Posted on 02/05/2014 11:58:26 AM PST by jazusamo
Hell-bent on arming opposition forces in Syria—despite strong evidence that they’re run by Islamic terrorists—John McCain displayed behavior unbecoming of a United States Senator during a recent meeting with Syrian Christian leaders touring Capitol Hill.
The delegation of Syrian clergy came to Washington to raise awareness among lawmakers of the growing crisis among the region’s minority Christian community. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian population and they are being targeted and ruthlessly murdered by radical elements of the rebel forces, according to the visiting church officials. They say the media and human rights groups in the west have been largely silent on the ordeal of the Christians in Syria.
A number of churches have been destroyed or burned, children were killed when rebels fired mortar rockets at an Armenian Christian school in Damascus and countless others have been abducted by Islamic fighters, the Syrian delegation reveals in a statement published by the research group, Westminster Institute, that brought them to Washington. Eleven nuns have also been abducted and are still in captivity and two bishops are still missing after getting kidnapped during a humanitarian mission.
But Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, evidently doesn’t want to hear negative stories about the rebels he’s working to arm. So he stormed out of a closed-door meeting with the Syrian clergy officials last week. Held in the Senate Arms Services Committee meeting room, the reunion also included senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Graham is a Republican and the rest are Democrats.
McCain marched into the committee room yelling, according to a high-level source that attended the meeting, and quickly stormed out. “He was incredibly rude,” the source told Judicial Watch “because he didn’t think the Syrian church leaders should even be allowed in the room.” Following the shameful tantrum McCain reentered the room and sat briefly but refused to make eye contact with the participants, instead ignoring them by looking down at what appeared to be random papers.
The outburst was so embarrassing that Senator Graham, also an advocate of U.S. military intervention in Syria, apologized for McCain’s disturbing outburst. “Graham actually apologized to the group for McCain’s behavior,” according to the source, who sat through the entire meeting. “It was truly unbelievable.”
Not really, for those familiar with McCain’s history on this matter. The veteran lawmaker is enamored with a controversial young “Syria expert,” Elizabeth O’Bagy, who has managed to convince him as well as the president and secretary of state that Syrian rebels are mostly moderate and not terrorists. While persuading the U.S. of this, O’Bagy concealed that she was a political director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a group that advocates for Syria’s rebels from Washington D.C.
Before getting exposed by conservative media outlets, O’Bagy claimed to be an objective analyst at a Washington D.C. think-tank that studies military affairs when in fact she had a “reputation as the leading expert on the armed opposition in the Syrian revolution,” according to SETF. In September O’Bagy was abruptly fired from the think-tank for padding her resume and McCain graciously hired her. “Elizabeth is a talented researcher, and I have been very impressed by her knowledge and analysis in multiple briefings over the last year,” McCain said in a statement to the political news publication that broke the story in late September.
Besides the fact that a Syrian Islamist group is essentially steering U.S. policy, a number of domestic and international media outlets have confirmed that terrorists—mainly Al Qaeda—are running opposition forces in Syria. For instance the New York Times published a piece that reveals Islamist rebels—including the most extreme groups in the notorious Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda-aligned force—are running the show in Syria. “The Islamist character of the opposition reflects the main constituency of the rebellion,” the story says. “Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.”
Incredibly, last month an international news agency reported that Congress secretly approved U.S. weapons flow to what officials describe as “moderate” Syrian rebel factions. The White House refused to comment on the back-door operation, but the story cites U.S. and European officials who say the weapons deliveries have been funded by the U.S. Congress, in votes behind closed doors, through the end of government fiscal year 2014.
on McCain’s “Syrian expert”, Elizabeth O’Bagy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_O%27Bagy
she is a fraud
“Syrian Emergency Task Force” is s fraud
does it have Syrians involved, yes
but its American funding and any foreign funding includes U.S. state dept and CIA funds sent into U.S. and international NGOs to have them help create, fund and support the regime change agenda against Assad, to be called a “civil war”
this time its not just neocons but an alliance of Leftists and the neocons, in another one of the Leftist deals/coalitions with “moderate” Islamists which the Leftists ate using to undermine western culture and values
Bump
He’s bought by the Saudis and doesn’t want to be confronted by the reality of his treason. It upsets him.
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
He was tortured. He was a “hard resistor”, and he did not turn, or “sing”.
Lame’s later behavior and associations damn him, not untruths.
John Mccain Exposed By Vietnam Vets And Pow's (Youtube video 10:39)
Go piss up a rope.
Amen.
He's been in DC way too long.
I read Col. Bud Day’s account.
Thanks for the link - I’ll check it out.
This kind of behavior has been common from McCain...for years.
Imagine such an intemperate dolt as President of the USA.
History may yet record the Obama administration's one positive accomplishment as saving the country from a McCain administration.
mccain is ‘enamored’ with obama,
I was amazed at how often he behaved as a whipped dog on his back before his master during their election contest,
I kept wondering what was going on,
It’s become today as if he’s now one of those sycophantic MSNBC or CNN reporters with a girlish fainting obama crush,
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
mccain’s spirit has the same evil antichrist goals but operates in clear obedience to obama,
In his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican Convention, did McCain not admit to having opened up to his interrogators?
I recall watching the speech and being impressed by his openness and candor about what had to be a very painful memory.
I will look for Col. Bud Day’s account. I would prefer that McCain’s POW record wasn’t brought up but it is so it ought to balanced with credible accounts good or bad. As you said there is more than enough in his post-service life to condemn him from holding any office today.
McCain is just as enamored of Hillary and Kerry. He and Kerry have been buddies since the days the two of them scuttled Congressional investigations into Vietnam POWs.
You mean like Hillary? She's a well known shreaking haridan when things aren't to her satisfaction.
Your Scripture reference is pertinent in this situation, for sure. I’m glad we have Romans 8:38-39 to draw strength from when dealing with “rulers of the darkness” and “spiritual wickedness in high places”. (My favorite verses; reference is inscribed in DH’s wedding band.”
I could say that McCain is a nut case but that is giving him too much credit. In reality, he is simply a very mean spirited person who has no regard for the dignity of others.
You’re correct, he is mean spirited and it seems the older he gets the more so he is.
Exactly. There is a thing called "presidential termperament". And neither McCain nor Shillary have it.
The final scene in the movie “Shooter” always comes to mind when McLame gets crazy.
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