Posted on 11/18/2015 12:14:13 PM PST by maggief
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to place too much emphasis on Syrian refugees following the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, calling their focus misguided.
“I believe the overwhelming focus on the refugee program in recent days is misplaced,†said McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a written statement. “I especially encourage my fellow Republicans to recognize that refugees are not the problem – they are the symptom of the problem.â€
Since attacks credited to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) killed at least 129, Republicans have called for pausing - or in some cases stopping altogether - a program to admit Syrian refugees into the U.S.
The House is scheduled to vote on a bill Thursday that would prevent any refugees from Syria or Iraq from being admitted to the U.S. unless the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Director of National Intelligence can certify to Congress that each refugee does not pose a security threat.
While McCain said he agrees refugee admissions should be paused until law enforcement and intelligence officials can sign off on the vetting process, he said more emphasis should be placed on President Obama’s insistence that his strategy against ISIS is working.
“The refugee crisis we face today is a result of the president’s failed leadership and total lack of strategy,†McCain said. “Now, even after [ISIS] has demonstrated the capability and intent to strike the capitals of the western world, the president remains impervious to reality and refuses to change course from his failed strategy.
“Failure to address this problem at its source will only prolong this conflict, produce more refugees, and place our security at greater risk.â€
McCain on Tuesday also broke with some in his party, saying the refugee issue shouldn’t be linked to the government funding fight and there should not be a religious test to determine which refugees enter the country.
McCain’s Wednesday statement also echoes his House counterpart, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), who said Tuesday that stopping refugees does not stop ISIS.
“That’s not the only threat ISIS poses,†said Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Service Committee.
This nasty old goat has already helped get any number of people killed in the most gruesome ways, and we still can’t get him to go away and shut up.
Take them into your houses and pay for them McCain....or STFU.
what an effing idiot!
While I HATE that Hussein is in the White House, I do not believe McCain would have been any better.
He is clearly senile.
McCain would have gotten us into WWIII with the Russkies.
The devil is keeping Mccain alive to work in joint step with Obama.
I pray that Trump/Cruz win this election.
How many are coming to stay at YOUR place, McCain??
How many in YOUR neighborhood??
Hmmmmm?? Crazy senile old geyser. Oh, did I forget CORRUPT??
Let’s see what he thinks when a few of them gang-rape Meghan.
McCain has always been as clueless as any other liberal-age doesn’t appear to have anything to do with his koolaid drinking...
Glad he never became president.
The old Arizona senator is right. The terrorists he’s helping Obama invade USA -—as extremely dangerous as they are to us — are not our primary problem. They wouldn’t be able to get even two feet into any nation with a sane and LOYAL government. The problem is people like McCain and the illegal immigrant in chief he enabled to win the 2008 election (instead of being deported — or Imprisoned as an enemy agent. )
“McCain never misses a chance to help his buddy Obama and his Democrat brethren. And if he can bash Republicans along the way, all the better.”
Is not that the truth. He has been doing it for over 20 years that I know of. He was back stabbing George Bush every chance he got.
Is anybody in Arizona going to take responsibility for the fact this man continues to pollute the upper chamber?
This coming from a man who is represented by Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
No way if they have any good taste at all: she’s too stupid and ugly, clear proof that it doesn’t take Islamic inbreeding to make a retard.
Could be dementia. No excuse; he could just sit down and
shut up. Go home to Arizona & aggravate his wife. Retire
if Arizona won’t do it for him.
“I especially encourage my fellow Republicans to recognize that refugees are not the problem...”
No John, YOU and your ilk are the problem!
He is an accomplice of terrorists and in waging undeclared aggressive warfare. I hope to see him face a tribunal for these crimes.
Enough!
Vote this clown out!
Another sign it’s well past time for John to quietly go away.
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