Posted on 10/16/2019 3:29:30 PM PDT by rintintin
Minutes before a small group of key lawmakers were scheduled to discuss the sudden withdrawal of all U.S. troops from northern Syria with President Donald Trump, 129 House Republicans broke ranks and voted Wednesday to rebuke decision.
The move to cross party lines and vote with Democrats to condemn the overseas directive showed the overwhelming bipartisan opposition and frustration with Trump for wanting to remove personnel from the Middle Eastern region as Turkey takes military action against Syrian Kurdish forces. The Kurds are American allies who the U.S. has fought alongside for years in an effort to eradicate ISIS from Syria.
The final vote was 354-60, with all of the no votes coming from Republicans. Top party members voted for the measure, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, GOP Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer (R-AL) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee who cosponsored the legislation with the panel's Democratic chairman.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
So, when will they be sending their own loved ones to fight other people’s wars...
Don’t want troops pulled out of Syria?
Then declare war already.
State the enemy, objective, and RoE.
Absent that, Trump was faced with combat being just a diplomatic tool - and was faced with defending ally from ally, under conditions where all were belligerent. Remain, and all outcomes were bad. Pull out, and all remaining faced a “figure it out” scenario where all outcomes are as good as could be expected.
If you want a war, say so. Otherwise bring the troops home.
Utter meaningless PR stunts.Just another day in our Do Nothing at all Usefull Democrat Fascist Congress. Yo bozos. How about you get busy and do YOUR JOBS instead of trying to tell the President how to do his? Where is a bill on Border Security? Immigration Reform? Voter ID? A Balanced Federal Budget? Legal Reform? in fact where have you bozos done anything at all for the last 2 years? You bozos so gung ho? They declare war clowns. THAT IS your job Morons.
Then declare war you sobs! That is their call!
Gutless cowards.
129 House Republicans should be primaried.
Understatement of the year.
OK, so 354 people in the house voted to leave our troops in harm’s way.
Did they vote to go to war with Turkey? Did they vote to authorize the troops at all?
I might not like that we pulled out, although I have no clue whether Turkey would have just overrun our positions, and I don’t think we have standing orders to fire at Turkish military.
But these 354 people are cowards — they want war, but refuse to vote to declare it, or authorize it, or pay for it.
President Trump should let congress know that any declaration of war would require a return to the draft.
If these disgusting dirtbags want us in Syria why don’t they display a little honor and integrity and lobby Congress for a declaration of war, instead of bitching about Trump honoring his campaign promises?
Bring our Troops Home.....NOW!
Congress won’t let them fight all out to win.
Tell Congress to take a HIKE!
Exactly.
Meanwhile our border is a sieve. It could be fixed in a few days but they don’t want it fixed.
None? The election's a year away, nobody cares, and news from the Middle East is bad whatever happens.
Gee, poor little Newsweek doesn't realize that Congress ratified our NATO treaty with Turkey, and that Congress has never signed an alliance treaty with the Kurds...
The neocons run the government. Big money
You talk about being out of touch with the voters!
The troops are still leaving, right? This motion by the House is meaningless, then.
SO they want war? Ship em off pronto! Let them get a belly full of it instead of our youth!
Where’s the list? We want the list!
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