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Graham & McCain talk about the ‘opportunism’ of Ted Cruz and the need to fight the Islamic State
The Washington Post's PostPolitics ^ | November 23, 2015 | David Weigel

Posted on 11/23/2015 8:55:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) returned to the campaign trail this weekend, making seven stops in New Hampshire with his colleague and preferred presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). After the third stop, at an American Legion hall in Hudson, N.H., the two hawkish Republicans sat down for a joint interview about the refugee crisis, the need to send troops to fight the Islamic State, whether the secretary of state should resign, and what the world would look like had voters made McCain president seven years ago.

WP: You both mentioned that there are senators who are late-comers to this issue, and don't have a strategy. In your view, are Sens. Cruz and Paul going all-in on the refugee issue because they don't have a strategy to fight the Islamic State?

McCain: That's the only conclusion you can draw. When Lindsey Graham and I said that we had to arm the Free Syrian Army so that they could fight against the barrel-bombing and the slaughter, Sen. Cruz said that would be the air force for al-Qaeda. I mean, totally disconnected from what we were trying to do. He voted against, for example, the NDAA....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: District of Columbia; US: South Carolina; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arizona; cruz; davidweigel; districtofcolumbia; election2016; graham; iraq; isil; isis; johnmccain; lindseygraham; mccain; obama; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; southcarolina; tedcruz; texas; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 11/23/2015 8:55:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Losers of a feather...


2 posted on 11/23/2015 8:56:32 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who?

Neither of them is presidential material.

Good riddance.


3 posted on 11/23/2015 8:58:56 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: TXBlair

Wish someone would look into what group or groups are giving McCain and Graham money. The so-called Free Syrian army consists of radicals who are not our friends. Assad may be the only sane person in Syria. Is that why the morons in D.C. want to oust him? It’s nuts.


4 posted on 11/23/2015 9:00:11 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
McCain: That's the only conclusion you can draw...

I can think of a few other conclusions. The first one that comes to mind is that John McCain is an embedded Democrat plant whose mission is to see to it that the democrat platform is advanced.

5 posted on 11/23/2015 9:05:54 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Saying things like, ‘We’re gonna follow Muslims here and identify every Muslim as an enemy of America’ makes no sense to me, undercuts the effort that I’m trying to engage in, which is to bring people our way.”

Nobody said any such thing you damn fool. God what a pair of idiots.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 9:07:08 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Their jealousy shows.


7 posted on 11/23/2015 9:09:34 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should officials of the US Government get a security clearance when they have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?

McCain?


8 posted on 11/23/2015 9:12:16 PM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right, Mr. McCain, and the Free Syrian Army never defected to Al Qaeda/ISIS either..

Who’s really out of touch with reality? WACKO CRACKO is what you are!


9 posted on 11/23/2015 9:17:12 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doesn’t get much more pathetic than these 2.


10 posted on 11/23/2015 9:21:36 PM PST by vpintheak (Death before disarmament!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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11 posted on 11/23/2015 9:26:15 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Coming to a TV near you McCain and Graham staring in the new TV version of Dumb and Dumber.


12 posted on 11/23/2015 9:26:45 PM PST by FreedomGuru (Oil is as organic as Tofu and daffodils.)
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Lose Brothers (sing to the Blues brothers)


13 posted on 11/23/2015 9:32:25 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are they getting married now that it’s legal?


14 posted on 11/23/2015 9:58:39 PM PST by Calpublican (Boehner minus the alcohol and orange spray tan= Ryan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That was funny. Can LG get into negative poll numbers now?


15 posted on 11/23/2015 10:01:24 PM PST by kallisti (fall mountains, just don't fall on me (JH))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

16 posted on 11/23/2015 10:08:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Assad, the best of a bad lot.


17 posted on 11/23/2015 10:33:49 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Which one of those two bought the KY jelly?


18 posted on 11/23/2015 10:44:50 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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19 posted on 11/23/2015 10:49:41 PM PST by digger48
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20 posted on 11/24/2015 1:46:22 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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