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McCain Calls For US To Lead Effort To Begin Syrian Air Strikes
Just a headline from AP for now:
- Sen. McCain calls for US to lead 'international effort' to begin air strikes on Syria.
Looks like operation "Enduring Brent Crude Freedom" is about to commence.
From Foreign Policy:
Later today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will become the first U.S. senator to publicly call for U.S. led air strikes to halt the violence and atrocities being committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"After a year of bloodshed, the crisis in Syria has reached a decisive moment," McCain will say Monday afternoon in a speech on the Senate floor, according to excerpts obtained in advance by The Cable.
"What opposition groups in Syria need most urgently is relief from Assad's tank and artillery sieges in many cities that are still contested. Homs is lost for now, but Idlib, and Hama, and Qusayr, and Deraa, and other cities in Syria could still be saved," McCain will say. "But time is running out. Assad's forces are on the march. Providing military assistance to the Free Syrian Army and other opposition groups is necessary, but at this late hour, that alone will not be sufficient to stop the slaughter and save innocent lives. The only realistic way to do so is with foreign airpower."
The Obama administration's stance thus far has been to clearly communicate that international military intervention is not on the table in Syria. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States is willing to provide humanitarian assistance in Syria immediately... but only if Assad agrees to provide access to affected areas.
McCain, referring directly to the requests for more direct assistance from the Syrian National Council, the Free Syrian Army, and Local Coordinating Committees inside Syria, will call for the United States to lead an international effort to protect civilian population centers in northern Syria through airstrikes on Assad's forces.
"To be clear: This will require the United States to suppress enemy air defenses in at least part of the country," McCain will say. "The ultimate goal of airstrikes should be to establish and defend safe havens in Syria, especially in the north, in which opposition forces can organize and plan their political and military activities against Assad. These safe havens could serve as platforms for the delivery of humanitarian and military assistance -- including weapons and ammunition, body armor and other personal protective equipment, tactical intelligence, secure communications equipment, food and water, and medical supplies. These safe havens could also help the Free Syrian Army and other armed groups in Syria to train and organize themselves into more cohesive and effective military forces, likely with the assistance of foreign partners."
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You would think 7 years of living in a cage as a prisoner of war would change ones perspective on the horrors of unnecessary wars.....sigh....
It says so in the bible right?
Do to others what they did to you.... Or something like that...
“What you do unto others will be un done onto you”
AIPAC wills it , sorry God Wills It.
Dude, my english sucks but your's sounds even worse :)
For what its worth in terms of ability to write the language you actually beat the majority of native born users. The occasional issue with some of the technical points of grammar do nothing to obscure your meaning (no appostraphe in "your's" there), which unfortunately is more then I can say for many in the US.
Your English is far superior to my Belge. Errr Flem. Phlegm? Awwww... whatever kinda talk y'all talk over there. (joking here)
I will say though that the world needs a good derogatory perjorative for Belgians.
A bunch a' waffles?
Personally I think he went quite mad there and he never recovered. What better place for him to be but the Senate.
I should have read down a couple more..
He should be in an A-4 over Damascus.
The Senate was his Court's Martial sentence for talking too fucking much.
I am pretty sure that if they let him, he would gladly take the controls of any fighter and lead the bombing run himself. He was not the son of dick-suckers like most of our elite class, he was the son of Admirals, and as such he accepted, and probably had to finagle and string-pull his way into a very dangerous and hard-to-get job of the era- combat fighterbomber pilot.
This while the other sons of elites or their fathers were vigourously pulling strings to keep them a MILLION MILES away from the battlefield. Busch2/Chainey/Gingrinch/Romnel the entire current press corpse propaganda team. The whole lot of them draft-dodging warmongers eager for blood as long as it isn't theirs.
McCain sought out combat duty so his courage cannot be questioned, honorable mention to Ron Paul and Rick what-his face also served when called.
prole said:
I'm questioning his courage right now. Perhaps he had courage forty years ago. In his current role as AIPAC's subservient toady, he's showing less spine than a jellyfish.
There's a word for a person that works for a foreign power against the interests of his own nation: traitor.
A nice flashback while he's holding a m16 in congress... TATATATATATA Whoehahahahahaha!!!!
