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John McCain calls for 10,000 US ground troops in Syria
France 24 ^ | November 19, 2015

Posted on 11/19/2015 6:47:17 AM PST by McGruff

The United States could 'take out' the Islamic State (IS) group with the deployment of 10,000 ground troops, US Senator John McCain has told FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview.

The Republican former presidential candidate said the IS group posed "a direct threat" to the United States that could be dealt a knock-out blow with a ground deployment in Syria.

"Ground troops [means] about 10,000 Americans with a coalition of Arab countries, hopefully NATO countries, maybe even France, where we could go in on the ground with sufficient air support to take out ISIS," McCain said, using another acronym for the Islamic State militants. "They are not invincible, there are not unbeatable."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; syria; warmonger
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To: McGruff
"Why?"

Because it keeps those troops away from the Mexico/Arizona border where they might be an inconvenience to McCain's 'constituents'.

41 posted on 11/19/2015 7:15:01 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: McGruff

Shut your trap, John. Just....shut....up.


42 posted on 11/19/2015 7:15:44 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (When its all about Obama, the rest of us generally get a boot to the head --Investors Business Daily)
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To: choctaw man

You’re right. We need the troops at home. Obama is bringing the war here.


43 posted on 11/19/2015 7:17:41 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: McGruff

...and 10,000 more “Syrian” “refugees” imported here!


44 posted on 11/19/2015 7:18:12 AM PST by null and void (We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
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To: McGruff

The last place I want our guys is in another slime rat hole where ovomit will tie their hands with his pro muzzie ROEs.


45 posted on 11/19/2015 7:21:22 AM PST by Let's Roll (Muggers, rapists, pedophiles, POLITICIANS and muslims want YOU disarmed.)
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To: McGruff

We should accept 10,000 ‘refugees’, put them on a plane and divert it to an airbase in Syria and tell them to fight.


46 posted on 11/19/2015 7:22:45 AM PST by Vic S
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To: McGruff

Send McNasty as the first one in. Then start drafting his family members of service age male and female.

Time congress had their kids drafted or sent to war zones like ours are. And this out modded Male draft needs to be expanded to females, they want equal rights, well getting drafted is a EQUAL RIGHT.


47 posted on 11/19/2015 7:24:23 AM PST by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: TexasCajun

Yep.


48 posted on 11/19/2015 7:24:32 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: McGruff

While I was sorely tempted to only reply with “Obama standing with Islam?” I’ll instead repeat the idea that Americans are in lust with precision weapons and measured response where there is no “collateral damage”. I’m betting the Russians are just getting the job done by comparison.


49 posted on 11/19/2015 7:28:34 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Vic S
I could support that policy.
50 posted on 11/19/2015 7:36:23 AM PST by McGruff (Rest in Peace in dog heaven Diesel. #JeSuisChien)
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To: McGruff

Stupid idea. If the Syrians want their country back, they should go fight for it. Otherwise, carpet bombing can solve our problems. That’s why the Bear and Backfire were built.


51 posted on 11/19/2015 7:40:07 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: McGruff

You first, Juan.


52 posted on 11/19/2015 7:44:37 AM PST by OrangeHoof (SECEDE TEXAS!! If not now, when?)
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To: McGruff

...and he is calling for 10,000 Syrian ground troops in the US.


53 posted on 11/19/2015 7:47:32 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: McGruff

Kiss my ass, John McCain.

No more American blood for pointless ventures in the Middle East.


54 posted on 11/19/2015 7:49:09 AM PST by jimbo807
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To: McGruff

McCain the problem is over here now, not over there. How about stopping illegal immigration and finding the terrorists already embedded in out country.


55 posted on 11/19/2015 7:49:57 AM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Not ONE drop of American blood, not ONE more fine young American should be sent into any of these hellholes to fight wars for Juan McCain or any of the other decrepit old RINOS and war mongers ...EVER!!

4,000 of our best were already wasted for these lowlife ingrate middle eastern scum ...

As Trump has said ...BOMB them to bits ...choke them off financially. Hit them where it counts. Plus, millions of THEM are already here. We need OUR soldiers HERE, where the REAL Fight is about to escalate.


56 posted on 11/19/2015 7:50:46 AM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: McGruff
How about we just let PUTIN take care of Syria and save our Troops for the war with the terrorist coming to America.

If they have to defend and die for our Freedom, make it on American Soil for Americas Freedom, not some HELL hole across the sea that is not worth just ONE of our sons and daughters.

Truth is McCain, those ISSA Muslim cockroaches do not want to be Free as we know it, why bother.

Need this sting operation going: Advertise to them "This ship bound for America", Put them on a SHIP with trolling motor and no rudders or captain and only Pork supplies to eat, tow it out into the ocean and blow it up.

(Rudders??? I don't know what they are called and I'm sure it isn't Rudders, you get the point.

57 posted on 11/19/2015 8:03:10 AM PST by annieokie
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To: McGruff

Of course he does. He always has. Not having a ground war somewhere denies McCain’s patrons an income and jeopardizes his after-Congress gig on K Street.


58 posted on 11/19/2015 8:20:07 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: BO Stinkss

And, you answered your own question.


59 posted on 11/19/2015 9:11:05 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: McGruff

Because he is an idiot. We need our ground troops on American soil to protect our people.


60 posted on 11/19/2015 9:50:42 AM PST by Libertynotfree (Over spending, Over taxes, and Over regulation)
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