The 12 Republicans That Voted Against Arming Syrian Rebels

breitbart.com ^ | 9/19/2014 | Charlie Spiering

[rktman]

The Senate approved a continuing resolution for the budget which included a provision authorizing President Obama to arm and train Syrian rebels for the purpose of combating Islamic State terrorists.

The legislation passed 78-22.

Of the 22 Senators that voted no, here are the 12 Republicans that voted against the provision:

John Barrasso (WY) Tom Coburn (OK) Michael Crapo (ID) Ted Cruz (TX) Mike Enzi (WY) Dean Heller (NV) Mike Lee (UT) Jim Moran (KS) Rand Paul (KY) James Risch (ID) Pat Roberts (KS) Jeff Sessions (AL)

[Graewoulf]

Two days ago, Speaker “Blank Check” Boehner approved the spending of $ 500,000,000 of US Taxpayer Dollars to “train” 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels in Saudi Arabia for one year. IOW, another Boehner Bailout Bill to Obama.

Here are a few discussion points that were NOT mentioned by Boehner:

* Each Syrian Muslim Rebel will cost $ 100,000 to train.

* 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will be removed from the battlefields in Syria to a training site in Saudi Arabia for one year.

* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will leave their families with reduced protection from attack by Syrian Army troops, for one year.

* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will leave their families with NO protection from attack by ISIS troops, for one year.

* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels from the battlefields of Syria will help both the Syrian and ISIS troops to more easily take over areas controlled by the Syrian Muslim Rebels.

BTW, did anyone notice if before the US Senate approved Boehner’s Bailout Bill yesterday, did any US Senator mention that removing 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels from the battlefields of Syria, was in effect, “Giving aid and comfort to the ENEMY” for the period of one year?

[rktman]

Well, are some of the “d’s” up for re-election? I just posted one due to hairy screed adjourning until 11/12. That ought to get some work done. Oh, never mind. I meant some campaigning.

[little jeremiah]

This all makes me feel like puking. I see no cure other than unmentionable ones.

[VTenigma]

I guess I’m in good company opposing this.

[Dust in the Wind]

It is Jerry Moran not Jim as a Ks senator.:)

[deport]

Don’t know which if any are in the 21 democrat seats that
are up for reelection this time.

A listing of all 36 senate seats up this time.
http://www.senateconservatives.com/site/races

[little jeremiah]

When will the mad descent into Hell stop?

The worse this gets, the more painful the cure.

[little jeremiah]

What’s the proof, eyebrows?

Looks like more insanely vile nonsense pukedom to me.

[rktman]

You callin’ me good company? Thanks.

[chris37]

Marco “Sparky” Rubio is a real treasure, ain’t he...

[Ben Ficklin]

"What's the proof"

There is no proof, that's why I posted it. Just like there is no proof of and in the other photos. I'm merely ridiculing the other photos.

You can make the conspiracy more elaborate like this:

Now you can say that the tip started with Snowden and McCain is and has always been a Mossad operative.

If you go back to the Gulf News article, no one knows much about Baghdadi between 2004 and 2014, and there are lots of stories floating around that lend themselves to conspiracy theories. Then you add in the fact Baghdadi's call for a Caliphate is anti-Islamic so Baghdadi is either a bad muslim, or even worse, maybe a Mossad agent. And to support the Mossad theory you can go back to 2004 and Baghdadi's entrance and exit at Camp Bucca, which was just the mechanics of how Mossad/CIA injected Shimon/Baghdadi into the Arab world, to create havoc.

[Rome2000]

I’m afraid only flamethrowers and dogs can save us now

At this point I ‘d rather the country be set up like North Korea, maybe with Larry the Cable Guy as Dictator for life

Just give the order, no domestic marxists allowed in political office, the Judiciary, Academia, or the Press.

Use flamethrowers and dogs to make it happen.

And the muslim problem in the USA?

Well, there wouldn’t BE any muslims in the USA

And ISIS and the rest of the assorted ragheads in the Middle East?

Drop so many bombs on the sons of bitches that the entire population of the middle east will either be dead or deaf.

And the illegal aliens?

Give them bus fare and 48 hours to get out or hunt them down like animals and throw them a beating, then deport them.

And the queers?

Lets just say they would be keeping an extremely low profile, what with all of the flamethrowers and Dogs Larry the Cable Guy American Dictator for life has.

I’m dead serious

Has DC ever actually SOLVED any problem?

ISIS exists because the DC Political Class cared more about getting reelected than national security.

Let’s make this happen!

[NonValueAdded]

well, I can say he’s no Bill Nelson. Or Charlie Crist. beyond that ... disappointment.

[rmlew]

Are yo making fun of anti-semites or showing your true colors?

[rmlew]

And clearly, the Gulf Daily News, ie the voice of Bahrain would never lie.
Seriously, do you just automatically lose the ability to think rationally, when Muslim lies abot Israel come into play?

[rmlew]

Interestingly enough, the only Republican i say mentioned on Fox News was Rand Paul.

[Ben Ficklin]

"Are you making fun of anti-semites or showing your true colors?

Neither. I am making fun of those who use the photos to spin a conspiracy theory. What is obviously evident is that an individual or group can use the photos to spin a conspiracy but a second individual/group can use the photos to spin and entirely different conspiracy.

The subject we are really talking about in the broadest sense in "intervening in Syria" and we can talk about it just like we talked about "intervening in Libya"

We can say that thru-out 2011 and 2012 the NeoCon Republicans and Liberal Interventionist Democrats wanted to intervene in Syria. But the Realists(composed of republicans and democrats) were opposed to intervening in Syria. The Antiwar democrats and Isolationists Republicans were also opposed. Obama was also opposed.

But then towards the end of 2012, some of the Realists began to gradually shift their position to supporting intervention. Some will say that the shift began at the 2012 GOP Convention in Tampa because several men from Syrian Emergency Task Force attended and spoke at the convention.

By the spring of 2013 the shift was complete. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to arm the Syrian Rebels. On a vote of 15 to 3. The NeoCons, Liberal Interventionists, and the Realists voted to arm the rebels. The 3 no votes came from the 2 antiwar dems and the isolationist Rand Paul.

Obama worked up a plan, submitted it back to Congress and it was approved.

We don't know exactly when it began but by the spring of 2014 it is well underway because the media is reporting on it. CIA picks the group, who travel to Turkey for vetting, then to Qatar for training, then back to Syria with their weapons.

But there are complaints. The process is slow. The rebels are being given anti-tank weapons but they need anti-aircraft weapons. So certain members of Congress wanted to speed it up and give them anti-aircraft weapons. But then the airliner got shot down in Ukraine, so they all shut up.

Eventually it was put back on the front burner, and Congress has voted for the military to take over the duties from CIA, and speed it up. Nowhere in all the discussion has it been mentioed if they will or will not give them anti-aircraft weapons.

So the central question or issue revolves around the fact that there are terrorist groups within the Free Syrian Army and whether or not they will benefit from the other rebel groups being armed.

Apparently the foreign policy community, intelligence community, and a majority of congress think that this can be done.