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Feb 5 2014
Conduct Unbecoming - Senator John McCain Explodes In Angry Tirade
During Meeting With Syrian Christian Leaders After They Detail
Atrocities Carried Out By His Rebel Allies....
Posted on February 5, 2014
Previously John McCain was angered when it was pointed out "his
people" (the rebels in Syria) were actual kidnappers. Now he
embarrasses himself to the extent Lindsey Graham needs to apologize
for McCain's angry and petulant behavior.
WASHINGTON DC - Hell-bent on arming opposition forces in Syria--despite
strong evidence that they're run by Islamic terrorists--John McCain
displayed behavior unbecoming of a United States Senator during a
recent meeting with Syrian Christian leaders touring Capitol Hill.
The delegation of Syrian clergy came to Washington to raise awareness
among lawmakers of the growing crisis among the region's minority
Christian community. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian
population and they are being targeted and ruthlessly murdered by
radical elements of the rebel forces, according to the visiting church
officials. They say the media and human rights groups in the west have
been largely silent on the ordeal of the Christians in Syria.
A number of churches have been destroyed or burned, children were
killed when rebels fired mortar rockets at an Armenian Christian
school in Damascus and countless others have been abducted by Islamic
fighters, the Syrian delegation reveals in a statementpublished by the
research group, Westminster Institute, that brought them to
Washington. Eleven nuns have also been abducted and are still in
captivity and two bishops are still missing after getting kidnapped
during a humanitarian mission.
But Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, evidently doesn't want to
hear negative stories about the rebels he's working to arm. So he
stormed out of a closed-door meeting with the Syrian clergy officials
last week. Held in the Senate Arms Services Committee meeting room,
the reunion also included senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Graham is a Republican and the rest
are Democrats.
McCain marched into the committee room yelling, according to a
high-level source that attended the meeting, and quickly stormed out.
"He was incredibly rude," the source told Judicial Watch "because he
didn't think the Syrian church leaders should even be allowed in the
room." Following the shameful tantrum McCain reentered the room and
sat briefly but refused to make eye contact with the participants,
instead ignoring them by looking down at what appeared to be random
papers.
The outburst was so embarrassing that Senator Graham, also an advocate
of U.S. military intervention in Syria, apologized for McCain's
disturbing outburst. "Graham actually apologized to the group for
McCain's behavior," according to the source, who sat through the
entire meeting. "It was truly unbelievable."
Not really, for those familiar with McCain's history on this matter.
The veteran lawmaker is enamored with a controversial young "Syria
expert," Elizabeth O'Bagy, who has managed to convince him as well as
the president and secretary of state that Syrian rebels are mostly
moderate and not terrorists. While persuading the U.S. of this, O'Bagy
concealed that she was a political director for the Syrian Emergency
Task Force (SETF), a group that advocates for Syria's rebels from
Washington D.C.
Before getting exposed by conservative media outlets, O'Bagy claimed
to be an objective analyst at a Washington D.C. think-tank that
studies military affairs when in fact she had a "reputation as the
leading expert on the armed opposition in the Syrian revolution,"
according to SETF. In September O'Bagy was abruptly fired from the
think-tank for padding her resume and McCain graciously hired her.
"Elizabeth is a talented researcher, and I have been very impressed by
her knowledge and analysis in multiple briefings over the last year,"
McCain said in a statement to the political news publication that
broke the story in late September.
Besides the fact that a Syrian Islamist group is essentially steering
U.S. policy, a number of domestic and international media outlets have
confirmed that terrorists--mainly Al Qaeda--are running opposition
forces in Syria. For instance the New York Times published a piece
that reveals Islamist rebels--including the most extreme groups in the
notorious Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda-aligned force--are running the
show in Syria. "The Islamist character of the opposition reflects the
main constituency of the rebellion," the story says. "Nowhere in
rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of."
Incredibly, last month an international news agency reported that
Congress secretly approved U.S. weapons flow to what officials
describe as "moderate" Syrian rebel factions. The White House refused
to comment on the back-door operation, but the story cites U.S. and
European officials who say the weapons deliveries have been funded by
the U.S. Congress, in votes behind closed doors, through the end of
government fiscal year 2014.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/02/05/conduct-unbecoming-senator-john-mccain-explodes-in-angry-tirade-during-meeting-with-syrian-christian-leaders-after-they-detail-atrocities-carried-out-by-his-rebel-allies/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Feb 5 2014
Conduct Unbecoming - Senator John McCain Explodes In Angry Tirade
During Meeting With Syrian Christian Leaders After They Detail
Atrocities Carried Out By His Rebel Allies....
