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.
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The House Republicans are in somebody’s pocket. Don’t know whose, but it isn’t the American people’s.
I seem to recall that there’s a Constitutional remedy for Congress in this case. Let’s see....what is it? Oh yeah. Declare war yourselves, Congress. Otherwise, shut yer yaps.
Once again, Trump and the U. S. will prevail where lesser men have failed.
He was right. The U. S. will come off looking good, by all players in the region.
These folks will be left stuck defending footage from a U. S. firing range to buttress their spin on things.
They are just spitting into the wind and virtue signaling to each other. They can resolve all they want.
I don’t care old d*** *** promised our troops would only be in Syria for 30 days
But in their defense, the defense industry and their banking friends pay them a lotta money to keep at least a FEW wars going on.
Un-American neocon whores for sale.
Behind the curve, the issue is already settled.
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RUSSIA the peacekeepers: Putin’s troops ‘will not allow’ Syria and Turkey to enter direct conflict, says Moscow, as their forces position themselves between the two factions following US withdrawal
PDJT campaigned on getting us out of the ME wars.
Thay have a count, was it a recorded vote?
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WTH?
They never approved US troops in Syria. Now they complain that Trump is pulling them out? Sheesh.
The defense lobbyists must be working overtime.
“War is a Racket” Gen Smedley Butler
President Trump is mostly on his own saving America. These 125 Republicans are so damn ignorant that we need to vote them out of the party. And this is the House? We know the Senate are a total bunch of crap heads. Have the Senate had any hearings yet?
Things like this > why we don't have the majority in the House.
How many of these politicians have their sons and daughters in these war zones? I guess they see this as another form of abortion.
Article 1. Section 8.
The constituents of both parties should look hard and primary the un-American traitors.
If those SOBs want a war, they can get off their whiny little butts and vote for it.
C.W.
Is this Biden’s “on the 17th”?
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