McCain: "Remember, the President trumpeted Yemen as a success story, which is just ludicrous!"

[Miles Archer]

"I wish you had just asked Valerie Jarrett about the President's strategy for defeating ISIS, but you aren't going to HEAR it, because there ISN'T ONE! Heh heh heh!"

Looks like Andrea Greenspan decided to give McCain the opportunity to offer the "Republican rebuttal" BEFORE the SOTU airs.

DAMNED LIBERAL MEDIA!

Just now on MSNBC, so no link.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Is he finished with French kissing the Saudi dictators? I think the media likes him because he is so

pathetically attention needy.
Not asking him why he was fucking around with a prison nation is what he counts on, no challenge from the American media...a healthy dose of real journalists from Europe doing, you know, journalism, would be as revealing as it has been for Fox and Jindal.

The American media does not hire journalists any more, they hire PR specialists.

PS: McCain is lying again.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. Johnny boy has a dream that his best pal Lindsay will be prez so he can hang in the WH

Forget it, John.

I wont be surprised if Clint Eastwood makes a movie about this assholes life and glorifies him somehow.

BTW, the word in DC about John is he is a spoiled baby, very demanding, etc.

I heard it from a talking head who works there.

[Demit]

4. He would be so eaten by jealousy he would disintegrate.

The presidency was supposed to be HIS. HIS, I tell you!

[TwilightGardener]

3. The President never called Yemen, to my recollection, a "success story".

He was referring to the ongoing counterterror operation there against AQ, and saying that was sort of our model for ISIS--no large American ground presence, just us killing the terrorists with the aid of a cooperative government. Yemen's political/tribal problems are not our doing, we're not responsible for their government, we never were. We're just trying to keep them from being a haven for AQ, that's it, end of story. So Johnny Mac is a fucking liar.

[former9thward]

5. Obama's words:

Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved — especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years. And it is consistent with the approach I outlined earlier this year: to use force against anyone who threatens America's core interests, but to mobilize partners wherever possible to address broader challenges to international order.

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/10/347515100/transcript-president-obama-on-how-u-s-will-address-islamic-state

Yemen's government is near collapse.

Americans prepare to evacuate from Yemen

Sanaa, Yemen (CNN)Government forces and rebels in Yemen agreed to a ceasefire Monday after heavy fighting in the capital, Sanaa, Yemen's interior minister and a rebel official said.

That news came after fighting around the presidential palace and came after Yemen's prime minister went into hiding when attackers shot at him.

Nine people were killed and 67 others injured iin the clashes, Yemen's Health Ministry said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/yemen-palace-clashes/

There is nothing successful going on in Yemen including the "war" on al Qaeda

[TwilightGardener]

7. Actually, what I said stands. Obama was talking about the counterterror op ONLY, and

we have been killing a number of AQ in Yemen for years with no American troop losses (at least not off the top of my head) and with the cooperation of the Yemeni government. That equals a successful strategy--just because the job isn't finished and they haven't been totally eradicated (if that ever happens) doesn't mean it wasn't the right way to do it. The model holds up. The coup in Yemen will INTERFERE with our efforts. It's not happening BECAUSE of our efforts, we are not responsible for their Sunni/Shia battles (unlike in Iraq) and it's not Sunni insurgents who are taking over.

[underpants]

6. McCain you "vetted" the leader of ISIS. Remember?

[Vinca]

8. I saw that segment and nearly puked.

McCain is never, ever, ever going to get over losing the 2008 election. When asked what he would do he went into mealy-mouth mode and never hinted at a solution to the problem. That's about all Republicans are good for: mealy mouthing.