McCain Is First Out the Gate to Call for Bombing Syria
- Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:40pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican Presidential nominee, took to the floor of the Senate today and staked out what will prove to be the latest in a series of increasingly hawkish stances he has taken on foreign intervention. Politico reports:
“Providing military assistance to the Free Syrian Army and other opposition groups is necessary, but at this late hour, that alone will not be sufficient to stop the slaughter and save innocent lives. The only realistic way to do so is with foreign airpower,” McCain, a Vietnam war veteran and the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a speech on the Senate floor.
“Therefore, at the request of [opposition forces], the United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in Syria, especially in the north, through airstrikes on Assad’s forces.”
McCain’s call for military action in Syria makes him the first politician in the United States to officially suggest intervening in the war-torn Middle Eastern country. He was also among the first to call for military action in Libya, despite having previously promised to secure military hardware for deposed Libyan Dictator Muammar Qadhafi.
McCain’s stance suggesting United States support for the Syrian rebels is likely to raise some eyebrows, given other allies the Syrian rebel force has picked up over the past few months. As the Blaze itself reported last month, Al Qaeda operatives have joined the Syrian rebel force in protest of the “secular” Assad regime.
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Comments (144)
omgfolks
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:18pmHey Mc Cain just send them Sara Palin, she bombed you out of the race just think what she can do for them.
Report Post »mils
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:21pmif not for palin…the old geek would have lost by many many many more votes than he did…
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:27pm@ Troll
Palin runs circles around RINO McCain.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:35pm.
Report Post »I say we send that Fluke chick over there and tell them she‘s the model for their 72 Virgin’s……
MYHEROISRON
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:47pmYeah, lets bomb Syria, McCain. But first, you have to stop the immigration of muslims into our country and deport those that are already here, then we can bomb Syria. Now, go get yer chew toy and sit in the corner, and you keep yer mounth shut, you brain dead political hack …
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:53pmif we help syria…………………..just like egypt and libia……we are helping the muslim brotherhood………wake up people
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:59pm…it’s time to drop a helmet on his head, slap a pack on his back, and tie a rifle to his hands, and toss his moldy ass right into the center of Syria.
Good riddance McCain!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:01pmlet them kill each other
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:04pmSpeaking of John http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/wikileaks-reveals-democrat-2008-election-crimes/?cat_orig=politics
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:59pmSorry McCain, at one time you were a patriot and served your country, but since you caught the disease of the elitist Progressives, you are now nothing more than a sad, old traitor….
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 6:46amTime to send McTraitor over there.
Report Post »lobster
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:20amSarah is the best thing we had 4 years ago. Why should we contribute to another Arab Spring? This is just more tribal fighting between those followers of a sun god.
Report Post »CLG 4
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:23amThe winds of war are all about us and no one is listening, we a sanctioning a country into a corner (any one remember japan), now this hero is calling for the distruction of yet another country.
Report Post »Longinthetooth
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 11:05amAhhh……….Good ol’ John!
Lackey to Central Bankers and Old guard Neo Cons!!
Hey!, What ever DID happen to “the Keating 5”? (Clue; S&L “Crisis”)
John, John, he’s our friend
he’ll give it ALL away in the end!
Too bad; a Hero who fell to corruption and is now a mouth of the Father of Lies!
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:30pmWho Cares About Syria. John knows how to fly, let him go and bomb them.
The Chinese and Russians have their best SAMs in Syria and also their troops. The Iranians, Russians, and Chinese have Naval forces in Syria. McCain is right, go and bomb Syria. Good Idea John just like your Amnesty Act and you Cyber Invasion of Privacy Act. Has anyone asked McCain if he knows where he is?
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:18pmare we all syrians now?
Report Post »johnbarlycorn
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 12:15amIn the early part of this century I spent a total of two weeks in Munich with little Johnnie at a NATO Security chat fest in two successive years. First, I respect the rank he attained in the Navy and the incredible suffering he endured during his prolonged torture at the hands of the Vietnamese. Second, I believe he is a twisted and irreparably damaged soul with an unquenchable thirst for blood. Think I am overly dramatic; check his positions and voting record. Johnnie, has not seen any international (or domestic – NDAA as an example) issue that could not be fixed by spilling blood; theirs (whomever that might be) and with great regret- our sons and daughters. When you analysis what he says and what positions he takes, none of them have any identifiable connection to a coherent national strategy, and many are a direct threat to our national interests; Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and soon Iran. Every prescription that he offers regardless of how coyly presented is a plan for death. Be aware and beware of Johnnie, he has carrier polits arrogance and the neurosis of a man with size issues.
