🔥🔥🔥 It appears General Rand Paul is at it again. He just called for the immediate withdrawal

[MelissaB]

It appears ‘General’ @RandPaul is at it again. He just called for the immediate withdrawal of all forces from Afghanistan as a way to give the US military a pay raise. Fortunately, only ‘General’ Paul – and the Taliban - think that’s a good idea.

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[AmandaRuth]

1. i hope they eat each

other alive.

seriously, let them have each other.

[doc03]

2. Right on General Lindsey Graham LOL

[malaise]

3. This time I'm with Rand Paul

End the fugging useless wars

[Glorfindel]

4. So am I, malaise. So am I.

[malaise]

5. Back at you

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. +1 x 1000

[11cents]

8. Whether you agree with him or not...

...there's nothing remotely absurd about a US Senator making such a statement. These decisions are supposed to be made by civilian political leadership, not by generals. Should we retroactively mock politicians in the 60s and 70s who demanded withdrawal from Vietnam?

[malaise]

13. True but that would make Paul just as qualified to comment as Graham

although I'd need to check Open Secrets to find out which of the two gets more money from the relevant interests.

[Voltaire2]

9. Me too.

[maxrandb]

18. I'm never with Rand

He's a weasly little fuck with a dead raccoon on his head.

He's nothing but an enabler of the Retrumplican shit show.

I too want to bring the troops home and end the stupid wars, but I'll be damned if I'll be lectured about it by a fucking racist.

So he's right about 1 thing in 1,000,000 and we forget his horrid record on everything from the economy to civil rights.

I hear Hitler was good for the economy, but I'd have rather suffered through a 1000 year depression than what that prick put the world through.

Let's get this straight DU. If they have a fucking R after their name...fuck them

[malaise]

19. I'm not forgetting anything - I too detest him

but it's time to end the fugging useless wars

[Demsrule86]

22. Me too...sick of fucking war.

[Pantagruel]

7. Have Gen. Graham

explain for the 50th time how it's "different this time" and our troops will turn the tide?

[doc03]

10. General Lindsey Graham how is it you support Cadet Bone Spur

[pwb]

11. If this decades long war is a good idea Lindsey the rest of the world would be there too.

But it's mostly just us. The countries not there are prospering without enormous defense spending. Our steel and gunpowder military is obsolete . We are being bettered by cyber militaries dividing our people against each other. You want to give our military families a raise cut back on the ships and planes we don't need.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Why are we still in Afghanistan anyway?

I thought Barack Obama was going to get us out of there. Sigh.

[CurtEastPoint]

14. Yep.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Because if we leave, it means all those lives were lost in vain.

If we stay, it means, well, I don't know but maybe all those lives, ... oh who knows!

Another quagmire.

[gratuitous]

17. Unfortunately . . .

During Obama's administration, Congress only authorized funds to keep the troops in Afghanistan, not remove them. Obama respected government and the rule of law enough to spend money only as authorized. So the troops stayed in Afghanistan, and the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay stayed open.

[tonyt53]

16. We have over 26K troops in Europe and Central America, not including Germany.

Germany has about 36K. Hell, we have over 3600 in Spain. You know, that hotbed of trouble.

[Dreamer Tatum]

20. Funny, I thought DU was against the occupation of Afghanistan.

Let's hope no Republican ever comes out in favor of oxygen. I want to live.

[guillaumeb]

21. Will General Paul be on the reviewing stand with God Emperor Trump?