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Menendez: Trump ‘Suggested That The Kurds Are Communists’
breitbart.com ^ | 16 Oct 2019

Posted on 10/16/2019 9:58:46 PM PDT by Helicondelta

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Robert Menendez (D-NJ) stated that during a White House meeting, President Trump “suggested that the Kurds are Communists, and therefore, all you Democrats must be very happy with that.”

Menendez said, “Well, the president came in and he was in a belligerent state from the beginning. He smacked down a whole bunch of papers on the table and said, you all asked for this meeting, I reluctantly agreed to it.

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KEYWORDS: kurds; pkk
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To: MarvinStinson

His articles are shining light on Obama’s deception and why Trump made the correct decision.

They are against the PKK, YPG and SDF, which are all the same group. Not the Kurds in totality.


41 posted on 10/17/2019 2:54:52 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Loved the comment posted on the linked article...

Menendez is mistaken.....Trump said “You Turds are Communists” meaning you Democrats.


42 posted on 10/17/2019 2:59:32 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: dp0622; Helicondelta
Hell even i knew a segment was communist even though i GREATLY was against what Trump did

Ach weel, don't beat yourself up too much, we've all been wrong before. You'll come around when you figure you are attempting to pick up a turd from the clean end, lol.

What Pres. Trump understands, and you haven't quite caught on yet, is that is is Muslims fighting Muslims. If they ain't goin' at each other, they be comin' at us, yeah? And besides, the Turks are our allies in NATO... WTF, we gonna' fight NATO now? Let's sell arms to both sides and watch. it has to happen.

If you take a longer view of this situation, it is a lot more clear. Pictures of dead babies is heartbreaking, but they are not mine, nor my friend's, nor my naton's babies. I only have so much compassion, number one, and number two, they brought it on themselves. Let them figure it out, like we did as brothers when we were boys. Sometimes there is blood. So 'fess up, Trump was right again.

43 posted on 10/17/2019 3:45:45 AM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)
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To: Helicondelta

I don’t know if the Kurds are Communists but the Democrats CERTAINLY are.


44 posted on 10/17/2019 3:52:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: P-Marlowe; dp0622
The democrats voted unanimously to condemn Trump for this action. That alone should tell you he did the right thing.

That's the Cliff Notes version, which is good enough for me. Got me through, can't ask more. What happened to the Democrat party.... Hard to believe this is happening in OUR country.

45 posted on 10/17/2019 3:52:56 AM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)
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To: Helicondelta

Hey what is the malfunction withliberals. Kurds say they are communists, not Trump... and Obamq said he was muslim, not us saying it. and Biden said he extorted the Ukrainians. Good grief


46 posted on 10/17/2019 3:55:52 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified e)
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To: Helicondelta

Anybody who is saying “we have betrayed our Kurdish allies,” but who can’t explain the differences between the PKK, the YPG, the FSA, the Peshmerga etc etc, is just a plain fool.


47 posted on 10/17/2019 4:31:25 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Helicondelta

PKK is communist. They are pretty much criminals. They used to have violent demonstrations in Germany back in the 80s.


48 posted on 10/17/2019 4:34:08 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Helicondelta

>>>But why the hell are republicans siding with the Kurds? Maybe it’s true that neocons are all closet communists.

And why is the President sanctioning the Turks if the Communist Kurds are worse than ISIS?


49 posted on 10/17/2019 4:40:43 AM PDT by oincobx
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To: ptsal

Dirt bag menendez


50 posted on 10/17/2019 4:41:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: dp0622

When exactly would have been a good time to get out of Syria in your mind? Obviously ending our advertised 30 day deployment after most of a decade is too sudden for you. Would 5 more years have worked for you? I think President Trump made a mistake in not pulling out troops at the beginning of the year as he originally planned to do. There is nothing the U.S. needs in Syria.


51 posted on 10/17/2019 4:49:22 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Helicondelta

Just like any other ethnic group (Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group, without a country, if you don’t count the maingroups in India and China), some are more Leftist, and some are more Conservative.

Overall, the main Kurdish political parties are Left of center, but the Party we have been dealing with in Syria to fight ISIS (PYD, under an umbrella organization we formed, called SDF), is very far left - kind of cult-like, and often compared to Maoist guerrillas.

The PYD itself is essentially a front organization for the PKK, a formally designated terrorist organization, responsible for tens of thousands of Turkish deaths over several decades. PKK leadership calls the shots behind the scenes, but very openly, both parties idolize and adhere to the doctrines of Abdullah Ocalan (often called just “Apo” - “Uncle”). So it is far from a secret.

The PKK and Ocalan were Soviet clients, before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The PKK have lived for decades as austere guerrillas in the mountains (headquartered in Qandil Mountains of NW Iran). They place high importance on gender equality. They have separate male and female militaries in Syria (YPG/YPJ). They would appoint two commanders for every major operation (like the liberation of Raqqa), and require women to remain celibate while in the Service.

Political education/indoctrination sessions are a daily thing for them, and that is what they are trying to implement in the school system in the areas that they control. Although they espouse Democracy and a high degree of autonomy down at the local level (like collectives, villages and cities), in practice they don’t tolerate other political parties. They forced out representatives of the pro-US Kurdish KDP Party from Northern Iraq, and closed their offices. Some were killed, expelled or jailed.

In recent years, Ocalan (Apo), who has long been serving a sentence in Turkish prison (having been captured with US assistance), has been softening his political doctrines, in ways that might make them more acceptable to the International community of Governments. Nonetheless, many suspect that the hardened cadre of the PKK will institute an effective one Party dictatorship if given the chance, and will remain committed to eventually liberating large Kurdish areas in SouthEast Turkey.

So there has been debate over wether the re-branding and dilution of “Apoism” has been genuine and sufficient enough to be trusted running a permanent Government.


52 posted on 10/17/2019 4:53:43 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: tired&retired

His articles are Turkish propaganda.


53 posted on 10/17/2019 5:23:16 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Why does history support his articles?

Read my posts on the PKK.


54 posted on 10/17/2019 6:31:52 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: MarvinStinson

Is it propaganda that PKK was listed by many countries, including USA as a Terrorist organization?


55 posted on 10/17/2019 6:33:44 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Prince of Space

So, we’re using American troops as mercenaries. Lovely. Why can’t Saudi raise their own fighting force? It’s a country of 35 million people. I’ve worked there. I’ve seen row after row of bunkers filled with weapons and ammo we either gave them or sold them. I’ve seen row after row of hardened hangers, each filled with F-15 Strike Eagles. Saudi is more than capable of defending itself. What Saudi lacks is the will and if you lack the will to defend your own country we have no business whatsoever doing it for them, regardless of whether they are paying or not. We do not need their oil. Truth is, we never have.


56 posted on 10/17/2019 6:34:34 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (If ignorance is bliss how come there aren't more happy people?)
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To: MarvinStinson

The PKK is not representative of the rest of the Kurds.


57 posted on 10/17/2019 6:35:03 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Thermalseeker

It’s a long story, but basically it goes all the way back to Nixon and Kissenger rescuing our currency when Nixon took us off the gold standard and put us on the Petro Dollar.


58 posted on 10/17/2019 6:40:28 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Helicondelta

So my question is why didn’t these politicians already know that the PKK are a bunch of commies? Thats whats scary.


59 posted on 10/17/2019 6:54:29 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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