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Romney slams ceasefire deal, calls Trump's Syria move 'a bloodstain' in US history
The Hill ^ | 10/17/19 03:41 PM EDT | BY JORDAIN CARNEY

Posted on 10/17/2019 3:03:35 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) ripped the administration over the recently announced cease-fire in Syria, calling President Trump's decision to withdraw troops "a bloodstain in the annals of American history."

"The announcement today is being portrayed as a victory. It is far from a victory. Serious questions remain about how the decision was reached precipitously to withdraw from Syria and why that decision was reached," Romney said.

Romney's Senate floor speech came after Vice President Pence announced a five-day cease-fire.

Under the agreement Pence said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed to halt Turkey’s offensive in Syria for 120 hours in order to allow Kurdish YPG forces to evacuate. The agreement will also maintain a “permanent cease-fire” once the evacuation is complete.

Romney added the administration needs to explain what the U.S. role will be moving forward. And the cease-fire, he argued, does not change that the United States "abandoned" the Kurds.

"Adding insult to dishonor, the administration speaks cavalierly, even flippantly, even as our ally has suffered death and casualty," Romney said. "We once abandoned a red line. Now we abandon an ally."

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To: mrsmith

[An area the size of Hawaii... if the Turks can hold it against Syria/ Kurds /Russia.]


IMO, this is Cyprus redux. The Brits acquiesced to the de facto Turkish annexation of ~50% of Cyprus. This “ceasefire” has just handed a chunk of land double the size of Turkish Cyprus to Erdogan.


81 posted on 10/17/2019 3:57:57 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Hojczyk

Mitt is a good example of how Mormons mislead.

Mormons claim to identify as Christians to get people to trust them. I do not consider them to be.

Mitt tries to identify as a republican. He’s not.


82 posted on 10/17/2019 3:59:16 PM PDT by boycott
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To: elpadre

Fool me once shame on you. That’s how I feel.


83 posted on 10/17/2019 3:59:38 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: Hojczyk

Mitch is a clueless A-hole.


84 posted on 10/17/2019 4:00:04 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: elpadre

“I am so ashamed that I voted for Romney to be POTUS.”

We should all thank Candy Crowley that this conniving weasel wasn’t elected.


85 posted on 10/17/2019 4:02:28 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Hojczyk
"Romney added the administration needs to explain what the U.S. role will be moving forward."

I think one of you geniuses up there in the Puzzle Palace needs to explain what the hell the U.S. role has been moving backwards. LOL!!!

WTF Mitt? What is wrong with you? If I didn't know better, I'd wonder if maybe somebody should check to see if one of your kids sits on the board of directors for a Syrian Natural Gas firm at $50k a month. Why do these guys seem to get all exercised about the Turkish/Syrian border 7,000 miles away? Aren't "Open Borders" an unalloyed Good Thing™??
86 posted on 10/17/2019 4:04:10 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation; ought-six

I would never have put it together if you hadn’t mentioned the massacre. Reading the wiki article, Nauvoo Legion and Nauvoo Mission were mentioned. Nauvoo was also the name of the huge space ship the Mormons built to seek their destiny in the Netflix series, “The Expanse”. The good guys commandeered it to save the planetary system.

Just one of those things I learned while looking up other things...always fun.

Thanks!


87 posted on 10/17/2019 4:06:21 PM PDT by moovova (You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
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To: Hojczyk

Mittens has his magic underwear in a wad again.


88 posted on 10/17/2019 4:12:52 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Williams

[You’re a propagandist]


I’m a propagandist for America’s friends. The Syrian Kurds have taken a huge amount of punishment - far more than the Iraqi Kurds have done. They could have run away to Europe. They stayed and fought.

Trump’s comparisons to Normandy are inapt. Our “allies” there fought for the same reason as the Syrian Kurds - to keep their identities separate from a conquering power. Apart from the Soviets, who fought the Germans to avoid being killed to the last man, woman and child, after they helped the Germans kick off WWII, the US took the largest number of soldiers killed on European battlefields. The Syrian Kurds have lost about 10,000 dead. The US has lost 8. That’s how the Syrian Kurds have been way better allies than all of Western Europe combined.

Most of our so-called allies are little more than hangers-on. The Syrian Kurds are a big exception. And that’s why the Special Forces people on the ground aren’t too thrilled at the thought of abandoning them to their fate, even as they were fairly blase about getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq.


89 posted on 10/17/2019 4:13:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Hojczyk

Pull the foreskin up over your face Romney and shut up.


90 posted on 10/17/2019 4:14:25 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Lent

Har. You baid


91 posted on 10/17/2019 4:17:54 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Hojczyk

Romney is fine with perpetual war as long as his blood is not the stain.


92 posted on 10/17/2019 4:17:58 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: ought-six; ptsal

“Mountain Meadows Mitt.”

I doubt 99% of Americans would understand the reference.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I’m a 1 per center


93 posted on 10/17/2019 4:21:51 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Mr Rogers
"He wouldn’t EVER go, but he wants others to."

Romney in his prime wouldn't have made it to day two of boot camp.

94 posted on 10/17/2019 4:26:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Hojczyk

How scary is it that these warmonger scum talk like this? The other scary thing is that if the President did ramp up forces in the region to fight,these same a-holes would be screaming bloody murder.


95 posted on 10/17/2019 4:28:41 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Zhang Fei

Cyprus… good point!
Turkey has ‘played’ Europe over and over. Bet it affects their planning here.

Lot more anti-Turk forces here, though.
Though Assad wants the Kurds cleared for refugees in mostly the same places Turkey does.

But it’s Idlib that matters to everyone.
A quarter million Kurds displaced for refugees is, I’m sorry to say, not a big deal in the big picture.


96 posted on 10/17/2019 4:28:41 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Hojczyk

Myth became rather quiet and uncurious about Benghazi, arms smuggling across the Mediterranean, and Syria after losing in 2012. I wonder why...


97 posted on 10/17/2019 4:30:36 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: Hojczyk

STFU AZZHAT!


98 posted on 10/17/2019 4:34:08 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: Hojczyk

As much as I despise Barack Obama, and I do, I thank God that he saved us from a President Romney ( and a President McCain too).

I guess it proves that God really does work things for the best, even if it doesn’t seem so at the time.

God bless President Trump, and God bless the USA.


99 posted on 10/17/2019 4:40:24 PM PDT by CrosscutSaw
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To: American in Israel

Romney is fine with perpetual war as long as his blood is not the stain.


Neither his nor his family evidently. I believe his sons never donned the uniform??


100 posted on 10/17/2019 4:50:38 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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