Who Wants Congress Pushing Us Into A War With Russian Over Ukraine?

McCain, Ayotte, Graham want to spend billions to provoke a war with Russia over Ukraine

Marcy Kaptur should be home demanding answers about why her constituents can't drink the water that comes out of their taps. (They can't brush their teeth or shower with it either and they can't let their pets drink it. There's cylindrospermopsin in what used to be their drinking water and, according to the EPA "the primary toxic effect of this toxin is irreversible damage to the liver." Oh, and it causes cancer in mice.) Last week, Kaptur was busy in Washington introducing legislation with Republican Jim Gerlach to give $100 million in military aid to Ukraine. That';s on top of the billion dollars in aid to Ukraine Congress has already approved. "It is a country that wants to move towards liberty and democracy," said Kaptur. "We need to help them." Is it? I'm sure some people do. Others running the show there want to move towards fascism. And others want to break the country up. I hope they work it out. The U.S. can't afford to send a billion dollars to every dysfunctional country spiraling into civil war.

The Lake Erie water problem has spread to southeast Michigan now and that state's senior senator, Carl Levin, also seems more concerned with flushing taxpayer money down the Ukrainian sewer than figuring out what to do about the drinking water for 150,000 people who live in Monroe County, a Democratic bastion in southeast Michigan, I might add, and the only county of the 7 that make up MI-07 to have voted to replace right-wing extremist Tim Walberg with a Democrat last cycle. Monroe went for Senator Stabenow with 57% against Republican challenger Pete Hoekstra. They deserve the attention of their elected officials, instead of Levin breaking with Obama to try to force more money into more lethal weapons systems for Ukraine, including surface to air missiles (which the rebels don't have and which can only be used against Russia).

President Obama, however, on Tuesday ruled out providing arms to Ukraine, one day after the country’s defense minister asked for more military assistance.

“The issue, at this point, is not the Ukrainian capacity to outfight the separatists,” Obama said.

Levin said he disagreed.

"What the president said … is not satisfactory to me, when he said 'we're hoping for a peaceful outcome,’” Levin said. “Obviously we are."

“I don’t think it’s defensible to draw a line between lethal and non-lethal as to what type of assistance we provide,” he added.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Ukraine’s wish list includes items ranging from body armor and Humvees to F-16 fighter jets.

Levin said Ukraine understands the U.S. would not send in troops, but acknowledged that if Russian forces did cross the border “it would be very difficult to stop them.”

He said Ukraine’s military leader recognize they might be undertaking a “difficult road” that could lead to a “guerilla-type effort against the Russians.”

Levin predicted that Moscow would give a “flimsy excuse” to move across the border into Ukraine.

Who does Levin think he is, John McCain? And the 2 other stooges, Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are both backing spending more money-- no offsets?-- on weapons fro Ukraine. Lindsey, a simpering, twisted and pathetic closet case afraid of his own constituents, sought to goad Obama into a path towards war with nuclear-armed Russian by braying that "The bottom line is this administration is afraid of confronting the Russians." What an asshole!