GOP Senator Apologizes for McCain Tantrum at Syrian Christian Leader Meeting

[JohnyCanuck]

The delegation of Syrian clergy came to Washington to raise awareness among lawmakers of the growing crisis among the region’s minority Christian community. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian population and they are being targeted and ruthlessly murdered by radical elements of the rebel forces, according to the visiting church officials. They say the media and human rights groups in the west have been largely silent on the ordeal of the Christians in Syria.

A number of churches have been destroyed or burned, children were killed when rebels fired mortar rockets at an Armenian Christian school in Damascus and countless others have been abducted by Islamic fighters, the Syrian delegation reveals in a statement published by the research group, Westminster Institute, that brought them to Washington. Eleven nuns have also been abducted and are still in captivity and two bishops are still missing after getting kidnapped during a humanitarian mission.

But Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, evidently doesn’t want to hear negative stories about the rebels he’s working to arm. So he stormed out of a closed-door meeting with the Syrian clergy officials last week. Held in the Senate Arms Services Committee meeting room, the reunion also included senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Graham is a Republican and the rest are Democrats.

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The outburst was so embarrassing that Senator Graham, also an advocate of U.S. military intervention in Syria, apologized for McCain’s disturbing outburst. “Graham actually apologized to the group for McCain’s behavior,” according to the source, who sat through the entire meeting. “It was truly unbelievable.”

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/02/gop-sen-apologizes-for-mccain-tantrum-at-syrian-christian-leader-meeting/

[pangaia]

1. McCain is an empty, self-absorbed, arrogant, adolescent and always has been.

He doesn't know what to do with his life so he just stays in the Senate. How he keeps getting re-elected is beyond me.

[brush]

2. What a bullet we dodged in '08

Imagine him as president.

GOD!

And then Caribou Barbie backing him up.

JESUS!

[dragonlady]

3. At least he wasn't elected president

The world is better off with "that one" in the White House.

[hlthe2b]

4. I think he is haunted with the mantel of "hero" from Vietnam, because I think he

gave the North Vietnamese the info they wanted--and which very well may have led to many dead GIs. The issue isn't what I think of that or others think of that, but what McCain, himself--his subconscious--thinks of what he did.

Maintaining the "act" all these years must surely be exhausting.

[BlueStreak]

6. +1 Very troubling that a person with his issues is in such a position of power

[pangaia]

12. Very accurate 'diagnosis,' I would say.

[BlueStreak]

5. With "friends" like McCain, Christians don't need enemies

[okaawhatever]

7. Judicial Watch is a neo-con joke of an organization. They've pursued cases such as:

"Digging into questions about Barack Obama's ... and his gang's efforts to steal the 2012 elections." [27]

Suing the town of Herndon, Virginia to stop a "day laborer" program on the grounds that it may provide employment for illegal aliens.

Criticizing the George W. Bush administration for their guest worker program, obtaining evidence of a spike in illegal immigration denied by the administration.

Initiating a request to the Naval Inspector General for an investigation into the "legitimacy and propriety" of the awards John Kerry received for his service in Vietnam.[28] The inspector general's office subsequently determined that Kerry's awards "were properly approved" and declined to take further action in the matter;[29] the office also responded to Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act request with documentation of its review.[30]

Launched an investigation into any White House's involvement in "branding" of the University of Arizona memorial for the victims of the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, at which t-shirts bearing the slogan "Together We Thrive" were distributed. Judicial Watch demanded the university send them "any and all communications, contracts or correspondence between the University of Arizona and The White House concerning, regarding or relating to T-shirts bearing the logo 'Together We Thrive: Tucson & America,' distributed to attendees at the January 12, 2011, memorial service". The university replied that the White House had no involvement with the branding of the event, and that the slogan—which Judicial Watch described as "an obvious play on a popular Obama presidential campaign theme"[36]—was devised by a university student.[37]

They're funded by Richard Mellon Scaife. that should tell you how respectable they are.

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. Yeah, weird politics behind this story.

McCain being criticized by the rightists for being a patsy of the Islamists. I don't have a dog in this particular fight, so go at it, guys.

[eissa]

8. That's right, McCain, don't let those pesky facts ruin your narrative!

You stick to your "the rebels are freedom fighters" fantasy, and ignore the reality that they are nothing more than a bunch of religious zealots terrorizing the region.

God, can you imagine if he was actually elected POTUS? How many countries would we have invaded by now? And then that dumbass just a heartbeat away.....*shudders*

[Montana redneck]

9. Old Age

Even if this isn't true McCain says some odd things. I think any of us that have dealt with ageing parents and Grandparents know what's going on. The anger thing is a sign of dementia to me. It's to bad his family and advisors won't do what's right for him and save him from what I'm sure will be a very embarrassing end to his career. On the same topic what about a mandatory retirement age for legislators'.

[panader0]

13. Welcome new DUer!

[joeybee12]

10. McLame must think that since crazy worked for Palin...

He should try it...although he's always been crazy, so crazier is the key here.