McCain Says Obama ‘Allowed’ French Terrorist Attack

[DonViejo]

Source: Political Wire

July 18, 2016
By Taegan Goddard

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told KTAR-FM that President Obama “allowed” the Bastille Day attack in France that left at least 84 people dead to happen.

Said McCain: “As far as the tragedy in France is concerned, obviously this is an act of mayhem and despicable. I also have to tell you — our prayers are with the families, obviously, and the French people — but I also have to tell you, that as long as we have a leadership in this country — the president of the United States — who allowed this to happen, his policies are directly responsible for ISIS and ISIS is responsible for these attacks.”

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If Bush hadn't invaded Iraq there would have been no ISIS.

And there's no evidence that the nutball who did the attack was affiliated with ISIS. But, facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts. And nobody needs a lecture from the damned old fool who thought Sarah Palin would be a good Vice President.

[Angry Dragon]

45. Yes

[SDJay]

2. Didn't He Learn His Lesson Recently

when he said something equally stupid about Orlando and had to walk it back because the heat got so intense?

This fool needs to retire or at least be booted from public life. What a bitter, bitter man.

Every time he opens his mouth I'm more thankful that he didn't become POTUS, and that doesn't even take his disastrous VP pick into account.

[dhill926]

23. what you said....

[Siwsan]

3. Wow - when did we take over France?? I must have missed that headline

Or is this just more proof that McCain needs to go quietly into that good night of retirement.

[yurbud]

33. If France is part of the United States, why did Bushies bash them so much?

[Siwsan]

34. I know - it's all too much!!!

Well guess what. One of my Bee Balm plants isn't blooming so I guess I'll just say 'Thanks, Obama!!!'

[MyOwnPeace]

36. Fixed it!

"Or is this just more proof that McCain needs to go QUICKLY into that good night of retirement."

[Dawson Leery]

4. Hey coward, if Bush did not take over Iraq, ISIS would have no where

to work out of.

[HassleCat]

5. McCain is correct, as always.

If our president had any courage, he would drop nuclear weapons on every other nation, killing as many non-Americans as possible. Then he would send our armed forces round the word to kill anyone the nukes didn't get. There would be no more attacks in France, because... well, because there would be no France, just a few cinders.

[mountain grammy]

6. Retire McCain!

[mpcamb]

38. Poor addled elderly man...

[librarylu]

7. Sounds like McCain....

....has been reading the supermarket papers.

[liberal N proud]

8. Obama is the most responsible adult on earth

If he is responsible for all these things, then he must have some huge amount of power to make or allow this stuff to happen.

[Paladin]

9. Trump had it right about you, McCain. You're a loser. Retirement is way overdue. (nt)

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Yes he orchestrated it all by himself.

It's nap time, Gramps, nappy time.

[Moostache]

11. Hey John, you STILL lost in 2008.

Suck on that and feel the sting until your last, bigoted dying breathe you waste of humanity.

[George II]

12. He's fucking crazy. ISIS and all that is going on in the Middle East, Europe, and even here....

....is the responsibility of George bush, and even his father!

Daddy Bush was warned not to station American troops on sacred land in Saudi Arabia. He ignored the warnings and that led to the formation of al Qaeda. Before that bin Laden was an ALLY of the US and worked together with the US after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Baby bush, only weeks after the Iraq invasion, disbanded the Iraqi army and essentially put them out on the street without income or any occupation. They were bitter, and banded together to for what is now ISIS. At one point a huge percentage of ISIS members were ex-Iraqi military people.

McCain knows all of this, he's just unwilling to admit to reality.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Looks like the killer was 'self-radicalising' - just getting religion right before it

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
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One witness told detectives that during a discussion about portrayals of Islamic State decapitations online, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had replied: “I am used to that,” Molins said.

Another told police that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel “couldn’t understand why Isis couldn’t claim its own territory” and others quizzed by detectives, including his estranged wife, spoke of his “violent behaviour”, Molins said.

Investigators had found no proof of any “allegiance or any direct link” to Islamic State or other terrorist organisations, according to Molins. However, Lahouaiej-Boulel’s computer contained “very violent” images from radical Islamic sites and links to jihadi websites, as well as articles about the Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice, the recent nightclub attack in Orlando, shootings in Dallas, the killing of two police officers in Paris suburb Magnanville, and research into Osama bin Laden and the Algerian terrorist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/nice-attack-premeditated-mohamed-lahouaiej-bouhlel-beard-prosecutor

[packman]

14. Guy has been out in the Arizonia sun too long

brain has shrunken to size of a peanut. What an ass - makes me think Sarah was the brains on that ticket a few years back.

[Crowman1979]

15. Excuse me asshole! Weren't you the one LITERALLY pallin' around with terrorists?

[gordianot]

16. Instantly he should have been asked "How is this possible?"

Every interview from this day forward this comment should be the first question asking for an explanation. No other questions by media given this is an election year.

[RussBLib]

21. the media rarely follows up stupid comments like this

they just nod their heads and ask different questions like good little stenographers.

