John McCain: Let’s Increase Military Support to Libyan Rebels & Train Them to Oust Gadhafi
- Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:04pm by
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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain called for increased military support for Libya’s rebels Friday, including weapons, training and stepped-up airstrikes, in a full-throated endorsement of the opposition in its fight to oust Moammar Gadhafi.
In the Libyan capital, meanwhile, a senior official said government troops would step back and allow local armed tribesmen to deal with rebels in the besieged city of Misrata.
The action came a day after the U.S. began flying armed drones to bolster NATO airstrikes, and having the tribesmen take up the fight could make it harder for the Predators to distinguish them from Misrata’s civilians or the rebels.
McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the United States and other nations should recognize the opposition’s political leadership as the “legitimate voice of the Libyan people.” The White House disagreed, saying it was for the Libyan people to decide who their leaders are.
McCain also called the rebels “patriots” with no links to al-Qaida, in contrast to what some critics have suggested, and added they should receive Gadhafi assets that were frozen by other countries.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said in Iraq that although the timing was hard to predict, the eventual ouster of Gadhafi and his family from power “is certain.”
Rebels in the western city of Misrata raised their tricolor flag atop an eight-story building in celebration after driving pro-government snipers out of the structure Thursday. The battle-scarred building commands a strategic view of the central part of Libya’s third-largest city and the key main thoroughfare of Tripoli Street. The snipers had terrorized residents and pinned down rebel fighters.
As a result, the number of civilian casualties dropped dramatically Friday for the first time in several weeks, said one rebel who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared retaliation.
“Spirits are high but the military situation is still unknown,” he said. “The rebels easily entered yesterday, so it was clear that the Gadhafi forces quickly withdrew.”
Although there was less fear about snipers, fighting was still taking place near Misrata’s central hospital and the vegetable market, a rebel said.
In Tripoli, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said tribal leaders had given the army an ultimatum, saying it must step aside if it cannot retake control of Misrata, which has been besieged by Gadhafi’s forces for two months.
The tribal leaders would fight the rebels if they don’t surrender, Kaim said late Friday night.
Asked if that meant troops would get out of the way, he said: “This is how I imagine it would happen.” However, he said negotiations between the military and tribal leaders are continuing.
Kaim did not say when the military would pull back from Misrata or when the armed tribesmen would move in. “We will leave it for the tribes around Misrata and the Misrata people to deal with the situation in Misrata,” Kaim told reporters.
Hundreds of people have been killed in clashes between rebels and government forces in the city of 300,000. The international community has accused Libyan forces of firing indiscriminately at civilian areas with tanks, rockets and mortars.
NATO’s air campaign has been largely unable to strike at the government forces because of their proximity to civilians, and the rebels have complained that NATO’s strikes have not done enough. McCain also has been critical of the U.S. decision to turn over control of the operation to the military alliance.
On Thursday, the U.S. began flying armed drones that are “uniquely suited for urban areas,” said U.S. Marine Gen. James Cartwright. The drones can fly lower and counter the pro-Gadhafi forces’ tactic of traveling in civilian vehicles that are difficult to distinguish from those of rebel forces. Thursday’s first mission, however, was forced to turn back due to poor weather without firing any of its Hellfire missiles, Cartwright said.
Kaim denounced the U.S. move as a “dirty game.”
“This will be another crime against humanity committed by the American administration, and I feel really very sad for President Obama to be involved in such things,” he said.
At a news conference in the rebels’ stronghold of Benghazi ini eastern Libya, McCain said he did not believe that the United States should send in ground troops, but it should be much more involved in the air campaign and “facilitate” the arming and training of the rebels – much as it armed the mujahedeen who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
“We need to urgently step up the NATO air campaign to protect Libyan civilians, especially in Misrata,” he said. “We desperately need more close air support and strike assets.”
McCain applauded the Obama administration’s decision to use the drones “so we can better identify Gadhafi’s forces as they seek to conceal themselves in civilian areas.”
McCain urged the use of combat aircraft more suited for engaging targets in urban areas, such as A-10 Thunderbolts, which are anti-tank planes, and AC-130 gunships, outfitted with heavy weaponry, including cannons, rockets and machine guns. Earlier this month, Army Gen. Carter Ham told McCain‘s Senate committee that recent bad weather and threats from Gadhafi’s mobile surface-to-air missile systems hampered efforts to use those aircraft to support friendly ground troops.
