Liz Cheney knocks Rand Paul for Syria tweet amid al-Baghdadi raid
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., engaged in a new Twitter war Sunday with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., over U.S. military policy overseas amid the death of Islamic State terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Paul had tweeted Saturday night: “If you want to stop the endless wars, you actually have to leave. The U.S. guarding oil in Syria will only prolong the war & bring Kurds into conflict with [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad]. Mr. President: don't listen to [Senators] Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer and others who’ve been wrong for so long.”
That same evening, a large-scale U.S. Special Operations forces raid unleashed on a compound in northern Syria’s Idlib Province, where the terrorist leader was thought to be hiding.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cheney tweeted Sunday evening in response to Paul’s tweet: “Last night, while @randpaul was advocating withdrawal of our troops, those troops were engaged in a daring raid to kill the ISIS leader. His policy would have left the terrorist al-Baghdadi alive to behead more Americans. We should be proud of our troops and never surrender.”
Paul, a noninterventionist who has fiercely criticized the role of Cheney's father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in going to war in Iraq, did not immediately respond.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Last month, Cheney and Paul engaged in a Twitter war after former National Security Adviser John Bolton's resignation resurfaced tensions between perceived isolationists and war hawks in the Republican Party.
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., engaged in a new Twitter war with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., amid the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Getty, File)
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In an address to the nation on Sunday, President Trump said planning for the raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound began two weeks ago when the U.S. gained unspecified intelligence on al-Baghdadi's whereabouts.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound was a relatively large assault by U.S. forces with a reported eight military helicopters landing in the Barisha area north of Idlib city — near the Turkish border.
Fox News' Ben Florance contributed to this report.