Posted on 12/13/2016 12:23:45 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham issued a blistering statement Tuesday condemning the US' failure to act to prevent the "slaughter" of hundreds of thousands of people in Syria.
"The words 'never again' ring hollow today with reports that Aleppo is falling to Assad regime forces," the senators wrote, amid reports that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were on the brink of fully recapturing the besieged city of Aleppo from opposition forces.
"For four long years, Aleppo has been at the center of the Assad regime's war on the Syrian people," the statement continued. "Together with its Russian and Iranian allies, the Assad regime has relentless targeted women and children, doctors and rescue workers, hospitals and bakeries, aid warehouses and humanitarian convoys.
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Really don’t care.
Starting the war and arming ISIS are the testament to our shame.
I’m pretty sure only one of them is a “top Senator”.
I wouldn’t call Crazy McCain and Lying Graham top GOP senators. While I have rarely used the term RINO, it fits them. They don’t even support the GOP primary winner - instead, they are busy promoting an agenda that hurts the USA.
I wouldn’t call Crazy McCain and Lying Graham top GOP senators. While I have rarely used the term RINO, it fits them. They don’t even support the GOP primary winner - instead, they are busy promoting an agenda that hurts the USA.
Flyboy. War seems clean in a cockpit.
Calling Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham Top Senators is a flag that the article will be fake news!
Yeah that's true, especially if you can keep them from crashing...
They are right to feel shame. They are the reason for the slaughter. For some reason, they and Obama decided that Assad had to go. And they trained and equipped the Sunnis who became ISIS! Shame on them.
They started the mess.
Has there ever been any war or military action that John McCain didn’t want us to get involved in? You would think him being a prisoner of war he would be against War unless absolutely necessary.
The blood of countless thousands in Syria drips from the hands of psychopathic warmonger John McCain. Those who promoted “regime change” in Syria were rewarded only with ISIS and a mountain of corpses.
The failure of everything we have done in the Mid East in the last 25 years should be a continuing source of shame EXCEPT the decision to stay the heck out of the Syrian morass.
Its a mean Civil War between two tribes who inhabit the same lands (set up by Europeans 100 years ago)Assad sees the rebels as not his people—but his enemies. Its bad business. Imagine if it was the 1860s—and the European powers were horrified by the burning of Atlanta and the rape and pillage of Sherman’s army—and ordered Lincoln to stop and seek a peaceful settlement. That or they would send Anglo-French troops to attack New York and Washington? We would still have slavery then. War is Hell as Sherman said.
How much money does mclame have in defense stocks? Linsey...well he is just a idiot trying to get back in the dems good graces.
Yes, it will be a shameful legacy
But not for the reasons John McCain says
A must-hear interview from a very knowledgeable Canadian journalist, Eva Bartlett, about the Syrian “fake news” of the western media and the ground situation in Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQLu-icHCd4
Not killing off Christians is a everlasting shame to these two.
FLASHBACK:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html
Aug. 25, 2013
The Saudi ambassador, Mr. Jubeir, has long been courting members of Congress who could pressure the administration to get more involved in Syria. He found early support from Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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Mr. Petraeus in mid-2012 won White House approval to provide intelligence and limited training to Syrian rebels at the base, including in the use of arms provided by others. Saudi and Jordanian agents began vetting the fighters to be trained, said Arab diplomats and a former U.S. military official.
Prince Bandar has largely stayed out of Washington but held meetings with U.S. officials in the region. One was in September 2012. Sens. McCain and Graham, who were in Istanbul, met him in an opulent hotel suite on the banks of the Bosporus.
Mr. McCain said he made the case to Prince Bandar that the rebels weren’t getting the kinds of weapons they needed, and the prince, in turn, described the kingdom’s plans. The senator said that in succeeding months he saw “a dramatic increase in Saudi involvement, hands-on, by Bandar.”
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That winter, the Saudis also started trying to convince Western governments that Mr. Assad had crossed what President Barack Obama a year ago called a “red line”: the use of chemical weapons. Arab diplomats say Saudi agents flew an injured Syrian to Britain, where tests showed sarin gas exposure. Prince Bandar’s spy service, which concluded in February that Mr. Assad was using chemical weapons, relayed evidence to the U.S., which reached a similar conclusion four months later. The Assad regime denies using such weapons.
After Mr. Petraeus’s November resignation over an affair, his job was handled by his deputy, Michael Morell, who privately voiced skepticism the agency could make sure any arms supplied by the U.S. wouldn’t end up with hard-line Islamists, said congressional officials.
Ultimately, the new CIA chief was John Brennan, whose closest Saudi confidant when he was White House counterterrorism adviser was also focused on the risk of inadvertently strengthening al Qaeda. Since moving to the CIA, Mr. Brennan has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar, officials said.
Aleppo will be testament to the defeat of Isis, FSA, and other Islamists.
Of course you are correct. Why next are we supporting rebels against Assad as some report?
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