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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
Tue May 28, 2013, 09:22 AM May 2013

Because, the Risk of Dying on an Overseas Mission is Sooo Frickin Funny!

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tweeted by, The Rude Pundit ?@rudepundit 1h
Lindsey Graham takes a glass half-full approach should John McCain die in Syria: https://twitter.com/GrahamBlog/status/339155733767680000


tweet:

Lindsey Graham@GrahamBlog
Best wishes to @SenJohnMcCain in Syria today. If he doesn't make it back calling dibs on his office.

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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
2. kinda pulls shade up on how much CONCERN he really has
Tue May 28, 2013, 09:36 AM
May 2013

. . . for folks like Chris Stevens who put their lives on the line almost everyday when they punch in for work.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
4. Why is McCain in Syria in the first place?
Tue May 28, 2013, 10:35 AM
May 2013

If anything happens to him, the US is involved. Does McCain think he is the Lone Ranger or what?

Is McCain's trip authorized by the State Department or is he trying to embarrass the Obama administration?

Conducting foreign policy is not the job of a member of Congress. It is the job of the administration. Unless the Obama administration sent McCain or at least approved of his visit, he should not be in Syria. He might even be giving aid and comfort to an enemy with his visit. I don't think we have clearly stated, publicly stated, which side we are on if any, in Syria. Or did I miss the State Department's approval of his trip?

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
6. All good questions, JD. Yes, McCain does think he's the Lone Ranger...
Wed May 29, 2013, 12:43 AM
May 2013

Of course he's trying to embarrass the Obama administration. The fact that McCain is an embarrassment to himself doesn't seem to register in his brain.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
7. But -- maybe the Obama administration approved his visit and just
Wed May 29, 2013, 01:05 AM
May 2013

isn't saying so. Hard to say. He certainly acts like a Lone Ranger.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
5. WaPo
Wed May 29, 2013, 12:38 AM
May 2013
Washington Post ?@washingtonpost 2h

Lindsey Graham jokes about John McCain dying in Syria on Twitter

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are close allies on foreign policy. So close, apparently, that Graham feels comfortable joking about the possibility that McCain would be killed in war-torn Syria:

McCain traveled to Syria on Monday to meet with rebels, making him the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the country in the two years since the civil war began. He and Graham both support arming the rebels in their fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

McCain will still be needing his office as he has safely left Syria, a spokesman confirmed.

http://wapo.st/110uHSE
 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
8. What makes him any more special that the ~200 other people that will die there today?
Wed May 29, 2013, 02:01 AM
May 2013

And what motivates you to even write this?

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