Posted on February 5, 2014
Previously John McCain was angered when it was pointed out "his
people" (the rebels in Syria) were actual kidnappers. Now he
embarrasses himself to the extent Lindsey Graham needs to apologize
for McCain's angry and petulant behavior.
WASHINGTON DC - Hell-bent on arming opposition forces in Syria--despite
strong evidence that they're run by Islamic terrorists--John McCain
displayed behavior unbecoming of a United States Senator during a
recent meeting with Syrian Christian leaders touring Capitol Hill.
The delegation of Syrian clergy came to Washington to raise awareness
among lawmakers of the growing crisis among the region's minority
Christian community. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian
population and they are being targeted and ruthlessly murdered by
radical elements of the rebel forces, according to the visiting church
officials. They say the media and human rights groups in the west have
been largely silent on the ordeal of the Christians in Syria.
A number of churches have been destroyed or burned, children were
killed when rebels fired mortar rockets at an Armenian Christian
school in Damascus and countless others have been abducted by Islamic
fighters, the Syrian delegation reveals in a statementpublished by the
research group, Westminster Institute, that brought them to
Washington. Eleven nuns have also been abducted and are still in
captivity and two bishops are still missing after getting kidnapped
during a humanitarian mission.
But Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, evidently doesn't want to
hear negative stories about the rebels he's working to arm. So he
stormed out of a closed-door meeting with the Syrian clergy officials
last week. Held in the Senate Arms Services Committee meeting room,
the reunion also included senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Graham is a Republican and the rest
are Democrats.
McCain marched into the committee room yelling, according to a
high-level source that attended the meeting, and quickly stormed out.
"He was incredibly rude," the source told Judicial Watch "because he
didn't think the Syrian church leaders should even be allowed in the
room." Following the shameful tantrum McCain reentered the room and
sat briefly but refused to make eye contact with the participants,
instead ignoring them by looking down at what appeared to be random
papers.
The outburst was so embarrassing that Senator Graham, also an advocate
of U.S. military intervention in Syria, apologized for McCain's
disturbing outburst. "Graham actually apologized to the group for
McCain's behavior," according to the source, who sat through the
entire meeting. "It was truly unbelievable."
Not really, for those familiar with McCain's history on this matter.
The veteran lawmaker is enamored with a controversial young "Syria
expert," Elizabeth O'Bagy, who has managed to convince him as well as
the president and secretary of state that Syrian rebels are mostly
moderate and not terrorists. While persuading the U.S. of this, O'Bagy
concealed that she was a political director for the Syrian Emergency
Task Force (SETF), a group that advocates for Syria's rebels from
Washington D.C.
Before getting exposed by conservative media outlets, O'Bagy claimed
to be an objective analyst at a Washington D.C. think-tank that
studies military affairs when in fact she had a "reputation as the
leading expert on the armed opposition in the Syrian revolution,"
according to SETF. In September O'Bagy was abruptly fired from the
think-tank for padding her resume and McCain graciously hired her.
"Elizabeth is a talented researcher, and I have been very impressed by
her knowledge and analysis in multiple briefings over the last year,"
McCain said in a statement to the political news publication that
broke the story in late September.
Besides the fact that a Syrian Islamist group is essentially steering
U.S. policy, a number of domestic and international media outlets have
confirmed that terrorists--mainly Al Qaeda--are running opposition
forces in Syria. For instance the New York Times published a piece
that reveals Islamist rebels--including the most extreme groups in the
notorious Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda-aligned force--are running the
show in Syria. "The Islamist character of the opposition reflects the
main constituency of the rebellion," the story says. "Nowhere in
rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of."
Incredibly, last month an international news agency reported that
Congress secretly approved U.S. weapons flow to what officials
describe as "moderate" Syrian rebel factions. The White House refused
to comment on the back-door operation, but the story cites U.S. and
European officials who say the weapons deliveries have been funded by
the U.S. Congress, in votes behind closed doors, through the end of
government fiscal year 2014.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/02/05/conduct-unbecoming-senator-john-mccain-explodes-in-angry-tirade-during-meeting-with-syrian-christian-leaders-after-they-detail-atrocities-carried-out-by-his-rebel-allies/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress