Rand, hang loose, we haven’t gone to war with Iran yet. All we did was take out a terrorist leader.
Eeeek! Eeeeek!
The Iranians might attack our embassy in Iraq or something!
They might attack oil tankers or something!
Here’s what they could do.
They could stay the hell out of Iraq and quit attacking us.
Maybe they could take care of their own people.
The USA deserves better than a pussy that constantly insults and hates the USA.
Yep, Rand is right, because when I want ideas on how to defend America I routinely ask eye Doctors.
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In most cases yes. But even his father Ron understood that sometimes immediate reprisal actions are indeed necessary and the Constitution does indeed give this power of immediate reprisal to the President of the United States. Even Ron agreed that an immediate quick targeted effective reprisal to nip it in the bud and make a serious point is much better than delay and dragging out an extended war. “Get it done, make it stick, and then come home”. Sometimes time is of extreme importance and cannot and should not be delayed or the losses and costs are a thousand times more in the long run.
There is not one person here who is not going to immediately hit someone back if someone hits them. They are not going to wait 6 months to ask and wait for permission from someone else to do so. And they have a basic human right of self defense to do so.
“If we are to go to war w/ Iran...”
Sissy boy doesn’t know civics or international law. Defending one’s self from attack is not a war. We didn’t go and invade Iran for their attacks in Iraq.
Sissy boy is a drama queen looking for a microphone.
Declare war at noon.
“Bomb the sh!t out them” at 12:15.
Does that work, Rand?
Barry did it. War Powers Act of 1973 is still much debated, but allows fast POTUS action of U.S. citizens are under attack.
http://volokh.com/2011/06/16/the-growing-conflict-over-the-legality-of-the-libya-intervention/
Your move.
Rand Paul shows why he should never be President.
Will this A$$hole EVER shut the F up?
I don’t know what Rand’s talking about. Iran has been getting more aggressive with us. We took out a known terrorist butcher who is a direct threat to our people. No war is happening (any more than there was before). Iran my retaliate in a meaningful way, or they may not.
If he thinks this is the beginning of WW3, then I suggest he step away from Twitter for a while.
Well, in most cases I agree with Rand. In this case I don’t see an escalation to a full sized war. This was an attack on a foriegn general operating outside of his country. He managed an attack on our embassy. That makes him fair game.
I think it’s telling we did not attack Iran territory, but rather their assets in Iraq—where they don’t belong. If we attacked their navy and ports, it would be a different story.
The middle east has never been stable. Most fought over piece of land on the planet. Anyone who attacks the US, will get hit back. He attacked our embassy. His attackers wrote his name on the walls. They said they wanted to kill everyone there. Then he flew on a plane into the nearby international airport. If it was me, Terhan would be gone right now.
I AGREE! I hope none of them die. I will never forgive Trump. He should be doing a draw down not ramping up!
There are American troops in Iraq
An Iranian warrior leader was in Iraq leading his surrogate troops against our forces both military and diplomatic.
The general was killed as an enemy warrior in Iraq.
There is no undeclared shooting (kinetic) war with Iran.
There is a diplomatic war being waged with sanctions that Iran is trying to resist with surrogate kinetic action in Iraq. Their primary warrior was killed on the surrogate battlefield, not Iran.
Rand Paul has demonstrated a stance that favors American enemies rather than and over American diplomats and troops.
During the siege of our embassy in 1979 the Iranian Ayatollah declared war against the United States of America. That was forty years ago, and finally we have somewhat returned the favor.
It’s long past time to turn all their military assets to rubbish.
Iran declared war on the USA in 1979. We are merely responding to that declaration.
Like most libertarians Rand hits the bullseye when commenting on domestic policy, and hits his foot when commenting on foreign policy.