Posted on 06/22/2014 2:14:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
One U.S. lawmaker firmly believes the United States should keep its sons and daughters out of Iraq's increasingly tangled and bloody conflict.
"I'm not willing to send my son into that mess," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley on Sunday.
Appearing on "State of the Union," Paul acknowledged that while the chaos in Iraq intensifies by the day, he believes advances by jihadist Sunni militants on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite government forces do not pose an immediate threat to U.S. national security. Though he refused to rule out some kind of U.S. assistance, Paul said absent that threat, President Barack Obama's administration should not send ground troops to assist al-Maliki's government.
"Let's not be involved in the Iraq civil war," Paul said....
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
I didn't know Rand Paul's son as in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps.
Why don't we send Candy Crowley to Iraq? Jihadists would run screaming from her unveiled horror, as if she were Medusa.
He has finally taken off the veil. He’s a code pinko libertarian.
Sorry Jordan.
Your Kingdom is done and if the infection spreads to Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE fine.
Sick people. ..
And I think what a tragedy it would it would have been if he [obama] had gone to prison. What a tragedy it would have been that America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.
That was his testimony on September 16, 2013 and my quote was NOT taken out of context. Rand Paul, the leftist surrender monkey and pusher of amnesty, not only sees hussein obama as a "leader" but also thinks it would have been a "tragedy" if obama had been imprisoned. The reality is that hussein obama must be in prison for his high crimes. Rand Paul sees it otherwise.
I thought you had to be an adult to join the military? Is it really legal for parents to force their children into the military?
So Paul just ignores ISIS threat to America...glad Paul revealed himself now and not when he was the winner of the GOP presidential primary.
According to his campaign bio, he has two adult sons (21, 18) and one younger. There is no indication that either of the eligible sons is in the military.
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Thanks for letting us know about this. He’d better damned-well respect the ones who do volunteer and show up.
He ought to just shut up —
Umm, yeah. I didn’t send my son into Iraq, he went by himself. He thought he should do something for the people of the U.S.
WE know Rand.
Rand Paul was merely trying to say that we can’t afford to serve as the Shiite and Ayatollah’s Air Force, and I quite agree with him. Maliki has created this problem and it can’t be solved unless he steps down or the country is divided into three ethnic centers. Do most people understand the Shiites and Sunnis loath each other?
Sunnis will not fight for Maliki, so Americans must fill the breach?
Ru Paul is a one trick pony.
Send them all. Together, they weigh less than a jeep.
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