Posted on Dec 20, 2018
Russia's Putin hails Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria
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Is that the motivation?
Russia's Putin hails Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria
Posted from news.yahoo.com
Syria
Donald Trump
Vladimir Putin
Posted 7 y ago
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Putin has an opinion. So do I. Could we infer then that I had some secret power over the President? Of course not. The inference that Putin's opinion somehow exposes a nefarious connection between Putin and Trump is simply the delusion of a hysterical mind (and there's a helluva lot of that going around these days, isn't there?)
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Capt Jeff S.
To call off an open ended investigation in search of a crime conducted by a team of campaign donors who supported Hillary Clinton, who funded the fake dossier used to justify illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign?
Why hasn’t Mueller followed leads pointing to the DNC’s illegal activities? Perhaps Congress should investigate Mueller to find out why he destroyed some of Agent Strzok’s emails. Destroying potential evidence suggests Mueller has a conflict of interest and that he is not being objective in his investigation. And IF that is the case, he is wasting taxpayer money on a fraudulent investigation and the investigation needs to be halted pending review of the investigators and the data they collected by an independent non-partisan 3rd party team of legal experts and forensic investigators.
Why hasn’t Mueller followed leads pointing to the DNC’s illegal activities? Perhaps Congress should investigate Mueller to find out why he destroyed some of Agent Strzok’s emails. Destroying potential evidence suggests Mueller has a conflict of interest and that he is not being objective in his investigation. And IF that is the case, he is wasting taxpayer money on a fraudulent investigation and the investigation needs to be halted pending review of the investigators and the data they collected by an independent non-partisan 3rd party team of legal experts and forensic investigators.
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LTC (Join to see)
If Mueller did that then he’d have to investigate the family from Pakistan that had gained complete control of the DNC and numerous Democratic Politicians computers. Capt Jeff S.
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The people criticizing him for announcing a pull out now are the same people that whined, bitched and moaned about him putting boots on the ground in Syria to go after ISIS in the first place. ISIS has been dealt a death blow. The caliphate is gone, they are a not a real threat.
Syria has been a puppet state of the Russians and the Soviets for a long time. Basher's daddy Hafez was president from about 1970 to about 2000 then came Bashar from 2000 until now. What would be nice is a stable Syria. We haven't seen that in a while. It is unlikely we were going to get the Russians out of Syria and why would we want to. It would likely be the next Libya or Iraq. What are our vital national interests for having troops on the ground in Syria for years to come?
Congress can, at any moment, pass a declaration of war. They will not because they are all talkers. Both sides of the aisle. They all think they are mini presidents. Put up or shut up. None of them have the courage of their conviction to present a declaration of war on the floor of the congress.
We are 18 years into Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight. How much is enough? Let the Russians deal with Syria.
Syria has been a puppet state of the Russians and the Soviets for a long time. Basher's daddy Hafez was president from about 1970 to about 2000 then came Bashar from 2000 until now. What would be nice is a stable Syria. We haven't seen that in a while. It is unlikely we were going to get the Russians out of Syria and why would we want to. It would likely be the next Libya or Iraq. What are our vital national interests for having troops on the ground in Syria for years to come?
Congress can, at any moment, pass a declaration of war. They will not because they are all talkers. Both sides of the aisle. They all think they are mini presidents. Put up or shut up. None of them have the courage of their conviction to present a declaration of war on the floor of the congress.
We are 18 years into Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight. How much is enough? Let the Russians deal with Syria.
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Cpl Jeff N.
SGT Anna Kleinschmidt - You don't understand how the chain of command works either. The generals and advisors get to advise, they do not set policy, the president has that job. He lives and dies by those decisions at the ballot box.
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Cpl Jeff N.
SSgt Gary Andrews - So Gary, were you in the room when the decision was made? Do you know that none of his advisors suggested a pull out from Syria? You don't know that he did not speak with Mattis first. There was a story of a 45 minute meeting with him. Mattis, who I am a huge fan of, disagreed and did what he thought was best. Do you know what other cabinet level folks advised? No, you don't.
So are you for the declaration of war in Syria or not Gary, You keep dodging the questions. You and I both know the Congress will not bring it up for a vote and if they did, it would get voted down. Why is that? Most of them would prefer not to be in the record with a vote and criticize from the sideline. Too many of them think they are the secretary of state and note a congressman or senator from one district or state.
So are you for the declaration of war in Syria or not Gary, You keep dodging the questions. You and I both know the Congress will not bring it up for a vote and if they did, it would get voted down. Why is that? Most of them would prefer not to be in the record with a vote and criticize from the sideline. Too many of them think they are the secretary of state and note a congressman or senator from one district or state.
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SSgt Gary Andrews
Cpl Jeff N. Your question is a red herring.....we've been engaging in military conflicts without a declaration since Korea in the 1950s. What's your point? As for not being in the room, it's probably safe to say that nobody was in the room with him when he made the decision since it was announced by tweet. If others advised him to do it, why are they not jumping to his defense? He's taking a lot of heat for the decision. Have you not been observing how Trump operates? He often brags about being his own best adviser, and knowing more than anyone else. He decides things based on his gut......he told us that. If you think he uses a deliberative process in making decisions like this one, you are kidding yourself.
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Maj John Bell
SGT Anna Kleinschmidt - The area around Syria has not been stable since the Ottoman Empire was dismembered after WWI. Actually it started to crumble from internal dissent in the late 19th Century.
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