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McConnell warns Trump against troop drawdown in Afghanistan
The Hill ^ | 11/16/2020 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 11/16/2020 1:35:42 PM PST by lodi90

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired a warning shot Monday against withdrawing more U.S. troops from Afghanistan, even as the Pentagon is preparing an order to do so.

McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, warned that only a "small minority" in Congress would support a rapid drawdown and warned that a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan "would hurt our allies and delight, delight, the people who wish us harm."

"The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama's withdrawal from Iraq back in 2011. ... It would be reminiscent of the humiliating American departure from Saigon in 1975. We'd be abandoning our partners in Afghanistan," McConnell said from the Senate floor.

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The GOP Majority Leader compares POTUS to Obama and the Fall of Saigon?

If anybody was wondering which team McConnell plays for here is your answer. It certainly is not Team USA.

1 posted on 11/16/2020 1:35:42 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

It’s been 17 f***ing years there’s nothing premature about leaving now.


2 posted on 11/16/2020 1:36:36 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: lodi90

Give him a rifle and ship his @ss over there. And don't shoot yourself Rambo.

3 posted on 11/16/2020 1:37:21 PM PST by McGruff (We shall not go quietly into the night. We will not surrender without a fight.)
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To: lodi90

Islamic states are going to be Islamic States.

We will NEVER change that. Not with troops or money.

We simply tell them they will be eradicated if they attack us from there.


4 posted on 11/16/2020 1:38:08 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: lodi90

“If anybody was wondering which team McConnell plays for here is your answer. It certainly is not Team USA.”

China Mitch?


5 posted on 11/16/2020 1:38:55 PM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: lodi90

Defund the Military Industrial Complex.


6 posted on 11/16/2020 1:40:21 PM PST by caver
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To: lodi90

Gotta keep all them Generals moving into Warbucks Inc flush with millions!

No Forever Wars, no millions!


7 posted on 11/16/2020 1:41:37 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: caver

McConnell has blackmailed Trump for 4 years to stop the MAGA agenda. For years he help the possibility of impeachment over Trumps head. Now he’s signaling he won’t support Trump against the fraud


8 posted on 11/16/2020 1:42:18 PM PST by rintintin (If you watch Tucker, you help fund Chris Wallace. No more Fox - period.)
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To: lodi90

Here’s a neat idea: how about those people over there with their over there problems, stay over there. 17 years of doing it the other way, and I’m told that the way we refuse to try, the way that most Americans approve, simply cannot be done.


9 posted on 11/16/2020 1:42:55 PM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox!! You can do it! )
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To: lodi90

Oh Jeeze, they don’t call him China Mitch for nothing. Tie the troops up with the goat herders and let the real enemies in the back door.


10 posted on 11/16/2020 1:43:15 PM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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Yeah, a lot of crony defense contractors will lose craptons of money...which is pretty much what the resistance to Trump has always been about


11 posted on 11/16/2020 1:45:21 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: mrmeyer

My wounded vet Marine buddy did a couple of tours there. He calls it a lost cause. He’s very pro Trump and doesn’t regret being there (even though he spent a year learning to walk again.). He is worried about how many friends he would lose under a Democrat’s rules of engagement and makes a good case for why being there is a lost cause.

Having said that, Trump should wait until he is declared the winner before pissing off the pro war lobby.


12 posted on 11/16/2020 1:46:03 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: lodi90

What kinda stupid do you have to be to call pulling troops out of a 17 year no-victory quagmire a “ hasty withdrawal?


13 posted on 11/16/2020 1:47:33 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: lodi90

Of course, they plan to go back to never ending $wars$.


14 posted on 11/16/2020 1:49:21 PM PST by Irenic
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To: lodi90

Total idiotic exaggeration.

The fall of Saigon?


15 posted on 11/16/2020 1:50:52 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: silverleaf

It’s been 19 years!


16 posted on 11/16/2020 1:50:52 PM PST by CalWildcat
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To: lodi90

If anybody was wondering which team McConnell plays for here is your answer.

*************

You could say the same thing about most of the GOP.


17 posted on 11/16/2020 1:50:53 PM PST by Starboard
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To: lodi90

Sounds like somebody’s payola check was light this month. Get ‘em out, bring ‘em home, don’t send ‘em back: politicans can take a pay-cut until the next big thing happens.


18 posted on 11/16/2020 1:51:33 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: caver

Defund the Military Industrial Complex.

**************

B I N G O ! ! !


19 posted on 11/16/2020 1:52:13 PM PST by Starboard
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To: lodi90

I often think this guy fits the story of the snake POTUS tells now and then.


20 posted on 11/16/2020 1:52:19 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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