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ffr

(22,670 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 01:25 PM Jul 2020

Cowards! Republican lawmakers will not support nor protect our troops

Lawmakers paralyzed over response to Russian bounty intel



Members of Congress were consumed last week with reports that the Russian government was paying bounties to Taliban militants who killed U.S. troops overseas. But they now appear poised to do little — if anything — about it.
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Democrats and Republicans alike have supported stricter sanctions on Russia as punishment for its malign activities, including its interference in the 2016 election and its annexation of Crimea in 2014. But the Trump administration has repeatedly hesitated to fully deploy the sanctions regime Congress authorized in 2017, and Republicans have rarely used their leverage to press the White House on the issue.

“There’s still a whole series of questions about what our policy is vis-à-vis Russia, and why there seems to be this unwillingness to call out Russian bad actions,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee.

The stalemate underscores the difficulties lawmakers face in confronting an increasingly emboldened Russia — especially in an election year, when Republicans are unlikely to publicly break with the president, who has sought to maintain a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Politico


Republicans are cowards and traitors. They support the troops for show, but couldn't give a shit about them once the cameras turn off. Remember that this November.
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Cowards! Republican lawmakers will not support nor protect our troops (Original Post) ffr Jul 2020 OP
K & R Cowards and Traitors. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #1
Republicans cravenly follow their draft dodging Golfer-in-Chief Champp Jul 2020 #2
And here in lies the problem, republicons DO NOT CARE FOR PEOPLE MagickMuffin Jul 2020 #3
Because Putin pays they not to care. McCamy Taylor Jul 2020 #4
These republican thugs have clearly made their bed w/ the bone spur, draft dodging PINO SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #5

Champp

(2,114 posts)
2. Republicans cravenly follow their draft dodging Golfer-in-Chief
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 01:33 PM
Jul 2020

And will not stand up for honorable Americans in uniform.

Disgusting.

MagickMuffin

(15,942 posts)
3. And here in lies the problem, republicons DO NOT CARE FOR PEOPLE
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 01:34 PM
Jul 2020

not their voters, not the troops, not the educators, not the medical professionals.


NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES, and they probably don't care about them either.

SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
5. These republican thugs have clearly made their bed w/ the bone spur, draft dodging PINO
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 02:48 PM
Jul 2020

scumbag. Everyone of them should be voted out of office and made to answer for why they continue to support this PINO scumbag.

They pretend that the PINO doesn't mean things when he mouths off something offensive or cruel.

Isn't it time to stand up against such crap and garbage, constantly being spewed out by the PINO and take a stand. Be brave and have a little courage, eh?

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