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Liz Cheney Throws in Digs at Rand in Her Critique of Syria Withdrawal
Townhall ^ | Dec 27 2019 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 12/29/2018 11:30:13 AM PST by rintintin

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) added her name to the long list of lawmakers to publicly oppose President Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria. She minced no words during her appearance on "Face the Nation" over the weekend.

"I am deeply, deeply concerned, and I oppose strongly the president's decision apparently to withdraw troops from Syria, the apparent decision that we're now going to be looking to withdraw troops from Afghanistan," Cheney said. "I think the president has done a lot of very good things in terms of beginning to rebuild our military, getting out of the Iranian nuclear agreement, but these two decisions would be disastrous. They would really in many ways hand victories to our enemies, to Iran, to ISIS in Syria, the Taliban, Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. It's a very dangerous path to go down, and we shouldn't be going down it. We need to make sure that we keep our troops there in order to prevent the establishment of safe havens for those groups that want to attack us."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: assad; cheney; donaldtrump; lizcheney; paul; randpaul; syria; trump
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1 posted on 12/29/2018 11:30:13 AM PST by rintintin
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To: rintintin

War monger just like W and dick.


2 posted on 12/29/2018 11:34:30 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: rintintin

What have we accomplished? What do they want to accomplish, besides killing Americans & creating groups like ISIS?


3 posted on 12/29/2018 11:35:29 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: rintintin

Poison their wells, defoliate their crops, dynamite every bridge, dam, and power plant.

And leave.


4 posted on 12/29/2018 11:37:17 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: shelterguy

Genie Energy, dad’s on the board


5 posted on 12/29/2018 11:37:40 AM PST by txhurl (whoa)
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To: rintintin

i, too, am concerned...
however, if she wants she can file a motion to declare war

US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 gives this power to Congress...


6 posted on 12/29/2018 11:38:05 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: PghBaldy

We’ve been in Afcrapistan for three administrations. Where are all these people who were screaming about exit strategy?


7 posted on 12/29/2018 11:38:14 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: rintintin

Liz can always make a motion for congress to declare war, if it she wants to feel better.

C.W.


8 posted on 12/29/2018 11:38:16 AM PST by colderwater
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To: BenLurkin

Poison their wells

Who is “their”? ISIS doesn’t have any wells or crops, do they?


9 posted on 12/29/2018 11:38:25 AM PST by rintintin
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To: rintintin
We've done it her dad's way (it's also Hillary Clinton's way and Barack Obama's way) since 2001. It's cost us trillions of dollars and has resulted in us trying to aid Islamic radicals who hate us to overthrow a dictator who also hates us. Liz and the other foreign policy establishment types really need to learn how to learn.


10 posted on 12/29/2018 11:38:44 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rintintin

Another warmongering Fredocon.


11 posted on 12/29/2018 11:39:16 AM PST by an amused spectator (Hillary For Prison)
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To: shelterguy

We ought to be really concerned about a real war with a real enemy if we are still hanging around there 17 years after 9-11 with no idea how to end it and go home.

The only saving grace is the fact that we aren’t getting Vietnam-level causalities.


12 posted on 12/29/2018 11:42:00 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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A real war is way easier - you can beat them and go home. These low-intensity asymmetrical conflicts are way harder. That’s why the army focused on conventional readiness after vietnam and excelled at the set-piece battles against a state army in Iraq I and II, and made a mess of Afghanistan and the Iraqi occupation.


13 posted on 12/29/2018 11:43:42 AM PST by fruitless
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To: rintintin

She sounds like Tiny Tom Daschle;

Deeply troubled and deeply disturbed.


14 posted on 12/29/2018 11:44:35 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: rintintin

Carpetbagger from DC pretending she’s a down home Wyoming girl. Typical neocon, never saw a war she didn’t like...from a safe distance of course.


15 posted on 12/29/2018 11:44:42 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: rintintin

If U.S. military action is truly needed in Syria (and not just to enrich the military-industrial complex) then Rep. Cheney should recommend a declaration of war so that the U.S. can justly use its full war capabilities and resources to bring the enemy to unconditional surrender or total annihilation.


16 posted on 12/29/2018 11:45:02 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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“We need to make sure that we keep our troops there in order to prevent the establishment of safe havens for those groups that want to attack us”

Complete kool aid drinking dumbass. I haven’t noticed Afghanistan building an invasion fleet. Liz, let me give you the Siri on this. They cannot hit us from Afghanistan unless we allow the moslems to flood into our country at will. All 19 highjackers on 9/11 were here with our permission.

Build the wall/travel ban. If we notice anything weird, bomb it from the stratosphere.


17 posted on 12/29/2018 11:48:10 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: rintintin

Put a sock in it Liz.


18 posted on 12/29/2018 11:48:37 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: shelterguy
War monger just like W and dick.

Perpetual Wars to boost military-Industrial complex, which president IKE used to point out..

19 posted on 12/29/2018 11:51:01 AM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: DesertRhino

BUMP!


20 posted on 12/29/2018 11:51:44 AM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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