That's such a bullshit copout. Every fucking member of congress was fully aware from very early on where that money was going and it was always a fucking scam to enrich big corporations like KBR and Northrop Grumman. In fact his voting record clearly indicates his position in their pockets in regards to shielding weapons manufacturers from culpability for what is done with their products.
Yeah, you're right. He should have voted against funding for the troops. That would have solved everything.
That is exactly what he should have done. If the funding would have dried up we would have redeployed, war over. I don't go around playing the vet card all the time but you can just shut right the hell up. You don't know what you're talking about, you're parroting about something that I lived.
The funding wouldn't have dried up, even if Sanders voted against it. Name one war in US history that ended because the funding dried up, I'll wait.. Our country puts wars on the credit card for future generations to fund. Trump and the Republicans just passed a ~$700 billion defense budget (an increase of $80 billion) while citizens in Flint Michigan continue to go without clean drinking water. Sanders voted correctly when it came to the floor of the Senate. Unless you're willing to cite your support for some other politician who you think is better than Sanders, you can rightly shut the fuck up about his record on war. He's one of the most anti-war politicians in congress and his record proves it. That might not meet your standards, but since you refuse to name someone you support to contrast Sanders record with, it's irrelevant. Sanders is the best you will get. To criticize him as being some kind of war hawk when he was one of the only members of congress to vote against the biggest foreign policy blunder in United States history is fucking retarded.
Red Herring. We're talking about an imperialist shitstain posing as a leftist. Not only that but you're completely wrong. He could have voted against it, if he'd had a conscious or if he wasn't a shitstain. But he is a shitstain. If congress does not appropriate funds for a war for the following quarter, the military would really have no choice but to use its available resources to either redeploy or make due without. The fact is, he voted for it because it is funding that makes war continue and who voted in favor of its waging is really not important, since war can be waged with or without the approval of congress but war cannot be waged without funds.
Then name a single war in US history that ended because congress defunded it
Every bit of this is fallacious. The fact is, as I said in my first reply to your bullshit in this thread, the notion that he opposed the war because of his voting record is a bullshit copout. Read the following very carefully, I will format it as a lesson in logic, since you're an idiot:
You are a fucking retard
Why don't you voice the same opposition towards people who voted for Clinton? You have an irrational hatred towards Sanders and his supporters even though he was one of the only ones to oppose it at the time. It doesn't add up.
You can't add.
Why such unjustified hatred towards Sanders but not Clinton, or McCain, or anyone other than one of the most anti-war sitting senators?
Your criticisms don't make sense in light of the rest of the senate, including Clinton and the members of RIU who voted for her. You say you hate Sanders citing his vote in support of action in Yugoslavia in 99 and support for funding the troops in Iraq. You blame him for Clinton's loss to Trump regardless of the evidence otherwise.
Yes they do.
Clinton voted to fund the wars, as well as initiate them, yet you don't criticize Clinton supporters on RIU like you do Sanders supporters
