McCain raises impeachment - if boots hit ground in Syria
Source: CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) - After endorsing President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes against Syria, Sen. John McCain warned the president would face impeachment if he were to put "boots on the ground."
McCain told Phoenix radio host Mike Broomhead on Thursday that the president had "bungled" the entire handling of the Syria crisis and would open himself up to impeachment hearings if he overstepped the limits of the authorization before Congress.
"No one wants American boots on the ground," McCain told the KYFI audience. "Nor will there be American boots on the ground, because there would be an impeachment of the president if they did that."
While McCain said he still supports the current plan to intervene in Syria, the Arizona Republican's statement seems to reflect his contentious Thursday town hall meeting with some Phoenix constituents. At the meeting, McCain, who has favored a more robust American response to the Syria crisis, faced intense criticism.
"We didn't send you to make war for us. We sent you to stop the war," one man said.
Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/07/mccain-raises-impeachment-if-boots-hit-ground-in-syria/?hpt=hp_t2
McCain, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Supports Obama for going to war, but still has to please his lunatic teabagger constituents, who don't want war because it is 'Obama's war'.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)All joking aside McCain clearly was talking about a large scale deployment of troops meant to engage in combat, trainers and intelligence officers would probably be approved.
The problem is though that if the government is not careful it could snowball downhill like Vietnam did.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)this is after he spent his beating the drums for war!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Keep those boots off the ground, just bomb them to smithereens. Wonder if he developed an airplane fetish some time in his life. And what the hell was this about, anyway:
McCain using bomb bomb Iran song at events.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/04/26/12313/mccain-using-bomb-bomb-iran-song-at-events/
McCain Flip Flops Again: 100 Years In Iraq Would Be Fine With Me, Even A Million Years
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/01/04/18627/mccain-100-years/
There's a collection of pictures of McCain with his tongue sticking out. What does it mean?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021502806#post8
Only explanation I've read is that it's a 'reptilian' thing and that's almost as crazy as McCain is. Must we continue to bear with him?
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)but mainly I just think he sold his soul to campaign funders.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)on planet earth!!!
I still crack up every time I see it..
Thanks... lost my smoothie...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I can't imagine what crowd that would win votes from, and don't want to know them. They need to stay away!
Initech
(100,079 posts)How many times has McCain voted to authorize war or give untold, unchecked billions to his buddies in the Military Industrial Complex? And he seriously has the balls to say he will vote to impeach Obama over war? Fuck him!!!
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Seriously; One minute he wants to bomb Syria back to the Stone Age and the next he talks of impeachment, if President Obama were to put boots on the ground. Where was he when Iraq turned out to be predicated on a lie? Oh, that right: his memory doesn't go that far back. Kookoo!
ncrainbowgrrl
(18,968 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Go, John.
ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)Madmiddle
(459 posts)knows that if Obama even drops one tiny firecracker on Syria his nice friends on the right will pounce right straight to impeachment!!
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)last spring. Now, it's downright impeachable! Grampy is just fucking mental. Complete loon.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)These are the kind of allies Obama has surrounded himself with, domestically and in Syria. They hate him, but they wii use him for their own ends. It boggles the mind, that a person of his intelligence could end up in this position.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)I guess he wants to bring the war home
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)In a pig's eye.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)These asshats have no shame
trusty elf
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Archae
(46,328 posts)The Lebanese circular firing squad had new targets when Reagan put troops there.
Then Reagan had them cut and run after hundreds were killed.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts).....we drop McCain on Damascus. Would that POS be considered biological warfare?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Hekate
(90,708 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)She has some good advice for you and your iPhone at 0'58".
nolabels
(13,133 posts)DFW
(54,401 posts)What's that, John? You never said a thing about using chemical weapons on Tucson? So what? Obama never said anything about a ground invasion of Syria, either, and yet, you're threatening him with all sorts of consequences, just in case. Well, we need to be ready if you do something you never advocated, too. Just in case.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)shedevil69taz
(512 posts)I've got news for you: We already have special forces there. This is their specialty, training and supplying gorilla's/rebels/insurgents etc.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Not Sure
(735 posts)F Obama for this Syria crap, but seriously, F McCain harder. "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." Jesus Christ, does he think everyone's memory is as short as his?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)Lindsey are asking for? With their schedule added to the bill bumping up help to the rebels with ALL ways of help to change the trajectory? All ways would include boots on the ground...so he's the one asking for that, not President Obama.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)trusty elf
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merrily
(45,251 posts)it's perfectly fine to kill if we kill Syrian civilians--and bombing certainly will--is heinous.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)War is war. And bombing is an act of war.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)"It's in my nature, said the scorpion."
From the fable, "The Scorpion and the Frog."
TBF
(32,062 posts)Someone needs to drive him to the nearest Assisted Living facility and have him screened for the dementia wing.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)tonekat
(1,815 posts)He needs to find a nice retirement home and a live-in nurse.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Might damage his saxophone!
olddad56
(5,732 posts)like if he got so wound up over the whole deal that he spilled his drink.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)He keeps trying to make himself relevant.
He isn't. Thank heavens!
sueh
(1,826 posts)Skittles
(153,164 posts)you were outvoted, remember?
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HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)He must have gotten an earful from his constituents.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)your days are over as someone who has anything constructive to say
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Get off my TV, off my computer, and go play some poker somewhere. And take what's his name with you.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)Boomerproud
(7,954 posts)I can't take it anymore.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)You wanted to attack Syria two years ago -- you spineless asshole.