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[C-Span Video] John McCain: Blocking Obama on Syria Would Be 'Catastrophic'
C-Span Video via TPM then re-posted on Breitbart ^ | 9/2/13

Posted on 09/02/2013 6:56:22 PM PDT by Nachum

Video at link

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To: Nachum

President Gains McCain’s Backing On Syria Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/world/middleeast/syria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

“Mr. McCain, who has been arguing for two years that the United States should support a moderate Syrian opposition, said he strongly urged the president on Monday to provide anti-tank and antiaircraft systems to the opposition and to attack the Syrian Air Force.

Mr. Obama indicated that “he favorably viewed the degrading of Bashar al-Assad’s capabilities as well as upgrading the Free Syrian Army,” Mr. McCain said in an interview.

Administration officials have told Congress that the C.I.A.’s program to arm the rebels would be deliberately limited at first to allow a trial run for American officials to monitor it before ramping up to a larger, more aggressive campaign. American officials have been wary that arms provided to the rebels could end up in the hands of Islamic extremists with ties to Al Qaeda. “

Great, let’s arm Al Qaeda...

Oh, and look at this flashback:

June 2013:

Russia asks Turkey for info on sarin terrorists

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/151261/russia-asks-turkey-for-info-on-sarin-terrorists.html

“Russia has called on Turkey to share its findings in the case of Syrian rebels who were seized on the Turkish-Syrian border with a 2kg cylinder full of nerve gas sarin.

Russia’s top foreign official Sergei Lavrov tolday said the Kremlin wanted to get clear on the issue of chemical weapons used in Syria, since the allegation had taken on the role of a trading card in the conflict, becoming a focus of constant provocations.

“I do not rule out that some force may want to use it [the rumour] to say that the “red line” has been crossed and a foreign intervention is needed,” the minister said.”


21 posted on 09/02/2013 7:12:13 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Nachum

With the way some of these clowns are behaving, I’m really starting to wonder if they haven’t dealt with enough filthy people that they now face dire physical threats if they can’t deliver on their end of the bargain.

I personally couldn’t care less if they face danger as a result of their own behavior. If they want amnesty and protection they need to come clean with the American people, otherwise let them pay their own pipers.


22 posted on 09/02/2013 7:12:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nachum

translation: if we don’t blindly do whatever 0bama says, it will be catastrophic

yea... I’m right on board with that

/eye-rolling-sarcasm


23 posted on 09/02/2013 7:12:36 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Now you’ve done it! Didn’t you get the memo? They’re “freedom fighters” not Al Queada or Muslim Brotherhood! These “civilians” need to be saved.


24 posted on 09/02/2013 7:15:49 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (TEA baby! Let's roll!)
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To: Nachum
Maybe he means that there will be lots of anthrax letters in the mail, or, something like that to get Americans motivated.
25 posted on 09/02/2013 7:28:53 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: Nachum

McCain seems very concerned about US “credibility” among allies and adversaries.

I don’t think either think much of Obama’s “credibility”. Certainly the British Parliament, Russia and China have concluded that his Administration has no credibility. Five years of lying has consequences.


26 posted on 09/02/2013 7:33:38 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Nachum
"Catastastophic indeed, but for whom?"

It would be bad for McCain and his fellow star travelers...they are desperate to open a new acting school for leftist political hacks in Syria.

27 posted on 09/02/2013 7:34:34 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Nachum
John McCain: Blocking Obama on Syria Would Be 'Catastrophic'

Actually, no, Sen. McCain. It would be no such thing. Barry the Boob could launch all the missiles he wanted even without Congressional approval. However, after his abject humiliation at the hands of the British Parliament last week, it would be just one more scalding embarrassment for Barry the Boob, but hey...that's what leadership is all about, right?
28 posted on 09/02/2013 7:34:43 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Nachum
whaaa whaa whaaa


29 posted on 09/02/2013 7:35:13 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

McCain has jumped the shark how many times??


30 posted on 09/02/2013 7:36:48 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Innovative

“... the United States should support a moderate Syrian opposition ...”

Obama and the Kerry State Department are incompetent to discern between “moderate Syrian opposition” and al Qaeda. Even the Bush Administration, with much more talent and a genuine interest in American success, couldn’t pick out good opposition candidates in Afghanistan and Iraq.


31 posted on 09/02/2013 7:37:11 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Do some internet research. Lots of guys in prison with him said he collaborated with the enemy.


32 posted on 09/02/2013 7:39:19 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Nachum

What in hell is the matter with that man? Effin loon.


33 posted on 09/02/2013 8:00:58 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Nachum

I just responded on McLames website warning him about making himself “Obama’s bitch” (in those exact words).

a mistake?


34 posted on 09/02/2013 8:08:43 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: Nachum

How much is McCain being paid off to be the scapegoat for Obama’s Syria stance? Must be a bundle ... or some pretty good gig for someone in his family.


35 posted on 09/02/2013 8:15:14 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: stevem

He has lost all creditability.

He main purpose is to be mac daddies top sock puppet.


36 posted on 09/02/2013 8:18:05 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Nachum

Yet there are still people on FR who think mccain would have been a better President!

obama is useless, mccain a joke times 2.


37 posted on 09/02/2013 8:34:22 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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To: Nachum

Well then Let’s block and block away. (And then send McCain back to Vietnam).


38 posted on 09/02/2013 9:11:46 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: Nachum

Yes, because we wouldn’t want to stand in the way of this limited in scope and duration punitive action, would we. Let him do it on his own. Even if it were the 100% right thing to do, this is not the way it should be done. It’s not even remotely serious....or would that be Syria-ess.....


39 posted on 09/02/2013 9:25:39 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: packrat35
Yet there are still people on FR who think mccain would have been a better President!

McCain would not have given us anything like Obamacare. There would have been no stimulus package, no Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the White House, no Solyndra, no school lunch program, no Eric Holder, no Janet Napolitano, no Chuck Hagel, and the armed forces would not have seen 4 admirals/generals fired in 5 years. There would have been no Benghazi, no SEAL Team 6, no Extortion 17, and NASA would still have 26,000 employees in Alabama and Florida. There would have been no Cass Sunstein, no Hillary, no Rahm Emanuel, no Czars, no funding for planned parenthood, no need for the Tea Party, 15,000 fewer IRS employees, and no tax increases.

So, yeah, I am one of those people who think he would have been better.

40 posted on 09/02/2013 9:51:58 PM PDT by Nachum (I am Breitbartacus!)
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