Posted on 08/20/2009 2:10:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday he was deeply disappointed that the Scottish government released a former Libyan agent convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
McCain joined two other senators -- Independent Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Susan Collins of Maine -- in issuing a statement after the convicted bomber was released Thursday morning and flew home to Libya.
McCain, Lieberman and Collins recently visited Libya and met with its leaders, including Col. Muanhar Qadhafi, telling him they were adamantly opposed to the release of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.
The senators' statement said, "We are deeply disappointed at the decision to release Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the only person ever convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
"During our meeting with Libyan leaders, including Colonel Qadhafi, we expressed our straong opposition to Megrahi's release and warned of possible damage to the growing bilateral ties between the United States and Libya. We also made clear that, should Megrahi be released, the Libyan government should handle his return in a fashion that strengthens the growing ties of friendship between our two peoples, rather than undermines it. Megrahi is a convicted killer of American citizens and must be treated as such."
The statement continued, "Our thoughts are with the families of the 189 Americans who were killed in the bombing who have suffered tremendous pain and hardship as a result of this horrific act."
McCain has made an art form of irrelevance.
I am deeply saddened. That Obama winks at this.
SHUT UP AND RETIRE MCLAME!
SEE WHAT YOU DID TO US THIS PAST ELECTION??
YOUR FAULT FOR TRYING TO BE TOO POLITE TO THE DAM COMMUNIST AND NOT LISTENING TO THE ONLY GOOD ENERGY YOUR CAMPAIGN HAD- SARAH PALIN
mccain who?
Somewhere, Obama is having an evil grin in private over the news that one of his comrades has been freed.
Whoa nelly, the president and McCain had better calm down! Next thing you know, they’ll be chagrined! We certainly don’t want to offend those manky scots gits.
Disappointed
Frustrated
Unfortunate
Sends the wrong message
Saddened
All these words mean NOTHING!!! NOTHING BUT PLAIN OLD WORDS USED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND ARE AS STALE AS THOSE WHO USE THEM.
For ONCE...I would love to hear a politician stand up and say he/she is P_____D off or just plain mad or really, really angry or this shouldn’t have happened or this is WRONG plain and simple and yada, yada, yada but instead...they just use the “safe words.” They all make me sick.
And I am disappointed that anybody gives a ***t about anything McKennedy says.
This cockroach should have taken a dirtnap twenty years ago!
Watch him put on a bomb-belt and take out hundreds more folks. Hell, he’s got nothing to lose, he’s dying anyway!
“Disappointed” is a sissy Democrat word. Suits him.
Evidently he (the bomber, not McCain) was received by a huge, cheering crowd when he arrived at the airport in Libya. Disgusting.
Dear John; You’re not half as Disappointed as the rest of us are that we got stuck with You, which is why we got Stuck with the Great Talking Zero!
Addendum: Not that McCain is a sissy, but I do think he's a Democrat at heart.
Doesn't want to come out to hard you know he probably has a sensitive arms deal going with Qaddafi..
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Amazing. I saw the TV shot of him leaving Scotland boarding the plane dressed in white with a scarf wrapped around his face/nose walking up steps real slow, looking all sick.
Just saw him on TV landing in Libya descending down the plane/steps wildly waving his white scarf above his head, looking all healthy..
I for one am miffed.
Couldn’t even muster up a bit of disgust?
I’d love to see him turn up mysteriously dead real quick in one of those “everybody knows but no one can prove” kind of things.
McCain should be furious. I am.
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