Report Post »dsind
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:17pmlet them implode on their own.
muslims being muslims.
Report Post »Black Midge
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:16pmSyria is a symptom, Iran is the problem.
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:39pmGood thinking, let’s elect In-Santorum, then him and McCain can bomb the whole damn world
Report Post »Nahash
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:13pmI can’t believe, I voted for this guy.
Report Post »Ella
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:26pmLike myself, no doubt your vote for McCain was simply a vote against Obama.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:48pmI believe that I voted for him, I don’t believe that he should have been nominee. I voted for him out of necessity not choice.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:55pmI voted bush in ‘04 and i said the same thing. Never again will i vote for someone cuz of the letter next to their name
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:07pmI voted for Sarah Palin. Not that I would vote for her again, mind you.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:11pm@NAHASH
Like me you really voted for Sarah … I will always feel good about that.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 9:15pmDon’t feel badly, I voted for Ross Perot and got us Bill Clinton. :(
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:07pmSilencing the critics:
Report Post »http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/02/20/silencing-the-critics/
soybomb315
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:07pmif he endorsed romney – he must be right
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:07pmSimilar bombing raids under identical pretense in Libya killed thousands of civilians, according to human rights groups. NATO claims the targets it hit during the so-called civil war were legitimate military targets. NATO warplanes flew 18,000 sorties during the 7-month campaign, which ended in October.
Report Post »“Civilian targets, for NATO, are legitimate, and these have included one or more hospitals, a clinic, factories, warehouses, agricultural sites, schools, a university, one or more mosques, non-military related infrastructure, a food storage facility, a water-purifying plant and others,” writes Rahnuma Ahmed.
“The ultimate goal of air strikes should be to establish and defend safe havens in Syria, especially in the north, in which opposition forces can organize and plan their political and military activities against Assad,” McCain told his Senate colleagues. from article infowars.
soybomb315
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:57pmbomb another muslim country – what could go wrong!?
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:06pmNo………..you old fool………we want Nothing to do with these animals……….period.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:13pmDitto.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:04pmNo………………time for you to retire dude….we want Nothing to do with those animals, period,let them solve their own problems…we only stand with Israel.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:07pmMcCain is senile. Term limit and age limit on these elected officials.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:42pm@1casawizard
Report Post »With you 100%
Razorhunters
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:04pmanybody remember lybia…? had to klll them to save them…?
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/senator-mccain-calls-for-bombing-syria/
smartass
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:03pmbomb bomb bomb…….bomb bomb Iran……Syria
Boy, do I love the smell of napalm in the morning. (quote from Robert Duvall in the classic Vietnam War movie, “Apocolypse Now”)
Report Post »jadams9845
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:03pmMcCain is a treasonous bast***. Let’s send him over there and let him do it himself. These are the kind of people the GOP needs to purge from the party.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:02pmGoody!!! Another undeclared unconstitutional war!!!! You NEOCONS should be so proud!!
Report Post »Ron Paul 2012
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:39pmThany you for the Democrat Party talking points. And the Ron Paul Revolution calls themselves the other Americans for change, or some crap like that. Same old garbage from the left with a neo-lib spin on it.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:52pmthe constitution is pretty simple. if you want to fight another country – congress must first declare war. why do the left and anti-paul people hate the constitution so much?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:05pmSOY. Go back about 50 or so topics and you will find my answer to that question.
Report Post »resme
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 9:01pmhaha, Neo-lib is pretty much a libertarian. Can’t you just call us neo-nazis?
hahahahah, Have a nice day time2end.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 10:00pmRESME. I can call you that too (neo-Nazis) if you prefer. Ron Paul DOES have the market cornered on neo-Nazi support.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:59pmShocker!
Report Post »Does this nut profit from war or what? You would think after what he has been through in Vietnam and all, that he would want to see less of this kind of stuff. But NOOOOOO!……………….
