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Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:14 pm Most of it flies over your silly little head (this is obvious to all but you).
Did you really think your comment...
"The President of the USA does not have much authority and everyone in his own party wants him out"
... deserved a serious reply?
If so, you deserve everything you get at this
sight...
Lol, you are such a twat.Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:14 pm Most of it flies over your silly little head (this is obvious to all but you).
Did you really think your comment...
"The President of the USA does not have much authority and everyone in his own party wants him out"
... deserved a serious reply?
If so, you deserve everything you get at this sight...
Well, it seems at long last we may actually get that help from the House of representatives...Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:44 pm
In a perfect world you, he, and Per would be receiving the help you so desperately need...
)https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-move ... 1570467760McConnell Urges Trump to Keep U.S. Troops in Northern Syria
As bipartisan criticism greets Trump move, Senate majority leader cautions against ‘retreat’
Updated Oct. 7, 2019 5:14 pm ET
WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged President Trump to “exercise American leadership” and keep U.S. troops in northern Syria, joining a chorus of Republican and Democratic lawmakers who warned the president against withdrawing from the area.
“American interests are best served by American leadership, not by retreat or withdrawal,” the Kentucky Republican said. He didn’t directly criticize Mr. Trump, but reminded him that the Senate voted in January to keep U.S. troops in Syria, in reaction to a previous withdrawal plan announced by the White House.
The remarks by Mr. McConnell came as many Republicans broke publicly with Mr. Trump, including some who rarely speak out against the president. Many painted their disapproval in stark terms, and floated ways to punish Turkey if it moved ahead with a military incursion in the region.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), a close ally of Mr. Trump, called the pullout “a disaster in the making.” He warned it would ensure a comeback by Islamic State, or ISIS, and “will be a stain on America’s honor for abandoning the Kurds.”
The blowback came as American military personnel began moving away from the Syria-Turkey border, clearing the path for Turkey to launch an offensive against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters. The Kurds have led the fight against Islamic State militants alongside the U.S., but Ankara considers them terrorists.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said the president was right to want to bring U.S. troops home, but that it would be “DISGRACEFUL if we sat idly by while Turkey slaughters the Kurds.” Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) criticized the withdrawal as “terribly unwise.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) tweeted that it would be a “grave mistake” for the Trump administration to retreat from Syria, while Sen. Mitt Romney (R., Utah) called it a betrayal of the Kurds and said it “presages another humanitarian crisis.”
“President Trump should rethink this decision immediately,” said Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.).
Republicans’ alarm prompted several senators to reach across the aisle to set up a possible vote on sanctions against Turkey and to insist that Trump administration officials come before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain the president’s decision.
Mr. Graham said he plans to introduce bipartisan legislation with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) to impose sanctions against Turkey if its forces invade Syria, and could call for Turkey’s suspension from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He said he expected sanctions against Turkey would get “veto-proof” support in Congress.
In his own comments, Mr. McConnell, who controls the flow of legislation to the Senate floor, didn’t address any vote on the matter.
Mr. Trump defended his decision and laid out a warning to Turkey. In tweets, he said it was time for the U.S. “to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars” and warned that if Ankara “does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey.”
Sanction threats, analysts say, have curbed Turkish behavior in the past and could do so again.
Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), a longtime skeptic of U.S. military actions overseas, backed Mr. Trump. “I stand with @realDonaldTrump today as he once again fulfills his promises to stop our endless wars and have a true America First foreign policy,” Mr. Paul tweeted.
The Senate has challenged the Trump White House previously on foreign policy. In July, Mr. Trump vetoed joint resolutions from Congress that sought to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In January, the GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation that included language opposing Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
Some former Trump administration officials also condemned the planned pullout from northern Syria.
“We must always have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back,” tweeted Nikki Haley, Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations. Ms. Haley emphasized that the Kurds were instrumental partners in the U.S. fight against Islamic State in Syria. “Leaving them to die is a big mistake,” she said.
Turkey has insisted for years that Syria’s Kurdish rebel groups are terrorists and pose an existential threat.
Washington and Ankara have been trying to work out a deal to create a buffer zone along the Turkey-Syria border, but negotiations faltered, prompting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to set the stage for a new military operation. Mr. Erdogan told reporters in Ankara on Monday that Turkey could launch the operation at any time.
The U.S. has about 1,000 troops in Syria, where they have worked with the Kurdish-led forces on counterterrorism operations aimed at preventing a resurgence of Islamic State. After the collapse of the Islamic State caliphate, the Kurds captured the fighters and their families, guarding them in prisons and camps.
Mr. Trump said that Turkey would assume responsibility for the 12,000 Islamic State fighters and about 58,000 women and children held by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
Formal impeachment inquiry has not been passed by the House, he had no obligation to cooperate.Per wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:53 am Can we call it a constitutional crisis yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... nal-crisis
Well, isn’t that the constitutional crisis though?Topper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:34 amFormal impeachment inquiry has not been passed by the House, he had no obligation to cooperate.Per wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:53 am Can we call it a constitutional crisis yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... nal-crisis
Push, meet Shove
(from the article above)the White House objects that the House did not formally vote to begin the impeachment inquiry, breaking with precedent set in the inquiries into Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
Pelosi has insisted the House is well within its rules to conduct oversight of the executive branch under the constitution regardless of a vote.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/1 ... oe-was-vp/CIA "Whistleblower" Said To Have Worked With Biden When He Was VP worked-biden-when-he-was-
There has been much speculation since it was revealed that the CIA employee who lodged a whistleblower complaint over President Trump's request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden had a "professional relationship with one of the 2020 candidates."
As the Washington Examiner's Byron York reported, a source told him that:
"The IG said [the whistleblower] worked or had some type of professional relationship with one of the Democratic candidates."
And now, as The Washington Examiner reports, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials, the 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is Joe Biden.
Trump was close to exposing Crooked Joe, so he and his partner-in-crime cooked up this fake whistleblower schemeUPDATE: Anti-Trump CIA “Whistleblower” Reportedly TRAVELED WITH JOE BIDEN to Ukraine when Joe was VP
Three current and former national security officials tell One America News that the CIA whistleblower likely accompanied Biden on one or more of his trips to Ukraine while Vice President.
