McCain raises impeachment - if boots hit ground in Syria

[NeoConsSuck]

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

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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]

1. I guess the Special Forces and CIA will be wearing sandals then /nt

[frylock]

2. hover boots

[Ghost Dog]

4. mercenary boots.

[cstanleytech]

16. Magnetic, they will just have to get used to hanging upside down like bats!!!

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]

10. Or small flying carpets.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. He would support impeachment for boots on the ground but not wedding-party and double-tap drones?

[gopiscrap]

5. That fucking shit bag

this is after he spent his beating the drums for war!

[freshwest]

24. Wonder if 'Bomb Iran' and 'A Million Years in Iraq' McInsane has aviation stock...

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]

28. Could be, I wouldn't be surprised

but mainly I just think he sold his soul to campaign funders.

[pangaia]

50. That is still the best damn photo

on planet earth!!!
I still crack up every time I see it..
Thanks... lost my smoothie...

[freshwest]

56. A nice green smoothie with berries is a terrible thing to lose, though! What's with all the pix of

him sticking out the tongue like that?

I can't imagine what crowd that would win votes from, and don't want to know them. They need to stay away!

[Initech]

6. What a gigantic hypocrtical piece of shit!!!!

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]

7. I question his mental stability

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]

21. Guess he lost his poker game (nt)

[freshwest]

25. He wanted boots on the ground in Iraq for a million years, so he's ticked about not getting it.

[graywarrior]

8. POS

[oldandhappy]

9. he has wanted to put boots on the ground in every other country over there.

Go, John.

[ejpoeta]

11. isn't HE the one that wanted to go into syria?

[Madmiddle]

12. Anyone with any common sense

knows that if Obama even drops one tiny firecracker on Syria his nice friends on the right will pounce right straight to impeachment!!

[JustAnotherGen]

29. +1

[TwilightGardener]

13. Lindsay Graham was bringing up the possibility of ground forces securing chem weapons

last spring. Now, it's downright impeachable! Grampy is just fucking mental. Complete loon.

[freshwest]

55. I think Lindsay and Johnny got played by Obama. EOM.

[heaven05]

14. old hypocritical confused lying fool

[daleo]

15. McCain wants a war and an impeachment

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]

19. McLame is leading the charge for all out chaos in US

I guess he wants to bring the war home

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Just like he said about President George W. Bush, right?

In a pig's eye.

[wordpix]

20. +1000, exactly. Georgie's Iraq adventure was just fine with McC 11 yrs. ago

These asshats have no shame

[trusty elf]

60. ...........

[IMG][/IMG]

[Archae]

18. Where was "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain when Reagan put troops into Lebanon?

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]

43. Embroiled in the Keating 5 scandal.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

22. I advocate.....

.....we drop McCain on Damascus. Would that POS be considered biological warfare?

[blkmusclmachine]

23. GOPee Two-fer: Obama gets his Dirty little War, and the GOPee gets their Impeachment fantasy.

I've got the popcorn.

[Hekate]

26. McNuts has never met a war he didn't like, but he wants to have his cake and eat it too with Syria.

[KansDem]

27. Hey, John! Here're some boots for ya!

She has some good advice for you and your iPhone at 0'58".

[nolabels]

48. Yowzer,yowzer and thanks, i needed that!

[DFW]

30. And I want McCain locked up in irons if he uses chemical weapons on Tucson

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]

65. YUP! Just stumbled on this today... n/t

[shedevil69taz]

31. Why wait?

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]

45. Exactly n/t

[Not Sure]

32. F McCain

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]

33. "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!"

[EC]

34. Well, isn't that what him and

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]

35. Something about Republicans and boots…

[trusty elf]

59. Beelzeshrub

[IMG][/IMG]

[merrily]

36. Sorry, but drawing a line between not one American boot on the ground and

it's perfectly fine to kill if we kill Syrian civilians--and bombing certainly will--is heinous.

[The Second Stone]

37. McCain is insane. He wants to bomb people and thinks that isn't war

War is war. And bombing is an act of war.

[Behind the Aegis]

38. "Why did you sting me?! Now we shall both drown!"

"It's in my nature, said the scorpion."

From the fable, "The Scorpion and the Frog."

[TBF]

39. How is this senile old man still in the Senate?

Someone needs to drive him to the nearest Assisted Living facility and have him screened for the dementia wing.

[KamaAina]

40. Give him a boot to the head!

[tonekat]

41. McCain's Shell went Soft a Long Time Ago

He needs to find a nice retirement home and a live-in nurse.

[Ellipsis]

42. I hear there's an "app" for that.

[KansDem]

44. I don't want to see Boots hit the ground in Syria...

Might damage his saxophone!

[olddad56]

46. He was misquoted. What he said was he would raise impeachment if any booze hit the ground.

like if he got so wound up over the whole deal that he spilled his drink.

[BlueMTexpat]

47. Just. Go. Away. McCan't.

He keeps trying to make himself relevant.

He isn't. Thank heavens!

[sueh]

49. Fuck John McCain. He needs an exit strategy out of Congress.

[Skittles]

51. oh STFU McCain

you were outvoted, remember?

[HooptieWagon]

53. Pretty bad case of whiplash Grandpa has...

He must have gotten an earful from his constituents.

[madrchsod]

54. oh johnny boy go away...

your days are over as someone who has anything constructive to say

[Iwillnevergiveup]

57. John Boy

Get off my TV, off my computer, and go play some poker somewhere. And take what's his name with you.

[Kablooie]

58. What about high heels on the ground? No one said that is forbidden.

[struggle4progress]

61. Translation: "I gotta satisfy my base here and criticize Obama no matter what he does!"

[Boomerproud]

62. When is ONE Democrat going to stand up to this craziness and call it for what it is?

I can't take it anymore.

[Gore1FL]

63. Fuck McCain. n/t

[King_Klonopin]

64. Two-Faced, Back-Stabbing Piece of Shit !!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wanted to attack Syria two years ago -- you spineless asshole.

[freshwest]

66. Well said. Don't hold back. it's better to let it out! Agreed 100%. nt.