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House votes to condemn President Trump’s troop pullout from Syria
Ouch! But it gets better!!
Trump appears to confirm U.S. nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
Protocol?!? Protocol!?!?! Donald J. Trump doesn't have t abide by protocol (or laws, or ethics, or anything)!!! He is The Chosen One!!!
WASHINGTON – The House Wednesday overwhelmingly backed aresolution condemning President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, a rare bipartisan rebuke at a time when the president is trying to shore up GOP support to stave off impeachment.
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The House vote was 354-60 with every Democrat and more than two-thirds of the Republicans supporting the measure.
Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a co-sponsor of the resolution, said the pullout has stained America's reputation as a dependable partner.
Ouch! But it gets better!!
Trump appears to confirm U.S. nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
Trump was asked about the security of those weapons, now that Turkey has gone against U.S. wishes by invading northern Syria after Trump ordered a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region. He didn’t explicitly confirm that the weapons were there, but he went along with the premise, saying that “we’re confident” they’ll be safe “and we have a great air base there — a very powerful air base.”
U.S. government officials have long avoided disclosing or even confirming widely believed locations of U.S. nuclear weapons.
“As a matter of policy, the Defense Department does not comment on the presence of nuclear weapons in Turkey or anywhere else in Europe,” said Kingston Reif, the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association.
“U.S. and NATO officials do not, as a matter of policy, confirm the existence, locations or numbers of tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe,” said Jessica C. Varnum, deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
The existence of the weapons in Turkey isn’t exactly a secret, though. Reif noted that “the Air Force, in its fiscal year 2015 budget request, noted the presence of ‘special weapons’ at ‘storage sites in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey.' " Other experts noted that it’s not easy to hide such weapons.
Protocol?!? Protocol!?!?! Donald J. Trump doesn't have t abide by protocol (or laws, or ethics, or anything)!!! He is The Chosen One!!!