McCain travels to Libya to meet with rebel forces

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the U.S. military intervention in Libya, is heading to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi for a meeting with forces fighting to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi, an aide told The Associated Press.

McCain was scheduled to arrive in Benghazi on Friday, said Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the senator.

The visit by McCain was shrouded in secrecy due to heightened security for the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee in a country fiercely divided by the 2-month-old anti-Gadhafi rebellion.

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[Fuddnik]

1. I think he has another house there.

Somebody told him that Ghaddafi was standing on his lawn.

[Keith Bee]

4. !!!

:rofl:

[mascarax]

15. +1

Good one!

[bahrbearian]

16. Too funny

[DCKit]

2. Hey John "Fiscally Conservative" McCain, how much is this trip going to cost U.S.?

We all know it's just grandstanding and you won't win in 2012, either, so what's the point?

[DCKit]

3. Dupe, delete. BAD DU!!!!

[dipsydoodle]

5. "country fiercely divided"

Presumably that also refers to the USA on the subject.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. Without a prompter at his shoulder, he won't even realize who the

rebels are.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Marketing ploy for his chips ?

[Scottybeamer70]

8. That should scare them

into a quick surrender!

[truthisfreedom]

9. Interesting. Palin might have scared the evildoers a little more.

I got nothin.'

[intaglio]

10. He'll be flying a pilotless drone

Because he doesn't like the idea that the US has too few pilots for it's drones.

[Poll_Blind]

12. That's no drone, that's his wife!

:rofl:

PB

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Do members of Congress need approval from the State Department

to meet with foreign militias, even unofficial ones?

[karynnj]

14. I don't think they need state department approval, though they generally

coordinate with the State Department. Here, McCain is not on a different side than the state department. (I know that when the right complained about a Dodd/Kerry trip to Syria when Bush was President, they actually had questions from Condi Rice that they were going to ask for her - as well as ones of their own. ) More disturbing was DeMint going to Honduras to meet with the people who took over in a coup while the US was still calling it a coup.

McCain is the ranking member of the Armed Services committee and that gives him oversight responsibilities there.

[Arctic Dave]

13. This entire thing keeps getting more and more bizarre.

I mean WTF.

Is he going there to scold them for not doing things exactley like the PNAC told them to?

[EFerrari]

22. Maybe he's there to cut an oil deal or an arms deal.

He said he wanted to arm them.

[Arctic Dave]

24. A trade mission.

We will trade you death machines for your oil and gas contracts. How capitalist of us.

[EFerrari]

26. Them, please.

[Loge23]

17. Rebelling for/against rebels

..we all know McCain's background.
It all depends on who the rebels are, I suppose.

[David__77]

18. They can keep him.

Please stay there.

[Baclava]

19. McCain: "Increase military support to Libyan rebels"

Can you spell escalation?



BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain called for increased military support for Libya's rebels Friday, including weapons, training and stepped-up airstrikes, in a full-throated endorsement of the opposition in its fight to oust Moammar Gadhafi.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBYA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-04-22-12-27-29

[TheLastMohican]

20. So the old demented schmuck

is changing his costume.

He used to be "we are all Georgians" when his crazy georgian pal Saakashvili decided to have a little war in the Caucases.
Now he will be "we are all Lybians" or what?
I can't figure out what this loser wants from the general US public.

[Ter]

21. Well, at least he's not a chicken-hawk like the other pukes

The McCains are consistent. They love war and actually fight in them. :)

[and-justice-for-all]

23. Well this is extremely unhelpful now isn't it? nt

[lovuian]

25. what the hell is he doin there!!! Doesn't Hillary do the talking

in this government???

[Thor_MN]

27. Reprising his visit to Dantooine in his youth to meet with the rebel forces.

[Lasher]

28. Hey, where's his comic sidekick, Joe?

According to tradition, our best known war tourist duo concludes their latest warmonger tour with a heroes' welcome reception and presser at the AEI. Don't tell me John's going solo now.