@CB

That fucking asshole needs to go before he does more damage. I repeat, the world will be a better place once he's in his grave.

https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/statement-by-sasc-...
Jul 20 2017
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON REPORTS REGARDING PROGRAM TO ASSIST THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION
Washington, D.C. ­– U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on reports that the administration is ending a program to assist the Syrian opposition:

“If these reports are true, the administration is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin. Making any concession to Russia, absent a broader strategy for Syria, is irresponsible and short-sighted. The administration has yet to articulate its vision for Syria beyond the defeat of ISIL, let alone a comprehensive approach to the Middle East. A key pillar of American strategy must be the removal of Assad from power as part of an end to the brutal conflict in Syria, which has fueled ISIL’s growth through its cruelty, extended malign Iranian influence, and undermined broader regional stability. Six months into this administration, there is still no new strategy for victory in Afghanistan either. It is now mid-July, when the administration promised to deliver that strategy to Congress, and we are still waiting.”

McCain needs to leave Syria alone so they can rebuild their country. They have suffered far, far more than McCain will with his one percenter Cadillac health plan. Take note that Russia has been highly instrumental in finally bringing peace and security to the war torn country.

@SpamNunn Oh, I see. You have a sense of "humanity" and the rest here don't. You don't get it. People who are commenting harshly about McCain ARE hating the sin(s) of this man, big time. And since the behaviors are attached to the person, being happy that this person will no longer be able to have the power to author misery for millions (war and healthcare), it is that happiness over his impending death that is the actual HUMANE position.

My humanity does not permit me to think like that. I believe that hate consumes the hater.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

[see my sig]

@SpamNunn you have made your feelings known as have others here.
No one's opinion is worth more than another's here.
People are free to express their views here that would get people possibly banned from DK if they expressed their views there.
This is what makes this site special, IMO.
No one is trying to change your mind on how to feel about McCain's upcoming death or his actions.
I hope you will continue to stick around stay involved with this community. Especially since we have been thinking about creating a real community when the shit hits the fan

My humanity does not permit me to think like that. I believe that hate consumes the hater.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

[see my sig]

@SpamNunn
to prevent armed conflict to being neutral to actively advocating for it. I can think of no other senator that has pushed as much and as consistently for armed confrontation as a solution to conflicts in the world than John McCain. Even the other war-mongering senators, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, rode McCain's coattails. These men even went out of their way on their own time to advocate for armed conflict personally right on the front lines.

McCain, Lieberman and Graham: The Senate’s three war-crazed amigos

When John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman join forces, you can be sure of one thing: It will involve state-sponsored violence. Today, they want us to arm Syrian rebels. Though, you know, what they really wanted to call for was actually bombing the hell out of Syria, until there is freedom. They’re just taking it slow.

The Senate’s three most predictable and least credible warmongering “moderates” frequently join forces to publish joint Op-Eds or hold press conferences and the one thing they always, invariably want is for the United States to have just a little bit more war than it currently has, somewhere far away. Sure, we could draw down in Iraq … or we could listen to McCain, Lieberman and Graham and draw back up. We could draw down in Afghanistan … or we could stay the course and keep sending troops there until we win! Americans may be tired of endless war with no coherent goal, but on the other hand, “only decisive force can prevail in [whatever country John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman are talking about now].”

As the Hill recently explained in a story on how John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman were pushing for a resolution basically promising to make war with Iran, “Graham, Lieberman and McCain are considered some of the top foreign policy experts in the upper chamber,” because they always, invariably support military intervention everywhere for any reason, and that is invariably considered a sign of “seriousness” in Washington. If you don’t like waging wars everywhere, forever, you are a weird kooky hippie, and everyone laughs at you. If you believe that bombs and troops have the power to magically solve all problems, you are invited on all the Sunday shows every week to offer your sober analysis of the foreign situation.

Lieberman is gone. McCain is on the way out and Lindsey Graham is powerless on his own. Now we will just be left with the non-elected war-mongers that they empowered to deal with.