All nations should recognize the opposition’s Transitional National Council as the legitimate voice of the Libyan people, McCain said, and provide it with “every appropriate means of assistance,“ including ”command and control support, battlefield intelligence, training and weapons.”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the administration disagreed with McCain‘s call for recognition of the rebels’ political leadership.
“We think it’s for the people of Libya to decide who the head of their country is, not for the United States to do that,” Carney said aboard Air Force One as President Barack Obama returned to Washington from California.
Carney said U.S. officials had been meeting regularly with opposition leaders, including the national council, and would continue to do so to advise them as they try to prepare for a post-Gadhafi Libya.
McCain is the highest profile U.S. visitor to meet with the rebels. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed in principle to travel to Benghazi, although the date has not been worked out, a top presidential aide said.
The council was encouraged by McCain’s visit, said Fathi Baja, the head of the group’s political committee. The members asked McCain to press for greater U.S. involvement in the NATO campaign.
“The United States started the action strongly. Now people feel that there is some kind of retreat,” he said, expressing a common sentiment in Benghazi. “They want the United States to be the leader again.”
Some in the West have raised the possibility that Islamic militants may be among the rebels, but McCain said he did not see any evidence of that.
“I have met these brave fighters and they are not al-Qaida,” he said. “To the contrary, they are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation.
“They are my heroes,” he said.
However, McCain cautioned that the situation could change if there is a deadlock on the battlefield.
“I do worry that if there is a stalemate here, that it could open the door to radical Islamic fundamentalism because of the frustration that thousands and thousands of young people would feel as they are deprived from participating in democracy in the united Libya.”
Kaim, the Libyan government spokesman, said McCain’s visit was another sign that the West is “siding with the rebels,” instead of sticking to the U.N. mandate of protecting Libyan civilians.
At a news conference in Baghdad, Mullen told reporters that the battle between the rebels and government forces in Libya “has become a much more difficult fight.”
“I have observed in recent days essentially it is very much stalemate-like in the vicinity of Ajdabiya and Brega” – cities in eastern Libya, which is largely controlled by the rebels. Gadhafi’s forces control most of western Libya.
He said it was not surprising that “the regime forces have changed their tactics,” Mullen said.
“The exact outcome of when something is going to happen is very difficult to predict. But I think the eventual outcome is certain,” Mullen said, referring to the ouster of Gadhafi and his family.
Also Friday, a fourth ship chartered by the International Organization for Migration is leaving Benghazi to evacuate stranded migrant workers and wounded civilians from Misrata.
The latest voyage, which will also bring 160 tons of food, medical supplies, tents and mattresses to residents trapped in the city by the fighting, follows three earlier evacuations of more than 3,100 people from Misrata on another IOM-chartered vessel, the Ionian Spirit.
In western Libya, rebels consolidated control over the Dhuheiba border crossing they seized a day earlier, following several days of intense fighting with government troops. Libyan government officials had claimed Thursday that government troops had retaken the crossing.
However, several tricolor rebel flags fluttered from the crossing Friday, and rebel weapons, including machine guns, were seen in the area. Thousands of Libyans had fled to Tunisia during the fighting, but many were making their way back home Friday.
The takeover of the crossing opened an important supply line for the rebels to their stronghold in Libya’s western Nafusa mountain area, near the border with Tunisia.
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Comments (227)
KL
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:52pmWe should NOT be in Libya or Afghanistan, or Iraq. James, we need AMERICANS to get educated on the candidates ( not just relying on the tea party). Unfortunately they are not, that is why McCain AND Reid AND Rangel and a whole host of others that should NOT be in office, keep getting reelected.
Report Post »dscon
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:49pmmcain is a progressive dueffus!
Report Post »arm the muslim brotherhood?
scr_north
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:49pmWhat an idiot McCain is. This is a civil war and the west has no reason to be in it. Before the west jumped in the speculation was that it was al quaida or a group like the muslim brotherhood that was froming the oposition and those are the ones that Quadaffy was putting down. Whether true or not, we have no business in there. I suspect that this pot was stirred by the French and the Brits who have large oil interests there and figured they could prevent any damage to the facilities.
Report Post »ilovetheusa1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:47pmcan these lame brain has-beens ever shut up and leave other countries alone. the poeple can solve their own problem, just like the PEOPLE will solve ours. McCain is like, a real buttwipe, like, you know what I mean.
Report Post »cruzinbill
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:47pmJohn McCain is a war munger,siding with the enemy is not the way to go.Thanks to the progressives in Washington were involved in another war.This is worst than George Bush going to war for no reason.
