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Cruz Hits Trump on NATO 'Surrender' in Wake of Brussels Attacks
Newsmax ^ | March 22, 2016 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 03/22/2016 10:42:29 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Tuesday that Donald Trump was engaging in a "pre-emptive surrender" to Islamic terror by calling for a "withdrawal" from NATO on the eve of the Brussels terror attacks.

On Monday, Trump told CNN that the U.S. should greatly reduce its support of NATO.

"It's too much and frankly it's a different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea," Trump said of the US-European security alliance.

Cruz said he found it "striking" that the terror attacks occurred on the day after his rival candidate Donald Trump called for reducing the U.S. role NATO.

"We see Brussels where NATO is headquartered as the subject of a radical Islamic terrorist attack," Cruz said in a press conference from Washington D.C.

"Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies. Donald Trump is wrong that America should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Vladimir Putin a major victory, and while's he's at it, hand ISIS a major victory."

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To: GodGunsGuts

NATO is doing absolutely zero in fighting Islamists, including ISIS.

In fact given that most of its members are Islam sympathizers and even includes one, Turkey, who is Islamist, it will never be effective at fighting Islam.

I’m afraid Cruz misfires again.

We need a brand new organization to fight this war. NATO is a dinosaur.


41 posted on 03/22/2016 11:02:15 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: GodGunsGuts

Cruz actually did it yesterday. Why is it Trump supporters can never look at facts? If so they would see what we see. You have to read the transcript of DT’s WA Post meeting from yesterday.


42 posted on 03/22/2016 11:03:43 AM PDT by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

DesperaTED


43 posted on 03/22/2016 11:04:16 AM PDT by Enduro Guy
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To: dirtboy

It’s funny how Cruz complains about Trumps tone


44 posted on 03/22/2016 11:05:21 AM PDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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To: RightOnTheBorder
You got it EXACTLY correct. NATO was supposed to defend Europe from outside invasion. It's not our responsibility to defend them from invaders they welcomed with open arms.

If anything, NATO has allowed European leaders to be total jerks about saving themselves.

Perhaps Cruz is neither old enough nor culturally aware enough to know about times when Europe needed time to rebuild. He certainly doesn't have a clue about the kind of strong "got your back" kind of leadership we needed today.

45 posted on 03/22/2016 11:06:10 AM PDT by grania
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To: wardaddy

I think he believes he is being slick. It definitely does not come off as principled or distinguished.


46 posted on 03/22/2016 11:06:43 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: digger48

YOU CAN JUDGE A MAN BY HIS SUPPORTERS


47 posted on 03/22/2016 11:06:45 AM PDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I’ll be darned..

He can talk right around the real issue just like a Bush or a Clinton.


48 posted on 03/22/2016 11:07:24 AM PDT by BAN-ONE
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To: mac_truck
Cruz like his die-hard supporters on FR

Coming from a die-hard KGB Putin supporter such as yourself, I couldn't give a rat's you-know-what what you say, about anything.

49 posted on 03/22/2016 11:08:00 AM PDT by ETL (Cruz 2016!! For a better, safer, SANER, America!)
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To: xzins

It may be Ted’s mouth moving, but Bill Kristol, Yeb Bush and Valerie Jarrett are pulling the strings.
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength


50 posted on 03/22/2016 11:09:12 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
This is on the same level as the loony Left using spree shootings to push gun control. Completely reactionary and disgusting.

Hell, I think it's worse. At least you can claim a correlation between our current gun laws and gun violence. Might not agree with it, but it has verisimilitude.

NATO, on the other hand, has about jack all to do with today's attack in Belgium. They're never going to prevent this sort of thing, especially not when Europe is committing continental suicide by importing people from Africa and the Middle East.

51 posted on 03/22/2016 11:09:43 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: tumblindice

Invasion is Love

Great post, tumblindice


52 posted on 03/22/2016 11:10:09 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

NATO was created as a defense against the Soviet Union when the US had shared values with Europe. There is no Soviet Union and we no longer share values with Europe. I don’t know what Trump said or why he said it, but there is a strong case to be made for pulling out of NATO.


53 posted on 03/22/2016 11:10:15 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Again, opportunist Ted tries to distort the truth in his favor. Here is what was said:

Donald Trump said the United States should spend less on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

“We are paying disproportionately. It’s too much and frankly it’s a
different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea,”
Trump said on CNN.

“We have to reconsider. Keep NATO, but maybe we have to pay a lot less toward NATO itself,” he said.

