U.S. senators said on Sunday the White House has not been forthcoming with details about the military's presence in Niger after the deaths of four soldiers there earlier this month and they want more answers on U.S. operations in the west African country.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer said in separate interviews that they support Republican Senator John McCain's effort to get answers from the Pentagon on the ambush and more broadly on the U.S. fight against ISIS in Niger.
Graham and Schumer said they had been unaware of the large U.S. presence in the country and said Congress needs more information on what could become a long and open-ended involvement.
"I didn't know there was 1,000 troops in Niger," Graham said on NBC's Meet the Press. "This is an endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time and geography," he added. "You've got to tell us more and he [McCain] is right to say that."
You can read the rest @
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-senators-seek-answers-u-presence-niger-ambush-151539401.html
And yet when Senator Rand Paul tried to get the Senate to vote to curtail this "endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time and geography", Senators Graham and McCain voted to table that amendment (i.e., voted against it):
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/rand-pauls-aumf-amendment-endless-war/ [refer to the linked yeas and nays]
Graham, McCain, and their ilk only bring up this issue now because they can use it to diss Trump. If the Senate wanted to stop this war they could do it in a heartbeat.
But they won't. Why not? Because they and their bosses make LOTS of money from this endless war. LOTS OF MONEY.
By the way, Senator Schumer voted against tabling the amendment (i.e., he voted AGAINST the endless war).
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