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:41pmRINO McCain!
Report Post »James83940
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:40pmHow about NO! How about you stop being a RINO John. How about we save money and end this unjust war/“humanitarian mission”/whatever liberal term they’re calling it today. We are NOT there for American interests either. Man I wish Arizonans hadn’t voted this scumbucket back into office! What were they thinking. Not enough tea party folks in AZ to vote out the corrupt establishment?
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:40pmIsn’t it amazing how John McCain can visit with the rebels and tell if they have AlQuada in their ranks. He should work for TSA and they could do away with the pat downs.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:56pmGood one.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:34pmWhile we are at it lets give them some nuclear war heads and ballistic missiles too!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:25pmI am for suicide vest………..
Report Post »TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:31pmFor decades rino traitor AMNESTY-JOHN has supported America-based terrorists and extremists who hate America and want to destroy it (i.e., the lunatic-left d-crat socialists). So it’s a natural step for AMNESTY-JOHN to do the same with the non-America-based terrorists and extremists who hate America and want to destroy it (i.e., the anti-gadhafi rebels: al qaeda, radical Islamic muslims, America-hating Jihadis, mercenaries working for ahmadinejad and The Muslim Brotherhood/hamas.)
AMNESTY-JOHN is consistent (consistently wrong, that is).
Report Post »RockinChuck
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:31pmyes i agree MCcain is not spot on this issue
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:23pmwhen was he???????
Report Post »TEXTHEDOG
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:21pmIt is obvious that the radicals are taking over egypt. Now we want to do the same thing in libya? When we we ever wake up?!
Report Post »aintthispeachy
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:20pmWhat an idiot.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:30pmi wish AZ had voted him out,,,
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:18pmAgree. Arizona could have voted him out and served all of America.
We could have had another Tea Party Senator…
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:18pmLike I’ll believe a progressive-lite hack job like you? Hah!
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:14pmWe need to get out of the middle east. Let them slaughter each other, and then we should go in and take the oil. Its is rightfully ours anyway. It was there for thousands of years and it took our technology and knowhow to get it out of the ground. It is the same as the gas company that pays royalties to land owners for the gas on their property. The gas company comes in drills the wells, takes the gas and give the landowner a small royalty for the gas. The oil in the middle east is ours, we should take it.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
Impeach-BO
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:14pmYup, and then these same weapons will be killing American soliders in another future war. I say NO weapons to any of these thugs!!
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:13pmThat sounds like a great idea…lets arm and train terrorists…again. IDIOT!
Report Post »mndjohnson
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:13pmBetter yet McCain why don’t you volunteer to retire. Bring our military men and women home as I fear for the safety under politicians like you, Obama, Nancy, Reid, Barney, Emanuel, Sustein, Holder. Treasonous, Treasonous, Treasonous and an affront to all America, Americans who love her, who love freedom, traditions, values, OUR FAITH of which you have no longer any earthly clue what that means. We are not STupid other than the fact we voted in all the above anti Americans. Get out of our lives. We are smart enough to know corruption is thy name. We are sickened by all your antics and the total disregard of the American people. You all are FIRED!!!!
Report Post »high school drop out
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:13pmGreat idea! Give people we dont know weapons…..No way it could go badly….
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:21pmIt never has in the past…..gee…let’s do it!!!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:25pmWhy not, huh? We gave support and arms to Bin Laden to fight the Soviets. We did it in Iraq, we did it all over the mid-east to get them to fight each other for various polical gains (that would be with U.S. taxpayer dollars!!) Still doing it. I don’t know if the U.S. gov’t officials will ever stop doing that, no matter how hard the U.S. citizens scream or complain.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:41pmWe have REALLY got to come up with more stringent criteria for picking friends. And even then, we need more stringent criteria for determining if we should arm them.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:43pmlet’s do it that way we can fok up big time again
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:12pmNo!!
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:12pmJohnny “Progressive” McLame: “Let me do the Zbigniew Bzezinkski two-step and train and arm Al Qaeda the way he did the Taliban!
Tally Ho!
Report Post »AllAmericanG
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:29pmExactly!
Report Post »Tomr
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 9:04amI never thought I could agree with you on any issue….but guess what????
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:11pmMccain, a useful idiot. I sure hope not
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:10pmI really wish John McLame would just go away already. The man who brought us the Obama presidency should shut-up already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRU63qCJkw We still have no idea “who” the rebels really are.
Report Post »ZzzzzYKKKKZZzzzzz
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:36pmI also blame Mc. Cain for Obama.
