This is Rep. Alan Grayson on MSNBC talking about the war in Afghanistan and Barack Obama.
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Grayson: “The Constitution Didn’t Contemplate a Standing Army, Much Less an Army Standing in Kabul”
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gloconti
July 11, 2010 at 2:08 am
@57girl Iran?
mikeknight4u
July 11, 2010 at 2:43 am
Totally agree with this guy. Now I agree with two of his ideas. The first is auditing the federal reserve. This war is just a way for our country to fall further into economic collapse.
Rahab111222
July 11, 2010 at 2:50 am
What’s wrong with being a social liberal. Individual rights, getting the government out of our personal lives. That’s what America was supposed to be about.
snowbaordguru
July 11, 2010 at 3:20 am
yea, H.W. Bush talked about it also, he is on youtube saying it.
jpschubbs
July 11, 2010 at 4:16 am
@1m2rich As General Smedley D. Butler said:
“War is a racket.”
jpschubbs
July 11, 2010 at 4:25 am
Of course the Constitution envisaged the possibility of a standing army, and a standing army standing in another country. There are only about 5 different checks that are built in to prevent it; it’s just that we can’t get our worthless “representatives” (in any of the branches) to use those checks to stop this bullsh*t.
I like Grayson, but he’s too liberal socially for my taste. Having said that, I’d vote for him because no one else has a clue.
weslenforever
July 11, 2010 at 4:57 am
We send out a questionnaire to every adult in America asking their views on war and whether we should stay at war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and start new ones is Yemen, Iran, and everywhere else where there MIGHT be someone who doesn’t have the same CLAIM to the “Christian Beliefs” of the right wingers.
Then tax those who want endless war 25 percent of their income and those who don’t 2 percent, just because the troops still need support regardless how they got there in the first place.
MasterFhyl
July 11, 2010 at 5:00 am
@diamonddave514 yes, yes he is.. sorry america
MopacMurtaza
July 11, 2010 at 5:42 am
Yeah i know, power is what they want.
1m2rich
July 11, 2010 at 6:35 am
@57girl
The bottom line is profiteering on war. They don’t care if they even win.
Yes girl you are right!
1m2rich
July 11, 2010 at 6:43 am
@MopacMurtaza
They aren’t Capitalists or Communists, etc.. They are thugs, robbers, murderers, and liars…traitors. An oligarchy of gangs.
MyGrassroots
July 11, 2010 at 7:17 am
Politicians know exactly what they’re doing. They are trying to bankrupt the US to create a new global government called the New World Order. YouTube it.
diamonddave514
July 11, 2010 at 7:23 am
your congressman is nuts
ZKoftherebellion
July 11, 2010 at 7:46 am
right, because conservatism>progressive always, and has been shown time and time again throughout history.
*looks at the history of conservative groups*
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capitalist4life
July 11, 2010 at 8:40 am
I love what this guy says about war and the Federal Reserve, but I can’t get over his awful, progressive economic ideas.
NotSoOldHippy
July 11, 2010 at 9:01 am
The U. S. Constitution also doesn’t say anything about Christanic terrorism and yet the United States is the world’s worse Christianic terrorist State.
The “School of the Americas” is the world’s worse terrorist training camp bar none.
MopacMurtaza
July 11, 2010 at 9:46 am
I by no means am a capitalist, i am a staunch Communist, but no one knows capitalism better than the old traditional capitalists like Ron Paul, so i listen to him cause he makes sense, but of course i dont believe that capitalism is the best system.
I do not live in America, that is by far to dangerous haha, no need to live on a sinking boat 🙂
57girl
July 11, 2010 at 10:18 am
It’s so far past time to bring our troops home. They never should have been deployed into either Iraq or Iran. America doesn’t need to be involved in other Nation’s problems. As a matter of fact, our policing the world is crippling our own Nation. Think of all of the families and friends have been lost so that the Fed can print out fictatious money to loan out at interest to support these wars, and for oil pipelines. The real terrorists reside in Washington D.C. … ChaChing, ChaChing.
RarewareLover
July 11, 2010 at 10:41 am
But, he’s got the confidence that Democrats love and Republicans love to hate. Whatever gets people talking about Afghanistan can’t be all bad.
Nickelodeon2002
July 11, 2010 at 11:20 am
right on bro…Grayson doesn’t see his own hypocrisy…but he’s bright so he may come around…
Nickelodeon2002
July 11, 2010 at 11:56 am
Grayson’s OK…I think he gets a bit confused politically at times. Like supporting the constitution when it matches his agenda but tossing it out the window when it doesn’t. Overall I think he has good intentions but is simply misguided. He doesn’t understand that he is now part of a failing institution that has no hope of change whether a Democrat or Republican is in office. He’s bright enough to learn it though…then question is what will he do then?
Kamira1787
July 11, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Gray is an asshole. That is all.
Kamira1787
July 11, 2010 at 12:50 pm
This is all just a smokescreen. The real problem is the outsourcing of our economy to CHINA and it started with the Clinton administration and they just keep on doing it like no one knows.
Kamira1787
July 11, 2010 at 1:00 pm
You have a “standing army” in an illegal war.. TWO of them in fact. I didn’t see your sorry asses declare war either. So yeah, read the Constitution bumblehead Grayson and learn your f’ing place. It’s NOT your place to tread all over the Constitution and then act like WE didn’t read it while you wave it around in the air. It’s 14 f’ing pages! Now compare THAT with your incomprehensible 2000+ pg. crap you’ve been trying to pass.
I swear to God, FIRE all these assholes NOW!!!
gigisandiego96
July 11, 2010 at 1:57 pm
GOOD MAN! Grayson is one of the few decent people left in Washington besides Ron Paul. We should make sure they are the only ones to be reelected. This occupation is illegal and immoral. People are signing up to go die in Afghanistan & Iraq for a banksters’ war. The men & women making money from defense & oil contracts are truly EVIL! Their money is BLOOD MONEY!