doing so I am not indifferent to the indispensable nature of Trump's presidency. Against that, I balance the fact that he, by all accounts so far, has acted precipitously and without a safety net on the very eve of his impeachment.

We have to back Trump when it is reasonable to do so and we must back him to the hilt in this preposterous impeachment hoax. The question for me is, at what level of threat do I surrender my own powers of discernment?


94 posted on 10/10/2019 4:44:13 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: robowombat

All this fuss over a total of 50 people!
I’m wondering what is really going on.


95 posted on 10/10/2019 4:44:46 AM PDT by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: nathanbedford

Whatever side one comes down on the merits, no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration. The president should have sold his decision to congressional leaders, even Democrats...


... who would leak details to their friends in the FBI/CIA, who would arrange to ambush our troops on the ground by informing our enemies.


96 posted on 10/10/2019 4:47:14 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: nathanbedford

I sincerely doubt, especially when it comes to foreign policy, that Trump has ever done anything precipitously.

Trump knows we can’t trust our allies.

This isn’t about the Kurds. The Kurds are just grist for the mill.


97 posted on 10/10/2019 4:48:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Oklahoma

Says the cuck.


98 posted on 10/10/2019 4:49:59 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: WWG1WWA
I’m wondering what is really going on.

Spygate continues. Only now they've upped the ante by involving genocide.

99 posted on 10/10/2019 4:51:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: wastoute
It was Tony Blair who convinced him to attempt the building of a nation, something Bush’s advisors advised against.

Bush had Chaney, who along with Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz formed the backbone of the Project for a New American Century. That neocon think tank helped to form the blueprint for war in the ME, dating back to the early 1990s.

100 posted on 10/10/2019 4:51:21 AM PDT by JonPreston
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