[Botany]

17. No John, ISIS was made by bush, Cheney, and Blair's Iraqi war

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/tony-blair-says-iraq-war-helped-give-rise-to-isis.html

Tony Blair Says Iraq War Helped Give Rise to ISIS
By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURAOCT. 25, 2015

LONDON — Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, suggested on Sunday that the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which removed Saddam Hussein from power, helped give rise to the Islamic State, even as he said it was “hard to apologize for removing Saddam.”

Mr. Blair, whose decision to involve Britain in the military mission made him deeply unpopular at home, told CNN that “there are elements of truth” to the view that the war in Iraq helped pave the way for the Islamic State.

The militant group emerged as an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which fought the American presence there, before separating from the organization. It now controls vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, and is also known as ISIS or ISIL.

[lark]

18. Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Bush and John McCain personally are responsible for ISIS. Bush is responsible by firing all of Saddam's military which was overwhelmingly Sunni, not allowing them to be hired for any government work, and promoting the Iraqi leaning Shiaa as the head of Iraq. They further oppressed, killed and tortured the Sunni leaving a wide open field for the predominantly Sunni Al Quaeda to come to Iraq in defense of their brethren. ISIS is a later offshoot of Al Quaeda. Then in Syria, McCain pushed us to fund the "good rebels", unfortunately he named Al Bagdadhi as one of the good guys and we funded them and he started ISIS with the American weapons we gifted him. That's why he's so hot to put this off on Obama, he'd lose if people knew he funded the start up of ISIS with his terrible judgment.

[emulatorloo]

19. More sore-loserisms from the asshat who gave us Sarah Palin.

[RussBLib]

20. I hope the Dem Kirkpatrick is taking note

Wow, the Arizona Primary isn't until Aug 30? Nothing like the last minute!

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_Arizona,_2016

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Florida too

I'm all for limiting the length of campaigns, 10 weeks seems a little too short.

[jpak]

22. Sore Loser whines again

yup

[milestogo]

24. Obama responsible for an attack in France, Bush not responsible for attack in US

Republican logic.

[muntrv]

26. Hey John! Since when does Obama rule France?

[asjr]

27. I hope McCain loses his station in D.C. I can't remember if he

ever helped pass a good bill while being there. Give him another round as a
senator and his dementia will take care of him. The worst thing he has done while in office is he brought that lovely know-it-all Palin to town. And we will never be rid of her.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. He's so stupid

He really is. The statement, the place where it came from within. Stupid, stupid, stupid. France charts its own course - and France doesn't need this idiot injecting stupidity into the situation.

He totally totally is NOT helping.

[Ms.Lib]

29. Good freaking Grief!!

He did this after Orlando as well... Is there nothing this looney old man won't blame on Obama?? God I so hope he's voted out of office!!!

[sofa king]

30. Go lose your reelection, Uncle Fester.

[WhiteTara]

31. The old man is getting senile.

It's beyond time for him to go.

[HooptieWagon]

32. The same Sen John McCain who posed for pictures with ISIS?

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/06/isis-pr-mccain/

Perhaps McCain should retire to a nice nursing home, where he can spend the afternoons in a chair, on the lawn, yelling at the clouds.

[Angry Dragon]

46. He would just go one of his many homes ............ too many to count

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. Aside from the lunacy of McCain's comments about Obama

I didn't realize that France was suddenly part of the US- and that Republicans loved France so much anyway? So, am I to believe now that anytime ISIS strikes anywhere in the world, it's suddenly Obama's fault?

[tallahasseedem]

41. Remember when they hated France...

and they started the "Freedom Fry" movement. ANYTHING to blame the President.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

50. I remember that lunacy all too well

It's ALL about finding SOMETHING to blame Obama for. The Fox/hate radio/Republican echo chamber just gets crazier and crazier because they can never find much, if anything, that they can actually blame him for.

[Frustratedlady]

37. I'd love to know what all those visits were about to the ME...

McCain was photographed with some of the terrorists, if my memory serves me correctly. Why was McCain with them and what was he doing? Trying to gain their love? Peace? Weapon sales? Incitement? All kinds of crazy things go through my warped brain, but "fishy" wins first place in my analysis.

WHY does everyone blame Obama for these mass killings?

[dbackjon]

39. FUCK OFF McCAIN

[tallahasseedem]

40. Wait, wasn't it determined this guy had no dealings with ISIS?

And how is the President responsible for security at a celebration in Nice, France? Seriously?

McCain needs to go, and go NOW.

[Solly Mack]

42. He needs a medical check up. To put it politely.

Very confused.

[BlueStater]

43. No redemption is possible for McCain.

He'll be a bitter, repulsive asshole until his last dying breath.

[YOHABLO]

44. I hope McCain loses.. we're tired of his stupid big mouth. He's clueless.

[The Second Stone]

47. McCain allowed French Toast attack

and can't be bothered to pass the powdered sugar.

[BigDemVoter]

48. Fuck that fossil, McCain.

He is stupid and has a screw loose.

[PersonNumber503602]

49. For some reason I always thought McCain was above this sort nonsense.

[DetlefK]

51. Obama allowed that to happen by not saying "radical islamic extremism".

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

52. Bitter old coot

Time to send him home so he can start defending his lawn.