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Exclusive: John McCain Slips Across Border Into Syria, Meets With Rebels
The Daily Beast ^
Posted on 05/27/2013 11:00:06 AM PDT by don-o
Sen. John McCain Monday became the highest-ranking U.S. official to enter Syria since the bloody civil war there began over two years ago, The Daily Beast has learned.
McCain, one of the fiercest critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy, made the unannounced visit across the Turkey-Syria border with Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army. He stayed in the country for several hours before returning to Turkey. Both in Syria and Turkey, McCain and Idris met with assembled leaders of Free Syrian Army units that traveled from around the country to see the U.S. senator. Inside those meetings, rebel leaders called on the United States to step up its support to the Syrian armed opposition and provide them with heavy weapons, a no-fly zone, and airstrikes on the Syrian regime and the forces of Hezbollah, which is increasingly active in Syria.
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He did have that meeting with The Dear Leader last week.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:00:06 AM PDT
by
don-o
To: don-o
Dear Syrian Rebels:
If you wish to be successful in any endeavor keep that a$$hat John McCain as far away from you as possible.
Sincerely,
The People of Arizona
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:04:10 AM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
To: don-o
Dear al-queda rebels,
Keep him.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:04:50 AM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: andyk
John McCain the new Hanoi Jane/John
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:06:27 AM PDT
by
molson209
To: don-o
Do they do beheadings there?
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:06:58 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: don-o
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:07:40 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
( 1Cor 7:21Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it;)
To: don-o
What a foolish person.
Hey, rebels are you really really really telling me the truth?! I am sorry but he does not seem authentic any longer on much of anything.
To: don-o
Just because Kennedy liked to run his own foreign policy dosen’t mean McCain can. Foriegn policy is the executive branch.
To: don-o
....I thought that was Kerry’s job....oh that’s right he’s in Cambodia, it’s seared in his mind,...... does he get to retire and get his ambassadorship to France after three negotiations?...two of which can be made up with no conformation
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:09:46 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: andyk
I wonder how much Vietnam would charge to take this guy back.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:10:08 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Vince Ferrer
I’m sure McCain had Dear Leader’s blessing. Which only goes to show how stupid Obama is.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:10:14 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
Al Queda... Wonderful. Making deals with the Devil.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:10:20 AM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: andyk
Dear al-queda rebels,
Keep him.
They would keep him but I think even Syria has their standards
M.I.A.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:11:34 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: don-o
maybe he has forgotten that Turkey’s ambassador to Libya was the last to see our Amb.Stevens before being killed by the same people McCain met. We have no business supporting anyone in the Syrian civil war. Get out!!
And one other reason to not to help the rebels is because they are exterminating the Syrian Christian population.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:11:48 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: don-o
He’s just turned himself into another version of Pelosi, AFAIAC.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:11:59 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: don-o
Heh. Pity they won’t keep him.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:12:08 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: don-o
Hummm...probably Obama set up McCain to give him some cover when he commits US blood and treasure to the MB in Syria...
"Hey John McCain...went and visited and said we need to do this" ...or something like that...
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:12:52 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
To: don-o
I don’t know if I take John McCain or Dennis Rodman diplomacy more seriously at this point.
To: don-o
Hillary/McCain or McCain/Hillary 2016.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:16:23 AM PDT
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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