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McCain: Trump 'emboldened' Assad with comments on US withdrawal from Syria
CNN ^ | April 8, 2018 | Eli Watkins

Posted on 04/08/2018 7:19:46 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Washington (CNN) - Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump's comments that the US military would leave Syria "very soon" had emboldened Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, resulting in the reported chemical weapons attack Saturday that killed dozens of the country's civilians.

"President Trump last week signaled to the world that the United States would prematurely withdraw from Syria," the Arizona senator said in a statement. "Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have heard him, and emboldened by American inaction, Assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent men, women and children, this time in Douma."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Russia; Syria; US: Arizona; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arizona; assad; braindead; deadratwalkin; donaldtrump; douma; fakenews; gop; israel; johnmccain; mccain; senate; stfu; strawberries; syria; trump; waronterror
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To: Trump20162020

This treasonous **^$#* can’t leave fast enough!


81 posted on 04/08/2018 10:41:58 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight ("Victorious warriors win first, then go to war." Sun Tzu)
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To: Trump20162020

McCain is most truly a man to be respected for the horrors that was inflicted on him as a POW. He was selected for particularly fierce torture due to his father being CINPAC (Commander in Chief Pacific Command) Despite though many differ he acquitted himself with great honor during captivity.

John McCain’s service in the Senate is an absolute disgrace for all he fought for.

The warrior McCain is a man to be honored. Senator McCain is a different man, and not a good man.

ps

My brother was an electronics man for F4s in Vietnam, a “Phantom Fixer.” He meet with a few pilots after the war that he had worked on their Phantoms. He said those that went into captivity came back “F-up.” I admire McCain the pilot and POW. I do not admire the man that came back from captivity.

It is really not his fault.


82 posted on 04/08/2018 10:55:50 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Gator113

Regardless, Senator McCain’s hatred of President Donald J. Trump irks me to no end.

I voted for Trump and want to believe better but this “animal Assad” thing reminds me of the notion if we have to descend into name calling of millions of “animals” who have crossed our southern border with not enough being done to stop them.

I got all excited when I heard the National Guard was going down but when the details filled in that just a few thousand would go I realized that it was political window dressing and not the serious effort required to shut off the spigot of cheap labor entering the USA.


83 posted on 04/08/2018 11:20:45 PM PDT by Spiridon
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To: Trump20162020

False Flag by McCain’s terrorist buddies in Syria. Still trying to start a war with Russia, using any excuse.


84 posted on 04/08/2018 11:45:29 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Trump20162020

F#CK OFF, McQUEEG, JUST HURRY UP AND DIE!


85 posted on 04/09/2018 12:05:23 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: cpdiii

Every man is RESPONSIBLE for his entire life.


86 posted on 04/09/2018 12:10:48 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: cpdiii

I admire McCain the pilot
*********
Wrecked 5 planes. Just sayin’.....


87 posted on 04/09/2018 12:14:40 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Trump20162020

How and why is he still breathing?


88 posted on 04/09/2018 2:26:27 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

The devil is your answer. McCain/Obama empowered those rebels back several years ago, when they wanted to take down Assad. I believe the rebels (ISIS?) are behind this, and is another attack on Trump.


89 posted on 04/09/2018 2:32:40 AM PDT by Ambrosia (Southern Born/Bred..NC. Lived in: NC, PA, NY, WV, NM, SC, FL)
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To: Trump20162020

Die.......


90 posted on 04/09/2018 2:45:39 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Trump20162020

Unless there’s a photo of McCain standing and holding a copy of today’s newspaper, I call BS on any of his pronouncements.


91 posted on 04/09/2018 3:23:45 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Trump20162020

I have said before that there is nothing left of McCaine except for sheer malice. He is like Ahab tied to the whale .


92 posted on 04/09/2018 3:49:04 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Trump20162020

All of these domestic weaklings (McCain, Graham, Kristol, et al.) for some strange reason have a real blood lust that can only be sated by sending other peoples kids off to war.


93 posted on 04/09/2018 4:18:56 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: Trump20162020

“War War War!”

“Kill Kill Kill!”

“Redjack!”

“Redjack!”

—A classic Star Trek episode and the mind of John McCain.


94 posted on 04/09/2018 4:52:01 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Trump20162020

McCain is a bigger suspect of launching gas attacks in Syria than any one else. McCain stands to profit with the SIS corporation. https://www.sis.com/default.aspx McCain chief investor with many contracts with war in the Middle Ease.


95 posted on 04/09/2018 4:55:29 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Trump20162020
Democratic Sen. John McCain said, Blah, blah, blah.


96 posted on 04/09/2018 5:31:40 AM PDT by Garvin (Always remember folks, kill a commie for mommy ~ Semper Fi, Mac!)
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To: CaptainK; airborne

His staff...we need to OUT them...if McCain can opine...he can BE AT WORK IN DC!


97 posted on 04/09/2018 8:57:17 AM PDT by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: Mariner
OK, I know he has brain cancer and his death is imminent.

Do you? Do you really know this, or is this your understanding based on stories in the media you have heard and read?

I most certainly hope it isn't a lie, but I suspect it is.

98 posted on 04/09/2018 9:03:58 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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