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Army to Congress: Do your job so we can help Israel and Ukraine
Politico ^ | 10/09/2023 | PAUL MCLEARY and CONNOR O’BRIEN

Posted on 10/09/2023 3:55:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The U.S. Army wants to help supply both its Ukrainian and Israeli allies with as many bombs and other equipment as they need in their separate wars.

But it can’t happen as long as Congress is in chaos. Pentagon leadership is still in the early stages of evaluating what Israel might need to battle Hamas militants, but an administration briefing to members of Congress laid out some early markers: air-to-ground bombs, and air defense systems.

But whatever Israel needs, those requests will run headlong into the dysfunction and uncertainty enveloping Capitol Hill, as the House grapples with selecting a new leader and both chambers race to avoid a government shutdown just weeks away.

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KEYWORDS: bsonsteroids; fakenews; nonsenicalposting
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To: MinorityRepublican

Aren’t Ukraine weapons we bought them showing up in Palestine? Yeah, not exactly on the top of my list of countries to support. And that’s one of the less serious conflicts with our national interests Ukraine has.


21 posted on 10/09/2023 4:07:17 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hmmm. What about that 3B A year I just read about in another post?


22 posted on 10/09/2023 4:08:41 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Ukraine???? For real?

They are just a money laundering....country.

23 posted on 10/09/2023 4:09:24 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: MinorityRepublican; curious7

If you could find a half dozen guys with gold oakleaves in the services who are not LGBQT, they could man a bank of phones and have what Israel needs in the air in two days.


24 posted on 10/09/2023 4:10:02 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: rarestia

Decades of the executive branch declaring proxy wars around the globe but NOW it’s on Congress? I’m so disgusted by all of this.

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And yet the neo-cons in Congress (Rats and Repukes alike) will likely give the Army its wish.


25 posted on 10/09/2023 4:20:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“as the House grapples with selecting a new leader and both chambers race to avoid a government shutdown just weeks away”

What a bunch of propaganda BULLSHIRT!!!!


26 posted on 10/09/2023 4:20:39 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: All

How about Congress doing their duty so that the Army ( and Air Force and Navy, Marines and Coast Guard) can help AMERICANS repel their invasion???


27 posted on 10/09/2023 4:22:21 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Send the army to the southern border.


28 posted on 10/09/2023 4:25:11 PM PDT by MarMema ("Legitimate Military Targets" (Putin))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pathetic. We have already sent munitions and money we don’t have.

I have never heard of the Army getting politically involved publicly with messing in the business of Congress.


29 posted on 10/09/2023 4:29:02 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Starboard

By the way, are there still Iranian spies in the Pentagon?


30 posted on 10/09/2023 4:29:24 PM PDT by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoax )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Israelis know the neighborhood they live in so much of this is on them for not being prepared due to so many idiotic dupes in Israel who believe in leftist propaganda.


31 posted on 10/09/2023 4:32:20 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: wildcard_redneck
Israelis know the neighborhood they live in so much of this is on them for not being prepared due to so many idiotic dupes in Israel who believe in leftist propaganda.

The last intifada ended 20 years ago. So if you're a 25 year old Israeli, you've lived your entire life in Israel in relative peace. The IDF is around but you don't really understand why it's necessary.

32 posted on 10/09/2023 4:41:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe the military can do a drag show readings for Hamas.. offer transgender surgeries and educate them on the seriousness of climate change


33 posted on 10/09/2023 4:47:25 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Total politicized BS — disgusting what’s become of the Pfentagon.


34 posted on 10/09/2023 4:50:06 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m sorry, why are we killing all of these people again?


35 posted on 10/09/2023 4:53:01 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican
But it can’t happen as long as Congress is in chaos.

Congress is almost always in chaos, and it was in chaos when McCarthy was thrown out. That's why he was thrown out, partially at least.

36 posted on 10/09/2023 4:56:10 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ukraine was such a losing cause Hamas is doing them a favor to keep their sorry spending train going down the tracks which Ukraine stopped doing.


37 posted on 10/09/2023 4:59:19 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: imabadboy99

It’s 9/11 in their book which means watch out the Slave Train is coming down the tracks.


38 posted on 10/09/2023 5:00:03 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The “Pentagon leadership” needs to make sure their cushy post-retirement jobs with their contractors are still going to be there.


39 posted on 10/09/2023 5:01:32 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am a huge supporter of Israel but I’m pretty sure they can take care of Gaza without our help.
We really don’t want this to slip into an international war.


40 posted on 10/09/2023 5:01:40 PM PDT by Zathras
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