Rangel Suggests Nuking Poverty, Not Syria - Roll Call

Rangel Suggests Nuking Poverty, Not Syria

By Warren Rojas

Posted September 6, 2013 at 4:38pm

Korean War veteran Rep. Charles B. Rangel has taken to cyberspace to plead his case for the battle he’d rather see waged than the planned attack on Syria.

We should wage war – not in Syria but here in US against poverty. That’s in our true best interest & a war I’d gladly support.

— Charles Rangel (@cbrangel) Sept. 6

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