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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; johnmccain; kimjongun; mccain; northkorea; songbird; southkorea; strawberries; trump; weekendatbernies
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To: Trump20162020
Which Senior Aide is posting this crap ?
Juan isn't.
Does Cindy think this aides stupid remarks help her now
21 posted on 06/14/2018 2:42:29 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever)
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To: Trump20162020

Shit Stain McCain, just die already.


22 posted on 06/14/2018 2:43:20 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: Trump20162020

Wow, people in AZ must be really disturbed about cutting back on war games. Or maybe they’ve never even heard of such games. Their voting choices make one wonder.


23 posted on 06/14/2018 2:43:32 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Trump20162020

Says the idiot who thinks that illegal aliens get $45 dph for picking lettuce.
The idiot who made most of his money by marrying a beer heiress.
The treasonous fool who negotiated the inception of ISIS with terrorists.


24 posted on 06/14/2018 2:45:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Trump20162020

IIRC, the exercises weren’t scheduled until next spring. They could always just be put back on the schedule. And the sanctions haven’t been lifted yet.....so, what did Trump give up???


25 posted on 06/14/2018 2:46:50 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: TigersEye

He’s been in the Senate for about 100 years. That should have been long enough for him to get something done.

President Trump did it very quickly.


26 posted on 06/14/2018 2:48:30 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: conservative98

Sorry but I see Le Resistance too often. The correct wording is La Resistance. The term is French.


27 posted on 06/14/2018 2:49:33 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: shelterguy

He did get a bill signed into law that made it illegal to talk about candidates for office in the weeks before elections.

SCOTUS stripped that un-American BS from the law later ... so no achievement there.


28 posted on 06/14/2018 2:51:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Trump20162020

Tell us how you negotiated with your North Vietnamese captors Juan.


29 posted on 06/14/2018 2:52:04 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Thanks. That’s the way Team Mueller writes it.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/14/mueller-lawyer-resisted-trump/


30 posted on 06/14/2018 2:52:39 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Trump20162020

military exercises can be started up again at the snap of a finger ,you dope


31 posted on 06/14/2018 2:53:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Trump20162020

32 posted on 06/14/2018 2:54:55 PM PDT by JPG (MAGA)
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To: Trump20162020

RIP....soon please.


33 posted on 06/14/2018 2:56:20 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

...or do the other “thing” soon.


34 posted on 06/14/2018 2:58:01 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Trump20162020

He’s never known a war he didn’t like. He must love African tribal warfare.


35 posted on 06/14/2018 2:58:48 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Trump20162020

One day, McCain will be silent. That will be a better day for America.


36 posted on 06/14/2018 2:58:53 PM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: Trump20162020

South Korea has enough military power to destroy North Korea 3 times over. All we need is one boomer in the general neighborhood.


37 posted on 06/14/2018 2:59:31 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: Trump20162020

the way I heard President Trump, he said that next year’s big joint exercise is suspended, not all exercises by US/ROK Army forces.


38 posted on 06/14/2018 3:00:11 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Trump20162020

the way I heard President Trump, he said that next year’s big joint exercise is suspended, not all exercises by US/ROK Army forces.


39 posted on 06/14/2018 3:00:11 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: wastedyears

McCain... An American Ace as he destroyed 5 American planes!!!!


40 posted on 06/14/2018 3:00:50 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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