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Senator Manchin on ISIL: "Go and Get Them."

“Our message should be very clear: ‘Are you intending to do harm to America or any Americans? Are you planning or training any where in the world to do harm to America or Americans? If you are we have the ability and the right to come and take you out.’  Very simple. That should be very clear with what our mission is. And we shouldn’t have to mince words about that.  We know that if someone says you shouldn’t go into Syria and that is where ISIL has been training, planning and plotting against America and Americans?  Then go in and get them out.” 

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin speaking with reporters Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Manchin to Obama: Withdraw Troops from Afghanistan

  U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is opposing President Barack Obama’s plan to keep 9,800 American troops in Afghanistan after 2014.

In a letter Monday, the Democratic senator urged the president to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Manchin’s letter says the war has consumed 12 years, cost untold billions of dollars, and ended the lives of more than 2,000 Americans.

Manchin says regardless of when American support of the Afghan state ends, it will remain, in his words, a “corrupt narco-state unwilling to abide by international norms or support American interests.”

In a plan announced last month, Obama calls for the current 32,000 in Afghanistan to draw down to 9,800 by the start of next year. The rest of the troops would be withdrawn by 2016.

W.Va. Inmate Charged with Threatening President

A West Virginia inmate faces federal charges of threatening President Barack Obama and his family. Robert Dale Tasker is charged in an indictment with…

A West Virginia inmate faces federal charges of threatening President Barack Obama and his family.
 
Robert Dale Tasker is charged in an indictment with three counts of threatening Obama and one count of threatening the president’s family. The alleged threats were mailed in December and February.
 
U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II says the 43-year-old Tasker is an inmate at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in Belington.
 
If convicted on the federal charges, Tasker faces up to five years in prison on each count.
 
A federal grand jury in Clarksburg issued the indictment last week.
 

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