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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Thu May 16, 2019, 03:51 AM May 2019

Tim Kaine blasts Trump over Iran

Sen. Tim Kaine, who has battled for years to reassert Congressional responsibility for sending U.S. troops into combat, is worried President Trump is leading the United States toward war with Iran.

“Our troops are not your pawns. This isn’t toy soldiers that you move around a table. These are living, breathing, feeling people,” he said, in an interview on the MSNBC network.

“Virginia is a very military state. I have a kid in the military. When you talk about, and it comes out: 125,000 troops in the Middle East – the President may think that’s a bluff, but do you know what that does to military families who have already seen their members deployed over and over again into the Middle East?” Kaine added.

Kaine said he was dismayed the U.S. pulled out of a multi-lateral agreement through which Iran slowed its nuclear efforts.

Read more: https://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/shad-plank-blog/dp-nws-kaine-iran-20190515-story.html

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Tim Kaine blasts Trump over Iran (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
Madman attempt at butt covering.. sprinkleeninow May 2019 #1
Distraction CDerekGo May 2019 #2
So let me get this straight... B Stieg May 2019 #3

CDerekGo

(507 posts)
2. Distraction
Thu May 16, 2019, 05:17 AM
May 2019

Except this time, he's going to get Military Troops killed, instead of sending them to the Border at Election Time

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
3. So let me get this straight...
Thu May 16, 2019, 05:18 AM
May 2019

tRump wants to (eventually) attack Iran for going against the deal HE withdrew from.
Talk about your Crotch-22!
Vote 2020!

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