The United States should maintain its role in NATO, but should stop
carrying such a heavy burden funding it, Trump said

Trump admitted that other NATO members might not be happy with his idea, but added, “they have to help us also.”

The United States can’t afford to do all of this anymore to the same
extent,” he said, noting that NATO’s creation after World War II “was a
different time, it was a different age.”


54 posted on 03/22/2016 11:10:22 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: GodGunsGuts

I generally like Cruz, but he is wrong here and should not be using this issue for political purposes.


55 posted on 03/22/2016 11:11:01 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to meand over an is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: GodGunsGuts

How much do you get paid for posting this shit non stop?

You do realize this makes Cruz look like as much like an idiot as you, right?


56 posted on 03/22/2016 11:11:57 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Ted, you’ve gone full fruitcake.


57 posted on 03/22/2016 11:13:02 AM PDT by moovova
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To: GodGunsGuts

Pssst, NATO is becoming a Muslim empire.


58 posted on 03/22/2016 11:14:55 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: libbylu

Your projection is working overtime.


59 posted on 03/22/2016 11:29:09 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: heights

Well, sure, when you take the video clip that the media posted, the edited, out of context, video clip that shows Ted’s ANSWER to a QUESTION, that was specifically asked about his reaction to Trumps comments, then by all means, it would appear as the left, and anti-Cruz people want it to appear. And probably the reason why they are using the EDITED video, in the first place.

But, if you look at the video Aaron Herron posted, a couple posts up, it shows the ENTIRE CLIP of Ted Cruz’ comments IN FULL, and then it also shows the QUESTIONS that he was asked AFTER HIS STATEMENT, where he then is asked specifically about Trump, and gives his answer (which is the clip the media posted).

His statement, in full, transcribed, since so many seem to have such difficulty in WATCHING A FULL VIDEO, is here:

CRUZ:...is to defeat radical Islamic Terrorism, to defeat ISIS. Until they are defeated, these attacks will continue. Until ISIS is utterly destroyed, they will continue, to carry out acts of terror, continue to murder. Whether at a subway station, whether at an airport, whether at an opera house in Paris, whether at a community center in San Bernardino. Their target is each and every one of us. And we need a president, who sets aside political correctness. In the wake of Brussells, we don’t need another lecture from President Obama on Islamophobia. We need a Commander in Chief who does everything necessary to defeat the enemy. And we need to immediately halt the presidents ill advised plan to bring in, tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees. Our vetting programs are woefully insufficient. This administration has no means of preventing those refuges from being ISIS terrorists. ISIS has stated its intention to infiltrate those refugees with terrorist coming to America to commit acts of jihad. And the time for the President’s political correctness is past, the first priority of Commander in Chief is keeping America safe.

QUESTION 1 FROM REPORTER: Beyond Syrian refugees, is it time for the US to close it’s borders to all Muslims, like Donald Trump suggested?

CRUZ: It is time for us to implement serious vetting and we should not be allowing anyone to come into this country, that we can’t vet to make sure that they are not radical Islamic terrorist, that’s part of the problem with not defining the enemy. When you don’t define the en then you don’t have screen programs designed to keep them out. And I would note, you look at the San Bernardino terrorist, the female terrorist had publicly posted on social media, calls to Jihad. And yet the Obama administration, in yet another nod to political correctness, refused even to look to social media. That is an example of the myopia of this administration and it’s politically driven. It’s not that they cannot see the threats of terrorism, it s that they refuse to look at, acknowledge or name the threats of terrorism because it is inconsistent with their political objectives.

QUESTION 2 FROM REPORTER: (hard to hear exact phrasing) Why are you more qualified than Donald Trump...campaigning for nomination.....what makes you a better commander in chief, when it comes to handling these problems.....? (very hard to make out complete question, but I could pick up Donald’s name was mentioned and Cruz was being asked his opinion on their differences regarding how he would handle things compared to Trump)

CRUZ: (and this is where Cruz gives his answer, as shown in the video clip the media posted)

And it was a great response at that. Cruz is doing what a smart campaigner would do, and that is when asked by a reporter about why he would be better at something, than his competitor, he explains the opposing sides view and then his in contrast. It’s called answering a question WITH SUBSTANCE.

Jeesh, the knee jerk, immediate reaction, to believing misleading headlines, then accusing Cruz, slandering him, insulting him, and just going all frothy in the mouth over him, is very liberal of those who do that.


60 posted on 03/22/2016 11:29:34 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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