Sen. Manchin (D): “We have proven.. that people we have armed.. have turned those arms against us"

[grahamhgreen]

Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said he will not support a key part of President Obama’s strategy for taking on the Islamic State.

“I have a problem with one part, and one part mainly, and that is paying for training and arming Syrian rebels that we’re not sure are our friends,” he said on MSNBC on Thursday. “Right now, I can’t do that — I cannot support arming the rebels who we have not been able to identify.”​

For example, it remains unclear if the rebels sent American journalist Steven Sotloff to his death by capturing him and selling him to the Islamic State, where he was beheaded earlier this month, Manchin explained.

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“We have proven, for the last twelve years, that people we have trained, people we have clothed, people we have fed, people we have armed turn those arms against us,” he said.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/387739/manchin-i-will-not-be-voting-arm-syrian-rebels-andrew-johnson

[yeoman6987]

1. Well things are going to get interesting!

[SummerSnow]

2. Manchin is speaking the truth

[jaysunb]

3. Happens every time. n/t

[marym625]

4. about fucking TIME

WE BUILT THIS

k&r

[Maven]

5. He's 100% correct.

[neverforget]

6. But it's going to be different this time

somehow

[jeff47]

7. Sunnis need an alternative to ISIS

If Sunnis are given the choice between ISIS and domination by the Shiites, they're going to pick ISIS. That's how ISIS rolled over Western Iraq so easily.

The Sunnis need an alternative to ISIS that isn't as brutal. Options are to either try to create one from scratch (Boy that worked so great in Afghanistan and Iraq!!) or build up one of the other groups. No alternative and ISIS stays in place.

Also, the administration has flatly denied that the rebels sold Sotloff. Sure, they could be wrong. But so could Sotloff's family. I'm guessing the US government has better sources than the Sotloffs.

[grahamhgreen]

14. Like al-Qaeda?

[jeff47]

15. al Qaeda became ISIS in this area.

We can either try to build a group from scratch, which got us people like Karzai, or we can try to help a group that already exists.

[Chan790]

8. Am I the only one that reads that quote...

and sees great irony in Manchin's opposition to real gun control efforts?

[elehhhhna]

10. call me cynical but isn't he on Team Coal vs. Team Oil?

[Chan790]

11. Yes, he is. n/t

[Doctor_J]

9. We can avoid that problem by arming BOTH sides

or I guess ALL sides would be a better description

[grahamhgreen]

12. Walk away.... they will blow themselves to hell.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. "We have proven.. that people we have armed.. have turned those arms against us."

So, what Corporations are pulling Obama's strings to get him to jump start another war for profit???


War = Death = Profit