Johnny McCain: "I Would Be Launching Airstrikes Not Only In Iraq, But In Syria Against ISIS."

[Segami]

I'm sure you would Johnny!
Thats why you ain't the president simply because you love blowing sh*t up WAY TOO MUCH!!........





Today on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, spoke to Crowley about US airstrikes in Iraq, ISIS’ threat to national security, and Obama’s leadership and strategy in the Middle East.

“While the president has continued to say this is an Iraqi problem, this is an Iraqi problem, but it's a United States problem and it is a threat to our national security.” Senator John McCain

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McCain on President Obama’s strategy in Iraq: “The president made it clear that this was to avert the humanitarian crisis that they were taking these actions and to protect American military personnel that are in Irbil and Baghdad. That's not a strategy. That's not a policy. That is simply a very narrow and focused approach to a problem which is metastasizing as we speak. Candy, there was a guy a month ago that was in Syria, went back to the United States, came back and blew himself up. We're tracking 100 Americans who are over there now fighting for ISIS. ISIS is attracting extreme elements from all over the world, much less the Arab world. And what have we done?”


McCain on the withdrawal of troops in Iraq: “the consequences of our failure to leave a residual force and our announcement that we are leaving the area in a vacuum of leadership, especially in that part of the world, we are paying a price for it.”


McCain on what he would do in the Middle East: “I would be rushing equipment to Irbil. I would be launching airstrikes not only in Iraq, but in Syria against ISIS. They have erased the boundaries between Iraq and Syria. I would be providing as much training and equipment as I can to - as I said, to the Kurds, and I would do a lot of things that we can not have to wait for Maliki to leave there. And I would be giving assistance to the Syrian - the Free Syrian Army, which is on the ropes right now because we failed to help them. And this all goes back to a number of steps the president took, including a failure to leave a residual force in Iraq.”






full transcript:


http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/10/senator-john-mccain-on-state-of-the-union-with-candy-crowley-i-would-be-launching-airstrikes-not-only-in-iraq-but-in-syria-against-isis/


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[RandySF]

1. Make up your mind, McCain

You first wanted us to blow up the Syrian government on behalf of ISIS.

[madokie]

3. I'm not sure he has a mind to make up anymore

not sure he had any to begin with actually

[Warpy]

35. The thought of making infrastructure go boom

is the only thing that still excites Johnny. Johnny likes big booms.

I wish the voters of AZ would catch a fucking clue and toss him out. Unfortunately, he's kept in office by all the retired peacetime military types there.

[sabrina 1]

16. Lol, that is exactly what I was thinking. Wasn't he FOR supporting Isis in Syria AND

Libya? He's a bit mixed up. But you can't blame him, everyone is. First we want to 'arm the Syrian rebels/extremists, now they just appeared out of nowhere, we are told, and he apparently hasn't been watching over the past few years and believes that, and are the very worst enemies the US ever had.

He also liked the neo-nazis in Ukraine, probably didn't realize he was posing with them either for a photo op.

Someone, I think it was Dionne, said: There is nothing so dangerous as stupidity in action

[TwilightGardener]

2. Why would we help Assad and Russia and Iran?

The smarter strategy would be to drive ISIS back into Syria and let Assad and Putin go broke and lose troops and $$$ dealing with them, while Iraq hopefully gets its shit together politically and militarily.

[sabrina 1]

22. We supported them in Libya and in Syria, armed them and funded them. Now we are told

they are a huge threat to our National Security. Libya has become a failed state, and why again are we trying to topple yet another government in a foreign country where apparently the majority of the people support it?

How about this for an idea. Why don't we come home and stay out of everyone else's business unless they invade this country? If someone did that now, we wouldn't have enough troops and equipment here to defend ourselves. Remember Katrina? The National Guard was elsewhere 'protecting democracy' while people died in NO.

We are behaving like an Empire. This is what Empires do. Why do we want to be an Empire when we were founded on the basis that Imperialism was bad? And it is, ask the victims of Imperialism, see Africa, the ME, and up to recently S. America. All the problems we see in this places was CAUSED by Imperialism.

We can't solve these problems, certainly not with more of what caused them in the first place. Which leads to the question: What ARE we trying to do, because surely no one is stupid enough to think continually killing people is end terrorism?

[TwilightGardener]

26. Specifically, we did not support ISIS nor want to empower them.

Any support we did give them was inadvertent. But our very inability to identify and control these rebel groups effectively (especially given that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, etc. were doing their own sponsorship thing with weapons and money) meant we should have left Syria totally alone in its civil war.

[sabrina 1]

28. Yes we were supporting them, and we knew it. Just as we supported Al Queda in Libya and we knew it.

The stupid thinking is 'get it done by whatever means, then we can deal with the undesirables later'. The enemy of our enemy is TEMPORARILY our friend, until we get what we want. But it never happens that way, does it? Look at Libya, and Afghanistan and everywhere else where these foolish tactics are employed.

It was the reason the UK finally backed away from arming 'rebels'. I guess their long history of Imperialism gives them a bit more perspective on these things, not much, but at least with Syria, as one member of Parliament said 'We are arming people who, if they lived HERE, would be under constant surveillance'.

But those of us who see these things, saw them back in 2003 and since then, get tired of saying 'we told you so', now with Libya also. Because by the time we get to say that, so many have tragically died, been tortured, had their countries destroyed etc.

The solution is to put those who DO see clearly from the beginning, in Power for a change and then maybe we will see some progress over the next century or so.

