Cleaver Slams Obama’s Syria Plan: ‘Arming Semi-Bad Guys to Kill Barbarically-Bad Guys’

CLEAVER: "Well, first of all, we have absolutely no intelligence on the ground in Syria. We don't know who is who, who wants to kill who. We have -- even by our own information -- no way right now of determining what's actually going on on the ground. And so, what we just did, was to arm some semi-bad guys to kill some barbarically bad guys to teach the world that bad guys should not kill. So I think that we are spending $500 million rather foolishly that could be spent right here in our country on infrastructure. Look, we're going into this rather blindly. Nobody has laid out a clear plan. Station is already reporting -- your network reporting -- that we don't even know the role of our so-called allies. This could be a big mistake. Now, I'm not going to spend the next month of October bashing the president. I think we had no good options, but I think the best option that he did not want to take, is to just wait and see what's going to go on instead of entering into another civil war."