McCain blocks Obama's pick as No.2 diplomat over Iraq policy
Source: Reuters
BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
WASHINGTON Thu Dec 4, 2014 4:32pm EST
(Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday he is blocking President Barack Obama's nomination of Anthony Blinken as the country's number two diplomat, citing sharp disagreement with the nominee's past statements on Iraq.
"He's totally unqualified," the Republican senator told Reuters, when asked why he was holding up Blinken's nomination to be deputy Secretary of State.
"He's the guy who said we're leaving behind the richest, safest Iraq in history. Look it up," McCain said, referring to Blinken's reassuring comments two years ago about the decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq.
McCain, a frequent critic of Obama's foreign policy, has repeatedly voiced strong opposition to the decision to end the campaign in Iraq, where U.S. forces are currently battling the militant fighters of the Islamic State.
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Grab, your plane, since you like to shoot of your mouth off McCain and go over there and defend your cause.
Put on your big John Wayne cowboy boots and hat walk around and deflect your hypocrisy to the fact that your right wing buddies name Bush and crew, murdered over 4600 American, 100,000 of Iraq's and then lied to the entire nation, while you were voting yes, that the country would be safer and would be able to pay us back from the death a destruction because we "LIBERATED" them from evil.
You really do drink Kool Aid don't you?
What part of the Articles of advise and consent don't you understand in the Constitution when it comes to nominees, should we get out the crayon box and grab a color called yellow and help you draw a picture of deceit and deception of hypocrisy?
Have you taken a good look in the mirror lately to see what hate and fear really looks like, or are we going to hear you blather on Meet the Right Wing Press this weekend to hear your justification with Toodles and the round table kids, or Bob Shieffer on the Face of the Right Wing Nation drooling over one of your right wing hypocrite words, or Fix Noise getting softball hate fill answers and questions from good old Chris Wallace entertainment today, blaming the president for tying his shoe strings with his left hand or brushing his teeth with his left hand in journalism.
