Posted on 06/20/2014 9:27:12 PM PDT by boycott
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wants to turn the tables on those who are questioning President Barack Obama’s handling of the draw down of troops in Iraq.
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that will air Sunday, when host David Gregory asked Paul if he found former Vice President Dick Cheney to be a credible critic of the president, Paul responded “I think the same questions could be asked of those who supported the Iraq War. You know, were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there? Was the war won in 2005, when many of those people said it was won?”
Paul’s response comes after Cheney and his daughter Liz published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing the president for the ongoing conflict in Iraq where militants have begun to take over some of the country’s largest cities.
“Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,” the article said. “Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is ‘ending’ the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — as though wishing [makes] it so.”
Instead of placing blame on the president, Paul suggested that blame for the unrest in the Middle East can be placed elsewhere.
“I don’t blame President Obama,” Paul said. “Has he really got the solution? Maybe there is no solution. But I do blame those who are for the Iraq War for emboldening Iran. These are the same people now who are petrified of what Iran may become, and I understand some of their worry”
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Rand Paul is proving himself to be a complete buffoon. He's a nutcase.
obama wasn't responsible for us going to war with Iraq. We all pretty much know that, rand. However, he became responsible when he was elected. He has handled the situation in a most incompetent manner.
I want to apologize to others on here for at one time believing Rand Paul would be a good presidential candidate. I was very wrong.
Rand has made comments over the last few months that are bizarre. The more Rand opens his mouth, the more he makes it clear that he's not a viable option.
Agreed
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Rand sounds more & more like his daddy....who is nuts.
Reluctantly agree, completely. But it is better to find out now rather than later.
Do you just now hear that giant sucking sound?
I heard it way out out here in TEXAS, but I thought I heard Rand’s voice singing something about his old Kentucky home - - - ?
Anybody else hear that?
Folks can we finialy say this freaking liberal fraud is off the table? Please? No more excuses or calls for him to run? We can vote Hillary! if we want a liberal that badly.
Nuts? Maybe if Bush had carefully listened to Paul in ‘03, the entire disastrous experience in Iraq and the equally disastrous Obama administration would never had happened. The second was a consequence of the first.
His debate with David Axelrod was bizarre. I really never understood his comments on abortion.
It’s just about to the point where I think Rand should run as a democrat.
Folks can we finialy say this freaking liberal fraud is off the table? Please? No more excuses or calls for him to run? We can vote Hillary! if we want a liberal that badly.
Yes. I was way off. He was my leading candidate at one time. He’s off the table for me.
If Bush would have stuck to his guns this never would have happened. And if he would have gotten on TV after 911 and told the country that they should watch for democrat sabotaging the war and KEPT SAYING IT none of this would have happened.
We still needed to disrupt the terrorism there as it obviously DID come here. “There” being all the middle east.
I did hear it. But didn’t know what it was. :)
Looks like Rand proves the old adage to be true. The nutcase doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
Dick Cheney would crush you in an Iraq debate.
Good. We all wanted to believe like Fox Mulder. I did too once. But he is not what he said he was. He is his father.
OKAY! That is two for TEXAS!
Any other FReepers in any other States hear it?
This could be series for Randy-Boy!
Rand Paul’s foreign policy would be indiscernible from Obama’s
Rand Paul’s foreign policy would be indiscernible from Obama’s
I’ve thought the same thing.
Get on some libertarian threads and you will have that reaction often. They so desperately want to spit it out, but they can't to conservatives, so it turns into a confused, rambling mess, in the end, you just have to conclude that whatever gibberish they are spewing, it is a position opposing yours, or else they would be speaking plain English.
I guess that Sen. Rand Paul, just like Mr. Obama, only knows what he sees in the funny papers, huh?
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Pretended to be sane for a while, but at the end of the day has no moral compass.
The Golfer in Chief deserves LOTS of blame for his foreign policy catastrophes.
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