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Anyone pissed Lloyd Austin is threatening to send US Troops if we Don't deliver the money

Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:18 pm
Posted by RiverCityTider
Jacksonville, Florida
Member since Oct 2008
6075 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:18 pm
I have never called my congressman in my life. But I just did because this crosses the freakin line.

These people in charge have lost it and they have to be stopped. I told my representative that this is freakin blackmail and he needs to stop it.

If the congress preemptively prohibits troops, can't they basically make the war powers act non-applicable?
Posted by lsuguy84
CO
Member since Feb 2009
24940 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:21 pm to
Posted by AUTiger1978
Member since Jan 2018
1100 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:22 pm to
Yes, that dramatic bitch needs to be put in his place. If we don’t want to fund the war with dollars we sure as hell don’t want to send our boys over there to die.

Also, so embarrassed that jackass is an Auburn alum.
Posted by LuckyTiger
Someone's Alter
Member since Dec 2008
49603 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:23 pm to
Psychos running a racket with other peoples lives and other peoples money.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
76597 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:23 pm to

Yeah, frick him.

He should read the Constitution. It doesn't say that the Sec. Defense gets to appropriate funds.
Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
51967 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:24 pm to
quote:

I told my representative that this is freakin blackmail and he needs to stop it.



What'd they say and who was it?
Posted by RiverCityTider
Jacksonville, Florida
Member since Oct 2008
6075 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:29 pm to
Please people, call your congressmen and tell them this just going to far.

The congress determines who the hell we go to war with. F the war powers act.

If we don't freakin send a big message, these MF ers will control us to the grave.

This is freakin Russia and they want to send our troops into a meat grinder. We either lose a whole buch of boys or it escalates and lose everything.

Some big money is INSISTENT THAT we keep this war going
NO MATTER WHAT

If Biden and this idiot try, they should be in GD jail cells.
Posted by Bunk Moreland
Member since Dec 2010
62294 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:29 pm to
Here is a thread on it.
LINK
Posted by RiverCityTider
Jacksonville, Florida
Member since Oct 2008
6075 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:30 pm to
Of course they didn't answer. I left a voice mail.
Posted by JackieTreehorn
Malibu
Member since Sep 2013
32731 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:30 pm to
Sick people running the United States. Pure scumbags.
Posted by Chromdome35
Fast lane, behind a slow driver
Member since Nov 2010
7671 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:37 pm to
Context is important

https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1732900581105164302

quote:

This characterization of Austin’s remarks is 100 percent not true, acc to two sources who were in the briefings. Austin warned that it is not hyperbole to say Putin won’t stop at Ukraine. If he enters NATO territory US troops could be called to fight; cheaper to fund Ukraine now.
Posted by lsuguy84
CO
Member since Feb 2009
24940 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:41 pm to
When are you planning on heading over there?
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
43782 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:41 pm to
The defense secretary demands foreign aid and threatens to send our children to their deaths in a foreign war if he doesn’t get it, and dems don’t see a problem, but Trump violated the espionage act by waving a clump of papers in the air near a journalist?
Posted by RFK
Mar-a-Lago
Member since May 2012
2172 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:42 pm to
To be fair, he didn’t threaten “to send troops to Ukraine” if the GOP doesn’t support more funding.

His argument is if we don’t help Ukraine deter Russian aggression it will destabilise Europe, and when Russia moves on other countries it has the potential to escalate to a situation where we’re fighting a land war in Europe.

Posted by RiverCityTider
Jacksonville, Florida
Member since Oct 2008
6075 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:43 pm to
Well f him. I don't believe him.
Posted by Chief One Word
Eastern Washington State
Member since Mar 2018
4153 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:45 pm to
Austin should resign ASAP over this.
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
43782 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:46 pm to
quote:

To be fair


Let us know when the left starts playing fair, and we’ll reciprocate
Posted by RFK
Mar-a-Lago
Member since May 2012
2172 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:52 pm to
My point is if you baws start calling your congressman that SECDEF is blackmailing Congress, you’ll lose credibility because that’s not what he said.
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
43782 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:55 pm to
Maybe, but the dems don’t seem to be worried about credibility as they publish lie after lie and attempt to outright jail political opponents. My point is; the gloves are off. We are no longer living in the age of civility.
Posted by BobBoucher
Member since Jan 2008
18074 posts
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

Austin warned that it is not hyperbole to say Putin won’t stop at Ukraine. If he enters NATO territory US troops could be called to fight; cheaper to fund Ukraine now.


This is such bullshite. Show me one military analyst that says Russia has the means and intent to successfully take a NATO country.

You won’t because Putin can’t. His military is wrecked for a generation. They’ve spent their treasure and blood in Ukraine.

They have no offensive capability. They’d be lucky to defend Russia at this point.
This post was edited on 12/7/23 at 7:06 pm
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