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McCain travels to Libya to meet with rebel forces
Associated Press ^ | April 22, 2011 | DONNA CASSATA

Posted on 04/21/2011 11:16:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the U.S. military intervention in Libya, is heading to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi for a meeting with forces fighting to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi, an aide told The Associated Press.

McCain was scheduled to arrive in Benghazi on Friday, said Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the senator.

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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hope he takes his daughter with him and they both decide to stay.


41 posted on 04/22/2011 4:56:53 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Free ThinkerNY
John, John, John.


42 posted on 04/22/2011 5:10:02 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: onyx

No, He is LEGITIMIZING IT!


43 posted on 04/22/2011 5:10:18 AM PDT by Shady (Our quest is to rebuild the United States of America as it was founded by the Founders!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They can keep him.


44 posted on 04/22/2011 5:17:06 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This is the headline story at Spiegel Online:

Spiegel Online / US-Senator McCain feiert libysche Rebellen als Helden ... US Senator McCain Praises Rebels as Heroes.

Spiegel's POV was that the US was dragged into the conflict, backed off, and now, with the drone deployment against Ghaddafi's troops and this visit are climbing back in.

They report that when McCain was asked by a reporter at a press conference if it bothered him that Al-Qaeda was known to be amongst the rebels, he answered, "Why should it? They (the rebels) are my heroes ... "Wieso? Sie (die Rebellen) sind meine Helden."

I'm just the messenger, here, BTW.

This is just crazy.

45 posted on 04/22/2011 5:18:03 AM PDT by longjack
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To: onyx
He’s maliciously meddling, in obama’s war.

He skipped off holding hands with Lindsey Graham to meddle in Uzbekistan, and cost our efforts in Afghanistan dearly...

Must have something to do with a gay pride thing...

46 posted on 04/22/2011 5:21:35 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

goin to meet his VC/moh-ham-head-ean ‘programmers’ ???


47 posted on 04/22/2011 5:28:43 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: freebilly

You can add to that insane, senile and traitor. This man has no clue who he works for or that there is a whole country beyond Washington.

Yo Arizonans—Does McCain ever return to Arizona? And if he does does he make any meaningful attempt to connect with voters there?


48 posted on 04/22/2011 5:32:47 AM PDT by dools0007world
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hope McQueeg gets a photo op with a known Al Quaeda operative that’s on a rebel tour since being released from Gitmo.


49 posted on 04/22/2011 5:40:13 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: piytar

“...but respect you as a human being and a war hero for surviving what you did.”

I am truly beginning to doubt about his status as a war hero. Maybe he did believe that statement he signed. How else can we explain the damage he’s caused this country including giving the US a president who is determined to destroy us. Maybe we’ve been not looking at the correct number of Manchurian Candidates.
He’s been set up by the commies to think they like him, and his choice of Sarah for VP was an accident that almost ruined their plan. Remember it was McCain’s staffers that muffled her, and wouldn’t let her tell the truth about Obozo. After realizing what she could become in this country, they have been active, and willing participants with the media in trying to destroy her.
I am beginning to think McCain being Obozo’s opponent was not an accident, and just two years ago that statement would have had me looking for the tin foil for my new hat.


50 posted on 04/22/2011 5:40:45 AM PDT by rikkir (I had to show my BC to play Little League, he should have to show his to be President!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Let him stay there vs here.


51 posted on 04/22/2011 5:41:56 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Looks like McCain is hoping to be the replacement for Jimmuh Cotter when he finally petrifies.


52 posted on 04/22/2011 5:46:54 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Does their economy need a TARP program?


53 posted on 04/22/2011 5:48:40 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Terrorism is nothing more than Kinetic Islam)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Does their economy need a TARP program?

They already have a new central bank and new oil company in East Lybia. Never seen "rebels" do that before.

54 posted on 04/22/2011 5:52:31 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They can keep him.


55 posted on 04/22/2011 5:58:45 AM PDT by JSDude1 (December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
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To: rikkir; piytar

Not a complete accident. She is and has consistantly been for a pathway to citizenship for the ~ 40 million illegal aliens in the US, while governor cheer led for LOST which will hand over the sovereignty of US waterways to the UN, and early on urged the US to create a no fly zone to help the Libyan rebels.


56 posted on 04/22/2011 6:03:42 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: NeoCaveman

they do not need a tarp program, why is everyone so mad
at Mcain meeting with the rebels?- and the U.S. giving
them 25$mil ? they are are friends and the Good Guys!

(On his own admission, rebel leader Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi fought American troops in Afghanistan and recruited Libyans to fight American troops in Iraq.)(from pajama media)

extreme sarc


57 posted on 04/22/2011 6:05:21 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: tsowellfan
Might as well send Jimmy Carter

At least Carter's not literally a war monger. If McCain had his way, we'd be fighting the Russians for the gangster regime in Georgia now.

58 posted on 04/22/2011 6:58:35 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

McCain should stay home. He’s lending legitimacy to our involvement in Libya, which should never have begun in the first place. McCain has shown poor judgment ever since he became a senator, in my opinion.


59 posted on 04/22/2011 7:00:34 AM PDT by American Quilter (DEFUND OBAMACARE.)
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To: rikkir

He is vulnerable and I pray he makes it back so we can crush his amnesty effort again. The Rebels are full of Wahhabi.


60 posted on 04/22/2011 7:09:19 AM PDT by k5kor
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