Senator Bernie Sanders Votes No on War Funds

[grahamhgreen]

http://sanders.enews.senate.gov/mail/util.cfm?mailaction=share&piv=2100120140.93900.140&snid=2

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday voted against the United States training and arming Syrian rebels. Bernie said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “is a brutal and dangerous extremist organization which must be defeated, but this war cannot be won by the United States alone.”

“There needs to be a real international coalition led by the countries most threatened – Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Iran,” the senator said. “The worst thing that we can do now is allow ISIS to portray this struggle as East vs. West, as Muslim vs. Christian, as the Middle East vs. America. That is exactly what they want and that is exactly what we should not be giving them.”

I have to agree with Sanders. This is a great opportunity to force Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, Syria, et al, to come together.

[Maedhros]

1. Bernie clearly understands this situation better than Obama or Hillary. [n/t]

[Scootaloo]

2. So where are the right-wing DU'ers who were using him to pimp their war with Syria?

[grahamhgreen]

3. They got their war, I think they're all on vacation.

[Fred Sanders]

4. I love how America gets to unilaterally declare war against whomever they choose, including other

nations being bombed without their consent, as if the rest of the world does not exist except to bomb and invade.....has Syria declared war on America? Who appointed America World Police?

Might makes right is always the reason, so obvious it is not even worthy of debate anymore, this Gawd given right to bomb the planet as the Pentagon pleases.

[morningfog]

5. They're still around. They will probably come to this thread and offer

an alternative reality devoid of logic.

[cali]

6. All 3 members of the VT delegation voted against it

and so did a sizable contingent of dems in both the House and Senate.

[Feral Child]

7. Very glad to see this.

Sounds like a Dem candidate, to me.

[hifiguy]

8. Bernie is the best.

[bigwillq]

9. Thank you, Sen. Sanders

[Dems to Win]

10. Bernie also noted Saudi Arabia has a military that could take out ISIS

I've come to believe that Saudi Arabia created and armed ISIS and ordered them to invade Iraq and taunt the US into a war to overthrow Assad.

Now, the Saudis are saying they are afraid of ISIS. I'm not sure I buy that, or not. ISIS may be doing exactly what Saudi ordered, pretending to threaten SA, or ISIS may have turned on its creator and set its sights on al-Baghdadi as the sole caliph for their land which of course will need to include Mecca.

In any case, this is a Saudi problem they unleashed on the region. They should step up and take out ISIS.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Agree.

[sadoldgirl]

12. Thank you Senator Sanders