Posted on 09/04/2013 11:04:20 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
John McCain today said he will not back a use-of-force resolution to be voted on by lawmakers – less than 24 hours after warning of a 'catastrophic' end to President Obama's Syria saga if Congress refused to back the proposal. The Republican senator for Arizona said it was a mistake for the president to approach legislators in the first place, and said he believes the resolution is too weak in its current form. But Obama shot back from across the Atlantic ocean during a trip to Sweden that Congress should do more than 'sit on the sidelines [and] snipe.'
A resolution crafted by New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker would limit military action to 90 days, and would make no provision for American ground troops entering Syria.
A McCain aide told MailOnline Wednesday that the senator 'does not support' that resolution. McCain would vote 'no,' he said on NBC's Today show, if his only other option was 'to do something that really doesn’t change anything – in other words, some token strikes, and then some time later, [Assad] uses those chemical weapons again.' 'What then? Go through the same routine?'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A day after McCain said congressional inaction would be 'catastrophic' for America, his office concedes that he 'does not support' the proposal
Obama insists that he doesn't need Congress' approval, but McCain fires back that going to Capitol Hill instead of taking action was a mistake
Did McCain just bluff Obama?
Good gosh, we need medical and psychological testing for these idiot Congress members to weed out the wack-a-doodles like McCain.
Juan, go home, spend your millions, play poker.
Wish Boehner and Cantor would now follow suit.
Its silly to imagine you can predict on what date your war will end.
Don't you mean, "wacky birds"?
“We certainly don’t have a dog in the fight,” Cruz said, calling it a civil war in Syria. “We should be focused on defending the United States of America. That’s why young men and women sign up to join the military, not to, as you know, serve as Al Qaeda’s air force.”
McCain is a back-stabber?
Senile or because the resolution was too limiting?
What a uniter...... NOT!!
King Zero is little more than a petulant foot-stamper who whines like a 4 YO when he doesn't get his way.
how long would it take to launch some cruise missiles?
*** Don’t you mean, “wacky birds”? ***
Could be. :)
No, McCain thinks that the draft resolution does not go afar enough. He wants to jump whole hog into Syria and get Assad just like they got Qaddafi, and all that THAT implies.
Sigh.
All that poker playing ...
That thought crossed my mind, too. Then I realized McLame isn't bright enough to try and set up the Zero like that. McLame is just another flip-flopper like King Zero. The problem is that the "news" media will cover for Zero, but not the Lame One.
McCain isn’t happy with anything less then an all out war.
You can determine on what date a war starts that you start. You don’t get to decide how it ends. There are other players at the table.
Does this mean that McCain was for it before he was against it?
Who’s on first?
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