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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon to voice his strong opposition to a measure authorizing President Obama to train and arm the Syrian Free Army, a moderate rebel group, to combat the Islamic State.

Paul, who often advocates a more cautious foreign policy than many of his GOP colleagues, warned that intervening in Syria could, in fact, make things worse.

We need to stay the heck out of their civil war, Paul said, later adding. It is their war and they need to fight it.

Paul said that he believes that it is intellectually dishonest for the Obama administration as well as some members of Congress to argue that a use of force authorized by Congress to combat Al Qaeda more than a decade ago could now apply to sending arms or carrying out air strikes in Syria.

That vote had nothing to do with this, it had absolutely nothing to do with this, Paul said. You are intellectually dishonest if you argue that something passed in 2001 to deal with the people who attacked us on 9/11 has anything to do with sending arms to Syria.

Paul criticized the Syrian Free Army, and argued that in many cases in the past the United States has intervened in Middle Eastern conflicts only to see the militant and rebel groups that it supported become sponsors of terrorism a stance that was often trumpeted by his father, former Rep. Ron Paul, during his failed presidential bids.

Intervention created this chaos, Paul declared.

Paul said he believes that arming the rebels in Syria could, in fact, strengthen some terrorist groups and poise a threat to Israel.

Your representatives are sending $500 million to people who will tactically align with Al Qaeda, Paul declared. Who are we really arming? What will be the results? Where will these arms end up?

Paul said that the vote to authorize military action should be a separate, standalone vote in the Senate before leveling sharp criticism at President Obama for not coming to Congress for war authorization, saying he now does everything he criticized while Obama was himself in the Senate.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A Sangamon County judge on Thursday rejected the Republican Party's attempt to have a Libertarian candidate for Illinois governor struck from the Nov. 4 ballot.

Judge Patrick Kelley denied GOP attorneys' appeal of a State Board of Elections decision to allow Chad Grimm of Peoria on the ballot. His name will appear alongside those of Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner.

The GOP attorneys had challenged the validity of the voter signatures gathered by several Libertarian petition circulators. Grimm, a fiscal conservative who advocates minimalist government, could draw votes that otherwise would go to Rauner in what's expected to be a close race.

Kelley found that the evidence supported the board's decision, noting that the court could overturn it "only if it finds the rulings are clearly erroneous."

Illinois GOP attorney John Fogarty had argued that thousands of signatures were invalid because they were illegible, not genuine and because petition circulators didn't reside at their stated addresses.

While approving the Libertarian's candidacy, the board ruled that Green, Constitution and Independent party candidates should not be on the ballot because the parties gathered too few valid signatures. Democratic Party attorneys had challenged the validity of the signatures for the Green candidate, who could have taken votes away from Quinn.

Fogarty declined comment Thursday on whether attorneys would appeal. Illinois GOP spokesman Andrew Welhouse said the party would "continue to work in every part of Illinois to elect Bruce Rauner and Republicans up and down the ticket."

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A Sangamon County judge is expected to rule Thursday on an appeal by Republican attorneys to remove a Libertarian candidate for Illinois governor from the November ballot.

Sangamon County Circuit Judge Patrick Kelley heard arguments in which the GOP attorneys questioned the validity of signatures Libertarian candidates gathered to get on the ballot.

Political analysts say Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Chad Grimm could draw votes that otherwise would go to Republican candidate Bruce Rauner in the expectedly close race against Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.

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