Paul Blasts Graham For Korean War Authorization: He’s ‘A Danger To The Country’

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters gathered at The Champions of Liberty Rally in Hebron, Ky., Friday, August 11, 2017.  Sen Paul was joined at the fundraising event by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, and U.S. Reps Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
In this Aug. 11, 2017 photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters in Hebron, Ky. The Senate has rejected a bipartisan push for a new war authorization against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. Sen... In this Aug. 11, 2017 photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters in Hebron, Ky. The Senate has rejected a bipartisan push for a new war authorization against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. Senators have decided to let the White House continue using a 16-year-old law as the basis for sending American troops into combat. Senators have voted to scuttle an amendment to the annual defense policy crafted by Sen. Rand Paul that would have allowed the war authorizations created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to lapse after six months. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) MORE LESS
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) “a danger to the country” for relaying to the media that he had drafted documents to propose an Authorized Use of Military Force (AUMF) if President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un didn’t go well.   

Lindsey Graham is a danger to the country by even proposing ideas like authorizing war with Korea, my goodness, so that should be something that is seen as naive and seen as something that really serious people shouldn’t even really be discussing,” Paul told CNN on Monday evening ahead of the summit, in which Kim and Trump signed a joint agreement to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.

He went on to blast Graham for “bankrupting” the country over his “naive worldview where he believes that war is always the answer.”

“It’s also gotten us involved in dozens and dozens of wars where it’s not really clear what the American interest is in those wars and I think sometimes the reaction to our involvement in those wars has actually been worse than if we had not been involved at all,” he said.

Graham, for his part, did tell ABC ’s “This Week” on Sunday “I hope I never have to use it,” referencing the AUMF.

Paul has previously attacked Graham for his war hawk rhetoric.

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  1. When Rand Paul calls out unhinged craziness he knows from whence he speaks.

  2. Maybe they should reconsider the current AUMF which all but gives a carte blanche to bomb/drone strike anywhere in the world…

    The current one is like giving Donnie a barrel of nitro and a lit sparkler…

  3. I take back everything I’ve said about Rand Paul’s hair that looks like yard debris. He is right about Graham.

  4. AFAIK, the Korean War never officially ended, so Graham’s action is redundant. Also, Rand Paul, the “big thinker” should have known that little factoid.

    Great minds, indeed.

    ETA: I’m not sure it was ever officially a “war” to begin with, but it was certainly an AUMF, or whatever they called it in the 50’s.

  5. When Repubs quarrel, I smile.

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