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Sat Aug 31, 2013, 08:18 AM Aug 2013

mccain whines on tonight show, wants more, more, more war. [View all]




Senator John McCain (R-AZ) criticized President Barack Obama’s plans for limited air strikes on Syria as “cosmetic” Friday, saying the failure of the United States to intervene in the country’s civil war was “shameful.”

In an interview with The Tonight Show host Jay Leno, the veteran and former presidential hopeful repeated his call for Washington to arm Syria’s rebel Free Syrian Army in its fight against the regime of President Bashar Assad.

Asked by Leno what we he would do if here were president, McCain said: “I’d crater the runways, the six air fields that Bashar Assad uses. I’d prevent him from using his air power. I would get the weapons to the people who are fighting and dying as we speak, and I would probably get a safe zone… you could do that in one day and you would not put a single American in any danger because you could do it with standoff weapons.”


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/31/20269189-mccain-faults-obama-over-syria-says-us-failure-to-intervene-shameful?lite
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