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'One of the more incredible statements I've ever heard': John McCain rips Tillerson's shift on Syria
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Posted on 04/04/2017 7:04:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

John McCain has become the MOST dangerous politician in the US...worse than Kerry, Obama, Clinton...all of them. He will do everything in his power to start war anywhere in the world. His focus is on one thing only...his legacy.

Now his fear is that Team Trump will bring the Syrian conflict to an end and the American people will decide that the Trump Doctrine in the Middle East can be wildly successful. He can’t have that!!

He made his bed(along with his mistress Lindsey Graham) with the Clintons, Obama and the NeoCons. Now he sees the day when President Trump could stand in front of the world and announce that the days of using and arming our enemies as proxies are over. The American people will be astounded when they realize the treachery that went into the Syrian and Libyan fiascos.


21 posted on 04/04/2017 7:26:14 AM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: Lumper20

Syria is nonsecular. All the nonsecular Arab states were pushed by the obama/Clinton state department.


22 posted on 04/04/2017 7:30:50 AM PDT by Fhios (If Globalists want Globulism then what's the beef with Russia participating in a globalist election)
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At what point will Trump blow a gasket and explain to McCain that it’s POTUS that sets foreign policy? His restraint has been remarkable.


23 posted on 04/04/2017 7:32:07 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The US now backing Assad is part of the Trump Russia meme. Obama adm. knows Trump will dismantle Obama backing of ISIS caliphate and that he wanted to partner with Russia to do so. The Russia meme is meant to hamstring Trump in so many different ways...


24 posted on 04/04/2017 7:34:30 AM PDT by usual suspect
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The Islamist-Globalist regime change agenda against Assad failed, and one of their shills, McCain, just can’t get over that fact, and a fact it is. Tillerson’s statement is not “incredible” at all.

It merely recognizes the reality that is left in the wake of Obama’s policies on Syria.

Would McCain now have the U.S. go to war with Russia over Syria?

Russia nor Iran were ever so invested and planted in Syria BEFORE the regime change agenda against Assad morphed itself into the “Syrian opposition” and destabilized all of Syria.

What was a manageable security issue - Syria - before the regime change agenda against Assad created an open “civil war” there, became a complex, multi-pronged, security issue with increased Iranian and Russian intervention DUE TO that regime change agenda and what it caused.

McCain and the other U.S. fools backing that agenda MADE U.S. security issues in the region more difficult. He, and those like him, are the “incredible” ones.


25 posted on 04/04/2017 7:35:59 AM PDT by Wuli
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“We have tried the lets replace this Muslim dictator”

You nailed it!...What we did in Egypt was a travesty. Trump deals in the real world...where the Middle East becomes stable by way of strong leaders that are willing to rid their streets of terrorists...anyway they can.

In the Middle East, McCain is proving to be just as dangerous as Jimmy Carter, Obama and Clinton. Hosni Mubarak kept the radicals at bay; and if need be, killed them in the streets. The Shah of Iran did exactly the same, until Carter cut his knees out from under him.

It always amazes me that ordinary Americans can use history as a guide, while our politicians continue to make the same mistakes....and people die. McCain and his friends should be made to bear the pain of the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost.


26 posted on 04/04/2017 7:36:38 AM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Give Old John the job of cleaning up the red line drawn in the sand in Syria.


27 posted on 04/04/2017 7:42:00 AM PDT by UncleSam (Why must someone else always make the final decisions?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

McCain is pissed that his ISIS buddies are taking it in the rear and are going down to a big defeat.


28 posted on 04/04/2017 7:47:07 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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“longer-term status of President [Bashar] Assad will be decided by the Syrian people.”


So McCain what that hell wrong with that statment? Whether you like the prick or not their choice... not yours


29 posted on 04/04/2017 7:48:25 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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It was the Obama Administration and his Toady Media who told us for years that Assad and Putin were our mortal enemies.

I ask, did we have any reason to believe them?

Putin was a great gay hater, you know with all those anti-gay laws he enforced.

Assad did not go after all those Christians in his country, he let them all alone. Can't have that.

So when the Toadies all claimed that Assad was killing his own people, should we really take their words at face value?

Thank you Mr Tillerson.

30 posted on 04/04/2017 7:48:39 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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Assad is a despicable man with the blood of hundreds of American soldiers on his hands for his providing Syria as safe haven and staging ground for al Qaeda terror operations in Iraq.

That said, he has had his country, his government, Syria's economy and his power destroyed by those same Jihadi he gave sanctuary to.

If Iran is removed from the picture, as Trump seems to be working towards, Assad ceases to be a threat to the Middle East and is the lesser of any other leaders evils.

31 posted on 04/04/2017 7:52:08 AM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Every chapter in American history is disgraceful to McCain. Him being the nominee for president was extremely disgraceful.


32 posted on 04/04/2017 7:55:21 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds to me like Assad has the Goods on Juan McCrazy and probably a whole lot of other high pollutant politicians in America.


33 posted on 04/04/2017 7:56:33 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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He thinks he’s the American foreign policy master. If you look at the Middle East and our poor relations with Russia, he has been doing a terrible job.


34 posted on 04/04/2017 7:56:57 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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“longer-term status of President [Bashar] Assad will be decided by the Syrian people.”

So McCain what that hell wrong with that statement? Whether you like the prick or not its their choice... not yours

Trump.is following a policy that that people is each country should chose its own leaders

Now a case can be made that a majority of the people make pick a leader that oppresses a minority of the people...

but you can't fix that that by outsider putting in another repressive leader to oppress the other side

Isis was McCains and Obama solution to Assad and look how that worked out

35 posted on 04/04/2017 7:58:01 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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Unfortunately our policy with Middle East been a circle jerk

So we had Bush that tried to democratize, and we had Obama trying to side with radical factions of Islam like a Muslim Brotherhood

Its looking like we have to deal with radical Islam like with Russian Communism .. both looked to spread and conquer the world so we had to fight containment and proxy wars...


36 posted on 04/04/2017 8:06:49 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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37 posted on 04/04/2017 8:16:28 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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Does this mean the US Government is not going to interfere in another country’s elections? There is a lot of criticism about the Russians interfering in our elections. What about us? Since it is wrong for another country to meddle in our elections, isn’t it wrong for us to meddle in another country’s elections? Shouldn’t the people of that country decide who governs them? Apparently not for some. There seems to be conflict here. Do as I say not as I do.


38 posted on 04/04/2017 8:25:46 AM PDT by GTM01
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McCain is truly mentally ill. He seems to think he is the president and is incapable of understanding that he does not make U.S. foreign policy. Arizona, recall this mental midget


39 posted on 04/04/2017 9:02:18 AM PDT by falcon99
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The “disgraceful chapter in American history” is the life of John McCain, something we would all have been better off without.


40 posted on 04/04/2017 9:05:50 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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