Rand Paul
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They're probably poor people in Venezuela and Colombia.
They say, well, we're at war with them.
They're committing war by bringing drugs into America.
They're not even coming here.
They're going to these islands in the south part of the Caribbean, the cocaine, and it's not fentanyl at all.
The cocaine's going to Europe.
Those little boats can't get here.
No one's even asked this common question.
Those boats have these four engines on them.
You can probably go about 100 miles before you have to refuel.
They have to refuel 20 times to get here.
They really โ it was all a pretense and a false argument.
But I guess what I don't feel connected to my Republican colleagues is that those lives don't matter at all and we just blow them up.
Justice and against all laws of war, all laws of just war, we never have blown up people who were shipwrecked.
It's against the military code of justice to do that and we're doing it and everybody just says, oh, well, they're drug dealers.
It's all been a pretense for arresting Maduro.