To give peace a chance you have to first get rid of the influential war-mongers. In the last two decades, none have been more powerful than McCain.

The world will be a better place without these men in it. I'm not sorry Ted Bundy is gone. I won't be sorry when John McCain is gone. They were both sociopaths in their own right.

I don't presume to speak for anyone else, or impose my beliefs on them. I just take no joy in the suffering or misfortunes of others. Schadenfreude is not an emotion that comes as easily to me as to some others.

Also, one man can't be responsible for all of the suffering you attribute to him. He wasn't a dictator. He was one of a hundred Senators, any 41 of which could have prevented a lot of misery.

Allow me my empathy, and I will allow that you may feel differently - or is there another line I need to toe that I am not yet aware of?

@CB

Real people. First TV appearance.

Here's a wholesome daughter/father duet in the car. There's still some good and decency in the world.

@native I'd be looking back at my life and considering how I would change some of the things I had done that caused people harm.
This is definitely not what McCain is doing. He is continuing thinking of ways to create more deaths and misery for people who are no threat to our country.
I have no idea why he is so set on continuing his actions. It's not going to affect his life in any way, so I just don't understand why he's still pushing for funding the Syrian rebels.
He has to know about the atrocities they have committed. They beheaded a 12 year old boy for gawd's sake. What type of person could think that is okay?

And he still wants to kick millions of their insurance! For what reason does this make sense? The money for this isn't coming from his pockets.
No, he's doing this just because this is the type of person he is.

John McCain is going to continue trying to cause big trouble, right up until his last dying breath. It's a good idea to exercise caution, if you are dealing with an angry rattlesnake at close quarters -- even one who appears to be mortally wounded.

@CB McCain deserves as much scorn as can be piled. If not, we're accepting this kind of evil.

McCain's efforts to support the "rebels" and sanction Syria has directly resulted in the Syrian people losing their cancer hospital as well as access to life saving cancer drugs.

John McCain and The Cancer of Conflict
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Before the terrorist forces occupied the eastern part of the city, Aleppo was home to one of the Middle East’s top cancer treatment centers, Al-Kindi Hospital. This is important because after McCain’s secret trip to the Aleppo area in May 2013, the very same ‘rebels’ he was cavorting with and supplying weapons to – the ‘Free Syrian Army’ (under the command of Jabbat al Nusra aka al Qaeda in Syria) would later order the bombing on this cancer treatment hospital.

Professor Tim Anderson explains the destruction of Al Kindi Hospital in December 2013, including the shameful spin applied after the fact by BBC and western mainstream media:

In an Orwellian revision of events the BBC (21 December 2013) reported the destruction of Al-Kindi with the headline: “Syria rebels take back strategic hospital in Aleppo”. The introduction claimed the “massive suicide lorry bomb” had managed “to seize back a strategic ruined hospital occupied by Assad loyalists.” Al-Kindi was said to have been “a disused building” and “according to an unconfirmed report, 35 rebels died in the attack”. In fact, these ‘rebels’ were a coalition of Free Syrian Army and Jabhat al Nusra, while the ‘Assad loyalists’ were the staff and security guards of a large public hospital.

Watch as McCain’s ‘freedom fighters’ in Syria drive a suicide truck bomb into the ground level of Al Kindi Cancer Treatment Center in Aleppo:
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It’s fair to say that while this Senator is being treated in the world’s leading medical facilities, thousands of innocents will have died needlessly because of US sanctions and support for terrorists – all in the name of defense, energy and ever vast corporate profits. Strange as that might sound to some, for those who consider themselves members of a ruling elite and its mandarin management class, that is perfectly acceptable quid pro quo in 2017.

After World War II, the military industrial complex and the international arms trade has spread conflict like a disease across the planet, metastasizing in ways, in places, and on a scale which no one could have previously imagined before. Undoubtedly, over the last decade, John McCain has played a key role in spreading that anguish. For the people of Syria, Afghanistan and the Ukraine, that will be his legacy, not the chimerical image of a ‘maverick’ Senator or the ‘war hero.’
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