McCain wants increased military support, weapons, training and close air support for his "heroes"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Sen. John McCain called for the world to provide greater support to Libya's rebels amid fears of a military stalemate with Moammar Gadhafi's forces, after the Arizona Republican arrived in the opposition stronghold of Benghazi Friday.

"They are my heroes," McCain said of the rebels as he walked out of a local hotel in Benghazi. He was traveling in an armored Mercedes jeep and had a security detail.

McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the U.S. military intervention in Libya, said he planned to meet with the rebel National Transition Council, the de-facto government in the eastern half of the country.

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And he called for increased military support for the rebels, including providing weapons and training as well as giving close air support on the battlefield.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42715776/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[doc03]

1. McCain never saw a war he didn't like n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. piece of shit.

[WatsonT]

6. Yeah, why did he as CiC decide to get us involved in this war?

[spartan61]

3. And this will be paid for...how??????

[Caustic Logic]

4. Gaddafi's oil?

By Gaddafi, as usual. The disliked-by-Wall-Street Libyan state-run oil system and central bank 9NO IMF debt yet) and public water privatizations will do nicely to start. That seems to be the plan.

[spartan61]

7. Oh sure.

Just like the Iraqi oil would pay for that war. And yet, when McCain says that Gaddafi will pay, there will be ignorant Americans who will believe this too.

[Caustic Logic]

5. Shouldn't heroes be human?

http://www.businessinsider.com/libyan-rebels-war-crimes-2011-4

The e-mail this was based on is poorly written, but the video listing is the best (worst) I've seen.

They also executed at least 130 captive regime soldiers in a series of incidents around al Baida (some falsely called foreign mercenaries) by shooting, hanging, and burning alive. And blamed the regime itself - for refusing to shoot the "protesters." And the world believed it and reported it as fact. Now we want to give them control of all Libya, so as to protect (certain) civilians' rights (to take over the country and hand it to Wall Street to pay for the help). And how long will our drones stay there forcing the rest of the people to accept this?