Senator John McCain Confident of Identifying 'Good Guys' in Syria.
Source: nyt/reuters
U.S. Senator John McCain said on Wednesday, two days after meeting with rebels in Syria, that he is confident the United States can send weapons to fighters in Syria without the risk they will fall into the wrong hands.
"We can identify who these people are. We can help the right people," McCain said on CNN's program "Anderson Cooper 360." . .
Critics of some lawmakers' push to arm the rebels have expressed concerns that weapons could end up in the hands of militants who might eventually end up using them against the United States or its allies.
But McCain said such radical fighters make up only a small part of the rebels forces.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/05/29/us/29reuters-syria-crisis-mccain.html?hp
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)and see who the good guys on the boardwalk are.
He REALLY needs to get off my political reality.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,755 posts)oh yeah John... Send them arms... Thats what we should do...
What a maroon.
asjr
(10,479 posts)She was a swell guy.
We can identify who these people are!
brooklynite
(94,519 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)Hey,
And now I am sure he will be on the Sunday shows once again spewing his idiotic blather. I wish he would just go away.
Peace
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)"bomb bomb bomb...bomb bomb Iran..."
(Syria....Iran....who cares? They're all full o' Arabs....)
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)McCain still thinks the war against Iraq was a good idea. Enough said.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Mr. McCain was asked about a comment he made on a radio program in which he said that he could walk freely through certain areas of Baghdad.
I just came from one, he replied sharply. Things are better and there are encouraging signs.
He added, Never have I been able to go out into the city as I was today.
Told about Mr. McCains assessment of the market, Abu Samer, a kitchenware and clothing wholesaler, scoffed: He is just using this visit for publicity. He is just using it for himself. Theyll just take a photo of him at our market and they will just show it in the United States. He will win in America and we will have nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/world/middleeast/03mccain.html?_r=0
That he did not become president is really one of the best things that ever happened to our country. Can you imagine???
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)in Afghanistan and Iraq. That worked out really great.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)on the old Project for a New American Century documents.
The plan was to block and contain Russian and China, from energy resources, and to control those resources
( gas, oil, pipelines, ports) in the Middle East.
The maps tell all.When in doubt, look at the maps for key ports, key energy sectors and pipelines.
January 27, 2011
Syria eyes pipelines through Iraq
DAMASCUS, Syria, Damascus could invite investors to build oil and natural gas pipelines that would cross Syrian and Iraqi territory, the Syrian oil minister said.
A pipeline connecting Iraq and Syria through Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Mediterranean port of Banias was closed in the 1970s because of political spats between the two countries. Opened again in 2000, the pipeline was shut down in 2003 after it was hit by U.S. airstrikes.
Baghdad wants to build and repair pipelines connected to its neighbors to handle the expected volumes of oil and natural gas under development in Iraq.
Most of Iraq's oil heads through Turkish ports currently and there are plans to upgrade existing export arteries. In terms of Syria, officials said new pipelines have been on the table for years, but there was new momentum building in Baghdad, the Platts news service reports.
http://articlesofinterest-kelley.blogspot.com/2011/01/syria-eyes-pipelines-through-iraq.html
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)McCain probably gets a slice of the goods?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)google Afghansitan oil/gas pipeline.
Lots of pics show up.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)We dodged the bullet in 2008, or this wouldn't be funny now.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)It's no Tunak Tunak Tun, or "Punjabi Thriller" but it's still amazingly entertaining
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)Thinks as there is a war, somehow US ought to be in it? Couldn't POSSIBLY leave it to the rest of the world to try to resolve?
is a rightwing warmonger. He want stop with trying to over throw the Syrian Government, the next will be Iran and then North Korea. The U.S. will continue to fight his Wars as long as this man is given any power. If it was up to him, we would redo Vietnam.
We can give these people weapons but so can Syria's allies give their side more lethal weapons. The opposition are nothing be paid murderers and killers for people like McCain.
I define it as similar to a mafia with many different Bosses. McCain and his Party, does not care about the welfare of Syrians. He doesn't even care about Arabs in his own Country. Just look at this guy King from New York. Look at many of his Republican Party. Look at his votes for Israel, when he has a choice on human Rights abuses and the settler issue within the Gaza Strip. He is the same guy while running for President, went to South Carolina and praised the Confederacy. I would study McCain's votes while he was in congress because he has been there a long time. What was his votes concerning apartheid African and Mandela's group? Did he also consider them Terrorists in support of white supremacy. It will be very easy to out this phony on human rights when it comes to causes.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Oh, wait...
We thought we'd made a brilliant move in giving money to OBL in Afghanistan, look what a great family he came from! His people are in partnerships with the Bushes, he's a safe bet.
I really hope we aren't that stupid a 2nd time around. Don't arm them, we don't know enough about them to take this risk!!!
CitizenPatriot
(3,783 posts)has always been spot on./s
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)"Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones... "
or maybe that was Grandpa Simpson - they seem so similar.
I can't help but wonder if their best move would be to send McCain to their enemies...
Kablooie
(18,632 posts)We gave him weapons to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
Look how well that turned out.
moondust
(19,979 posts)Obama in 2008: "Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."
Politifact: True.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/aug/21/barack-obama/mccains-record-on-iraq-eager-to-attack/
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Besides, I don't see how he can be so sure of himself when he claims "radical fighters make up only a small part of the rebel forces". I would prefer to see any weapons sent (and not that many at that) be given to Turkey with the understands they were to be distributed to Syrian rebel forces. I just don't think it would be wise to be so directly involved as McCain proposes.
merrily
(45,251 posts)If English is his first language and the U.S. is his culture, and Palin had a public record, and he misjudged Palin by that much, just imagine how well he will do discerning which rebels are the "good guys?"
Has he even considered the possibility that none of them might be good guys, just power hungry, sectarian guys?
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)like he did with pooty poot.
Botany
(70,501 posts)Island Deac
(104 posts)he wasn't flying an aircraft that he could crash. He didn't get held in the Syrian Sheraton and made out to be a hero. He was hoping, I guess, for history to repeat itself. Too bad loser.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)in the hands of 'bad guys' is the problem. I doubt McCain has an answer for that.
CrazyOrangeCat
(6,112 posts)Don't understand how a POW could be such a warmonger.
He lurvs the MIC.