Article from Rare by Autumn Price.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released a statement Monday night calling for an end to “open-ended war.”
Paul, who has consistently opposed the U.S. becoming militarily involved in foreign conflicts through executive orders, is urging Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis to defer to Congress’ constitutional authority on declaring war.
“I don’t think we gave the executive branch a blanket authority just to go to war anywhere they want against people who they say are a part of radical Islam,” Paul said Monday in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis. “Ultimately, there’s going to have to be diplomacy involved in this, as well. How are we ever going to end the war? Is there ever an end to this war?”
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“Congress has no greater responsibility than defending our country, and the Founders entrusted it with the power of declaring war because they wanted such a weighty decision to be thoroughly debated by the legislature instead of unilaterally made by the Executive branch,” Paul said Monday.
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Give them hell, Rand. Perpetual war including our Proxy war against Yemen is genocide. Hillary $80 billion to Saudis and now US bombers destroying another entire country. I see foreign videos of starving babies while the most radical Islamists bomb 100% civilian targets. This is US State Dept. war of genocide and we all must take responsibility for what our democratic government destroys with war, in a most diabolically cruel and hypocritical way. You are absolutely right to call these collaborationists on what is ethically and Constitutionally corrupt.
Genocide, murder, who… who the hell cares, kill all terrorists in the homes, mosques, supermarkets cars.
Obama tried being nice and what did we get? More bombings and more attacks. All these people know is
the need to kill Americans and it won’t stop until we continue to go after them every where they breathe
and live.