He did a rotten thing for his country.
I still think he must have been brainwashed by the commies.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:02pmMcCain needs to RETIRE!!!! We should NOT even be in Libya!!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:08pmNO, NO, NO. No more wars until we finish the ones on our plate.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:13pmI’ve had enough of Federal Reserve-funded war-omelette.
I’m ready to vomit.
Report Post »ZzzzzYKKKKZZzzzzz
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:18pmObama started this. He thinks he is the world leader.
Mr. TelePrompTer and the UN started this.
Report Post »Let them go to war and get their legs BLOWEN OFF.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:23pmThe secret is to offset the taste with something else, like an energy crisis, stockmarket crash, high unemployment and a little corruption. Then the public can gorge themselves and not puke all over the new carpet in the oval office. At least that is what the professional eaters say.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:26pm@Sinista MACE
Report Post »Hey, I think I took a smarmy shot at you months ago, I was out of line, so I do want to appologize.
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:28pmLets not and say we did and bring all of the troops in the ME home NOW!! Funny this pres complains about Iraq yet accelerated operations in Afghanistan crossing over into Pakistan and now has us on edge in Libya and we have the proggie egging him on!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:43pm@Darmok:
I am against any war that we could avoid, any kind of military engagment that can be avoided at all costs except the defense of our nation and her allies (such as Obama has left); and if there turned out to be a legitimate need for warfare, smash the enemy as completely and absolutly as needed and leave them as an example for the world to understand the lesson:
Leave the dragon of America to sleep, awaken us at the risk of our wrath directed completely at you to the end of your existence.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:00pm@Sinista Mace ~
Report Post »I’ve taken a smarmy shot or two at you, also. You corrected my spelling, and I didn’t even thank you!
I apologize for being ugly, but I thank you for being there for me to vent my anger — not at you, but at Obama.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:08pm@Showtime
Report Post »I am just reflecting and trying to be a little more kinder to people. Sometimes, on line, we all take shots at other on this site, at the end of the day, we all must realize its not personal. Except for Encinom, I think we all mean it when it comes to she/he/it.
BetterDays
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:32pm@Showtime. & @ Tangara
Report Post »yep I get bent too, especially when it’s blatant vulgarity ment to enrage. BTW @DAWGofGAWD is still on my list as well as @ENCINOM, I forgive them, but I will hunt them whenever I see them.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:59pm@BetterDays
Report Post »There are times we must release the Dogs of War, in your case, good hunting.
TruthTalker
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:08pmNot interested in throwing away more money on the hoodlums.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:12pmNo, why don’t we just save the money, launch about 5 cruise missiles and take out Colonel Q. If you want him gone then take him out. End of story.
http://www.usgoldcoinauctions.com/gold-coin-blog/
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:24pmAgreed, let us just stay out of it, we have messed up enough with libya and our POTUS mishandling of the matter, just as Clinton did in Somalia, Bush in Iraq, and Carter in Iran.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:24pmawesome… Just effin awesome…
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:26pmJust think…If the Viet Cong did just a little more torture…we probably wouldn’t have Obongo today.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:26pmno more neo-con wars and intervention for the military industrial complex and big banking, the people have had enough of this nonsense and the one party system that supports it, we need to take care of business at home and get our own affairs in order…
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:26pmHow much does one nuke cost?
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:27pmBeck was right: We never would have seen this Progressive, McCain, coming.
The war in Libya is unConstitutional. Libya was not a direct threat to us, and Congress didn’t approve.
Report Post »bluegoldnationdotcom
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:31pmHey Senator have you seen the video footage of these “patriots” torturing and then beheading surrendered soldiers? We have no business in Libya. Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also an enemy.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:44pmYea John, lets jump in bed with the Muslim thugs. What a Moron. The best thing to do is drop a pork filled nuke on the outskirts, then say the next one falls on Mecca if you dont behave like good little Muslims…I believe they will all shut up then.
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:45pmMcCain is an idiot!!! Anyone wanting to be in Libya is an idiot!!
John McCain says lets send in troops to Libya. Let’s send in troops everywhere!!!!
America wake up!!! The US is about to collapse and we have a mummified old man McCain in Libya wanting war! How dumb are we…
If you want to solve the problem in Libya, drop a nuke on Tripoli and it will be a done deal…. Otherwise get the hell out of Libya and fix our country….
It is absolutely sad we Americans allow this to happen….And just think this idiot McCain was the Republican candidate in 08 and got elected AGAIN in Arizona….We are that stupid!!!!
