On Senate Floor, McCain Suggests Israel "Go Rogue," Blow Up Iran Negotiations By Starting War

[Cali_Democrat]

Why is McCain so obsessed with war?

Can you imagine if this guy became President in 2008?

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McCain Suggests Israel "Go Rogue," Blow Up Iran Negotiations By Starting War

As Iran talks appear to be coming to a close with a successful agreement that would both lead to the lifting of international sanctions and restrictions that would prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons, most in the international community are relieved.

Yet Republicans have teamed up with their counterparts in the Israeli political system to do everything they can to obstruct a deal – with tactics such as drafting new sanctions legislation and warning the Iranian leadership that the nuclear agreement will not outlast President Obama.

But this past week Senator John McCain (R-AZ) ratcheted up this sabotage to a new level. During a floor speech he gave on March 24th, the senator suggested that Israel “go rogue” and that if they don't they may not survive the next 22 months of the Obama presidency:

McCAIN: The Israelis will need to chart their own path of resistance. On the Iranian nuclear deal, they may have to go rogue. Let's hope their warnings have not been mere bluffs. Israel survived its first 19 years without meaningful U.S. patronage. For now, all it has to do is get through the next 22, admittedly long months.

Recall that McCain is head of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former Republican presidential candidate. His call for a foreign state to openly obstruct U.S. policy and in the process initiate a catastrophic regional war is perhaps unprecedented for someone of his senior position.

http://www.alternet.org/mccain-suggests-israel-go-rogue-blow-iran-negotiations-starting-war

[ZM90]

1. If McCain had become President in 2008 we'd be in a different war every year. n/t

[rpannier]

6. If here were President in 2008 he wouldn't be now

He'd have gotten us all killed before 2012

[lovemydog]

2. McCain: noun, verb, declare war.

[lake loon]

3. Hanoi John is a mental patient

He's insane.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. McCain is a sick fuck,

and he's no patriot. Being a former POW doesn't give him the right to sabotage this country's peace negotiations.

[DonCoquixote]

5. whatever you can say about Obama

every year this fool McCain opens his mouth, I realize that job one of the American voter was keeping this idiot away from the "button."

[Thor_MN]

7. Yeah, going rogue worked out so well for Gramps....

I think Gramps will be lucky to survive 22 months at the rate that he is declining.

[bearssoapbox]

8. He's so far around the bend he's caught up with himself.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. You got that right. McLame is one scary fuck.

[drynberg]

10. ARE THERE CONSEQUENCES IN THE SENATE FOR MCCAINS OUTRAGEOUS "ROUGE" COMMENTS?

McCain needs to be tamped down quickly, he is making statements that are beyond the limits, no?

[spanone]

11. mr mccain has lost his mind.

[KittyWampus]

12. the only reason McCain has ever appeared more intelligent and seemed more achieved

than he actually is lies with his handler who has groomed him since day one of McCain''s political career- Mark Salter.

Look it up. Salter invented McCain. He used the slacker, grafted bullshit around him and passed him off as a war hero with some amount of intelligence.


http://www.newsweek.com/mark-salter-mccains-closest-aide-92769

If the need arises and the range is close, Mark Salter will edit John McCain in midsentence. After 19 years at each other's side, neither man gives it a second thought. When a writer for The New Yorker was interviewing them last year about their latest best-selling book, the talk turned to hockey and the Arizona senator's admiration for Wayne Gretzky, who coaches the Phoenix Coyotes. "Wayne Gretzky is one of the all-time best American athletes!" McCain proclaimed. But even before his boss finished speaking, Salter had spotted a slip-up: the hockey legend is from Ontario. "Yes," Salter interjected, "Gretzky is one of the best American athletes … from Canada!"

But Salter does more than just edit his boss. He channels him—and the results can be amusingly pugnacious, befitting McCain's poke-'em-in-the-snoot style. Or not. In early 2006, McCain was in Europe when Barack Obama rescinded a private promise to join McCain's bipartisan crusade for campaign-finance reform. McCain got the disturbing word from Salter during one of their 10 daily phone calls. They quickly concluded the Democrat needed a sharp response. "Brush him back," McCain ordered. The resulting letter—written above McCain's signature, but not presented to him for a signoff—was so soaked in sarcasm and venom that it drew winces on Capitol Hill. "I guess I beaned him instead," Salter tells NEWSWEEK. McCain wasn't upset, Salter adds, smiling.

Mark Salter calls himself a "friend" to the presumptive GOP nominee, but that doesn't do their relationship justice. He's McCain's speechwriter, former Senate chief of staff, coauthor, biographer and closest adviser; amid the campaign's recent internal tensions, Salter's place at McCain's side has never been questioned. snip

Starting with "Faith of My Fathers" in 1999, Salter set about unpacking the life of a man who was the son of admirals and a Vietnam POW. From that success, they moved on to books about courage, leadership and decision-making. "Salter took the raw talent that was John McCain and deepened and molded it," says Clarke. "He allowed McCain to find his own voice." That skill is central to Salter's influence, but not the sum of it. His precise role now isn't easily definable, but no major move is made without his input. "I guess I'm 'of counsel'," Salter says with a shrug.

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Salter's task now is to sell his action-figure hero. Voters have grown wary of warrior presidents in the wake of George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq War. And they are more and more focused on domestic issues, such as the economy, which they say Obama would handle better. Salter's writing style can seem orotund and antique to younger ears. For all the elegance of the books, McCain's speeches are delivered stiffly at best. When Salter is not at his elbow, and sometimes even if he is, McCain is apt to mention, say, a country (Czechoslovakia) that ceased to exist 15 years ago. The campaign's seeming inability to stage a riveting visual event led "The Colbert Report" to invite viewers to submit mash-up videos that make McCain look "lively."

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