Posted on 09/19/2014 5:44:45 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his aides swear the Syrian rebels he was pictured last year with werent ISIS members or supporters, and the mainstream media is by and large buying the 2008 GOP presidential nominees story.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has endured brutal criticismmedia fact checkers, reporters, and political figures have shredded himfor questioning just who McCain posed with.
But a closer look at the situation tells perhaps a different story than McCains office or the mainstream media have pushed.
The criticism of McCain centers around how the Arizona senator met with Syrian rebel leaders in May 2013 when he visited the country. McCain posed for photographs with those people, and since then rumors have sprouted up across the Internet that he met with ISIS or some other terrorist kidnappers or nefarious forces.
The people in the pictures with Senator McCain in Syria included General Salim Idris, then-Chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Command of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Mouaz Moustafa, the Executive Director of the DC-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (which supports the moderate opposition and helped arrange some of the trip), and fighters and commanders from the Northern Storm Brigade, a FSA-aligned group, McCains spokesman Brian Rogers told Breitbart News.
Rogers said that the senator and his team arent naming the fighters and commanders from the Northern Storm Brigade, a FSA-aligned group, because ISIS actually threatened to kill them all, and we dont want to put their lives at risk. Rogers provided Breitbart News with a link to the ISIS threat to those fighters.
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OdumBO hadn't f#cked things up yet.
“The ONLY reason I voted for that ticket was Sarah Palin.”
DITTO!
Good catch.
McCain met with ISIS before they were ISIS... see, he’s a trendsetter.
“McCain and crew think ISIS is saying give us what we want and we will go away.
Question is, would they really?”
No, of course not. If you give a terrorist anything, it just encourages them to redouble their efforts, because now they have positive results to show.
..On 4 October 2011, the US State Department listed al-Baghdadi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist
John McCain Met With ISIS Head Caliph Ibrahim Back in 2013
Actually McCain and Obama know that what the FSA and ISIS are saying, and have been saying on Arab Television for a year is “give us weapons or we will tell the whole world the truth about our little Red Line/Sarin Gas Op last year”.
This can be found on line.
The ONLY reason I didn't vote for that ticket was John McCain.
Palin was ONLY on the ticket to get the stalwarts to vote for McInsane.
It appears, that in a lot of cases, the trick worked.
Yep, you are probably right about that.
They are going to try again, but not with gas this time.
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