Posted on 10/02/2015 9:20:07 AM PDT by Fennie
McCain reacted to Russia's announcement that it had begun launching air strikes targeting ISIS militants in Syria by calling on the White House to arm Syrian rebels with weapons to shoot down Russian planes.
McCain initially responded to Fox News host Neil Cavuto's question about whether he would shoot down Russian planes by saying no, but then went on to assert that he would arm Syrian rebels to carry out that very same task.
"I might do what we did in Afghanistan many years ago, to give those guys the ability to shoot down those planes, that equipment is available," said McCain, adding that the Free Syrian Army would shoot down the planes," just like the Afghans shot down Russian planes after Russia invaded Afghanistan."
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I thought that his "arab spring buddies" had already gotten a bunch of missiles before Benghazi messed up the pipeline he and Barky set up. Did they already use them all up, or are they still saving them for commercial aircraft?
Mr. niteowl77
There is something very very wrong with this man and his “buddy” Lindsey Graham
Cannot shake the feeling he is in his own way another Manchurian Candidate
He turned in Vietnam, he hides it well
Semper Fidelis and Sic Semper Tyrranus!!
What?!?!? Why?!?!
The Russians are doing the work Obama refused to do!
John....this is what ‘leading from behind’ looks like. Don’t work against the people doing the work you refused to do.
Get him off onto something else. Someone tell him there are some strawberries missing from the galley.
How many?
the Forrestal F*ckup has an illustrious career in crashing planes and killing honorable men.
Why stop now?
He really IS this stupid.
I agree with you. Scooped out and reprogrammed. The weird thing is his seething, hysterical hatred for post-Soviet Russia, but he will scamper up and hug the actual persons who tortured him.
He is nuts as Smeagol.
Absolutely INSANITY and a pipe-dream = total STUPIDITY. The white coats need to catch this imbecilic!!!
I never thought I would ever say this but
If these morons start a war over Syria with Russia I will become an anti-war protester!
Is everyone in DC this freaking stupid? What is it with Leftists that they figure we should ONLY fight wars that have NOTHING to do with our national interests? They did it in Serbia with Clinton now it going to be Syria and Obama!
Find Juan a vitage Skyhawk and let him fly sorties against Islamic State in Syria.
McCain’s win against J. D. Hayworth in the 2010 Arizona primary will go down in history as one of the absolute worst decisions by voters in American history.
I say this living in a state that for decades has re-elected the same two old crow Leftist women as our Senators.
As much as I detest them, they haven’t been able to be a corrosive agent when new Republicans come to the U. S. Senate. They haven’t advocated so effectively for bad policy as John McCain, because they don’t come from the party that is supposed to fight against their policies. John McCain does.
When it came to arming and funding the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, John McCain was an advocate for it. When it came to arming and funding rebels in Syria, John McCain was for it.
Even now, his policies in a shambles around his ankles, John McCain would rather give munitions to terrorists who on a Thursday might be willing to fight with us, but on Friday would love nothing more than to shoot down U. S. aircraft.
Was a John McCain supplied weapon responsible for our cargo plane that just went down in Afghanistan? If not, is that the sort of thing he is willing to see happen over there? Evidently so. Given long enough, he’ll accomplish it if he hasn’t already.
These terrorist groups go by a different name and morph month to month. They sift sides and turn weapons over to each other over and over again. McCain should know this.
So I hang my head for having Diane and Nancy in my state, but they’re pikers to our own beast.
“You mean arm our future enemies? Sure, why not.”
I’m pretty sure Al qaeda is a ‘current’ enemy. So that’s different this time.
AND he’s chairman of the Arms committee or whatever it is called, just unbelievable!!!
“I might do what we did in Afghanistan many years ago, to give those guys the ability to shoot down those planes”
And “those guys” became Al Quaeda.
Did Afgans actually shoot down a single Russian plane during the war?
I know stingers and RPG’s can be effective against helicopters. Fighter bombers, not so much.
I was surprised to learn that John Bolton is endorsing McCain and contributing to him.
Nuke Mecca, so that it is impossible to be a faithful follower of Islam in the future. This step may not be the only one, but it is a necessary step.
John McIslame wouldn’t be able to make his pilgramage to Mecca, and thus would not be able to keep to the Five Pillars.
And, as I recall seeing the video overnight, he was pretty much grinning when he said it.
My guess is the torturers in NV must have been Russian and he’s looking for some payback.
Juan McCainiac must be owned by those who make and sell stuff for wars.
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