Report Post »take it back
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:45pmI do not believe any thing John “Rino” McCain suggests. John, just shut up and go away.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:46pmMr. McCain, I appreciate your service to our country, but I have one tiny little nagging question about it I really must ask. How did you survive years in the Hanoi Hilton, while other honorable men died by torture? Many believe you committed treason sir, that rather than die honorably you sold out our nations military and secrets, is this true sir? If not sir, why did you get hospital treatment from an know ruthless enemy, for over a year the Vietcong treated your wounds instead of giving them to you, all the while your fellow prisoners died under retched conditions and brutal daily tortures.
Report Post »And now, you’re a RINO, and a CFR member, I propose you have forever been a sell out, from the moment you first breathed. You sir are why your friend and fellow CFR member Obama rapes our nation. And sir because of you, I will forever distrust an otherwise smart gal named Sarah.
silentwatcher
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:47pmYea,,,,and having the Karzai placed into Afghanistan was a really smart thing to do, too, right? Yea. They’ve already got a replacement for a new Libyan leader waiting. I‘m sure he will be ’just as effective’ in Libya as the Karzai is in Afghanistan.
We’re in for a sh*tstorm.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:54pmWhy are we aiding “the rebels,” when it’s the rebels who want to kill us?
Report Post »thinkinghuman
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:55pmWhy is McCain so interested in keeping this WAR MACHINE going? That’s what its all about with that CFR guy, entangling us with other nations needlessly.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:04pmI’m with Trump on let the Arab League pay for this one.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:26pmLet the bastards fight their own civil war.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:26pmI was aginst the fence till I it came time for re=election!! Now I’m for the the guys on the other side of the fence again. Keep your war hero ass?? out of this.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:50pmGo away little Johnny … just go away … Stop providing COVER for Obama!
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:06pmWhy do we always feel we have to get involved in other countries problems. Worse yet, we get clowns like McCain who insists we have to arm and train these idiots to fight each other when we all know later down the road they will use this training and weapons against us. Look how great the training and weapons we sent to Mexico is working out for us and them. We need to pull all our troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, Germany, and all the other countries we keep “protecting” and concentrate on protecting our own borders and country. But McCain, you can stay there as an adviser and maybe they will elect you as president for them.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:10pmLet them alone. They are best at solving their own problems,
Report Post »using the methods of the scimitar taught in Madrasa schools.
Marylou7
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:48pmJohn McCain needs to retire and take his daughter with him back to Arizona. Better yet they can move to Mexico or Libya.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:07amNo links to Al Qaeda? How about links to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:54amMore proof the last election was rigged. McCain or Obama – makes no difference. They’re both nuts. McCain must have alzheimers if he STILL thinks “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” We SHOULD have all learned how STUPID that logic is a LONG time ago. *facepalm*
https://www.shelfreliance.com/miksko
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:05amGo away McCain, your a rino
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:46amamerican1st
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:26pm
no more neo-con wars and intervention for the military industrial complex and big banking, the people have had enough of this nonsense and the one party system
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Let me guess, you are a committed Marxist right?
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:48amI don’t care what McCain has to say because of one of my very own self-imposed rules… If Senator John McCain is FOR something, I am then automatically AGAINST it. (this goes double for his daughter)
Take the “best choice for POTUS” Poll…
Report Post »http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com
Marylou7
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 6:20amDave thanks for posting that link, love it.
Report Post »79USMC83
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 6:41amLets see former War hero goes to a war zone, is on the arms control committee. ????? The “Speech Giver” denounces the visit because McCain and the Repubs are the enemy LMAO!!! Says the Libyan people need to decide, but we are stepping up OUR attacks with drones on Muammar Gaddafi LOL!! So we have NOT picked sides but Muammar Gaddafi has to GO !!! LMAO!! Oh and we are NOT at War !! But are still bombing people!!!
Report Post »The whole time Reid “The Communist” is visting China a communsit country. ?????? Wow I wonder what THEY talked about. The “NOT” War in Libya or maybe the Deficit and Debt WE DO NOT HAVE !!! Hum I wonder if the Chinese Summoned one of our leaders for an ASS CHEWING ??????
The whole time “The Speech Giver” is giving speeches about the EVIL rich man while collecting MONEY from the EVIL rich men in Hollywood who pay more than most of the Middle Class make in a year to attend a crappy dinner to have someone that HATES them get re-elected LMAO!!!
