Some of the pseudo-intellectuals that make up the punditry of Alabama’s legacy media are crying foul over the “no” votes cast by U.S. Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) on a resolution opposing President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces in Northern Syria.
Brooks and Byrne joined 58 other congressional Republicans on the resolution that passed 354-60, with “yes” votes that included Alabama U.S. Reps. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery), Mike Rogers (R-Saks), Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) and Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham).
Despite the overwhelming support in the U.S. House of Representatives, former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville joined his U.S. Senate campaign opponent Byrne in support of Trump’s decision for the drawdown.
“It’s a problem — it’s a huge problem,” Tuberville said. “President Trump did not start this problem. President Trump inherited this complete mess. The whole Middle East, he inherited — he’s trying to do something about it. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he is doing because he’s got all those people telling him, giving him advice about what’s going on. It’s amazing to me that we’re worried about the Syrian border — we’re worrying about the Syrian border when we’ve got a worse mess right here in the United States. We’ve got our own border we don’t even protect. We’ve absolutely lost our mind when we want to go three or four thousand miles from here to protect somebody else’s when if we don’t start protecting our border, it ain’t going to make any difference. We’ve got everything backwards in this country.”
Tuberville pledged his support for Trump and accused some of the members of Congress in opposition to the president’s policy of being against it for the sake of being against the president.
“I’m with President Trump on this,” he continued. “He’ll make the right decision. I am sick and tired of my friends and buddies, and guys I went to school with going over and getting killed for useless wars, wars that don’t have an end to, wars that we don’t go try to win. We try to run a police state. I think everybody is sick and tired of that. We feel bad for other people, but I’m sure there’s going to be some consequences in some areas, but we have got a president of the United States we have elected as commander-in-chief. Let him run the country. Get out of his way. I saw where 300 people today in the House voted for President Trump not to do what he is doing. It absolutely amazes me. Most of them don’t have a clue on what’s going on over there. They’re just voting against President Trump. Let’s get some common sense back in this country and be behind our president, support him 100%, and again support him on this wall because to me it’s more important than what’s going on three or four thousand miles from us.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University, the editor of Breitbart TV and host of “The Jeff Poor Show” from 2-5 p.m. on WVNN in Huntsville.
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