Rand Paul calls Liz, Dick Cheney 'unrepentant warmongers' who need to 'fade into obscurity'
By Charles Creitz
December 12, 2019
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., resumed his periodic back-and-forth with the Cheneys on "Your World" Tuesday, calling the Republican political family "unrepentant warmongers" over their support for continued U.S. military presence overseas.
Paul on Tuesday responded to Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who had told Fox News earlier Tuesday that it is "crucially important that [the U.S.] does not walk away" from Afghanistan.
"We know what happens when we walk away," the younger Cheney warned on "The Daily Briefing." "We are now in a situation where we've got a sufficient number of troops on the ground to prevent safe havens and people have got to remember that Afghanistan is a place from which the terrorists planned and plotted and trained and attacked us on 9/11 -- We cannot let that happen again."
Cheney's father was also a staunch supporter of the War on Terror when he served under President George W. Bush.
Reacting to a Washington Post report that top U.S. officials painted an optimistic public picture of the war in Afghanistan's progress while privately grousing that the conflict was unwinnable, Paul told Neil Cavuto it is another reason the Cheneys should fade into the political background.
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