McCain opposes Syria strike resolution
 

I think John should retire,, but sometimes he is a cagey old bastard..

Do you think McCain may be trying to set up barry & the LEFT??
Do you think he may introduce a resolution that forces Boots on the ground??
Do you think he may try to force barry to veto his own request??

:munchin

I think McCain should have called it quits and left politics a long time ago while he still had a few brain cells left.

The senile Senator from Arizona guarantees the Syrian rebels are moderates.

Another 'rock and a hard place' for Bam.
Bam just wants to throw a missile or two so he can get off the hook, the hook he set for himself and our Nation.
John wants a 'game changer'....if you do something make it relevant kind of thing.
John may be senile but at least he's acting with intentions of some principle even if misguided.
Bams intentions are strictly self serving.
I hate to see the Presidency diminished, not a good thing on the foreign affairs front.
Doing nothing, at this point, is almost impossible without us losing in some quarter.
Tis has been the most stupidly played affair I've seen to date.

Robably because there's no pork in it for him or AZ.

+1

I think the asshat just wants more money.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

My $.00002
 

IMHO any POTUS has a tough job, though Obama given the nature of his flashy rhetoric and utter lack of spine has talked himself into the type of pickle of a situation where he steps on his crank no matter what happens from here on out. I don't know how cagey Mccain or anyone on the hill needs to be to see a political short squeeze.

Politically, there is no downside for congress to vote this down, let Obama finally own something, because this will be ugly either way, there has already been a great deal of blood and there will be more. There is more to this than politics, if it was just the Assad regime and AQ wanting to duke it out, let Allah sort it out, we might even fence it off and drop in bayonets a la the Hunger Games.

However, I do feel America's enemies many of whom are developing or possess their own WMD will be emboldened by inaction. I don't for a second understand how a limited scale and scope strike accomplishes anything or is even possible, it's not just a matter of unknown unknowns, doesn't history or plain common sense tell us the enemy gets a vote once shots are fired? How can any of these talking heads predict how this ends, the Mid East has always been been a perpetual hornet's nest. Iraq and Libya have reinforced the lessons vaccums don't exist in nature, subsequent regimes can be even worse, and the bulk of the middle east isn't ready for democracy.

Personally I think this can only end with US boots on the ground to secure /ensure the WMD don't end up under AQ control, and congress must set clearly defined operational goals and objectives before once sending them in harms way. What is the objective in Syria, ending the Assad regime, eliminating the WMD?

If Congress wants to be cute they can say okay Mr. Obama since US credibility is now on the line as good Americans we will help walk your talk, but we are broke so we must tack on an addendum to repeal Obamacare to pay for Syria. Obama's narcissism will require a military strike with or without congress, at which point if events escalate to the point of requiring boots on the ground, Congress can come to the rescue " and reconsider given new circumstances"

I'd like to think our elected officials are on this issue finally more concerned with national interests here than re-election, Either way I wouldn't open up a lemonade stand next to the Russian consulate in Damascus anytime soon...

He is not cagey he is fossilized, seems the maverick John gets bored at work. Is it any wonder our Country is in the shape it's in?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ion-Syria.html

At least HE accomplished Something that day. No one else there did!

It is probably convenient for someone in DC that the attention is now on Congress' indecision rather than everyone in the west wing waiting to find out what Valerie tells her charge to do.

They're feeling bound to do something, anything, even if it's wrong or for the wrong reason or too late to be effective - and someone in an American uniform will die because of it. Plus ca change...
:rolleyes:

"Senator, it is time for you to resign your position as my Senator.”
 

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Pat

OOPS! Already posted. :(

Mccaine is an absolute nutter. The daft old codger should have slunk back under the rocks years ago when he still had somewhat of a reputation to enjoy.

Freakin' nut-job is going to get us into yet another war.

How convenient, Syria's threat to our national security has taken the spotlight off of the myriad of scandals plaguing the White House, the IRS, the Justice Department, the BATF, the NSA, and the State Department.
If all of these impeachable actions equal the permissible murders that took place in Bengazi, then Syria is the laughable YouTube video that "sparked the attack" on 9-11-12.

Washington needs to be taken out behind the shed like a sick dog and put down.

Remember, there is a man in California serving time for instigating the attacks in Bengazi.