Rand Paul to introduce bill to end the Afghan war
GOOD!
Unfortunately I don't think it will pass but we need to try anyway.
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Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
Have you contacted your senator to support this yet? I have.
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He's on fox next! Hurry hurry hurry. (7:15 ET)
I will, is there a link to a petition by Rand or the John Birch Society etc. to make it easier for everyone who reads this?
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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Rand Paul "coming up" on Fox news' Martha McCallum's show - next I think.
"$50 Billion in savings per year"!
Last edited by Valli6; 03-05-2019 at 06:23 PM.
Not that I am aware of, I have been reading house bills all day and have not had a chance to do much else.
When I called Toomey's office I simply told them I wanted Toomey to Stand with Rand to End the Afghan War. I also told his office that if Toomey writes or co-sponsors ANY gun legislation that I would make it known and NOT vote for him next time around. Toomey is a snake.
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.”
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@Swordsmyth
PS, if you dig something up please post it :-)
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.”
Read the RPF trolls' playbook here (post #3)
I will, I hope The New American will have a JBS link when I go there.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
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Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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Did i miss Rand? Can someone post it?
Rand starts @1:45
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It hasn't been assigned a number yet since it's just being introduced, but here it is:
https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/sen...ar-afghanistan
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.”
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What about Fox News Ron?
I can't get these dang things to imbed here. Try this....
https://www.abcfoxmontana.com/nation...6b2f6a54f.html
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) discuss new legislation introduced that would effectively end the US war in Afghanistan.
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I need a youtube Ron. Anyone post the youtube of Rand on fox?
Huge! Wish Walter Jones was alive to be apart of this.
Paul and Udall were on The Lead with Jake Tapper.
Rand should dedicate it to him.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
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In the house the bill is called the Walter B Jones memorial bill i think i read that somewhere..
If you just move people around to other locations, how much money are you actually saving?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...nuses-to-vets/
A plan to end Afghanistan War: Declare victory and give $2,500 bonuses to vets
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is proposing giving all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans a one-time $2,500 payout and declaring victory in Afghanistan in what he is billing a cost-saving move for America.
“It’s important to know when it’s time to declare victory and leave a war,” the Republican said in a Facebook video posted Tuesday morning. “I think that time is long past.”
Paul, a Republican lawmaker known for his libertarian views and tense relationship with party leadership, said the payout to veterans would cost taxpayers more than $7 billion, but it would also be “an immediate savings of 83 percent when compared to the current yearly cost of nation building.”
Pentagon estimates put the total costs of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 at around $6 trillion. Paul said ongoing overseas missions in the global war on terror total more than $50 billion annually.
“We don’t need to be wasting that $50 billion, and there is no doubt much of it is wasted,” he said. “When are they (the Afghanistan government) going to pay for their own stuff? Why does Uncle Sam have to be Uncle Sap and pay for everything?”
True you would save on "hazardous duty" pay- unless they went to another conflict zone like Iraq. There would be large one- time costs of moving everything you want out of the country. What exactly has been "won"?“It’s time to declare our mission over and the war won,” he said. “It’s time to build here and not there.”
https://taskandpurpose.com/rand-paul...-victory-bonus
"Declare victory" in Afghanistan brings this image to mind:On Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican announced his intent to introduce new legislation this week "to end a war that should have ended long ago" in a video message published to his Facebook page.
"I supported going to war in Afghanistan in 2001, attacking those who harbored the 9/11 terrorists or helped to organize the attack ... and going after al-Qaeda," Paul said. "But we are many, many years past that mission. We have turned to nation-building at the cost of more than $50 billion spent a year in Afghanistan."
"It's important when to know to declare victory and leave a war," he added. "I think that time is long past, but I think we can all agree that time has come."
And that's exactly what Paul's new legislation, titled the AFGHAN Service Act, would do: declare "victory" in Afghanistan. After all, Paul says, "Osama bin Laden was killed eight years ago ... [ and Pentagon officials] say al-Qaeda is nearly wiped out."
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 03-06-2019 at 04:20 PM.
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LOLIf you just move people around to other locations, how much money are you actually saving?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...nuses-to-vets/
True you would save on "hazardous duty" pay- unless they went to another conflict zone like Iraq. There would be large one- time costs of moving everything you want out of the country. What exactly has been "won"?
https://taskandpurpose.com/rand-paul...-victory-bonus
"Declare victory" in Afghanistan brings this image to mind:
If we keep ending wars there won't be any to send them to.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
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Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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If you keep them in the military, they are still getting paid. Even if they are in the US. Only "hazard pay" bonuses may be lower. Trump wants even more money for the military than the most recent budget allowed so are we saving any money?
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Yes, there are lots of ways that it costs extra to deploy them abroad.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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So is anybody suggesting cutting the defense budget? I am not hearing anybody. That means that taxpayers will save nothing.
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It will be easier to suggest that when they have been brought home and people like you can't scream that the cuts will leave the troops high and dry without the money they need.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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Should expedite that bill.
Afghan war in 2019 under 'anti-war' Trump:
Sep 19, 2019
50 Afghan civilians dead, 30 killed after US drone accidentally bombed farmers
Sep 17, 2019
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Published 11 hours ago
US Army Green Beret killed in Afghanistan gun battle identified: 'He was a warrior'
Griffin first deployed to war with the 82nd Airborne to Iraq in 2006 before joining Special Forces in 2014. He was born in Cristobal, Panama on December 7, 1978.
Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Griffin from Greenbrier, Tennessee, a Special Forces soldier was 41 and making his fourth combat deployment, three to Afghanistan since 2009, according to Lt. Col. Loren Bymer, U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman.
Sgt. 1st Class Griffin was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart.
Griffin is the 17th American killed this year in combat in Afghanistan. It’s the highest total in the past five years.
Today, there are roughly 14,000 U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, President Trump announced he had canceled secret peace talks with top Afghan and Taliban officials at Camp David.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/army-g...tan-identified
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