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    Werewolf Moscow McConnell: Trump's troop pull back in Syria a 'grave strategic mistake'

    Time again to attack a republican for not totting & supporting the latest trump foolish fiasco~let the insults & name calling begin......

    Who'll throw the first stone...



    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday ripped President Trump's decision to pull back troops from northern Syria, urging the administration to reverse course.



    McConnell added that the combination of the U.S. drawback and the fighting between Turkey, which invaded part of northern Syria, and the Kurds was creating a "strategic nightmare" for the United States.

    McConnell's op-ed comes after Vice President Pence announced Thursday that the United States and Turkey had agreed to a five-day cease-fire, during which the United States won't apply additional sanctions on Turkish officials.

    If that holds, the cease-fire would then become permanent and the Trump administration would agree to lift sanctions that they introduced earlier this week.

    But McConnell, in the Post op-ed, argued that even if the cease-fire sticks, the pull back of U.S. troops and Turkey's invasion had "set back the United States’ campaign against the Islamic State and other terrorists."

    "Unless halted, our retreat will invite the brutal Assad regime in Syria and its Iranian backers to expand their influence. And we are ignoring Russia’s efforts to leverage its increasingly dominant position in Syria to amass power and influence throughout the Middle East and beyond," he added.

    McConnell specifically pointed to reports of Russians filming themselves at abandoned U.S. bases within Syria calling it a "strategic calamity neatly captured in one Facebook post."

    Trump's decision to pull back U.S. troops, paving the way for Turkey's invasion, has sparked a fierce backlash from traditional GOP allies on Capitol Hill, who called it "catastrophic," a "grave mistake" and a "disaster in the making."

    McConnell has repeatedly raised red flags about Trump's decision. He told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday that he had told Trump privately, as well as publicly, that he disagreed with the decision.

    “I don't know how many times I need to say it and I think I'm speaking for most members of my conference that this was a mistake, and I hope it can be repaired,” McConnell said at the time.

    Trump has defended his decision, saying it is "time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars."

    But McConnell appeared to fire back at that on Friday, writing that "America’s wars will be 'endless' only if America refuses to win them."

    Lawmakers are weighing potential legislative responses to Trump's strategy.

    The House passed a resolution this week that formally broke with the decision, and is expected to vote next week on sanctions legislation against Turkey.

    McConnell hasn't yet said what, if any, legislation he will bring up for a vote on the Senate floor.

    The Senate previously approved an amendment earlier this year that warned the administration against pulling troops out of Syria or Afghanistan.

    McConnell noted the bipartisan support for the amendment in his Post op-ed, but added that "unfortunately, the administration’s recent steps in Syria do not reflect these crucial lessons."
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    The Commander in Chief disagrees...AND?
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    The Commander in Chief disagrees...AND?
    Moscow Mitch is less of a bitch for Russia than Trump now. It's surprising.

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    the pull back of U.S. troops and Turkey's invasion had "set back the United States’ campaign against the Islamic State and other terrorists."
    malarkey

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Moscow Mitch is less of a bitch for Russia than Trump now. It's surprising.
    WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WANT THE US IN THE MIDDLE OF SYRIA's CIVIL WAR??????
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WANT THE US IN THE MIDDLE OF SYRIA's CIVIL WAR??????
    I don't. But I also don't want to abandon the Kurds after they helped us fight ISIS, just because doing so would benefit Turkey and Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I don't. But I also don't want to abandon the Kurds after they helped us fight ISIS, just because doing so would benefit Turkey and Russia.
    The Kurds had the help of Assad vs the Turks BEFORE WE EVER GOT THERE...and do again.


    We HELPED THEM FIGHT ISIS, not VICE VERSA.

    We CRUSHED THE CALIPHATE, with devastating air strikes, etal.

    It's OVER...time for us to come home. Everything else is part of the Syrian Civil War....OBAMA's mistake...not TRUMP's.


    He is too smart to get us BOGGED DOWN THERE....he is against spending US lives on other nation's internal issues. Thank God.
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    He is too smart

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    The Kurds had the help of Assad vs the Turks BEFORE WE EVER GOT THERE...and do again.


    We HELPED THEM FIGHT ISIS, not VICE VERSA.

    We CRUSHED THE CALIPHATE, with devastating air strikes, etal.

    It's OVER...time for us to come home. Everything else is part of the Syrian Civil War....OBAMA's mistake...not TRUMP's.


    He is too smart to get us BOGGED DOWN THERE....he is against spending US lives on other nation's internal issues. Thank God.
    Indeed.

    The liberals who were doves are now hawks...now that President Trump is president.

    Not so much when Obama and Bush were presidents.

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    some of the same folks that think leaving 100 service ppl in that area was akin to being a war monger are fully supportive of trump sending two fucking thousand American service ppl to blood thirsty saudi Arabia to protect them.............

    I think Moscow sees the writing on the wall & it's time to let this turd float on it's own.......
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    some of the same folks that think leaving 100 service ppl in that area was akin to being a war monger are fully supportive of trump sending two fucking thousand American service ppl to blood thirsty saudi Arabia to protect them.............

    I think Moscow sees the writing on the wall & it's time to let this turd float on it's own.......
    the troops to KSA are defensive operational forces / those in Syria were not operational except to observe/

    We have security agreements/special relationship with KSA, not the Kurds

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