Posted on 04/06/2017 9:43:53 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Oh for crying out loud.....you obviously don’t understand simple English, nor American history.
Rand and his INSANE father are both plain old STUPID and CRAZY!
Never learned much history nor anything about when Harry Truman was president?
Rand, after servicing Obola for 8 years, you can crawl back into your hole you farking hypocrite.
No, under the war powers act he has 48 hours to notify congress, and 60 days to get approval, then another 30 days to leave if he doesn’t get it. IOW, he can do whatever he wants for 90 days.
Of course no administration has accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional, and the courts have specifically refused to rule on it. As for Paul’s argument, presidents have waged war without approval ever since #2 and #3. Adams fought a naval war with France, and Jefferson fought the Barbary Pirates without Congress giving approval. I guess they should have had Rand around to explain the constitution to them.
Really ..??? When did that start. I don’t recall this President calling for any bombing in Syria ..??
I’m with Rand Paul on this. Assad didn’t attack America or Americans. Even if the chemical weapons were true, why is it American business to retaliate?
Because we are a “Global Force for Good”, don’cha know?
The bombing itself is less interesting than some of the reactions to it.
I would have sworn the general consensus here was that this CW usage was a false flag thing meant to trick Trump into doing what Trump just did. Now the consensus seems to be that he’s a new kind of genius and brave somehow. For doing what Hillary recommended and what any of the Bushes would have done.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to America throwing its weight around now and then, but I would prefer we be a bit more honest about things.
Was there vital American interests at risk?
NO, of course not!
Would we call it an act of war if Syria pulled up in the ocean near America and launched a couple boat loads of cruise missiles into our heartland?
YES, of course it would be war!
People can agree or disagree about our video game wars, but some of the comments on Rand Paul are illogical.
Rand’s view of all things war-related are generally closer to the late great Thomas Jefferson while the new and improved Trump fan logic is nearly identical to the Bush logic Trump ran against.
Regardless the stand of others on where and when to use American might, Rand Paul has been more inline with the pre-election Trump view than could be said for most Republicans. But I think now some Trump fans feel Paul is bad because he has not changed his view as has Trump.
People can say what they will about him, but Rand Paul is more consistent than most in this area. Hell, he’s held the same views since we used to call him Ron.
I thought America has had enough of the policemen of the world role and Trump has sworn he didn’t want to be the president of the world. I guess election doesn’t matter, Hillary or Donald, Democrats or republican, they serve one master
It must be the water or air in Washington DC, no matter who moves to there, he becomes a totally different person
Better impeach Jefferson for Barbary Pirates then.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War):
Although Congress never voted on a formal declaration of war, they did authorize the President to instruct the commanders of armed American vessels to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli "and also to cause to be done all such other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war will justify." The American squadron joined a Swedish flotilla under Rudolf Cederström in blockading Tripoli, the Swedes having been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800.[5]
Are you saying reality matters to Dems? While I agree that it should have that result, whether it will is another thing altogether.
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