Posted on 06/22/2014 7:23:32 PM PDT by kingattax
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., offered some bipartisan backup to President Obama on the subject of Iraq Sunday, saying many critics who blame the president for the ferocious Islamist insurgency there, like former Vice President Dick Cheney, should take a look in the mirror.
"I don't blame President Obama," Paul told NBC News. "Has he really got the solution? Maybe there is no solution."
Paul said those who have questioned the president's approach to the recent surge in violence should ask the same questions of those who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq: "Were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there? Was the war won in 2005, when many of those people said it was won?"
"They didn't, really, I think understand the civil war that would break out," Paul said.
Cheney and other conservative hawks have been relentless in their criticism of the president in recent days, saying Mr. Obama invited the chaos in Iraq by withdrawing all of America's troops in 2011 and that he's failing to stop it now by dithering and dissembling in his public response.
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Old Rand must be using McCain K street advisers and consultants.
Nice NOT really knowing you Rand. I think I’ve heard enough to stop taking you seriously as a conservative. Have you turned into Bob Dole or what?
Martina O Malley did that here in Maryland, and guess what ? , they vote Dem.
Great quotes of the top demoCRAPs talking tough about Iraq & Saddam Hussein, and then abruptly doing a complete 180 degree reversal after they approved GWB use of force. But unfortunately GWB as well as the other dipsh_t Repubs are too stupid & cowardly to bring these quotes out and throw them over & over again in the MSM & demoCRAPs faces.
I agree , s glad to see this side of rand paul now ...early on . Like his dad , a flake .
President of Dis integration, dat’s wat! Let things fall apart, dat’s da ticket. We don’t need no leadership, we need bleedership.
But I think both he and McCain are whacko turds!
What is Rand Paul’s agenda, anyway? He is all over the place, politically, even in conflict with days’ earlier statements. He is off the charts recently, defending RINOs and democrats. I guess he is trying to sew up both sides of the 10% of the independents in the country, by jabbing at and/or supporting both sides, but he mainly seems to be supporting ALL the wrong people. He is beginning to sound even more bizarre than his father. I hope that republicans remember these weird things and decide to send him packing. He’s more like a nutcase every day.
Why waste the whiskey.
The nut doesn't fall too far from...uh, the other nut.
Slowly loosing his grip on the presidency ....
I think he’s on target. What have we gained from all of this interventionist BS? We’ve lost the Bill of Rights, we’ve lost the rule of law, and we are fast aping East Germany in our conduct towards citizens. We have also lost over 5000 troops, in return for nothing.
The anti-terrorist argument doesn’t fly, because we are funding and training al Nusra, and probably ISIS, at least for Syria, if not Iraq. The government is completely out of control, and needs to be reigned in. When Israel says “jump”, we have to stop asking “how high?”. They are killing us.
Rand Paul is a freaking dumbass.
Obama’s actions have completely destabilized the Mideast. Bush/Cheney had nothing to do with it. The Democrat vision of an “Arab Spring” and the subsequent disintegration of Egypt, Libya and Syria without Obama lifting a finger to stabilize is what has brought forth the ISIS.
>> “Maybe there is no solution.”
This statement is worse than his foolish pandering.
the “presidency” is of no interest to obozo.
since day one, his puppetmasters have been formatting a “dictatorship”
Rand Paul has swallowed the Code Pink Kool Aid.
There is no antidote.
FURP!
Paul on TV this AM wanting to “Give back voting rights to over 60,000 black convicted felons”.
What a RACIST !
Apparently Rand Paul has not noticed that ISIS is one of the main groups trying to topple Assad in Syria - where the U.S. had no involvement in regime change, yet their March into Iraq (an event occurring 7+ years after stability was achieved after the completion of the surge operations) is Dick Cheney’s fault, even though it was Obama’s decision to just sit on his hands and do nothing as this group organized and then began its advance through Iraq. Mindless nonsense.
Your comments are completely nonresponsive to actual issues at hand, just like Paul’s were to begin with - what does Obama’s actions in Syria have to do with attacking Cheney and defending Obama’s actions?
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