McCain: "I'm ashamed of my country" over Ukraine

[Eugene]

Source: CBS News

ByREBECCA KAPLAN FACE THE NATION February 22, 2015, 1:28 PM

McCain: "I'm ashamed of my country" over Ukraine

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Sunday that the U.S. handling of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine represents a "shameful" chapter of American history.

"I'm ashamed of my country, I'm ashamed of my president and I'm ashamed of myself that I haven't done more to help these people," McCain said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation."

He also had harsh words for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, whom McCain said "legitimized for the first time in 70 years the dismemberment of a country in Europe."

Merkel and Hollande helped broker a recent cease-fire between Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels in the eastern part of the country. The tenuous agreement has been violated several times already and is at risk of collapsing entirely.

McCain is one of the U.S. lawmakers who is pushing President Obama to provide the Ukrainian military with lethal weapons so it can extract a higher cost on Russia for territorial incursions.

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[Scuba]

1. McClame never met a war he didn't want the MIC to make a profit off of.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. ^^^This x 1000^^^ eom

[Fred Sanders]

2. America is ashamed of The Man Who Picked Palin. Talk about lack of judgment. Warmongers are being

replaced by peacemakers, these fading old war horses are just kicking up one last fuss before they kicks the bucket.

Sad...I pity all bitter old men like McCain, like Gulliani, like Bilbo, sad old men cast from the same mold who thought themselves heroes once, but, as they all put one withered white foot in the grave, they have all realized they were just bitter chumps.

Bitterness has to be among the worst things a person can take with them to their graves, maybe they will all see that one day.

[bemildred]

3. McCain ought to be ashamed about himself. nt

[rurallib]

4. Anyone want to start a fund to get Johnny a gun

a tin hat and a one way ticket to the Ukraine?

[BlueCaliDem]

6. And I'm certain Fox "News" Channel would excoriate him for saying that as they had

crucified FLOTUS Michelle Obama when she said, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.". It had sent Republicans into a meltdown for months on end.

[2naSalit]

7. Yeah, well

PapaJohn, we're ashamed of you over pretty much everything at this point. And it's not like you weren't over there stirring the pot these past few years.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Guess McCain doesn't love his country.

[SwankyXomb]

9. Sorry John, I must have missed something

What does Panama have to do with the Ukraine?

[n2doc]

10. Can you imagine the RW explosion if the President said something like this

about anything?

I am ashamed that John McCain has a position where he is paid attention to.