McCain Didn’t Realize He Was Posing With Rebel Kidnapper, Spokesman Says

[Kilrain]

I was just able to look at the picture and thought the same thing.

I wonder how likely I, as a law abiding US, supposedly free citizen, would be able to pose on the steps of my capital with a US Senator, while holding a submachine gun???

Join the SS.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

McCain is simply out of his mind. Had been since they tortured him so badly.

Arizona & America can do much better

I was under the impression that John McCain was treated rather good in captivity. A hell of a lot better than the other POWs, at least. Might be mistaken, I haven't really looked into it.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

I was just able to look at the picture and thought the same thing.

I wonder how likely I, as a law abiding US, supposedly free citizen, would be able to pose on the steps of my capital with a US Senator, while holding a submachine gun???

It's simple; They (McCain and staff) trust him (kidnapper), they don't trust you.

McCain is a cash cow for the FSA. If they were trying to be given millions in aid, John McCain is a man to be treated with respect. Anyone over there so much as looking at him sideways would be undoubtedly dealt with. No one would dare take a shot at McCain.. on either side. The FSA wants money and air support. Assad's troops do not want to give justification for American air strikes. He probably stayed in a lavish hotel. I have no doubts of it.

 

[Cutlerzzz]

Is McCain stupid or evil? Obviously the answer is both, but if you had to pick one, which would it be?

 

[pcosmar]

Is McCain stupid or evil? Obviously the answer is both, but if you had to pick one, which would it be?

I'll go with Evil,, Evil is essentially stupid.

 

[Mani]

Why isn't the media blowing up how ridiculous this is.

Next thing you know, one of those guys in that picture will have a youtube video of slicing of Syrian army fingers and feeding them dogs or some crazy shit.

But no one is going to make this a big deal?


McCain is hanging out with kidnappers, murderers, and terrorists....And....the media is quiet about it?

Why is he getting a free pass?


Argh, fucking bought MSM. Government tool.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Why isn't the media blowing up how ridiculous this is.

Next thing you know, one of those guys in that picture will have a youtube video of slicing of Syrian army fingers and feeding them dogs or some crazy shit.

But no one is going to make this a big deal?


McCain is hanging out with kidnappers, murderers, and terrorists....And....the media is quiet about it?

Why is he getting a free pass?


Argh, fucking bought MSM. Government tool.

Did you vote in the rather depressing poll here?

 

[Mani]

Did you vote in the rather depressing poll here?

I must have missed that one.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

I must have missed that one.

Better than the last time I saw it. (13 or 14-3.. I believe)

Topic: Do You Consider US Media to be Free (Poll)

Seemed relevant.

 

[seyferjm]

I'm beginning to think this song was actually written about McCain lol-

 

[dillo]

I was under the impression that John McCain was treated rather good in captivity. A hell of a lot better than the other POWs, at least. Might be mistaken, I haven't really looked into it.

He was initially, they used him a propaganda. They actually offered to release him, but he refused unless they released everyone else in his camp. Thats when the hell began

In mid-1968, John S. McCain, Jr. was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and the North Vietnamese offered McCain early release[43] because they wanted to appear merciful for propaganda purposes,[44] and also to show other POWs that elite prisoners were willing to be treated preferentially.[43] McCain turned down the offer; he would only accept repatriation if every man taken in before him was released as well. Such early release was prohibited by the POW's interpretation of the military Code of Conduct: To prevent the enemy from using prisoners for propaganda, officers were to agree to be released in the order in which they were captured.[33]

In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain.[45] He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[33][45] Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, stopped by guards.[33] Eventually, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession".[33] He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he later wrote, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."[46][47] Many American POWs were tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements;[48] virtually all of them eventually yielded something to their captors.[49] McCain subsequently received two to three beatings weekly because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.[50]

McCain refused to meet with various anti-war groups seeking peace in Hanoi, wanting to give neither them nor the North Vietnamese a propaganda victory.[51] From late 1969 onward, treatment of McCain and many of the other POWs became more tolerable,[52] while McCain continued actively to resist the camp authorities.[53] McCain and other prisoners cheered the U.S. "Christmas Bombing" campaign of December 1972, viewing it as a forceful measure to push North Vietnam to terms.[47][54]

Altogether, McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years. He was released on March 14, 1973.[55] His wartime injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head.[56]


I mean you can and I certainly dislike the mans politics, but hes a still a hero in many respects

 

[sailingaway]

This isn't like a reception line at a rally, he went to SYRIA to meet with these people. He affirmatively sought them out, and had to go to a good deal of trouble to do so.

