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Actually, our Government is still funding & arming very questionable rebel groups in Syria. Nothing's changed. They still haven't learned from their blunder. Pretty sad.
Still nothing credible to support your allegations? As I recall it was the right who was berating Obama for not supporting the rebel groups in Syria.
But let's just take a look at your allegation in detail. The US is only supplying small arms and humanitarian supplies to Syrian rebels.
Now let's take a look at the weapons that ISIS is actually using.
ISIS Has 52 American Weapons That Could Pummel Cities - Business Insider
ISIS Militants Captured 52 American-Made Artillery Weapons That Cost $500,000 Each
JEREMY BENDER
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JUL. 15, 2014, 11:44 AM
ISIS militants may be in a position to pummel other cities in Iraqi army control after capturing American-made weapons the group seized from the Iraqi military, Mitchell Prothero reports for McClatchy DC.
During ISIS's blitz across northern and central Iraq last month, the group captured upwards of 52 155mm M198 howitzers.
These U.S.-supplied artillery pieces have a range of up to 20 miles and can also be outfitted with GPS aiming systems. The howitzers' range could place Baghdad, as well as many other major Iraqi cities, squarely within bombardment range of ISIS.
Aside from the 52 howitzers, ISIS also took 1,500 U.S.-made Humvees and 4,000 PKC machine guns that can fire upwards of 800 rounds per minute.
So your allegations are patently false and ridiculous. Obama hasn't supplied the Syrian rebels with heavy weapons of any sort. All of those weapons were provided by the previous administration and handed over to the Iraqi military.
Well, he just demanded an awful lot of cash for em. What's the money for? Who's getting it? His 'Regime Change' policy in Syria is a huge blunder. It spawned awful Al Qaeda-linked groups like ISIS. He should have listened to Putin. Funding & arming Syrian Rebels was a very bad idea.
It was the Republicans pushing to arm the Syrian rebels.
McCain, Graham call for US to arm Syrian rebels | TheHill
McCain, Graham call for US to arm Syrian rebels
Two prominent Republican U.S. senators urged that the United States arm opposition forces in Syria Sunday as the government of Bashar al-Assad continued a bloody crackdown on the protests that have engulfed the nation.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who both serve on the Senate Armed Services committee, argued that arming rebel fighters in the country could help beat back a Syrian government with close ties to Iran.
Breaking Syria apart from Iran could be as important to containing a nuclear Iran as sanctions, Graham said at a press conference in Kabul, according to the New York Times. If the Syrian regime is replaced with another form of government that doesnt tie its future to the Iranians, the world is a better place.
Graham and McCain were in Afghanistan as part of a larger tour through the Middle East. The former GOP presidential candidate said that Syrian rebels needed help to defend themselves.
I believe there are ways to get weapons to the opposition without direct United States involvement, McCain said. The Iranians and the Russians are providing Bashar Assad with weapons. People that are being massacred deserve to have the ability to defend themselves.
So I am not only not opposed, but I am in favor of weapons being obtained by the opposition, McCain added.
Read more: McCain, Graham call for US to arm Syrian rebels | TheHill
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Why aren't you whining about McCain and Graham?