Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'

Foreign Policy ^ | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson

[Hoodat]

Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists.

"This is something that those who voted in Congress are going to have to live with," Paul told The Cable on Thursday. "The question is: How does their conscience feel now as they see photographs of tanks rolling over Egyptian civilians?"

As the official Egyptian death toll climbs to 638, the legislation the Kentucky libertarian is referring to was an amendment to suspend aid to Egypt until the country holds free and fair elections. Two weeks ago, Republicans and Democrats rejected it by an overwhelming 86-13 vote -- and top lawmakers in both parties protested it loudly.

"This amendment may be good politics, but it is bad policy," Sen. Bob Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said at the time.

"It would be a terrific mistake for the United States to send a message to Egypt: you're on your own," Republican Senator John McCain added back then. "I urge my colleagues to vote to table the Paul amendment."

The vote has already come back to haunt some lawmakers, such as McCain, who is now advocating a cancellation of aid to Egypt . . .

[rmlew]

Rand Paultard now supports the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda.

[rmlew]

Rand Paul is against giving taxpayer money to Egypt and he doesn’t care who is in power. Why the hell do you want to spend money killing civilians in Egypt? That makes no sense ar all. The muslim brotherhood is their problem.
Thhe Muslim Brotherhood is the parent of Al Qaeda, sharing its long range goals and differing only in occasional methodology. It is a terrorist organization that allied with te Nazis. It is our enemy. It declared us Satan in the 1950s for having Church dances.

[rmlew]

Why the hell do you want to take sides in the Egyptian civil war?
Because the Muslim Brotherhood and its progent Al Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya are your enemies.

Getting involved in this will only bring their civil war here. Just like it did before.
They are already here and we are at war with them.