1casawizard
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:31pm@RATIONAL MAN. McCain is an F-14 pilot who has served in Vietnam. He can drop his tube on a floating deck. He has done well. He has lived the high life with the ketchup mistress. He has lost touch, then grown senile. His daddy was an Admiral. John McCain grew up wealthy. He may have never have been in touch with real America. How about let’s starting term limits on these people? I know they would not vote for it.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:54pm1CASA. You’re confusing beer with catsup or ketchup. Mr “why the long face” John Kerry’s wife has ketchup all over her face.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:58pmI don‘t understand why it’s so hard for people to research a little bit – doesn’t take a whole lot – listen to ex-Muslims and come to the correct conclusion about Islam…..which is ALL Muslims, including these that are fighting the present regime, are taught and hate all infidels (including any military that are helping them win), hate Israel and their goal for Allah is to take the whole world over for him. They’ll accept our help of course when it benefits them but all the while hate us anyway. And their idea of “democracy” is to be able to choose their own leader of choice that is a Muslim, believes in Sharia Law to rule, etc.. Even if they win, that will NOT make them “friendly” to us – or anyone else. And, just as in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood will take over – which helps them reach their goal of a powerful Caliphate that will turn on the whole world when they get united – which includes…….us.
Report Post »“God’s War on Terror” by Walid Shoebat.
mils
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:07pm“Damascus Phase Prophecy”
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:09pmExactly.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:28pmIsaiah 17:1 A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city
Report Post »but will become a heap of ruins. Damascus has never been a heap of ruins. This prophecy could happen before our own eyes.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:55pmI whole heartedly respect Senator McCain for his time in service as a Naval officer, and for what he endured for years as a POW. That said, I met some truly nutty officers during my time in the Army. I had to respect them and I did, but there were some true nuts. McCain falls in this category as far as I am concerned, and it is about time for him to retire from the government and get a job working for his wife. Arizona has just got to stop re-electing this guy.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:00pmAgreed. It made me sick to vote for the guy, but I figured it was better than an open Marxist.
I was just having this discussion with a co-worker today. What’s better, a bumbling fool for president, or someone who’s openly Marxist?
My argument was, “At least the bumbling fool has good intentions…”
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:05pmIf we react with every mid-east crisis. We cannot or want to contain all of it. Our real threat is Iran. It is a real threat to the entire world. We need to leave these muslim radical countries alone. Too many needed at home are brought back in a box.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:14pmWhy Syria? Why not go for their headquarters. I think is somewhere in Dearborn, Michigan.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:54pmnever let an opportunity go to waste….
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:10pmThey sure taking advantage of every one.
Report Post »Watchingtheweasels
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:52pmWith friends like these, who needs enemies?
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:59pmWe need to mind our own bidness in Syria. Let U.S. focus on Iran. That is our threat.
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:50pmYes, let’s borrow money from China to help them.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:50pmYeah McCain defeated Romney and lost to Obama.
Report Post »Now McCain endorses Romney, who will also lose to Obama.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:59pmYou definitely have a point there. I‘ve had to hold my nose and pull the lever for a number of Republicans starting with Nixon’s second term. But, the absolute worst for me was voting for McCain in ‘08.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:47pmWho wouldn’t McCain bomb/enslave?
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:47pmthank cod the guy isn’t our president
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:35pmwh are you thanking a fish ?
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:46pmPINHEAD are you leaking again
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:50pmo i c .. i didn’t read the name ufah
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 7:46pm@Polarized America
Report Post »Hay wasn’t at you was tot Steelhead the Pinhead
Expatjames
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:45pmI disagree, if we are going to hit anyone now it has to be Iran. The king of Syria or the people, doesn’t matter, either one will continue to be an enemy of Israel and the USA. With Iran we have to worry about their continued effort to obtain a nuclear weapon. Iran is the greater threat at this time. Syria yes a threat to Israel but not as grave as Iran. Let them deal with their own domestic problems, we are not responsible for them unless it affects our national security in some direct way.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:50pmI think you’re listening too much to your tv. Iran isn’t a threat. They’re a pissant little country we could wipe off the map in minutes if needed. The tv said the same crap about Iraq, no?
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:53pm@Expatjames, will you JeeBoo fanatics EVER tire of bombing countries that don’t bow to your favorite terrorist nation I$rael?
Vechorik
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:56pmThe US war machine will do what it wants. National security has nothing to do with their decisions.
McCain is a mouth piece. How do you think he got the presidential nomination?
………McCain defeated Romney and lost to Obama.
Report Post »Romney will also lose to Obama.
Expatjames
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:54pm@blight14
no!!
Report Post »Thebeesstillknow
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:45pmSign the petition for the President to resign! https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/resign/SvJr4Q9h
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