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TwilightGardener

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

Sun Aug 10, 2014, 02:07 PM

Aug 2014

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.

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Johnny McCain: "I Would Be Launching Airstrikes Not Only In Iraq, But In Syria Against ISIS." [View all] Segami Aug 2014 OP

Make up your mind, McCain RandySF Aug 2014 #1

I'm not sure he has a mind to make up anymore madokie Aug 2014 #3

The thought of making infrastructure go boom Warpy Aug 2014 #35

Lol, that is exactly what I was thinking. Wasn't he FOR supporting Isis in Syria AND sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #16

Why would we help Assad and Russia and Iran? TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #2

We supported them in Libya and in Syria, armed them and funded them. Now we are told sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #22

Specifically, we did not support ISIS nor want to empower them. TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #26

Yes we were supporting them, and we knew it. Just as we supported Al Queda in Libya and we knew it. sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #28

Much of what you're asserting here simply isn't true--UNLESS you TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #30

Try the British Parliament. The Brits have changed their minds no doubt after seeing sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #32

If you're talking about the airstrikes, that wasn't about supporting TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #33

Bush's invasion of Iraq left the vaccuum of leadership. muntrv Aug 2014 #4

Correctomundo Dirty Socialist Aug 2014 #7

You're a rich man grampy Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2014 #5

I would be...doesn't he have to win a fucking election malaise Aug 2014 #6

McLame still can't accept.... Segami Aug 2014 #10

And apparently neither can the hacks in the media who invite him malaise Aug 2014 #20

This fuck wanted to ARM ISIS last year. DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2014 #8

(Facepalm) Dirty Socialist Aug 2014 #13

I was wrong. Please see #15 and #24. DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2014 #25

Well, you weren't that far off. He was posing with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine and we went on to support sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #34

To be fair, he wanted to arm the "good" rebels (FSA), not ISIS-- TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #15

That's the Truth! KoKo Aug 2014 #23

You're right, and I was mistaken. DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2014 #24

CINDY MCCAIN! You hubby got loose again!!! benld74 Aug 2014 #9

Yeah, you'd think she'd have a tracking bracelet on him by now, wouldn't you? nt Mnemosyne Aug 2014 #17

Wait, wasn't grandpa McCain just recently BFF ' S with ISIS? PoutrageFatigue Aug 2014 #11

Yup! Segami Aug 2014 #21

Recommend! For those who haven't seen these photos.. KoKo Aug 2014 #29

No Johnny, you'd be crashing planes in Iraq and Syria NightWatcher Aug 2014 #12

Sore thing John, but you have to fly the sortie Scootaloo Aug 2014 #14

But not a dime for American roads and bridges, poor children or health care. Vinca Aug 2014 #18

This is why I am glad that JOhn Insane is not President during these times of mfcorey1 Aug 2014 #19

How many wars would McCain have started? liberal N proud Aug 2014 #27

I think he would have been corralled by the PTB...but, he's so useful KoKo Aug 2014 #31

To save time, McCain should just tell us who he doesn't want to bomb. FSogol Aug 2014 #36

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2014 #37

. Agschmid Aug 2014 #38

Didn't he want to topple Assad a while ago? Who does he think would have benefitted from that? n/t Unvanguard Aug 2014 #39

Thank god that man is not president. We'd be well into WWIII if he was. Initech Aug 2014 #40

Run, John, Run. GeorgeGist Aug 2014 #41

Some carpet bombing here, a little nuking over there... Blue Owl Aug 2014 #42