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applegrove

(118,683 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:04 PM Oct 2019

Democrats Move To Make Republicans Pay For Not Standing Up To Trump On Syria

BY Jason Easley at Politicus USA

Democrats Move To Make Republicans Pay For Not Standing Up To Trump On Syria

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/13/chuck-schumer-syria-trump.html

"SNIP....

Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will introduce a joint resolution calling on Trump to reverse the withdrawal of US troops from Syria.

Schumer said during a press conference:

There have been so many developments the last few days, one after the other and it shows how bankrupt this president’s decision-making process is. The president is simply derelict in his duty as president. He is making Americans much less safe, he is undoing years of work to curb ISIS. He is making America more susceptible to terrorism by his actions, he may not have intended to do that but that’s just what has happened as a result of his actions. And as New Yorkers, we particularly know the danger of terrorism, because of 9/11. I knew three people who lost their lives. Every New Yorker knows people who were lost and New Yorkers are more aware of terror than anyone else.

So we will be putting on the floor of the Senate and the House – Speaker Pelosi will be putting on the floor of the House – a joint resolution that urges the president to undo his decision to do everything he can to protect the Kurds, to do everything that we must do to prevent ISIS terrorists from escaping. And make sure that Turkey respects existing agreements related to Syria and with the United States.


....SNIP"

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Democrats Move To Make Republicans Pay For Not Standing Up To Trump On Syria (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2019 OP
Senator John McCain would have supported this bill FakeNoose Oct 2019 #1
.... pbmus Oct 2019 #2
I am a realist. Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #3
Word. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #9
Thanks to my Dem Senator (and a repug) for acting first: elleng Oct 2019 #4
Would this entail US forces fighting Turkish forces in northern Syria? Martin Eden Oct 2019 #5
Damage is done now. roamer65 Oct 2019 #6
Watch Saudi and Irainian Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #10
Trumpty Dumpty... 2naSalit Oct 2019 #7
And the NYT headline will probably be: Mr.Bill Oct 2019 #8
Sooo....Moscow Mitch Said He'd Bring A Vote To The Floor? Me. Oct 2019 #11
They needed to put pressure... Catch2.2 Oct 2019 #12
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. I am a realist.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:18 PM
Oct 2019

This will not happen until Tuesday at the earliest. And one just knows how much damage will be done before this.

If people think Turkey and Putin give a tinkers damn about what we think,well,we got a ton of Lake Shore for sale out here in the Mohave Desert.

elleng

(130,972 posts)
4. Thanks to my Dem Senator (and a repug) for acting first:
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:19 PM
Oct 2019

*Van Hollen and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have emerged as two of the fiercest congressional critics of Trump’s decision last weekend to allow the Turkish military to enter into Syria, where it has engaged the Syrian Kurdish militias that helped American forces quash Islamic State forces in the region.

The senators released a bill Wednesday that threatens a series of economic sanctions against Turkey for its incursion, and Van Hollen claimed Sunday that “momentum is building for the Congress to act” amid the dayslong Turkish assault.

“Congress is going to first call upon the president to do the right thing, but since we can’t count on that, we will have this bipartisan legislation.”'

- Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142380692

Martin Eden

(12,870 posts)
5. Would this entail US forces fighting Turkish forces in northern Syria?
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:23 PM
Oct 2019

If not, what exactly will a reversal of our withdrawal entail?

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
6. Damage is done now.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:51 PM
Oct 2019

We need to prepare for the Turkish-Syrian war, the prelude to the Great Middle East War.

We need to get our nukes, equipment and personnel out of Turkey. Also evacuate the American embassy.

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
7. Trumpty Dumpty...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 05:08 PM
Oct 2019

Trumpty Dumpty Sat on his wall
Trumpty Dumpty Had a phone call
Now many people whom we said were friends
Are being slaughtered by Erdogan's men.

Like piercing the yolk of an egg, this cannot be "undone".

Mr.Bill

(24,303 posts)
8. And the NYT headline will probably be:
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 05:18 PM
Oct 2019

Democrats vote for endless US involvement in Syria war.

Seriously, I fear this could backfire.

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