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riversedge

(70,351 posts)
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 04:56 PM Feb 2015

Asked on ABC about Syria, Walker raises prospect of US boots on ground

Source: Milw Journal Sentinel





Asked on ABC about Syria, Walker raises prospect of US boots on ground

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/290469921.html


By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel

Feb. 1, 2015 10:20 a.m.



Washington, D.C. -- Asked on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday ..............

Raddatz asked: “You don’t think 2,000 air strikes is taking it to ISIS in Syria and Iraq?”
................

“I think anywhere and everywhere, we have to be – go beyond just aggressive air strikes. We have to look at other surgical methods. And ultimately, we have to be prepared to put boots on the ground if that’s what it takes.”

Raddatz asked: “U.S. boots on the ground in Syria?”

Walker responded, “I don’t think that is an immediate plan,” and added, “I wouldn’t rule anything out. I think when you have the lives of Americans at stake and our freedom loving allies anywhere in the world, we have to be prepared to do things that don’t allow those measures, those attacks, those abuses to come to our shores.”.......



Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/290469921.html



This is no surprise.
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Asked on ABC about Syria, Walker raises prospect of US boots on ground (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2015 OP
“I wouldn’t rule anything out." JeffHead Feb 2015 #1
Saw that interview. She was... YvonneCa Feb 2015 #18
Well, his two college boys can boot up!! riversedge Feb 2015 #2
When I ponder foreign policy and defense matters... TwilightGardener Feb 2015 #3
He's qualified to handle foreign policy - I'm sure he can see Canada from his house! George II Feb 2015 #10
And we have our thread winner. Brigid Feb 2015 #25
As I mentioned elsewhere about this - another republican who didn't serve in the military..... George II Feb 2015 #4
So many Republican experts who never served. JDDavis Feb 2015 #6
It's not so much that they didn't serve, many Americans never served, but..... George II Feb 2015 #9
chickenhawk pieces of shit Skittles Feb 2015 #20
Remind me again, just in which recent mid-east conflict did Walker serve? JDDavis Feb 2015 #5
Well, Walker did call out the State Patrol to arrest riversedge Feb 2015 #12
Was that a war between the states? JDDavis Feb 2015 #19
According to TDS's John Oliver Jimbo S Feb 2015 #23
Thanks, I remember that battle well. n/t JDDavis Feb 2015 #24
So it looks like Walker is just sorefeet Feb 2015 #16
So long as the boots belong to Walker, Romney, Bush, Rubio, Cruz, and Limbaugh --nt Kennah Feb 2015 #7
And Walker is an authority on deploying military units because? bulloney Feb 2015 #8
High School Graduate Walker would launch a war in a heartbeat if the Kochs asked him to do it. Thor_MN Feb 2015 #11
Born and raised in right wing crazy Colorado Springs mountain grammy Feb 2015 #13
He cannot win with that strategy. Dawson Leery Feb 2015 #14
It's not like he started the war on Syria. That was BHO and HRC. nt delrem Feb 2015 #15
"....as long as I don't have to go."----The GOP chicken hawk. Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #17
"Surgical methods", cause Wanker is a rocket surgeon. Scuba Feb 2015 #21
Mind the affairs of Wisconsin, you idiot. N/t roamer65 Feb 2015 #22
We'd prefer he removed himself from them as well, thanks. PeaceNikki Feb 2015 #26
I'm sure he'll do a complete 180 if he finds this doesn't play well with the party aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #27
I wonder how long before he starts backpedaling. louis-t Feb 2015 #28

JeffHead

(1,186 posts)
1. “I wouldn’t rule anything out."
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:02 PM
Feb 2015

So nukes are an option too right tough guy? Just another shoot first ask questions later neo-con stooge. I give Raddatz credit for at least trying to nail jello to the wall.

YvonneCa

(10,117 posts)
18. Saw that interview. She was...
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 11:02 PM
Feb 2015

...excellent. She wasn't allowing him to give non-answers...which is what he was trying to do. It was clear he knows NOTHING about foreign policy. Nothing.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
3. When I ponder foreign policy and defense matters...
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:26 PM
Feb 2015

the first thing that pops into my head is, "Wonder what the Governor of Wisconsin would do?"

George II

(67,782 posts)
4. As I mentioned elsewhere about this - another republican who didn't serve in the military.....
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:27 PM
Feb 2015

....willing to risk others' lives.

 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
6. So many Republican experts who never served.
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:31 PM
Feb 2015

They number in the hundreds in the House and Senate and in many state governors' seats throughout the land.

George II

(67,782 posts)
9. It's not so much that they didn't serve, many Americans never served, but.....
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:51 PM
Feb 2015

....it's their cavalier attitude when it comes to sending OTHER men and women to war.

If they served, or if their children were in line to serve, they might think more seriously about sending Americans off to war.

 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
5. Remind me again, just in which recent mid-east conflict did Walker serve?
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:29 PM
Feb 2015

Oh yeah

NOT ANY!

Scott Walker was born on November 2, 1967. He became interested in politics as a teenager, attended, but did not graduate, college and worked in fundraising for several years. By the age of 25, he was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and quickly moved up the ranks, serving as a Milwaukee County executive and the state's governor.


http://www.biography.com/people/scott-walker-20941829

So he would have been the right age when he dropped out of college to enter Operation Desert Storm, 1990-91. But he didn't. Still eligible for serving when Bush went into Afghanistan (in 2001-present) or to Iraq (2003-present). NOPE, never did that.

An expert on military deployment from experience in the governor's office in Madison, Wisconsin!
 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
19. Was that a war between the states?
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 11:13 PM
Feb 2015

Oh, no, no one arrested, actually, were they?

No one killed, and Walker never showed up at the battle?

The ultimate general.

Jimbo S

(2,960 posts)
23. According to TDS's John Oliver
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 12:04 PM
Feb 2015

The Dems were in the "Northern Territory".

Too lazy to find a link to the video.

sorefeet

(1,241 posts)
16. So it looks like Walker is just
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 10:48 PM
Feb 2015

like Paul Ryan. They both have been on the government payroll for most of their working lives. The guy who wants smaller government, the same government that doesn't make jobs is their chosen career. Right wing war mongers, more of what we don't need.

bulloney

(4,113 posts)
8. And Walker is an authority on deploying military units because?
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:49 PM
Feb 2015

You have to look at Walker for what he is - a Koch Bros. stooge. He's in a position to do nothing more than oppose everything Obama says or does. Koch stooges would argue with Obama if he said Friday follows Thursday.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
11. High School Graduate Walker would launch a war in a heartbeat if the Kochs asked him to do it.
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 06:22 PM
Feb 2015

Scott Walker is probably a write off somewhere in the he Koch's tax returns. He is a wholly owned subsidiary.

mountain grammy

(26,659 posts)
13. Born and raised in right wing crazy Colorado Springs
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 06:44 PM
Feb 2015

spreading Christian Dominionism far and wide.

Maybe Walker thinks he's protecting America from extremism, but who will protect America from Scott Walker?

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
27. I'm sure he'll do a complete 180 if he finds this doesn't play well with the party
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 12:23 PM
Feb 2015

and then act like he thinks a journalist is crazy for even suggesting that he ever proposed boots on the ground. I think it's possible that idea won't sell with the GOP now, and not just with the isolationists and libertarian Rand Paul people or fiscal conservatives who don't want to spend another trillion on a war.

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