I LOL!
the Vietmen should have done us all a favor and removed that peice of shit from humankind...
some folks just dont deserve to b here.....
and this was our other choice for POTUS...
A perfect damned if you do, damned if you don't vote
McLame is the perfect example of why not participating in their voting game is the only sane option - no vote, no shame, no regrets.
don't be pickin' the lesser of two evils - stand back, look after those you care about, that's a "power" you do have.
He is insane. That is insane.
He doesn't work for you or I. McCain, Graham, Liberman, Levin... they are just doing their master's bidding.
all who seek to impose religious beliefs on others also believe they are following their master's bidding.
Haven't seen you around for a while Blythe. I thought maybe the Bernank sent his storm troopers to get you.
hi why are we prattling on about Syria, this week is all about Greek PSI, and i'm hearing that PSI involvement could be 85%+
Surely this is bullish for the DOW, where's Cramer? www.marketblip.com
marketblip. right. you CAN make this stuff up.
Just imagine if McCain and Palin were in control.
Only question is if they would have bombed Canada yet?
Btw, what is going on in Syria is horrific. Pretty sure bombing it is not the solution. But what the hell do i know.
Now am in the queue behind Senator Baucus to buy Brent Calls.
bomb the Syrians for defending themselves from mercenaries sent into to destabilize the country? nice try.
what is going on in Syria is tragic and your over simplification of it is dumb. People are being massacred and anytime that happens it is tragic, regardless of who is doing the killing. That being said, MCCain should keep his mouth shut. USA should stay out of this, although I'm not naive enough to think they are not already in it.
There is plenty of guilt to go around on this one on all sides. Men can not live in peace because of greed, envy and selfishness. No one class of people, or no ethnic group or no one religion has a monoply on those human tendencies, they share in them equally.
Silly lizzy, Canada is so close Palin can see it and McCain is still not senile enough to do that to Canada. Ground troops make more sense.
Iwould have though Iceland would be next on the agenda. The stood up to the banksters and are now talking about trading with Loonies overs DOHllars. If tose two actions aren't incentive enough for us to bomb them, then I don't know what is.
We could harness their geothermal energy and make them our energy slaves.
Mwah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
WAR! WAR! WAR! EEEEHHHEEEHEEEHEEEHEEEHEE!
Where's the Ritalin? I neeeeed speeeed!
Let's go shoot some shit, k?
Yes, it is horrific. Too bad the violence is being fueled by foreigners posing as Syrian "rebels." Not that the Syrian government is GOOD, but the MSM is certainly branding them as the enemy and the rebels as "freedom fighters." Most of the "bloodshed" committed by the Syrian government has been due to their RESPONSE to acts of terror being committed by the so-called "rebels."
I have no doubt atrocities are being committed by "both sides".
I also have no doubt that the "colleteral damage" is more often than not (as is par for the course in these situations) innocent civilians.
My point is i have no clue how the US bombing anyone actually helps the horror that is currently Syria.
But hey, the US is ALWAYS the righteous party in these situations right?
What a clusterfuck.
My point is i have no clue how the US bombing anyone actually helps the horror that is currently Syria.
Because when enough of them are dead, the battered remainder will accept the 'leaders' we will impose on them and they will live happily ever after!
Just imagine if McCain and Palin were in control.
Anyone would beat what we have( as much respect as I USED too have for him) he still would be not as bad as what we have........................if it gets another term, give your heart to Jesus, cause your ass belongs to the NEW REGIME.
get on your white horse, geezer, and lead the charge you fucking chickenhawk piece of shit.
or are you too busy with your lemonparties?
Dear god, I hope that isn't a reference to some link someone posted once awhile back. I still haven't fully recovered from the mistake of looking to see what it was.
+1
I didn't appreciate that particular link myself.
To ALL: DON'T EVEN LOOK UP LEMON PARTIES.
You'll be glad you didn't, trust me.
Remember, when attending a lemonparty, it is customary to bring along a bluewaffle.
I will not look up blue waffle. No. I won't. I will not....
look up the goatse dude
You guys are some sick moe foes.
What is seen cannot be unseen.
I will say awful thing , but its still free country and we have freedom of speech , sort of..
sometimes I wish some of USA prisoners who got in cell in Vietnam didn't return back..
