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McCain: Trump halting Korean military exercises a 'bad negotiating tactic'
The Hill ^ | June 14, 2018 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 06/14/2018 2:32:54 PM PDT by Trump20162020

GOP Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) blasted the Trump administration's decision to halt military exercises with South Korea as part of the ongoing negotiations with North Korea.

"Suspending U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises is a mistake. Making unnecessary and unreciprocated concessions is not in our interests—and it is a bad negotiating tactic," McCain said in a statement on Thursday.

Trump announced after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that the United States will stop “war games” with South Korea “unless and until” negotiations with the North go poorly.

Agence France-Presse reported on Thursday that the Pentagon had “suspended indefinitely” large-scale military exercises with South Korea.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; johnmccain; kimjongun; mccain; northkorea; songbird; southkorea; strawberries; trump; weekendatbernies
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To: TigersEye

Don’t forget about McCain Feingold!


61 posted on 06/14/2018 4:01:38 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...excepto for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Trump20162020

McCain is giving TRUMP advice on how to negotiate????? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!


62 posted on 06/14/2018 4:05:08 PM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump and His Supporters Are the Resistance! VIVE LA RESISTANCE! KAG!!!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

They just wrapped up a military exercise.
They need some time to reload and plan the next exercise.

Nutin was going to happen for a few months.

Trump gave away-nutin


63 posted on 06/14/2018 4:07:15 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: steel_resolve

“Walk into the light already sheesh!!!”

Except in this case it will be light in the infrared part of the spectrum.


64 posted on 06/14/2018 4:13:46 PM PDT by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: Seaplaner
Don’t forget about McCain Feingold!

That is the bill/law I was talking about. Most un-American legislation ever made into law that I know of.

65 posted on 06/14/2018 4:24:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Trump20162020

I thought he was dead.


66 posted on 06/14/2018 4:27:41 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

McCain negotiatd special privileges in the Hanoi Hilton. He gave up something. He got something in return.


67 posted on 06/14/2018 4:30:10 PM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go straight to the comments.)
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To: slouper
I thought [John McCain] was dead.

He's undead...

68 posted on 06/14/2018 4:30:20 PM PDT by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: Trump20162020

Making unnecessary and unreciprocated concessions is not in our interests—and it is a bad negotiating tactic,” someone
said that McCain said, “and another thing, those pallets
of cash were an incentive!”.


69 posted on 06/14/2018 4:32:41 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Trump20162020

We should always be with war with somebody, or at least threatening to go to war with somebody. Multiple somebodies would be better, of course. Call it “The McCain-Graham Doctrine”.


70 posted on 06/14/2018 4:33:19 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Trump20162020

Did anyone bother to ask South Korea about this proposal?
That could be key.


71 posted on 06/14/2018 4:36:42 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: TigersEye

How long can he stay an US Senator without ever showing up?


72 posted on 06/14/2018 4:37:21 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Trump20162020

McCain is irrelevant nothingness


73 posted on 06/14/2018 4:38:01 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: Irish Eyes

Probably forever is my guess. Will anyone in the Senate actually go to his “cabin” in AZ and check to see if he’s still alive?


74 posted on 06/14/2018 4:39:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Trump20162020

What does Johnnie McQueeg know about negotiating anything?! Is he really sick or just playing sick?


75 posted on 06/14/2018 4:40:50 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: Trump20162020

Can’t we just drone him?


76 posted on 06/14/2018 4:41:30 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Trump20162020

When he really does go we will be talking to a suit jacket on a hanger, cant shake this fool


77 posted on 06/14/2018 4:50:58 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Juan doesn’t realize that Trump no longer NEEDS a “negotiating tool”. After showing Kim that video showing him the choice between riches, peace, prosperity and joy; or rockets, bombs, blood and ashes; Kim knows precisely where the proverbial bear pooped in the buckwheat.


78 posted on 06/14/2018 4:53:19 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Trump20162020

Who is to say this is McCain saying or tweeting anything? He should be forced out of office. Why isn’t there a method of removing elected officials from office for mental or physical incapacitation?


79 posted on 06/14/2018 5:01:38 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Trump20162020

Shut up, Meghan.


80 posted on 06/14/2018 5:04:32 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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