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Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is blaming his own party for the rise of the Islamic State group.
The freshman senator from Kentucky, who supports a smaller U.S. footprint in the world, charged Wednesday that the GOP's foreign policy hawks "created these people." In return, potential GOP rival Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, said Paul is unqualified to be president.
"ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately," Paul said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." He continued: "They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved they loved Hillary Clinton's war in Libya. They just wanted more of it."
"Everything that they have talked about in foreign policy, they have been wrong about for 20 years, and yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise," Paul said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/27/us/politics/ap-us-gop-2016-paul.html
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Sometimes he hits the nail on the head.....
that he's "flipping" now so he'll "flop" later. Don't forget that he's a master plagiarist. He's using progressive liberals' lines as a political tool.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)desmiller
(747 posts)but will eventually go flat once he's within FOX territory.
JI7
(89,283 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Transparent play to go after people who aren't (IOW: don't want to be) affiliated with the GOP, but can't stand Clinton.
Does anyone know who is Rand's SuperPac backer?
JI7
(89,283 posts)mostly libertarian types .
Johonny
(20,942 posts)just to give context to the whole giving arms and loving Hillary's war comments.