I think modern world would be much safer
alx
McCain's loving concern for the people of Syria is so touching. Who would have thought an aging, war-mongering zionist lump would get so maudlin over a bunch of suffering foreigners?
I am impressed with his heartfelt desire to save lives 'over there'.
/sarc (not that most of you would need that disclaimer, but you know there is always someone..)
McCain can go fight the war himself.... I'll be right behind him, thousands of miles away in my home, cheering him on!!
So McCain's stance is something like, 'Bomb those brown people back to the stone age, but don't you dare waterboard them, that's TORTURE!?'
Uh...OK.
Just goes to show that he sold his soul long ago. This man should be one of the last people calling for war.
The United States of America, not the United Nations ?
fuck mccain - he is a blood thirsty hypocritical asshole....where was he when violence and mayhem spread throughout africa in the sudan, uganda, and elsewhere? where is he when there are hundreds of thousands of children in mozambique looking in bare garbage cans for food and who are dying daily, a situation which could be easily remedied with a fraction of the cost of a stealth bomber?
syria is the doorway to iraq,iran and their oil, the only reason the asshole cares about syria...
fuck mccain....
Agreed - McCain should STFU - sitting on his fat fucking ass in the comfort of his $$$ lifestyle while zombie soldiers are sent into useless fucking battles giving up their lives for what - jackshit.
Paychecks. Get Some!
"dying aint much of a livin' boy...."
Josey Wales -
Well come on you have to be pritty fucking dumb to go and fight , just about as dumb as a chem trail piolt, they are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
yes...yes!!!
fuck mother fucking MCcain...
solidarity...i couldnt help myself....
McCain has become a poster boy for being an hypocrite....and for his impression of a chipmunk with nuts in his mouth. One can only guess who's nuts.
Who is going to be the new president after this one gets bombed? They do have one lined up right?
Yeah it really worked out so well when we bombed Libya to 'liberate' them. Obama said we would be there 'a matter of days and not weeks'. What a fucking liar he turned out to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4icorYD_mE
Does this mean Ann Margret isnt coming?
Drop 'Iran', insert 'Syria', and sing it, Johnny, from the top:
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Syria,
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Syria,
Bbbbooooommmmmmbbbbbb Ssssyyyyyyyyyyyyrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....
Somebody should drag that senile old motherfucker out of the Senate in a straight jacket and muzzle a la Hannibal Lecter.
I guess they have to run out the dude that was locked up in the Hanoi Hilton to make this look legit and all. Will we be dropping the Nobel Peace Prize on them?
Should drop McCain and Lizzy Graham together on Syria in parachutes, and we won't have to listen to this crap except from Binny Yahoo.
Do the cabal look like they are surrendering ?
Benjamin Fulford 3-5-12…”The hunt is on, cabal arrests accelerating”… “George Bush Senior and Bill Gates …arrested last week…, pentagon sources say”the bullshit meter is going off the chart.... the cabal is just getting started....
McCain and Graham are nuts. No war or escalation they do not call for. We can't afford it politically or economically. let the middle east sort it out for themselves. Look at the ingrates in afghanistan or libya for the thanks we"ll get.
Just think, if Americans had been as stupid as right wingers say they are Bomb Bomb McCain would be our Prez and the world as we know it would Already be over and in flames. McCain and Graham are just the tip of the rabid right wing iceberg. That is why Obama will win easily, the alternative is madness and retardation.
as opposed to the madness and retardation we experience today? Obama and McCain are one and the same when it comes to this shit...puppets.
Yeah, McCain wants to bomb the Middle East and Obama only wants kinetic actions over there.
Lucky us, and lucky them, eh?
Idiot.
I honestly think that many right of center folks are tired of nation building and sacrificing our young. Not too many 'rabid right wing' people were happy with our choices in 2008 or 2012.
In terms of rampant military action, Obama is not the lesser of two evils. His actions in Libya amounts to an undeclared war. He has accepted bush's actions to combat terrorism and added more 4th amendment violations. Despite broad proclamations of ending wars, shit is still bad over there and we still have a presence there.
I just wish Ron Paul moderated his foreign policy statements so that he would seem more electable to those worried about Iran. Fucking pisses me off to no end that we will get more of the same no matter who is elected.
Re. I honestly think that many right of center folks are tired of nation building and sacrificing our young.
