Posted on 04/07/2019 2:36:58 PM PDT by proust
A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent President Trump a letter Wednesday urging him to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria within the next six months.
Trump has already committed to pulling back U.S. forces from the region, but Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and others say it needs to happen quickly.
“We write in bipartisan support of your announcement of the start of a “deliberate withdrawal” of U.S. military forces in Syria, and we welcome the completion of this process within the next six months.” Paul wrote to Trump in a letter that was also signed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a star progressive in the House freshman class. “It is long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization, and we look forward to pursuing this longstanding bipartisan objective with your Administration.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., another freshman who was recently rebuked for anti-Semitic tweets, also signed the letter, along with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Bill Posey, R-Fla.
It’s OK if we spend 20 years fighting on the wrong side, but the minute we start fighting against the terrorists, then the Uniparty wants to pull out.
I don’t know about you but I’d like us to be out of Syria, and if that means agreeing with AOC well so be it.
Let’s leave them there to get killed. It will change the world, or something.
How about we carpet bomb the rest of ISIS and THEN leave.
Oh, that would mean we have to win.
Rand Paul
Smokes Dope.
Two “Tea Party Darlings” for those hoping for a return of that disaster...
Didn’t Trump want to take troops out of Syria anyway?
Paul is right on this one. So was Trump — when he was telling Obama to stay the hell out of Syria.
Rand Paul is so cute when he has one of his hissy fits.
Yes, but it’s not fast enough for Rand/Lee so they had no choice but to team up with the trashiest democrats in Congress and lend them credibility.
I’d feel like an a** writing such a letter to the President especially with AOC. We’ve been drawing down....and believe they had the last battle a week ago. Apparently Paul and AOC didn’t read the news reports.
“Rand Paul teams up with AOC, Ilhan Omar”
You can tell a lot about a person from seeing who are his friends.
Reginald Denny syndrome
What IS it about the Paul family? They seem to be a bunch of contrarians. If the president says “Up”, they seem hell-bent to have to say “Down”. I do not appreciate Rand Paul giving any sort of credence to a terrorist like Omar or a complete idiot like A@@ On Call.
Even though I agree that we should not be in Syria, he is an idiot for teaming up with those two.
I don't follow your use of "/s" here, but my observation from "Flyover, Michigan" is that if we don't give some strong support to our party, we won't have much of a country left!
That’s good advice for Rand and Lee.
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