Senator McCain had forgotten to bring his nametag to the meeting with Syrian rebels and had had to improvise. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
According to news reports, this weekend Senator John McCain made a clandestine visit to Syria and met with representatives of Free Syrian Army, one of the rebel factions fighting the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. This development had raised a few eyebrows, because normally Senator McCain spends his weekends on the Sunday talk shows. Here are 10 possible reasons why John McCain visited Syria.
1) McCain decided to travel to Syria in order to investigate the Benghazi consulate attack in the very place where it had happened.
2) Since Assad is expected to be out of power soon, John McCain is testing the grounds for a presidential run there, before Mitt Romney beats him to it.
3) Because Free Syrian Army is engaged in an armed rebellion against a tyrannical dictator, McCain met with rebel fighters to pick up their advice to use at home later.
4) Old age senility had finally set in, and for the last few weeks McCain has been acting under the impression that he became the President after 2008 elections.
5) After weeks of non-stop partisan fighting in the Senate, McCain wanted to get to get away someplace quiet.
6) He came to tell the Islamic Syrian rebels that Republican Party understands their concerns and will remain steadfast in its opposition to Barack Obama’s agenda of instituting worldwide Sharia law.
7) American Airlines’ frequent flyer program has been redesigned once again, and added the restriction that allows accumulated miles to be used only to buy flights to Syria.
8) McCain wanted to provide encouragement to Syrian rebels fighting for the noblest of the causes – making Syrian government smaller.
9) John McCain is sick of bloodshed in Syria, and he came to establish the framework for a peaceful solution by teaching the rebels how to peacefully paralyze Assad’s government by filibuster.
10) McCain met with Al-Qaeda representatives to discuss their complaints that IRS keeps delaying approval on their tax-exempt status application.
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You don’t think he was looking for some of the money Apple has squirreled away?
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No, of course not. He probably picked the only country where he knows that he won’t bother Apple’s tax avoidance schemes.
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Reblogged this on The ObamaCrat.Com™ and commented:
I am hoping they Syrian people decide to adopt him & keep him. Forever. Infinity & 1 day.
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Thank you for the reblog! I share your hope, but unfortunately even Syrians couldn’t deal with McCain for more than a few hours.
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They deserve each other. Both seem to relish in war.
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Forever shall his name be tied to $arah
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As in Sarah and John McCain, together till death does them apart? 🙂
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Caribou Barbie herself!
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Maybe he thought Bush Jr had missed Syria when he was busy pissing off other nations for 8 years, so decided to help out. Romney already made sure Britain still hates us, so he did his part.
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Syria never liked us too much to begin with. But now, after meeting John McCain, they’ll finally have a good reason to hate us.
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He and Cindy-Lou-Who hadn’t yet purchased a house there. Perhaps they’ll stay? Please, please please.
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I hope they will. Although McCain will be probably visiting few other countries to see where else he could start a war.
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Well, repugnicans sure know how to be UNloyal to our countries citizens & each other..In a tweet McCain’s so called ally @ Lindsey Graham make a joke & said if he didn’t make it back; he was calling dibs on his position in Arizona. Tongue-in-cheeky enough or what? I’m just about sick & tyeeed of the 3 ring circus that McCain is. Reminds me of an old , crusty roach that just refuses to DIE..not that I’m wishing death on him ..but I’m just saying
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Graham probably wasn’t really joking: from what I hear, he’s probably not going to survive his state primary. And McCain… I wonder if he specifically picked Memorial Day weekend to try to get us involved into another war. (“lets honor our dead by making more of them”)
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Xcellent points..I thought of that also@Why he chose Memorial Day weekend..Pretty sure it wasn’t by accident
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He probably just wanted to revive his image as a maverick.
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He’s also lucky that Assad forces didn’t renew his image as a POW.
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well done!
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Thank you!
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Good job. I was wondering about the REAL reasons McCain went to Syria.
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Thank you! And now you know no less than 10 of them.
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I am going with you on the senility thing. Sometimes old people just wander off. They should sew his name and address inside his underwear.
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I’m starting to think that McCain tendency to forget his name may be the reason why in the picture above there are people standing behind McCain with large signs with his name on it.
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They shout it at him too. They are so helpful.
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I think we found the cure for memory loss – running for president.
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No… they forget evey promise they made to get elected.
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true, but that’s why they run for re-election, to remember the promises they made in the original election.
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You might be just a tad cynical…
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You may be the smartest blogger on the WordPress planet, my friend.
Terrific job!
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Thank you – but I seriously doubt I’m the smartest. The only things I have going for me is my preoccupation with topics most people consider boring, and maybe some detective skills 🙂
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>> well, there may be intensifying pressure, but i don’t think the president necessarily wants to move, certainly not unilaterally. all the talk is about who else is involved. there is greater pressure about arming syrian rebels. the question is, which ones? john mccain and other republicans in congress have been wary of some of the fishers in that opposition in syria . who do you trust, who don’t you trust, who is a legitimate opposition force to assad, who is, of course, the particular tater in syria . right now i think what richard just said, the fact that the e.u. might be sending arms there, a better sign for the administration that wants diplomacy and get other countries involved than just the pressure on the united states .
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>> well, there may be intensifying pressure, but i don’t think the president necessarily wants to move, certainly not unilaterally. all the talk is about who else is involved. there is greater pressure about arming syrian rebels. the question is, which ones? john mccain and other republicans in congress have been wary of some of the fishers in that opposition in syria . who do you trust, who don’t you trust, who is a legitimate opposition force to assad, who is, of course, the particular tater in syria . right now i think what richard just said, the fact that the e.u. might be sending arms there, a better sign for the administration that wants diplomacy and get other countries involved than just the pressure on the united states .
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