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Two Senators Say U.S. Should Arm Syrian Rebels [McCain & Graham]
The New York Times ^ | February 19, 2012 | ALISSA J. RUBIN

Posted on 02/19/2012 6:49:38 PM PST by Hunton Peck

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To: Hunton Peck
It's not the first time McCain has tried to arm Muslim terrorists.

John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists

John McCain armed the KLA, Politika

41 posted on 02/19/2012 8:32:36 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: RaceBannon
my God Now, the REPUBLICANS are supporting the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD You say that like you're surprised. We've been had.
42 posted on 02/19/2012 8:33:59 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: U-238; All
If Assad and Syria domino to the Muslim Brotherhood, this will continue through all the Arab ME states, and the resources that fall to the use of the Muslim Brotherhood will be used to kill all Christians (and non Muslims) in the fallen states and launch a extinction attack on Israel.

Everybody knows the US will do nothing, or worse, stab a friend in the back, as long as Zer0 or a Rat is President. As we speak Zer0 is doing everything he can to persuade Israel to NOT attack Iran.

Yet we don't hear much from Israel, why is that?

There is one coalition that is backing existing stability as opposed to one side or faction.

That coalition has credibility regarding resolve and the willingness to kill, and they have nuclear weapons. This coalition is universally condemned by all the same entities that condemn Israel. Finally, the members of this coalition have good relations with Israel.

It is possible that returning stability to the Middle East simply requires preventing the Muslim Brotherhood from expanding by having the resolve to kill them wholesale and turn their works into black glass should they become irritating.

43 posted on 02/19/2012 8:37:16 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Hunton Peck

McCain and Graham???

War Mongering Rinos!!!!


44 posted on 02/19/2012 8:40:23 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: Hunton Peck

When the Schumer hits the fan here in the US of A will they be this ready and eager to arm American rebels?


45 posted on 02/19/2012 8:44:27 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Iron Munro

McCain has done so much damage to America. What a disgrace this man is. He needs to retire immediately and just fade away. Everything he does seemed aimed at burning the constitution.


46 posted on 02/19/2012 8:46:24 PM PST by bigdirty
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To: RaceBannon

Graham and McCain fall into the category of people whom Pat Buchanan derisively calls “democratists,” that is, people who believe that all peoples everywhere in the world, no matter the nature of their culture or state of development, should have have full democracy, and they should have it right now. The same attitude led George W. Bush to empower Hamas to come to power in the Gaza Strip via democratic elections.


47 posted on 02/19/2012 8:48:08 PM PST by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: cripplecreek

You ain’t seen nothing yet. The neocon warriors are already lusting for a war w Iran.


48 posted on 02/19/2012 8:51:17 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: eater-of-toast

Isn’t it strange that they promote democracy in those countries but never constitutional republics like ours?


49 posted on 02/19/2012 8:54:50 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Hunton Peck

I look forward to the day those two fools are out of office, just as much as that joke, in the white house.


50 posted on 02/19/2012 8:56:10 PM PST by org.whodat (Sorry bill, I should never have made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
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To: Navy Patriot

>> It is possible that returning stability to the Middle East simply requires preventing the Muslim Brotherhood from expanding

It’s not what’s obvious, it’s what’s ‘inspiring’. Remember how ‘inspired’ the Left was in regards to the MB uprising in Egypt.

The Left is vicariously in bed with those that wish to annihilate Christians and Jews.


51 posted on 02/19/2012 9:06:29 PM PST by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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The Left is vicariously in bed with those that wish to annihilate Christians and Jews.

Yep, even worse, they provided arms and troops to kill Christians in Serbia and Kosovo.

52 posted on 02/19/2012 9:17:08 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Hunton Peck

we should probably stay out. if the ‘Arab League’ wishes to
sort this on their dime, well, they should get to it.


53 posted on 02/19/2012 9:21:13 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Capt. Tom
If Assad holds out, Shiite Iran and Russia will be pleased and we are back to square one, with Syria being even more anti American.

It doesn't matter that Syria may be anti-American. What matters is that Assad will be very much pro-Assad, and that means that you can deal with him. He takes threats very personally, for a good reason.

On the other hand, MB & AQ are amorphous masses. You can't threaten a large group of people with assassination because they know you can't kill them all. This leads to very dangerous decisions because there is no personal responsibility for them.

54 posted on 02/19/2012 9:37:08 PM PST by Greysard
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To: TigersEye

That’s a good observation. As much as democratists claim to respect backward peoples, they promote nothing more then a democratic ballot, nothing like our elegant constitutional system of checks and balances. That is subtly condescending on their part. Or perhaps it isn’t condescending... if they themselves dislike our elegant system of checks and balances.


55 posted on 02/19/2012 9:37:29 PM PST by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Capt. Tom

“That was my first reaction to the situation. “Why do we want to stop this war.”

Why do we care? Support a brutal dictator or support terrorists. Sounds like the easiest choice in the world to me. Support neither. Let them kill each other.


56 posted on 02/19/2012 9:41:47 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: cripplecreek

Perhaps McLame could be put up in Asshat’s finest dungeons..


57 posted on 02/19/2012 10:07:30 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Hunton Peck

Isn’t Linsay Graham gay? I heard he’s going to Barney Frank’s wedding in Provincetown this summer.


58 posted on 02/19/2012 10:46:40 PM PST by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: Hunton Peck
I can think of a whole list of Representatives and Senators we should carpet bomb Syria with. Send these scum in as the tip of the spear on a one way kamikaze mission for Emperor Zer0. Banzai! Banzai!! (BTW, they do have to go in; they do NOT have to return.)
59 posted on 02/19/2012 11:15:24 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: Hunton Peck

I’m really sick of hearing anything from McCain and Graham, who seem to each have one half of the same brain. I would like for the various MSM outlets to stop inviting them to speak, as those two do not represent the views of the Republican Party or Conservatives. Like John F’ng Kerry and Chuckie Schumer, however, neither can avoid a camera.

Why in hell do they think it’s right for the US military to become involved in what amounts to a civil war in a foreign country?

Would we in the US like intervention from a foreign country if we were having a civil war? NO! It’s an internal strife and outsiders only want to take advantage.


60 posted on 02/20/2012 12:10:59 AM PST by octex
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