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Potential 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul was touting his plan to declare war on ISIS

By Ed Tibbetts, Quad-City Times

November 25, 2014 | 6:16 pm

Potential 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul was touting his plan to declare war on ISIS, the Sunni extremist group in Iraq and Syria, telling an Iowa radio audience Tuesday hes annoyed as heck with President Barack Obamas approach.

Paul, a Kentucky senator who is considered a probable presidential candidate, was on WHO radio in Des Moines on Tuesday, talking about his plan.

While calling for a declaration of war against the Islamic State, Pauls plan also would limit the use of ground troops and require that the administration come back after a year to seek re-authorization from Congress, according to a draft of the proposal that was posted on The New York Times website.

It annoys the heck out of me that the president thinks he can do this on his own, Paul said Tuesday.

The president has said he has the authority to address ISIS, but earlier this month, he told reporters in a post-election news conference he would seek to engage Congress to build support.

Pauls declaration, as well as the limitations he would put on the use of ground troops, is likely to get opposition from those who dont want a formal war declaration as well as from hawks in his own party who may see the measure as limiting the powers of the commander in chief.

The measure would allow use of ground troops only in specific and limited circumstances.

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Sen. Rand Paul said the events in Ferguson have shown him one thing that the War on Drugs has taken quite a toll on communities and that politicians are pretty much to blame.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians, he wrote in an op-ed for Time magazine.

He went on: Michael Browns death indicate[s] something is wrong with criminal justice in America. The War on Drugs has created a culture of violence and put police in a nearly impossible situation.

Mr. Paul didnt indicate whether he agreed with the grand jurys decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teen Michael Brown. But he did say that poverty fuels crime although the solution to that particular problem wouldnt be found with government.

In Ferguson, the precipitating crime was not drugs, but theft. But the War on Drugs has created a tension in some communities that too often results in tragedy. Does bad behavior account for some of the interactions with law enforcement? Yes, but surely there must be ways that we can work to prevent violence from escalating, he wrote. I have no intention to scold, but escaping the poverty and crime trap will require more than just criminal justice reform. Escaping the poverty trap will require all of us to relearn that not only are we our brothers keeper, we are our own keeper.

Mr. Paul has pushed for reform of the criminal justice system for some time, saying that mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenses unfairly target blacks.

Three out of four people in jail for drugs are people of color, he wrote, in the Time piece. In the African American community, folks rightly ask why are our sons disproportionately incarcerated, killed and maimed?

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updated 4:50 PM EST, Mon November 24, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul is receiving blowback from some of his Japanese-American colleagues after using World War II Japanese internment camps to describe what happens when a chief executive oversteps their power.

"Think of what happened in WWII, where the President issued an executive order," the Kentucky Republican said in a speech in his home state Friday slamming President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration. "He said to Japanese people, 'We're going to put you in a camp. We're going to take away all of your rights and liberties and we are going to intern you in a camp.'"

"I care that too much power gets in one place," Paul continued. "Why? Because there has been instances in our history where we allow power to gravitate to one person and that one person then makes decisions that really are egregious."

As news of the speech spread, Japanese lawmakers slammed Paul for his remarks.

"Rand Paul's comments comparing President Obama's executive order on Immigration with President Roosevelt's executive order that imprisoned thousands of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II could not be more misguided," Rep. Mike Honda said in a statement out Monday. "At best, he is confused. At worst, he is just wrong."

Honda himself lived in and out of Japanese internment camps for four years as a small child, as he referenced in his statement.

"As someone who as victim of executive order 9066, I can say without hesitation that (President Franklin Delano) Roosevelt was wrong," Honda said. "It was a misuse of power. President Obama's order is an appropriate use of executive order because Congress did not do its job."

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