I can't get partisan, but who are all these people supposedly voting for Romney and the Abortion-Guy who want more war??
Diebold??
As opposed to the madness and retardation that comes with Obama.
- Calling for boycott of Israel products?? 10 years JAIL in the US... Free market? Freedom? LOL. Doesn't exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FdC4OwdPPk
- Fair MSM report on Obama fake birth certificate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrQp6qSgX_I
- French troops captured in Syria
http://rt.com/news/french-army-officers-syria-893/
you can go to jail in several european countries for even questioning the holohoax... anyone with a marginally functioning brain should instantly understand that this sort of fascist thought control is a clear tell that massive lies are being foisted on the public disguised as history. It should also be noted that proving that your comments are true is not permitted as a defense to the thought crime of holocost denial. coming soon the US of A...
I suggest we drop 534(didn't include RP) dodos on them first.. Include their kids too. Let them see what war is truly about instead of seeing it in technacolor
Are we dropping Sen. Paul? I heard he voted for sanctions on Iran, that little fucking weasle.
So long as McInsane jumps first, head first, I'm all in on that plan. I'll also personally snip each and every one of their parachute cables at no charge.
"opposition forces can organize and plan their political and military activities against Assad" ?
This is another false flag just like Libya.
McCain + Limbaugh = 2 good reasons to vote for Ron Paul
"after a year of bloodshed"..the best we could come up with is bomb tha crap out of the brown people...
Fucking disgusting.
Well, in a war for hearts and minds... what the fuck do you suggest? Diplomacy? Dreamer...
sarc/
Let me guess...
Some guys are driving around in their 1/2 Tonne pick-up trucks with heavy machine guns in the back - yelling and firing shells into the air...
...shooting at only - God knows what?
*They should just use the same footage video from Libya a few months back - for Syria - and save money...
Like this one, 'cept it's a duallie. http://www.goddesssophiawalker.com/wordpress/2010/11/24/gun-crazy-minigu...
Them their are my folks. Join a militia and get a free duelly!
"Only the strong survive"
Great Toyota ad!
Syria's oil production is about 380K bpd. Not insignificiant.
They get that oil to market via pipeline routes to the Med. That pipeline also is intended to route Iraq oil that comes from south of the Kurdish regions. Iraq oil production is constrained by infrastructure, in addition to all else, so Syrian routing matters.
It's still about oil, folks.
oil yes, and enforced cartel central banking. how many nationstates left to convert?
Did he motion planes flying over and dropping bombs with his odly impinged shoulders? If so, sell everything.
Amerika, Fuck Yeah!
Johhny "Wet Start" McCain strikes again.
"Violence is the last refuge of incomptence".
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
Um, does anyone actually pay attention to John McCain any more?
McCain needs to be exiled to the island of St. Helena.
There, he can boss around the gardener, and draw battle formations in the sand with a stick.
He strikes me more as a Marshal Ney type.....
Do you notice how repubicans are against anything to help the American People but are willing to start a war anytime and never once say how they are going to pay for it. The arrogance and stupidity is mind numbing in those jagoffs.
WWI - Wilson
WWII - Roosevelt
Korea - Truman
Vietnam - Johnson
The arrogance and stupidity is mind numbing in those jagoffs
Yes, it certainly is. Wake the fuck up. D & R are two wings of the same shithawk, Welfare/Warfare party.
it is obvious from RH's posts that he's/she's libtarded.
It's obvious that you are another winger that has no idea how to pay for stupid wars of choice but will gladly support them while wanting to cut/end any personal benefit a taxpayer might get for his taxes.
Big Dirty Shithawks...
http://youtu.be/QcYyg_y4dsM
I agree, but the right wing does not get Nearly the shit it deserves on this site. And we didn't borrow money from China to pay for those wars. Vietnam was paid for with Social Security funds and it has gone down hill from there.
http://www.cfr.org/central-america/countering-criminal-violence-central-...
Steve, it starts at 2nd full moon
Plus 5
They prefer plato's republic to napoleon's.
Republicanism is synonymous with social darwinism.
You really believe there is a difference between the two parties? Seriously? I'd have to say that your descriptive terms are a reflection of yourself if you believe there is.
democraps will occasionally throw the People a bone. repubicans are ALL about taking from the worker and giving to the rich. That is the difference.
