McRINO Has A
Temper Tantrum During Meeting With Syrian Christian Leaders After They Detail
Atrocities Carried Out By His Rebel Allies
GOP Senator
Apologizes for McCain Tantrum at Syrian Christian Leader
Meeting
February 05,
2014 - Judicial Watch
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
statement published 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.
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