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McCain releases strategy for Afghanistan, preempting and rebuking Trump
Washington Post ^ | Aug 10 2017 | Karoun Demirjian

Posted on 08/10/2017 7:58:43 PM PDT by WilliamIII

Sen. John McCain on Thursday unveiled a plan to increase U.S. air and ground forces in Afghanistan that would probably bring some American soldiers closer into harm’s way — a move that in effect rebukes President Trump, who has not yet decided on his preferred way forward in the war.

McCain (R-Ariz.) promised to present his plan as an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill, upon his return to Washington in September.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: afghanwar; braincancer; johnmccain; mccain; mccainafghanwar; strawberries; trumpafghanwar; tumor
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To: WilliamIII

The war had gone on for many years in Afghanistan while obama was still president. Yet there was no pressure my mccain to end it.

Can they not go ahead and bury this POS clown?


61 posted on 08/10/2017 9:41:38 PM PDT by boycott
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To: WilliamIII

McCain’s Chairmanship should be stripped from him by Leader Mitch McConnell for his disobedience on the heath care vote wherein McCain proved himself a liar.

The same goes for Murkowski.

McCain is particularly odious because he apparently thinks he’s more qualified to be president than the president but, thank God, ( NOT Vlad Putin) the American people elected Donald Trump!

Furthermore, despite his brain cancer, even McCain knows that President Trump currently has The very best military minds working on a plan to defeat Isis, the Taliban and all radical Islamic groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan! Nobody likes to win more than President Trump! Nobody hates to lose troops more than President Trump !

John McCain needs to either totally support President Trump or shut up and mind his own business he’s a jealous old fool


62 posted on 08/10/2017 9:43:11 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: WilliamIII

Sorry McSWINE; we don’t listen to people who host a BRAIN MAGGOT.


63 posted on 08/10/2017 10:04:58 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: WilliamIII

Hey John.

You lost.

You didnt even put up a half-assed fight.

So F-off and die already.


64 posted on 08/10/2017 10:09:25 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: WilliamIII

Well, we all know how great all of McCain’s foreign policy ideas have been over the decades... Oh, Wait a minute.


65 posted on 08/10/2017 11:15:01 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: WilliamIII

“Sen. John McCain on Thursday unveiled a plan...”

He needs to plan his funeral service.


66 posted on 08/10/2017 11:27:20 PM PDT by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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To: WilliamIII

We should air drop McCain into Afghanistan.


67 posted on 08/10/2017 11:35:10 PM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: WilliamIII

Better still - send John to the VA for treatment and putt of Congress and their staffs on Obamacare


68 posted on 08/11/2017 2:02:42 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: WilliamIII

we rejected him years ago, now McCained should feel it and go,


69 posted on 08/11/2017 2:29:45 AM PDT by aces
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To: WilliamIII

Given how we continue to have John McCain doing what he is doing, I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that Hillary Clinton did not stay in the Senate. Imagine that chorus in stereo....


70 posted on 08/11/2017 2:58:15 AM PDT by Bernard (If we could tax Stupid, Congress could balance the budget)
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To: Alberta's Child

The idiot was at the Diamondbacks game tonight. I doubt if he even has cancer. He just needed his hero’s return to the Senate and to have one more layer of armor in his fight against our President.


71 posted on 08/11/2017 3:02:28 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: WilliamIII

“Heroes” have a shelf life. The son-of-a-bitch is no good.


72 posted on 08/11/2017 3:08:14 AM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: WilliamIII

Don’t really see him returning to Washington in September or any time for that matter.


73 posted on 08/11/2017 3:21:50 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: ilgipper
Johnny “More War” McCain surprisingly pushes for more war.

Yep - and then Mr.

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran - Fight fight fight, fight in Afghanistan..."

calls Trump too hawkish on the NORKs.

He's been mentally ill for a long time - can't blame it on the tumor.

74 posted on 08/11/2017 3:43:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: WilliamIII
Please, President Trump, give John McCain a rifle and send him to Afghanistan.

Failing that, give him a copy of the Constitution so he can find out who is the actual Commander-in-Chief of the military.

75 posted on 08/11/2017 3:46:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: WilliamIII

I’m sure it is coincidence that McMaster and McCain are pushing the same “surge” plan.


76 posted on 08/11/2017 3:48:08 AM PDT by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

North Korea acts up as a lure to protect Iran and once did the same for Saddam’s Iraq, as did the Palestinians. It’s been like that since the 1980s- a theatrical presentation, in a similar way to the dramatic broken wing act a mother Killdeer uses to draw predators away from her chicks. If it looks like the US and Israel are going to get tough on Iran, it’s a given that the Norks will act up, in order to draw resources away from their ally.

Used to be, N Korea was always joined by one of the West African dictatorships, too, which always resulted in us having to assign a ship or ships to evacuate American tourists and diplomats.


77 posted on 08/11/2017 4:22:18 AM PDT by piasa
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To: WilliamIII

McCain hasn’t had a real thought in decades


78 posted on 08/11/2017 4:38:24 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: WilliamIII

Oh, I’m sorry, Senator McCain, I’ve been under the impression that DONALD TRUMP is Commander-In-Chief. You, OTOH, are a brain-damaged loser traitor who needs to leave this world with a wimper. Please... just STFU and disappear. You continue to do your best to take down the USA.


79 posted on 08/11/2017 4:44:40 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: WilliamIII

Given McCain’s history of failures, if he said turn “this way” I’d turn the other way.


80 posted on 08/11/2017 6:32:41 AM PDT by Wuli
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