Make up my mind already. Are we gonna do Iran first, or Syria, or simultaneous attacks? Is this a continuation of operation NATO Bombs for Peace? Stop the fighting and bring our troops home.
You should ask the people at Project for the New American Century.
People like McCain will take this country sooo deep in shit, no nation has gone there before.
I humbly submit zerozulu that we are already soo deep in feces that the only hope I have is for a complete collapse of government and a reset.
That's what America wans Senator McCrankypants....another war in the Middle East. Way to gauge the electorate....
Moneyswirth
Do not forget his KEY role in passing NDAA.....................so much for war hero.
Some dare call it Treason,I call it Dementia.
Where is the outrage when it's Africans being slaughtered and starved to death by the millions?
(this includes the lack of same from the BIG wigs in the SO called Black Community).
Agreed Doszap!!!! what about Sudan? Burundi?
Why would rich black people care about poor black people being killed more than rich white people do about poor white people being killed, its only news when one of them kills the other.
I can't remember the number...tell me again - how many planes did McCain crash?!
My grandpa talks crazy too. Someone call the senior homes, one of them lost a patient.
McCain is a certifiable lunatic. He had anger management bypass syndrome. He needs to head for the tall grass..
I don't know what is going on over on the next street, let alone Syria, therefore I must say, No to air strikes...
might just be a ploy to drag in Iran and we all know what will happen then.
might just be a ploy to drag in Iran and we all know what will happen then.
Who the fuck cares? He would bomb anything in his sight to put them in line. Bomb them all kid in sinile age!
On the weekend, Beijing laid out its stance on Syria in a six-point statement that warned other powers not to use humanitarian aid for Syria to "interfere" there, and urged Assad's government and other warring sides to "immediately, fully, and unconditionally" stop fighting. The comments appeared to be directed at Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab monarchies that have openly declared their intent to arm rebels fighting the regime, and plunge the country into civil war.
Apparently the only sanity coming out in the world is from China. I guess they learned something about Imperialism when the British set their culture back 200 years by the importation of opium, and the USA backed the farm boy ignoramus Mao, whose first decision was to annihilate the intellectual class, which unfortunately included doctors, engineers and teachers. Ooops. There goes another 200 years. Nice job, illumaniti imperialists.
No fly zone followed by EU Naval blockade, US troops sent to east Turkey.
It both isolate's Syria and threatens Iran.
Whens the next full moon over there?
Actually you want the dark of the new moon for flying, not the full moon.
Not when in flight re-fueling under electronic blackout conditions you don't.
Full Moon Thursday.
McCain will recommend bombing Moscow next unless Putin stands down but Putin won the presidency the only way McCain could
Of course. The zionists and their tools also have a deep hatred for Putin, who's eyes they cannot manage to pull the wool over.
Good ol' Johnny! He's proving to us that we were going to lose no matter who we voted for in 2008...just like the candidates they'll offer us in 2012.
Ron Paul, is the only guy who would stand up against these crazy fucks and their lust for war!! You can dislike Obama ,but McCain and that shit for brains Palin would have already started at least three or four more wars, plus had some kind of new surge in Iraq so we could lose another thousand kids over there. And Israel, fuck them, they shoot kids for throwing rocks! When will the insanity end?
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has used a rare televised news conference to say Syrians have a right to take up arms and defend themselves. He said the Syrian regime "is not wanted by the people" and is "imposing itself by force." Faisal also said "Russia and others" should advise the Syrian government to "stop the killings."
Saudi say arm and bomb Syria + Shumer says print more oil + GCC|NATO want Yemen routes and regime change = deal
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Sunday urged Moscow to “advise” its ally Syria to stop its deadly crackdown against dissent. “Unfortunately, international efforts have failed and we have not seen results to stop the bloodshed and massacres in Syria,” he told a news conference in the Saudi capital.
Russia will meet with foreign ministers of Arab states to discuss the Syria crisis in Cairo on March 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
UK jounalists captured in Libya for spying (recall the wounded Syria journalists – or is it propogandists?) while French troops captured in Syria (redux of the UK SBS in Libya).
And on the Eastern (Africa) front, there is this...
