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egbertowillies

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Tue Sep 16, 2014, 04:37 PM Sep 2014

Code Pink disrupts ISIS/ISIL Senate Armed Services Committee (VIDEO)

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Code Pink disrupts Armed Service Committee hearing on ISIS / ISIL U.S. involvement multiple times on September 16th, 2014. Madea Benjamin and other protesters had several banners as they shouted anti-war messages.
Story here: http://egbertowillies.com/2014/09/16/code-pink-disrupts-isisisil-senate-armed-services-committee-hearing-multiple-times/
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Code Pink disrupts ISIS/ISIL Senate Armed Services Committee (VIDEO) (Original Post) egbertowillies Sep 2014 OP
Pink Is The Color Of Courage. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #1
Do they still Stand with Rand? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #2
This Rand Paul? flpoljunkie Sep 2014 #4
thank god for these people mgcgulfcoast Sep 2014 #3

flpoljunkie

(26,184 posts)
4. This Rand Paul?
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 07:25 AM
Sep 2014
After President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday his strategy for expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, Sen. Rand Paul offered his rebuttal, alleging that the war was unconstitutional without congressional authorization; it was an obvious move, being the “libertarian-ish” conservative that he is. Less duh was Paul's endorsement of the war itself: “This is an intervention, and I don’t always support intervention—but this one I support.”

Well, up to a point. Paul is OK with bombing Syria. He just doesn’t want to support the moderate rebels who are fighting ISIS—and the Bashar al-Assad regime—there. To foreign policy hawks, it’s a hopelessly naive, convoluted, possible flip-flop of a strategy.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/11/why-rand-paul-suddenly-wants-to-bomb-syria.html
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