 

[sailingaway]

He was initially, they used him a propaganda. They actually offered to release him, but he refused unless they released everyone else in his camp. Thats when the hell began

In mid-1968, John S. McCain, Jr. was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and the North Vietnamese offered McCain early release[43] because they wanted to appear merciful for propaganda purposes,[44] and also to show other POWs that elite prisoners were willing to be treated preferentially.[43] McCain turned down the offer; he would only accept repatriation if every man taken in before him was released as well. Such early release was prohibited by the POW's interpretation of the military Code of Conduct: To prevent the enemy from using prisoners for propaganda, officers were to agree to be released in the order in which they were captured.[33]

In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain.[45] He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[33][45] Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, stopped by guards.[33] Eventually, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession".[33] He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he later wrote, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."[46][47] Many American POWs were tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements;[48] virtually all of them eventually yielded something to their captors.[49] McCain subsequently received two to three beatings weekly because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.[50]

McCain refused to meet with various anti-war groups seeking peace in Hanoi, wanting to give neither them nor the North Vietnamese a propaganda victory.[51] From late 1969 onward, treatment of McCain and many of the other POWs became more tolerable,[52] while McCain continued actively to resist the camp authorities.[53] McCain and other prisoners cheered the U.S. "Christmas Bombing" campaign of December 1972, viewing it as a forceful measure to push North Vietnam to terms.[47][54]

Altogether, McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years. He was released on March 14, 1973.[55] His wartime injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head.[56]


I mean you can and I certainly dislike the mans politics, but hes a still a hero in many respects

That's one side of the story. try googling McCain and Songbird for another. Obviously I have no idea which is the truth.

 

[J_White]

LOL, what a stupid moron !!
he doesnt even know who they are, but wants to give them more weapons !!

 

[enhanced_deficit]

This isn't like a reception line at a rally, he went to SYRIA to meet with these people. He affirmatively sought them out, and had to go to a good deal of trouble to do so.

Excellent point.

He was sent there by a cabal of neocons, but your point remains super valid.

 

[sailingaway]

From something Justin Raimondo wrote... was the kidnapper a cannibal as well?

Ron reads antiwar.

Why John McCain Wants to Aid Syrian Terrorists
His trip to Syria in support of lung-eating savages

When John McCain slipped into Syria the other day to meet with Islamist rebels, Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted “best wishes” to his fellow warmonger and claimed “dibs on his office if he doesn’t come back.” Leave it to Sen. Graham, who has been agitating along with McCain for the US to send weapons to the rebels, to joke about the untrustworthiness of the very people he wants to arm. But the rebels’ savagery is no joke: we are, after all, talking about people who eat the lungs of their enemies.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) had it kind of right when he admonished the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after it voted for a bill that would arm Syria’s Islamist insurgents:

“This is an important moment. You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda. It’s an irony you cannot overcome.”

And yet irony doesn’t quite cover it: insanity is more like it. Here is a man who is the Republican party’s voice when it comes to foreign policy, a role he has appropriated due to his intimacy with those who book the Sunday talk shows, and yet when it comes to America’s relationship with the rest of the world his utter and complete ignorance is appalling.
[...]
In short, McCain doesn’t know s%^*t about foreign policy: he has been wrong, wrong, wrong about absolutely everything. So it isn’t merely ironic that he is leading the charge in demanding we intervene in Syria – it’s downright crazy.

What’s puzzling is why anyone is listening to him. And his fellow Senators are certainly paying attention: an overwhelming bipartisan vote of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the McCain-Menendez bill authorizing aid to the rebels (there were only three dissents).
[...]
So what did McCain do in Syria? The military backbone of the opposition is the al-Nusra Front, which has recently pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda. Did McCain meet with their commanders – in spite of the fact that they have recently been added to the State Department’s list of officially-designated terrorist organizations? He didn’t say. What we do know about his trip is that he went and listened to their demands that we set up a no fly zone, send them guns and cash, and attack Hezbollah in Lebanon – yes, Lebanon. They want us to widen the war, and naturally Sen. McCain is for that, too. Has there ever been a war he didn’t want to escalate?
[...]
Finally, it may be initially puzzling to contemplate the support for aiding the rebels coming from supposedly staunch opponents of “terrorism,” such as McCain and Graham. But when you think about it, it makes perfect sense: those two don’t care so much about fighting jihadists as they do about effecting regime-change throughout the Middle East. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran – all are in the War Party’s sights, and the Two Amigos are leading the charge. Forget about the “war on terrorism” – that was a cover story from the very beginning. The real story of American foreign policy in the new millennium is all about regime change.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/05/28/why-john-mccain-wants-to-aid-syrian-terrorists/

 

[twomp]

This is beyond stupid. I am embarrassed by John McCain. If it were me in that picture with those rebels, everyone (even some people on these forums) would be calling me a terrorist. McCain should be treated to the same standards. The man is a terrorist.

 

[pacelli]

McCain has a history of siding with the enemy. Not surprised.

John McCain is now part of Al Qaeda. He should be arrested and charged with treason.

 

[EBounding]

Imagine if Obama did this....ho ho ho!

 

[pcosmar]

I am embarrassed by John McCain..

I'm not. He does not and never has represented me.