Democrats Are Now Pushing Obama to Give Guns to Ukraine

[DonViejo]

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Tim Mak

Putin’s proxies have taken hundreds of square miles of Ukraine since the last ‘peace deal.’ Top Democrats want their president to give the Ukrainians the weapons to fight back.

Hawkish Republicans have leaned on President Obama for the better part of a year to give weapons to Ukraine as it battles Russian-backed separatists. Now it’s members of Obama’s own party—both within Congress and from members of his own administration—that are calling on the president to arm the Ukrainians, before they lose even more territory to the Kremlin’s proxies.

On Capitol Hill there is a renewed sense of urgency: The top-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, will join with his Republican counterpart Mac Thornberry on Tuesday to present a bill that would further pressure the president to give the Ukrainian government weaponry, although legislators have yet to spell out the specifics of the bill.

And in the last week, a bevy of Democratic pols and former diplomats have said that the United States should do more.

“Later this week—if it goes any later than that...” Rep. Eliot Engel, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Daily Beast on Monday. “They need the weapons, they need them soon, and they need them quick. Our credibility is on the line, and what’s right is on the line,” Engel said.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. The same AIPAC slave Democrats who stabbed Obama in the back regarding Iran negotiations want what? Hahahah.

It is fortunate for them Obama understands the emptiness of revenge and the need for humility.

If you focus on the process and outcomes and not the noise and personalities, you can do it.

Not me. No way. Obama can.

If only these asshats thought for a second what they all just may have as their leader is a very wise man and just admit it.

[still_one]

2. Stupid. Negotiations are going on right now and they want to throw fuel to the fire

We really have idiots in Congress