[TwilightGardener]

30. Much of what you're asserting here simply isn't true--UNLESS you

have non-RT, non-blog links to prove it. As far as Libya goes, I have no idea what went on there, I think a lot of it hasn't come out yet. BTW, Britain came up with a plan to arm 100,000 rebels in Syria and presented it to Petraeus, it was scrapped as too ambitious. That was per the Guardian.

[sabrina 1]

32. Try the British Parliament. The Brits have changed their minds no doubt after seeing

evidence of WHO they were supporting.

[TwilightGardener]

33. If you're talking about the airstrikes, that wasn't about supporting

rebel groups per se, that was about punishment for chem weapon use. Arming and supporting rebels was a different (thorny) issue.

[muntrv]

4. Bush's invasion of Iraq left the vaccuum of leadership.

[Dirty Socialist]

7. Correctomundo

Good observation.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. You're a rich man grampy

I'm sure you can buy an F4, the plane you're familiar with, fly over there and bomb the shit out of them.

[malaise]

6. I would be...doesn't he have to win a fucking election

before he would be the fugging President?

[Segami]

10. McLame still can't accept....

losing the presidency to a black man!

John McCain....The Hero that LOST The Presidency To A Black Man........Can't Be!!

[malaise]

20. And apparently neither can the hacks in the media who invite him

on every fugging program week after week

[DisgustipatedinCA]

8. This fuck wanted to ARM ISIS last year.

He posed for pictures with them. He praised them endlessly. Paid news shills may choose to ignore that he's saying EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE SAID ONE YEAR AGO, but fuck them and fuck him. There's no one less qualified to make decisions with respect to the Middle East than John McCain.

PS: I saw the Palin video that's floating near the top of GD today. As such, I don't ever want to hear a word about John McCain's opinion on ANYTHING. he's an incompetent, failed human being.

[Dirty Socialist]

13. (Facepalm)

He really supported ISIs? Do you have a link? McCain is really losing it.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

25. I was wrong. Please see #15 and #24.

I'm sorry for the error.

[sabrina 1]

34. Well, you weren't that far off. He was posing with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine and we went on to support

them also. That was last December.

[TwilightGardener]

15. To be fair, he wanted to arm the "good" rebels (FSA), not ISIS--

the trouble is, neither he nor the CIA could tell them apart.

[KoKo]

23. That's the Truth!

John McCain wants to bomb everyone ....when he isn't posing in pictures with them....

[DisgustipatedinCA]

24. You're right, and I was mistaken.

This article (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/no-mccain-wasnt-posing-wisis-members/) backs up what you've said about FSA. Terrorists, yes. ISIS, no. Thanks for setting me straight.

[benld74]

9. CINDY MCCAIN! You hubby got loose again!!!

[Mnemosyne]

17. Yeah, you'd think she'd have a tracking bracelet on him by now, wouldn't you? nt

[PoutrageFatigue]

11. Wait, wasn't grandpa McCain just recently BFF ' S with ISIS?

...I think it's time for him to retire and yell at the kids to get off his lawn on a full-time basis. ..

[Segami]

21. Yup!

From Right Wing News:

Remember when Sen. John McCain took that tour of Syria with the rebels? This is what he said about it when he came back:

“It was a very moving experience to meet these fighters who have been struggling now for over two years,” McCain said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Wednesday night. “And they’re very aware of the battlefield situation and they’re very disturbed about the dramatic influx of Hezbollah fighters, more Iranians, and of course, stepped-up activities of Bashar Assad.”

Here’s one of the photos released to Politico:




Here’s the one ISIS released recently:





ISIS is saying some of the men on that photo fight with them now.
Nice work, Senator.






http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2014/06/22/photos-of-senator-mccain-chillin-with-isis-leaders-in-syria-before-their-rampage-through-iraq/

[KoKo]

29. Recommend! For those who haven't seen these photos..

Someone should get this up on US Media or tweet bomb it. Every time he shows up in a Photo Op.

He was in Ukraine with the NeoNazi RW Svoboda crowd, too. There were photos posted here...but, I can't locate. Someone ought to suggest that he be investigated for "consorting with the enemy" given his past behavior. But, I bet David Gregory never asks those kinds of questions or shows those photos....so most uneducated viewers find him amusing like a "Get off my lawn" kind of character and don't realize how dangerous he really is in promoting propaganda and attacking Democrats.

[NightWatcher]

12. No Johnny, you'd be crashing planes in Iraq and Syria

[Scootaloo]

14. Sore thing John, but you have to fly the sortie

Ten bucks says he gets shot down again. I'd say let the Syrians have him.

[Vinca]

18. But not a dime for American roads and bridges, poor children or health care.

[mfcorey1]

19. This is why I am glad that JOhn Insane is not President during these times of

tension and war in the Middle East and around the world. Psycho!!

[liberal N proud]

27. How many wars would McCain have started?

[KoKo]

31. I think he would have been corralled by the PTB...but, he's so useful

in the role he plays as the "rejected Presidential candidate who won't give up" that he's allowed a lot of airtime to strut and rave his nonsense to the uninformed.

[FSogol]

36. To save time, McCain should just tell us who he doesn't want to bomb.

[Agschmid]

38. .

[Unvanguard]

39. Didn't he want to topple Assad a while ago? Who does he think would have benefitted from that? n/t

[Initech]

40. Thank god that man is not president. We'd be well into WWIII if he was.

[GeorgeGist]

41. Run, John, Run.

I'd love to see you get your sad creepy ass kicked AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN.

[Blue Owl]

42. Some carpet bombing here, a little nuking over there...

My what a utopia the world would be if McGrumps were in charge...