I am starting to be FOR Class-Warfare!! Maybe it is time for someone that is POOR to be President the next FOUR years !!!!!! someone lets say served as an NCO, in the military, That has been to NCO leadership school,commanded a squad in Combat. Maybe a Laborer that knows how to budget their money so they have just enough to pay for gas to get them to work till the next paycheck !!! Someone that has been layed off and has NOT applied for benifits but took the next lower paying job they could find!!!!
I do not know about Ya’ll but I feel that WE THE PEOPLE should NOT elect anyone that has served TWO terms!!!!! Fire them ALL !!!!!! The Military will keep us safe. That is the only JOB of the freaking “Goverment Stupid” anyways if you read that somple document called the Constitution !!! God Help and God Bless America. It has become an Oligarchy and is being run By Traitors!!!!!!!!
gotta light
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:24amI don‘t think McCain’s intentions are bad I just think he’s easily misguided & manipulated, i.e., campaign reform and his TARP vote. Perhaps it’s time for John to go home to AZ, retire, and enjoy his golden years. John McCain is a progressive! And progressives suck!
hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:29amPS-
Report Post »John, before you retire…..
Could you please, pretty please, get Meghan McCain out of the public eye and do whatever you do to worthless spoiled brats do don’t live in the real world!
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Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:33amMcCain supports arming the “rebels” same people our troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. What a tool or should I say trader of his own country a UN appointed Soros funded employee.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:58amanother useful fool…
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 9:02amlets train them to pump oil and manufacture gasoline.
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 9:03amIt’s time for McCain to fade into the jungles of Vietnam
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 9:09amMcCain…….Die allready…you are a self centered Idiot…..America should stand back and let them thin them selves out. They are like animals we should let the wipe them selves out if they can get into the 21 st century
Report Post »Jeffrey777
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:09amAgree, these people need to kill each other and make it easier on us.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:43amIthink the best thing McCain can do for this country right now is a second tour as a POW. This time in Libya. f
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:48amSo John McCain is a Neo-Con War Monger? Is that why his campaign receives over 20 million for every election? hmmm You go John.. Foment that War buddy.. War Now War here War there War everywhere while ole John, Pawlenty and their conspiratores get richer and richer and the American people get broker and broker and more hated across the globe.
Funny how you don’t see China Russia and Iran trying to stick their noses into every unstable country on the Planet. I just wonder what McCain’s opinion would be if China decided to all of suddenly back the Rebels in Lybia or maybe the rebels in Egypt or Syria? lol Oh my goodness I’m so tired of all this disengenious BS from these phony fraudsters in our Senate, Congress, and White House!!!
Report Post »Work hard for the Tea Party and the US Constitution and watch how the Media ridicules and marginalizes both on a daily basis.
techengineer11
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:53amA Doctors Labor Is Not My Right: I’ve been saying that the past two years myself.. I don‘t recall if I got it from Beck or not but he’s absolutely right on point..
It pleases me greatly to see about 90% outright rejection of John McCain and his little Commie daughter on this board! But for the elite John is a acceptable alternative to Obama.. therefore it would not surprise me in the least to see John try to get into the Presidential race again. The will provide the money for him.
Report Post »Tomr
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 4:42pmMcCain has set the conservative movement back for decades. It never ceases to amaze me that McCain was the best that the Republicans could serve up for POTUS candidate. I hope we do better in the next round….God bless America.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:34pm….
Report Post »“McCain also called the rebels “patriots” with no links to al-Qaida,”
How long has he been there? Two days?
Obama has done more for the republican party than McCain did in 30 years.
@ Coyote2
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 8:09pmGet rid of the israeli terrorists and the world would know peace at last. Those agitating nation against nation would finally be gone.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 8:21pmsooo how many republicans are glad they voted for a progressive-lite in 2008. Maybe we should start looking at what principles people stand for. Instead of “likability”.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 8:32amAnd once again John McCain shows why he would have been a bad or maybe even worse President than Obama. We need to with draw our troops from these quagmires in the middle east and use them as they were intended to protect our nation not shoulder some rebel’s war.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 8:55amI have now reached the point of “bring them all home”. I don’t like our troops sitting on a powder keg. Just bring them all home from everywhere. Japan, Germany, Korea, et al. Defend our boarders, and cut spending. Time to let someone else be the police of the world.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 9:24am…….
Report Post »John:
I’ve got a great idea!
Sell your Sedona mansion and stay in Libya with your new “patriot” friends.
That would do a lot of good…………..for America.