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.
It’s been 17 f***ing years there’s nothing premature about leaving now.
Give him a rifle and ship his @ss over there. And don't shoot yourself Rambo.
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.
“If anybody was wondering which team McConnell plays for here is your answer. It certainly is not Team USA.”
China Mitch?
Defund the Military Industrial Complex.
Gotta keep all them Generals moving into Warbucks Inc flush with millions!
No Forever Wars, no millions!
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
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.
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.
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
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.
What kinda stupid do you have to be to call pulling troops out of a 17 year no-victory quagmire a “ hasty withdrawal?
Of course, they plan to go back to never ending $wars$.
Total idiotic exaggeration.
The fall of Saigon?
It’s been 19 years!
If anybody was wondering which team McConnell plays for here is your answer.
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You could say the same thing about most of the GOP.
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.
Defund the Military Industrial Complex.
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B I N G O ! ! !
I often think this guy fits the story of the snake POTUS tells now and then.
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