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Top GOP senators: Aleppo 'will be a testament to our moral failure and everlasting shame'
businessinsider ^

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Syria; US: Arizona; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: aleppo; graham; john; johnmccain; lindsey; lindseygraham; mcain; mccain; syria
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have always wondered what was in this for dumb & dumber! Their shilling baffles me, people were better off with Assad for the most part. They and their minions;including odumbo have destroyed the mid east!


81 posted on 12/13/2016 1:40:03 PM PST by seeker41 (Trump Save America)
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To: ZULU

YES, WAKE THE HELLL UP. The Cold War is over.

Syria has been a Russian client state since the 1950s and the US, thanks to Obam-MCain-Clintoin-Grahm though it would be cute to go piss in the Russian sand box in Libya and Syria in the name of “nation building” and so gave the Islamic Fascist 2 new failed state to hide in.

Putin is clean up the mess our idiots created. He not gaining anything he trying to hold what he had from our neo con cowboys


82 posted on 12/13/2016 1:40:21 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Trump discriminates against non-successful people.)
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To: SolidWood

Yeah. You are right. Those damn neo-Cons - getting us into WW2 and stuff!!


83 posted on 12/13/2016 1:40:39 PM PST by ZULU (We are freedom's safest place!!!! #BOYCOTT HAMILTON!!! #BOYCOTT NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“Because if they can’t, the Saudis will stop sending money.”

Yes, but why now? Is it the perceived imminent threat from Iran (courtesy of Obama and Kerry)? How can he and his posse justify the massive death and destruction?

I wonder if McCain’s debt to his masters goes back as far as the Keating five? He owes someone big time.


84 posted on 12/13/2016 1:42:48 PM PST by map
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To: MNJohnnie

Russia controlled Syrian politics for a while during the height of the Cold War when the brain dead Dems and libs were controlling America and the Soviet Empire was threatening us.

During Reagan when the Evil Empire collapsed, it changed. And until the current POS took over, the Russkies were kept where they belong - in a cage.

Go have some cavier, Vodka and borscht.

What happens over there, effects us OVER HERE.


85 posted on 12/13/2016 1:43:41 PM PST by ZULU (We are freedom's safest place!!!! #BOYCOTT HAMILTON!!! #BOYCOTT NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!)
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To: Vince Ferrer
why is he upset that Putin “interfered” with our elections?

If Putin really interfered with our elections, he should get a medal.

86 posted on 12/13/2016 1:43:46 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: pinkandgreenmom
They make our choices easier to make!

"I find that no matter what these two assclowns want, I seem to want the opposite.

87 posted on 12/13/2016 1:43:54 PM PST by Grampa Dave (We've been lied to so many times by the MSM! We are living in a world doesn't exist!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Aleppo became a hellhole warzone when we prolonged the conflict by supporting the “moderate” rebel groups (that are easily as bad as ISIS). Were it not for our support, Assad’s forces and the Russians would’ve routed those clowns a while ago and it would be over.


88 posted on 12/13/2016 1:46:29 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: ZULU

Saddam is dead. You want war? YOU fight it.


89 posted on 12/13/2016 1:49:00 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: map

McCain’s debt goes back to Viet Nam. He is a Manchurian candidate.


90 posted on 12/13/2016 1:50:22 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Farmer Dean

Evidently so.


91 posted on 12/13/2016 1:50:38 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: bigdaddy45

I want mccain, mcconnell et al to STFU

Come on man. You’ve seen me on the board a thousand times.

You should have known better :)

At least you didn’t call me a jerk or anything! I appreciate that!


92 posted on 12/13/2016 1:55:11 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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93 posted on 12/13/2016 1:55:52 PM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: ZULU

America’s greatest threat is NOT Russia or Assad. It’s the Islamofascists and the Neo-Marxist scum that LIVES WITHIN OUR NON-EXISTANT BORDERS.

YOU “wake the hell up!”


94 posted on 12/13/2016 1:57:09 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Duchess47

“McCain’s debt goes back to Viet Nam. He is a Manchurian candidate.”

You may be right. That makes as much sense as any other explanation for his strange behavior and many successful campaigns.

Glad at least that Trump has called him out.


95 posted on 12/13/2016 1:57:50 PM PST by map
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To: ZULU

By now most Americans have grown wise and won’t easily fall prey to neocon snake-oil sellers and perpetual war preachers. This isn’t the 2000’s anymore, where patriotism could be exploited for thoroughly un-American ulterior motives.

American blood and treasure always was cheap for them in order to further their warped ideological and financial goals.

Why won’t these brave neocon keyboard/media hawks head to Aleppo to help their jihadi brethren against Assad?

Doom on ‘em.


96 posted on 12/13/2016 2:00:16 PM PST by SolidWood
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To: ChicagoConservative27
These two RINO SOBs need to be investigated in order to find out how much they have profited off of their war.

This is unlikely though because of how far into the swamp this behavior probably reaches.

97 posted on 12/13/2016 2:00:21 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Magnum44

He and the others are mother ####ers and I HATE them.

That f....t linda, mitch the bitch, Ryan that leprechaun ####. Hate them all.


98 posted on 12/13/2016 2:01:35 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m sad and sorry for death and destruction reigned upon innocent children everywhere, but Moslems have been fighting since their inception.

We have no business in their land and they have none in ours.

McCain, Graham and their ilk have already sacrificed too many of ours in their high-minded pursuits. Cease and desist.


99 posted on 12/13/2016 2:03:11 PM PST by onyx (PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S VICTORY DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: amihow

Why? That’s rhetorical, right?

ISIS comes and kills them. Assad did not; in fact, he protected them by keeping all crazed militants repressed.


100 posted on 12/13/2016 2:04:21 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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