Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she supports President Obama's decision to authorize airstrikes in Iraq

[wyldwolf]

BOSTON — Warning against a new U.S. war in Iraq, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday stood by President Barack Obama’s decision to authorize targeted airstrikes to help defend Americans in Erbil, Iraq, and provide aid to a religious minority taking refuge in the Sinjar mountains.

“It’s a complicated situation right now in Iraq and the president has taken very targeted actions to provide humanitarian relief that the Iraqi government requested, and to protect American citizens,” Warren told reporters. “But like the president I believe that any solution in Iraq is going to be a negotiated solution, not a military solution. We do not want to be pulled into another war in Iraq.”

Warren said the actions announced by Obama will change the dynamic in the country, which has a Shi’ite led government and an independent Kurdish region in the north.

“It’s a very complicated situation in Iraq. The president has now taken two very targeted actions, and those two actions will change the mix of what’s happening in Iraq, and we’ll have to just monitor it,” Warren said.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/08/sen_elizabeth_warren_warns_abo.html

[DonViejo]

1. You're batting 1,000 here, wyldwolf...

News articles from the conservative Springfield newspaper, and right wing stories from the right wing Boston Herald http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025364024

Don't you want to post something from the Lowell Sun, too?

[wyldwolf]

2. care to debunk the points?

... and is it your contention that anything posted from these two sources are bogus? Answer carefully.

[DonViejo]

4. Both newspapers are unreliable source(s)...

of objective news. Most residents of the locales those papers serve are aware of the unreliability but, you already know that, don't you? Having done public battle with both newspapers, I feel no compunction to do so on the pages of DU.

[wyldwolf]

5. so, in other words, you don't care if the points are valid

You just don't like them coming from those two sources. OK, cool. When DonViejo-approved sources pick up the story (and I imagine the Iraq one is already out there) I'll post the information from those sources as well.

[DonViejo]

6. Well, yeah! That's what I've said from the beginning...

it's the source(s).

[pennylane100]

7. Well the sources may be unreliable

but they may get something right very occasionally. A broken clock has the correct time at least twice a day, (once if it is digital).

[DonViejo]

8. Yawn.

Any time you want to come and deal with these two papers and their coverage of issues important to you, please feel free to do so. Maybe after you deal with them on issues from anything involving you personally to the way they cover political issues, you'll drop the cute analogy with the broken clock.

[treestar]

9. So perhaps Sen. Warren did not say that?

These right wing sources are clever enough to make that up so as to taunt the supporters of Warren who believe she would never do anything Obama would do that they consider warlike or corporatist?

[madokie]

3. Thank you Senator Warren

another sane response to this situation

[morningfog]

10. We were just pulled into another Iraq war.

[msanthrope]

11. Is that the bus I hear coming? nt

[morningfog]

12. I'm not the bus driver. I don't do blind loyalty.

And I speak only for myself. When I agree, I support the representative holding the similar position. When I disagree, I oppose them. Issues and positions matter much more than personalities.

[msanthrope]

13. Really? You don't allow for reconsideration, in case you might be wrong?

I mean, EW is pretty smart, and she's in a position of power to know more about this than you or I.

I mean, it's worth a moment or two of reconsideration, right?

[woo me with science]

15. +1 I always find it fascinating, and more than a little pathetic,

how the cult of personality always assumes everyone else is in a cult of personality, too.

[gratuitous]

16. Hey, you don't buck our national religion

That is, if you know what's good for you. The High Church of Redemptive Violence doesn't brook apostasy.

[Iggo]

14. And I'd still vote for her over Clinton.

Not sure what you guys think you're accomplishing.

[Romulox]

17. The mask is off, it would seem. A Republican into her 40s, let's remember. nt