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Rand Paul: It's time to come home from Afghanistan
YouTube ^ | March 26 | OAN

Posted on 03/26/2021 8:15:33 PM PDT by RandFan

Sen. Paul on OAN Discussing Troop Withdrawal (Part 1)

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; mysweetrandy; oan; swoon; wot
Rand explains his position very well here...
1 posted on 03/26/2021 8:15:33 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

No. It waa time a long time ago. It was stupid in the first place, to get into a war that was unwinnable. We have over a millenia of proof of that.


2 posted on 03/26/2021 8:23:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RandFan

Why didn’t he say this when Trumo was president?


3 posted on 03/26/2021 8:23:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Rand said 77 senators want to stay there for an extended period.. so does Biden. It does not look good.


4 posted on 03/26/2021 8:24:33 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: nickcarraway

He did.. Watch the video. Congress stopped Trump from bringing troops home


5 posted on 03/26/2021 8:25:46 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

If we leave who gets control of the poppies?


6 posted on 03/26/2021 8:25:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: RandFan

Trump is the Commander in Chief.


7 posted on 03/26/2021 8:27:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RandFan

By the way, if that were true, Trump could have made a big public spectacle of that fact.


8 posted on 03/26/2021 8:27:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Paul has advocated extricating our troops from foreign entanglements for decades. He’s been right and he’s been ignored.


9 posted on 03/26/2021 8:27:56 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPC8zB-JPSg)
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To: yesthatjallen

The same people that control it now.


10 posted on 03/26/2021 8:28:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It’s true...


11 posted on 03/26/2021 8:28:42 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: yesthatjallen; dead

Watch this video :

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3945438/posts

Rand says Afghan leaders are drug dealers and thieves. I don’t think he’s gone that far before but it’s interesting.


12 posted on 03/26/2021 8:30:45 PM PDT by RandFan
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If Trump ended the war in Afghanistan, then Biden would just be some old guy, playing with dolls in a basement today.


13 posted on 03/26/2021 8:35:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Trump reached an agreement with the Taliban to leave by May 1st.

Biden has pulled out of the agreement


14 posted on 03/26/2021 8:36:22 PM PDT by RandFan
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Congress doesn't have that power. Unless the president gives it to him.

By the way, even if it Congress was attempting such a thing, the President can call a press conference. The President can go on TV and say he is trying to end the war and Congress is stopping him. And name names. Make it clear exactly who is perpetuating the war. The majority of U.S. Americans, of all persuasions, think the Democrats are anti-war.

They are never forced to publicly defend their positions.

15 posted on 03/26/2021 8:39:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Yes. But Trump also backed down on it. That agreement was B.S. There is no way to enforce such an agreement, and the Taliban know that. There is no "clean" way to end the war.

If we wait for an agreement that will actual work, this war will still be going on in 100 years. As it is, the only way we are getting out of the war is when the U.S. goes bankrupt.

Does that sound familiar? That is what happened to the U.S.S.R. when they tried this in Afghanistan.

16 posted on 03/26/2021 8:42:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

At least he tried and there was an agreement in place.

Regardless, Rand has been calling for troops to come from Afghanistan and various other places since he got to the senate in 2010.


17 posted on 03/26/2021 8:48:13 PM PDT by RandFan
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That’s OK, the sons and daughters are filling in the deployments. That is how long we have been there. America stopped declaring and winning wars after WWII.


18 posted on 03/26/2021 10:45:57 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: nickcarraway

He did, many times.


19 posted on 03/27/2021 2:35:18 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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