Sen. John McCain: Pentagon in 'denial' of Ramadi reality

CNN ^ | April 17, 2015 | Jamie Crawford,

[MinorityRepublican]

Senior Republican Sen. John McCain blasted Pentagon officials on Friday for dramatically downplaying the role of Ramadi as the key Iraqi city stood on the brink of being taken over by ISIS.

"Disregarding the strategic importance of Ramadi is a denial of reality and an insult to the families of hundreds of brave young Americans who were killed and wounded during the Surge fighting to free Ramadi from the grip of Al-Qaeda," McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a written statement released by his office, which was later joined onto by Repbulican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

McCain, using a different name for ISIS, charged that the "current U.S. strategy is to defend an oil refinery in Baiji, but abandon the capital of pivotal Anbar province to ISIL."

[Don Corleone]

And the Senate, in fact the entire congress is in denial of Obama and his mission!

[The Duke]

I find myself regretting that two of my sons have joined the military when this nation elects leaders that assign their lives so little value.

[Olog-hai]

They’ve collaborated with him on so many things, it’s not “denial” but collusion.

[SunkenCiv]

"Death to America!"

[SunkenCiv]

re-ping.

• Iraqi forces retreat from Ramadi as Islamic State advances
• Islamic State Routs Last Elite Iraqi Units from Ramadi in Huge Defeat for Baghdad
• Iraqi premier: Don't abandon Anbar to Islamic State group
• Iraq Asks for Immediate Military Support from US to Save Anbar
• Iraq's Anbar in 'Total Collapse', on Brink of Falling to Islamic State
• Key Iraqi town of Ramadi falls to ISIS (80 Americans Killed taking Ramadi in 2006)
• Islamic State Crisis: Militants Seize Ramadi Stronghold [Obama's JV-Team At Work!]
• REPORT: US Troops Flee Habbaniyya Base Near Ramadi From ISIS
• IS jihadists seizes government HQ in Iraq's Ramadi: officials
• ISIS attacks Ramadi: It's way worse than we're being told
• Ramadi could fall as ISIS militants lay siege, Iraqi official warns
• Ramadi could fall as ISIS militants lay siege, Iraqi official warns
• ISIS closing in? Terror group seizes Iraqi town 5 miles from Marine base
• Islamic State takes over large portions of town near key airbase in Anbar
• BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped
• Islamist State fighters seize western Iraqi town -- officials
• ISIS SEIZES RAMADI CITY -- 300 US Marines Trapped at Base -- Contact With Base Lost
• Jihadists Launch Major Attack on Iraq's Ramadi

[cardinal4]

This coming from McCain who made ISIS what it is? That’s rich..!

[Lurker]

So WTF are you going to do about it, John?

That’s what I thought. Nothing.

[MinorityRepublican]

Thanks for the reping. It’s quite appalling that the Obama Administration is doing nothing about the crisis.

[EternalVigilance]

A black day. And McCain is as responsible for it as anyone on earth.

Certainly more responsible than anyone in the Pentagon. They serve their civilian political superiors in the White House and in Congress, of which he is a prominent member.

[SunkenCiv]

Don’t fret, it’ll get much worse before we get our next President.