Sen. Ted Cruz Would Deploy U.S. Troops Against ISIS "If Need Be"

[Omaha Steve]

Source: ABC News

By LAURA WAGNER

Likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said today he would take put U.S. troops on the ground in the fight against ISIS if it was necessary to "accomplish the mission."

"The mission should be defeating ISIS before they succeed in carrying out more horrific acts of terror, before they succeed in murdering Americans. If need be, we should go that step," Cruz told "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos when asked whether U.S. troops on the ground should be considered.

Cruz's answer echoed that of fellow GOP hopeful, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who said last Sunday on "This Week" that he "wouldn't rule out" deploying American troops in the fight against ISIS.

Cruz, however, emphasized that the first steps in combating the terror group should be arming the forces already battling ISIS on the ground, and stepping up the severity of air strikes.

FULL story at link.



Senator Ted Cruz (R) Texas on 'This Week' ABC News

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/This_Week/sen-ted-cruz-deploy-us-troops-isis/story?id=28812917

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We should send Ted over there NOW!

[calimary]

1. Um... Why would it ever be his decision in the first place?

Isn't he ineligible to run for President? After all HE wasn't born in any one of our 50 states.

[George II]

6. Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution:

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

I don't know how he gets around that!

[cstanleytech]

14. His mother was though just like Obama so he can be president as

it doesnt say he has to be born inside the US.
Hopefully though he never will get into office because he probably would make Bush look good.

[George II]

16. Back when I was in High School they taught us that one had to be born IN the United States...

...to be President. Cruz is not "just like Obama" (in SOOOO many ways!!!), he was born in Canada. Obama was born in Hawaii after they became a state.

[cstanleytech]

17. I'm just basing that on what was quoted so unless there is some other law

specifically written he could become president as it didnt say he had to be born inside the US just that he had to be natural born, now excuse me for a moment while I go get some ibuprofen as the thought of him being president is giving me a headache.

[George II]

19. I'm working on a double-dose of Pepto Bismol myself.

[calimary]

22. Well, that's what I was taught, too.

Hawaii became a state in 1959. Barack Obama was not born yet. Hawaii's statehood became effective on August 21, 1959, thanks to the Admission Act, enacted by Congress and signed by then-President Eisenhower, a Republican.

President Obama was born August 4, 1961.

(Sorry, I just like rubbing that in... )

[George II]

23. Ah, but when did Kenya become a state??????? HAH!

[calimary]

24. BWAAAhaaaahaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

33. A natural born citizen MEANS born in th US. Obama was born in Hawaii (already a state).

Hawaii a state: August 21, 1959
Obama born: August 4, 1961

[cstanleytech]

35. Yes I am well aware of that and never said or thought otherwise about Obama

I am just pointing out that Cruz to some could be eligible since his mother is an american and he was naturally born or atleast the courts might so rule if there isnt a law on the books that specifically says otherwise.

[yurbud]

31. aren't mental hospitals considered US territory?

[groundloop]

2. In other words..... "I'd love to facilitate another war if given half a chance."

[Renew Deal]

3. Obama will put troops back into Iraq long before Cruz ever has a chance.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/06/us/isis-mosul-troops/index.html

[HereSince1628]

4. So, put him down as the first volunteer, if need be.

[christx30]

10. Can we get him a flight suit

Like GWB? Let's see him fly out there.

[George II]

20. Send Cruz to Iraq in a uniform and I'll post the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

[jmowreader]

28. Can we send him up by himself?

No sense in our killing an expensive pilot who will be missed by his family so this maniac can have a nice photo opportunity.

[calimary]

26. Yeah, no kidding! Let's induct him into the "YOU FIRST Club"!

You want that war, teddy-boy? Well, YOU FIRST! Put yer money where yer mouth is, and your ass on the line. You want that war so badly? Well then, sign up, suit up, and ship out!

Maybe I'm just really being intolerant and judgmental but it seems to me that NOBODY who did not serve and put their actual living breathing ass on the line and thus does not know what war is - should have that much to say (or sway) about why we just have to get ready to go to war. That's his default position? It's ALWAYS gotta be war? Always gotta go for the carnage and blood and explosions and destruction and mayhem? Always? That's ALWAYS Option #1-and-Only?

I find it MOST distasteful that so many of the loudest and screechiest voices clamoring for war and think war is the only effective answer - do not know or understand what war is, or what war does to people, things, and places. The wreckage. The pain. The senseless waste! They don't know any better than to speak War exclusively. They either did not serve, or if they did, they served oddly-truncated time in the Candy-Ass Patrol back home (bush2), or they lucked out - drafted for service between wartimes (rummy)?

If you're so adamant about putting war on the table, then fine. YOU lead the way, dude.

[George II]

5. Another republican chicken-hawk who never served in the military but is eager to send.....

...OTHERS off to war.

[Paladin]

7. You first, Cruz. (nt)

[Exultant Democracy]

8. So would most stupid fuckwits, including posters on this very board.

Dumb ass crusaders are on both the left and right.

[yurbud]

32. really? have you done a poll on this?

[Exultant Democracy]

34. There are entire threads on DU where the war boners are out.

[yurbud]

36. that's a handful of shills and their sockpuppets. Don't mistake those for sincere beliefs.

[yurbud]

37. I posted a poll on this that did about as I'd expected.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026201850

When I've done similar polls in the past, the raging corporate boners shrink to a little less than a handful.

[nakocal]

9. And he would pay for this by gutting medicare, social security, veterans benefits, the VA

And he would pay for this by gutting medicare, social security, veterans benefits, the VA, actually anything that would strengthen America.

[George II]

11. Interesting choices to cut....

As a senator (with a VERY small "S&quot , he has lifetime health insurance, doesn't pay into Social Security, and was never in the military so he doesn't qualify for veterans' benefits or need the VA.

[NutmegYankee]

12. Translation - Yeehaw boys! Git yer boots on!

[bluestateguy]

13. And he's qualified to plot military strategy be-cause...?

Maybe I missed something from his resume?

[freshwest]

15. He's AnAnointedOne© says his church. He don't need no stinkin' resume!

Bow to your new overlord! If he lets you live, that is...

[Vic Tree]

18. And all of our Blue States

Remember that Stalin came from Georgia, not Russia; Hitler came from Austria, not Germany; so it makes sense that OUR dictator would come from Canada!

[47of74]

21. Very nice Ted. Now put it back in your pants. And, Ted, you first asshole.

[Ramses]

25. Ted Cruz can go fuck himself

send him over there to fight. Fucking warmongering asshole

[DallasNE]

27. ISIS Is Outgrowth Of Bush's Iraq War

Led by old Saddam loyalists. American boots on the ground is the perfect recruiting tool for ISIS so why would we want an ever expanding war as that is the sure consequence of what Cruz is offering up.

[mahina]

29. You know, I read that backwards by accident, and it made about as much sense.

How long are we going to have to look at that ugly mug?

[Orsino]

30. What a vacuous answer.

Weakling.