Six Chinese were killed and one was missing after Sunday's ammunition depot explosions in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, according to the Chinese embassy here on Sunday night. The victims belonged to the Beijing Construction Engineering Group in the Central African country, where about 140 Chinese workers of the group were at the construction site when the blasts went off. Officials in Brazzaville urged calm, saying the blasts were an accident and did not mean there was a coup d'etat or a mutiny under way. Recall, US Special forces recently deployed to Congo to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army
What Fasal thinks about Syria makes absolutely shit-zero difference to me. He can wipe Assad's ass with his manscarf for all I care.
Bomb-em John ... from a guy who was so fucking stupid he "temporarily suspended" his Presidential campaign.
John McCain. What the fuck planet are you living on you delusional moron.
This will lead nowhere good. If not stopped, this will lead to a living hell. Radiation-contaminated food and water will be our future. Deformed babies. Air travel causes cancer. People will lose the will to live.
There should be global outrage to stop this
Ha ha nit turd. Clearly you have the correct morals to work on wall street. We already know. WTF do you care.
This will lead nowhere good. If not stopped, this will lead to a living hell. Radiation-contaminated food and water will be our future. Deformed babies. Air travel causes cancer. People will lose the will to live.
There should be global outrage to stop this
We heard you the first time. Now put away the vodka. The shakes should stop in a day or two.
7-9 days actually. Trust me on this.
Ding! ding! Ding!! What do we have for Velvethog JOHNEY!!!.......... (Reving up)
It's a brand new Cot!!!!
Yeeaaaahh!!!!! (crowd goes wild)
Yes!!! you have always heard of them but were never able to bid on them on any game show until now!
(game show music theme)
Made of drab green canvas and adorned by 4 wooden collapsible legs!!! will sleep up to 2 occupants uncomfortably but what you do in your cell is your buissness!!!
You asked for it because you had the closest doomsday guess of all the contestance here!!! (loud clapping)
(crowd quiets)
Compliments of Homeland Security FEMA and NDAA, these gems are mass produced from a 3rd world country.. (Imported) and no, not in America... JUST Yet! (screams of delight)
Thanks for playing!!! (Audiance all at once)
"When does the shit hit the fan"!!!
There is only one single thing good to say about Zionists: No one worldwide likes them!
But since the Zionists are the money printer at the FED, Cain is willing to defend them like an old durty dog with the tail between its legs.
Fly, crude fly! Soar like an eagle!
Reminds me of another 9/11 turncoat from DC.
Ashcroft's greatest hit's from the podium..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZgdzBm2R8
Is this the same Hon. Sen. McCain who co-authored NDAA? Fuck that little weasel.
project for the New American Century
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle.
William Kristol, Chairman
Fuck Billy and everyone who looks like him . . .
"That old Beach Boys tune .... Bomb ? bomb ? bomb bomb ? bomb ? ?....anyway"
McCain... a byproduct of Super tuesday 2008 soon gone and forgotten
Is this the same John McCain that crashed his plane while landing? The same John McCain that shot a missle off accidently on his aircraft carrier killing like 20 guys? Oh, that John McCain . . . . 'nuf said.
That was just on a dare, it's what we call an "desk pop".
Here, check it out. It's done all the time but usually without colladeral damage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=948-2Vzgi3w
McCain didnt set off a missile on his aircraft carrier that killed 20 guys, this is pure stupidity. He did get hit with one while waiting to take off which was triggered by another pilot and caused major casualties, but that wasnt him. His plane got blown up while he was just sitting in his cockpit.
There is so much to criticize him for that is legitimate, no need to lie.
Communist Ace with a trail of destroyed planes behind him? Yes
Killer of men on his own ship? No
Here's the "offical" account of what supposedly happenedon the USS Forrestal in 1967:
"At about 1050 (local time) on 29 July, while preparations for the second strike of the day were being made, an unguided 5.0 in (127.0 mm) Mk-32 "Zuni" rocket, one of four contained in a LAU-10 underwing rocket pod mounted on an F-4B Phantom II, was accidentally fired due to an electrical power surge . . ."
McCain was on deck at the time in the area where the "accidental" discharge occured. I have read on more than one blog that those that were there point fingers at McCain but he was absolved of all responsiblity due to his father's connections in the Navy.