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Bernie Sanders supports Presidential “Kill Lists”, Drone Warfare, and Troops in Syria and Afghanistan

I gotta be honest, nothing makes me cringe more than comparisons between Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders. While Bernie Sanders likes to talk a good game about the problems with our wars, Ron Paul has talked the talk and walked the walk. Not only did Ron Paul talk about these issues with our interventionist foreign policy, but he fundamentally understood it and the problems that were created because of such actions.

Bernie Sanders recently displayed his ignorance on these subjects when he endorsed the controversial presidential “kill list” and openly supported sending troops to Syria, additional troops to Afghanistan, as well as continuing Obama’s drone policy in the Middle East while on the air with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

The Presidential “Kill List”

The New York Times revealed in 2012 that President Obama hosts a meeting every Tuesday at the White House where he decides which suspected terrorists will be added to a so-called “kill list.” Those on the list can then be targeted for killing, typically with an unmanned drone.

“Do you think what’s being done now is constitutional and legal?” Hayes asked Sanders, noting the existence of “a list of people that the U.S. government wants to kill.”

“In general I do, yes,” Sanders replied.

Next in the interview with Hayes, Sanders lent his support to sending troops to Syria to aid in the fight against ISIS.

“Here’s the bottom line,” said Sanders. “ISIS has got to be destroyed, and the way that ISIS must be destroyed is not through American troops fighting on the ground.” However, “I think what the president is talking about is having American troops training Muslim troops, helping to supply the military equipment the need, and I do support that effort.”

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Paul Ryan Sucks Diseased Donkey D*ck

New boss same as old boss. Same shit, different day. Your Vote MATTERS …… according to a small legion of TBP morans.

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Rainmaker Paul Ryan Tabs Lobbyist as Chief of Staff

As the classic British rock band The Who once famously sang, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” and despite nearly the entire fawning establishment media slobbering all over themselves that is precisely what it is going to be with Paul Ryan. Congressman Ryan, who is set to replace the weeping orange juicer John Boehner as Speaker of the House, is adored by conservatives who should by now be used to getting sold a bill of goods – remember that great 2014 mid-term election betrayal?

That Ryan’s biggest cheerleaders have been in the corporate media says a good deal about who he really represents and while this may be tough for many to swallow he doesn’t represent the average American workers who are busting their humps just to survive. This is why the new Speaker has just brought on a top Chamber of Commerce lobbyist as his new chief of staff. While the star-bellied Sneetches at the imperial city gazette aka the Washington Post have rolled out a puff piece to give Ryan a handy Andy and tout the credentials of David Hoppe the conservative blogosphere is screaming bloody murder as it well should over this latest stab in the back.

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